Boil, Boil, Toil and Trouble: The International Boiling Point Project

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People from all over the world boil water at different elevations and post data to discover which factor in the experiment (room temperature, elevation, volume of water, or heating device) has the greatest influence on boiling point. Anyone can boil water, record information, and send it in for inclusion in the database of results. Students can analyze all the data to answer the question: What causes a pot of water to boil? Participation is invited at any time during the project's three-month span. Developed and managed by the Center for Improved Engineering and Science Education (CIESE) at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ.

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Subject keyword(s)	Analyzing data, Collecting data, Connections, Data analysis, Data Analysis, Data collection, Data presentation, Education, Geoscience, Graphs, Interpreting data, Mathematics, Measurement, Physical changes, Physical science, Process skills, Properties of materials, Real world applications, Science as inquiry, Science process skills, States of matter, Statistics, Temperature
Grade level	Middle School, High School, Informal Education
Intended audience	Learner
Resource type	Instructional Material
Resource format	text, text/html

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Boil, Boil, Toil and Trouble: The International Boiling Point Project Library Home || Full Table of Contents ||Suggest a Link ||Library Help Visit this site: http://www.ciese.org/curriculum/boilproj/ Author: Center for Improved Engineering and Science Education (CIESE) Description: People from all over the world boil water at different elevations and post data to discover which factor in the experiment (room temperature, elevation, volume of water, or heating device) has the greatest influence on boiling point. Anyone can boil water, record information, and send it in for inclusion in the database of results. Students can analyze all the data to answer the question: What causes a pot of water to boil? Participation is invited at any time during the project's three-month span. Developed and managed by the Center for Improved Engineering and Science Education (CIESE) at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ. Levels: Elementary, Middle School (6-8), High School (9-12), College Languages: English Resource Types: Internet-Based Projects Math Topics: Temperature, Data Analysis, Graphing of Data, Physics [Privacy Policy][Terms of Use] Home ||The Math Library ||Quick Reference ||Search ||Help © 1994-2012 Drexel University. All rights reserved. http://mathforum.org/ The Math Forum is a research and educational enterprise of the Goodwin College of Professional Studies.