Pressure Section 2 Icon Causal Patterns in Air Pressure Phenomena
Section 2: Passive Causes

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Lesson 3: Passive Causal Agents and the Omnidirectional Nature of Air Pressure

This lesson draws students' attention to passive causal agents, such as air pressure, in a system. Students are encouraged to conceptualize air pressure as passive and omnidirectional, with molecules that make up the air bouncing off of the surfaces with which they have contact in all directions equally.

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