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Hot and Cold Colors
Students explore the effect of heating and cooling on the dispersal of food coloring in water.
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The Warmth of the Sun
Students broaden their understanding of the sun, particularly its critical role in warming the land, air and water around us.
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Heat and electrical resistance (Middle, Science)
Students work in teams to create electrical resistance when studying heat and thermal energy.
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Iron Oxide Lab: Incorporating Math and Science
Students conduct an experiment in small groups, draw conclusions about the amount heat of a compound achieves and practice their data analysis skills.
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E3 Project Instrustional Plan
Pupils will learn about energy. This physics lesson plan, outlines the energy unit to be taught that covers energy, conversions, and heat.
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Thermal Expansion
Students investigate thermal expansion of different substances. For this physics lesson, students explain how heat transfer occurs.
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Condensation Lab
High schoolers investigate condensation in the lab. In this chemistry lesson plan, students explain molecular motion during phase changes. They relate this observation to Earth's weather conditions.
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Heat Loss and Gain in Physical Changes and Chemical Reactions
Young scholars compare and contrast exothermic and endothermic reactions. In this chemistry lesson, students perform experiments to determine whether heat was released or absorbed in a reaction. They share their observations in class.
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Heating the Earth
Students examine heat rates for dark and light surfaces. In this heat lesson students complete a lab activity and plot data.
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The Physical Setting
Tenth graders examine chemical reactions. In this chemistry lesson students choose an investigation that they wish to perform based on their interest.
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The Science of Weather: Humidity makes air feel even hotter.
Young scholars examine the effects of heat and humidity. In this weather instructional activity, students read a chart to determine the effects heat and humidity can have on the human body. This instructional activity includes an...
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Energy Detective Worksheet
In this energy instructional activity, students explore their environment to find items that use energy. Students then write a definition of energy. This instructional activity has 1 graphic organizer and 1 short answer question.
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Energy Works!
In this energy activity, students review the different types of energy and determine what form of work that energy provides. Then students give examples of how energy is related to work. This activity has 1 graphic organizer and 3 short...
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Imagine Life Without Friction
Students learn about the concept of friction. In this friction lesson, students learn how friction from one object to another moves that object and creates energy.
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Heat of Formation
In this reactions worksheet, students calculate the heat of reaction for given chemical reactions. This worksheet has 3 problems to solve.
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Review for Thermodynamics Quiz
In this thermodynamics worksheet, students review kinetic and potential energy, enthalpy, entropy, and standard hear of formation. This worksheet has 1 short answer and 5 problem solving questions.
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Calorimetry Exercises
In this calorimetry worksheet, students determine the specific heat and the heat of neutralization in the 2 problems they solve.
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The Enthalpy of Chemical Change
In this chemical change worksheet, students review enthalpy and use Hess's law to calculate enthalpy and the heat of reaction for given reactions. This worksheet has 3 problems to solve.
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What is Thermal Energy?
In this thermal energy worksheet, students will write down two facts about thermal energy and then they will draw a conclusion based on these two facts.
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How Does Thermal Energy Spread?
In this thermal energy worksheet, students will brainstorm a main idea on how thermal energy is spread and then they will write in three details that support their main idea.
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Particle Theory of Matter
In this science word search worksheet, learners identify and locate words in a puzzle that relate to particle theory of matter. There are 24 words to locate in the puzzle and spell correctly.
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Heat from Machines
Third graders continue their examination of the heat energy from machines. In groups, they make predictions on which machines might produce a measureable amount of heat. They take the temperatures of the various machines and record them...
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How a Circuit Works
Students discover the basic principles of circuits by designing and testing some of their own. They are told that circuits usually have a power source such as a battery and a resistor such as a light. Students make a circuit using a...