Description: This Is a great video to use when Introducing heating and cooling In your classroom. It explores what heating and cooling are and what happens when things heat and cool. The people In this video (the scientist and 2 students) travel to the desert and artic to show heat and cool areas. They also complete experiments to help demonstrate the Idea of heating and cooling. This video includes a fun song at the end!

Focus Questions:

• What Is heating?

• What Is reversible change?

• What is It called when Items that are heated and cooled can't be changed back?

• What is melting? How does an object melt?

Posted by: Alyssa Costantino

Description:

Play this song In your upper elementary classroom for them to learn all about heat energy. This Is a very catchy song that students will be singing all day. Finding songs for students about topics Is a great way for students to learn a concept because It's very engaging and tends to strike students' Interests more rather than having a lecture (they will take more away If they are engaged with the topic).

Focus Questions:

• What is heating energy?

• What is the significance of molecules In heat energy?

• When heat transfers through fluids what Is it called?

• What Is radiation?

Posted by: Alyssa Costantino

Standard:

• 4-PS3-2 Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents

Summary: This video talks about heat energy and its different functions. They talk about conduction, convection, and radiation. The video uses graphics to demonstrate how those aspects function and goes into detail regarding them (ex. what are good conductors). The video also proposes good questions for students to think about while watching.

Science Practices:

• Asking questions and defining problems

• Engaging in arguments from evidence

Cross-Cutting Concepts:

• Energy and matter

• Structure and function

Nature of Science Concepts:

• Science knowledge is based on empirical evidence

• Science is a way of knowing

• Science address questions about the natural and material world

Focus Questions:

• How does heat energy work?

• What is the difference between conduction and convection?

• What makes a good conductor?

• What is radiation?

Posted by: Avery Ward

Standards:

• 4-PS3-2 Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents

Summary: This video starts off by talking about what heat is. It then begins to talk about different sources of heat like the sun and how they function to warm things up. The video uses kid-friendly language to explain different heat sources while providing images to show what this can look like.

Science Practices:

• Asking Questions and Defining Problems

Cross-Cutting Concepts

• Energy and matter

• Stability and change

Nature of Science Concepts

• Science is a way of knowing

• Science knowledge is based on empirical evidence

Focus Questions:

• What are some sources of heat?

• What do sources of heat do?

• What are some sources of heat we use in everyday life?

Posted by: Avery Ward

https://www.brainpop.com/science/energy/heat/

Standards:

• 4-PS3-2 Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents

Summary: This is a great resource for both students and teachers. It can serve as a guide for teachers during a lesson if they want worksheets, vocabulary, standards and a lesson plan to use. For students, there are games, videos, quizzes, and so much more! There are many related topics to the heat unit as well and many other energy sources.

Focus Questions:

• What are sources of heat?

• How can heat be transferred?

• What tool measures heat?

• What makes up high energy?

Posted by: Vanessa Turner

https://www.generationgenius.com/videolessons/heat-transfer-of-thermal-energy-video-for-kids/

Standards:

• 4-PS3-1. Use evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of that object.

• 4-PS3-3. Ask questions and predict outcomes about the changes in energy that occur when objects collide.

Summary: This resource includes both a student and a teacher version. It is fantastic because it includes a video, vocabulary words, an activity, a lesson, an assessment, and much more. It can serve as an excellent guide.

Focus Questions:

• How can heat be transferred?

• What is heat?

• Do all materials respond to heat the same way?

Posted by: Vanessa Turner

Standards:

• 4-PS3-2 Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents

Summary: This video is an experiment using spoons to test conductivity. The test is you put three different spoons into a bowl filled with hot water (plastic, wood, and metal). Then you touch the spoons to see which ones are hot. The spoons that are hot conduct heat.

Science Practices:

• Planning and carrying out investigations

• Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information

Cross-Cutting Concepts:

• Energy and Matter

• Cause and Effect

Nature of Science Concepts:

• Scientific investigations use a variety of methods

• Science is a way of knowing

• Science is a human endeavor

Focus Questions:

• Which spoons do you think will be hot?

• Were you surprised by any of the results?

• What are some other ways to test heat conductivity?

Posted by: Avery Ward

Focus Questions:

1. What would happen if we didn't have heat?

2. What are some things that heat can do?

3. What are the three ways that heat moves among the universe?

4. How can you demonstrate heat conduction?

Posted By: Aubrey Jones

Description:

This video explains why fire is hot! It goes through the parts needed in order to start a fire and how that fire uses the materials.

Focus Questions:

• What does a fire need to burn?

• What does the wood use up as it burns?

• What is another word used for "burning?"

Posted by Gracie Bostwick

Description:

Instead of using units like Fahrenheit or Celsius to measure the temperature of something, scientists will sometimes use what's called the Kelvin Scale. The Kelvin Scale is a scale that measures how much heat something has, but it's not measured in degrees! It's measured in Kelvins or "K." Learn more about the Kelvin scale and its uses in the article linked to the left!

Focus Questions:

• What makes the Kelvin scale different from Celsius and Fahrenheit?

• Why doesn't the Kelvin scale use negative numbers?

• What is happening when an object is at 0 K?

Posted by Gracie Bostwick