February 5 -- February 7

Happy Mid-Winter Break! Go Chiefs ;) 

Wednesday, February 5

How can scientific principles be used to design, construct, and test a device to keep a dog crate from overheating during hot days?

-Good Things

-Warmup

-Thermal Energy Pretest

Thursday, February 6

How can scientific principles be used to design, construct, and test a device to keep a dog crate from overheating during hot days?

-Warmup

-Thermal Energy Article

-Thermal Energy Crossword

Friday, February 7

How can scientific principles be used to design, construct, and test a device to keep a dog crate from overheating during hot days?

-Warmup

-Collect Articles

-Volcano CER Peer Revisions

Next-Gen Science Standards

Planning and Carrying Out Investigations 

Planning and carrying out investigations to answer questions or test solutions to problems in 6–8 builds on K–5 experiences and progresses to include investigations that use multiple variables and provide evidence to support explanations or design solutions. 

• Plan an investigation individually and collaboratively, and in the design: identify independent and dependent variables and controls, what tools are needed to do the gathering, how measurements will be recorded, and how many data are needed to support a claim.

Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions 

Constructing explanations and designing solutions in 6–8 builds on K–5 experiences and progresses to include constructing explanations and designing solutions supported by multiple sources of evidence consistent with scientific ideas, principles, and theories. 

• Apply scientific ideas or principles to design, construct, and test a design of an object, tool, process or system.

Developing and Using Models 

Modeling in 6–8 builds on K–5 experiences and progresses to developing, using, and revising models to describe, test, and predict more abstract phenomena and design systems.  

• Develop a model to generate data to test ideas about designed systems, including those representing inputs and outputs.

PS3.A: Definitions of Energy  

• Temperature is a measure of the average kinetic energy of particles of matter. The relationship between the temperature and the total energy of a system depends on the types, states, and amounts of matter present. 

PS3.B: Conservation of Energy and Energy Transfer  

• Energy is spontaneously transferred out of hotter regions or objects and into colder ones. 

• The amount of energy transfer needed to change the temperature of a matter sample by a given amount depends on the nature of the matter, the size of the sample, and the environment.

ETS1.A: Defining and Delimiting an Engineering Problem  

• The more precisely a design task’s criteria and constraints can be defined, the more likely it is that the designed solution will be successful. Specification of constraints includes consideration of scientific principles and other relevant knowledge that is likely to limit possible solutions. (secondary) 

ETS1.B: Developing Possible Solutions  

• A solution needs to be tested, and then modified on the basis of the test results, in order to improve it.

• Models of all kinds are important for testing solutions. 

ETS1.C: Optimizing the Design Solution 

• The iterative process of testing the most promising solutions and modifying what is proposed on the basis of the test results leads to greater refinement and ultimately to an optimal solution.

Scale, Proportion, and Quantity  

• Proportional relationships (e.g. speed as the ratio of distance traveled to time taken) among different types of quantities provide information about the magnitude of properties and processes.

Energy and Matter  

• The transfer of energy can be tracked as energy flows through a designed or natural system.