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Essential Question: How do heat energy and temperature change through the different forms of heat transfer, conduction, convection, and radiation and how do these processes play out in everyday life?
This question prompts students to think about the different ways heat is transferred and how it affects the temperature of objects, and how these processes are present in everyday life scenarios. Additionally, it encourages students to reflect on how these different forms of heat transfer relate to each other and how they affect the environment and human lives.
UNLOCK THE BIG QUESTIONS! (SWBAT answer)
Identify heat as a form of energy that always flows from an object at a higher temperature to an object at a lower temperature.
Understand that adding heat to an object increases the kinetic energy of its molecules.
Explain the three processes by which heat is transferred—radiation, conduction, and convection.
Distinguish between heat and temperature. Explain how two objects of different mass can have the same temperature but a different amount of thermal energy
Unit Summary: Heat Transfer - From Chat GPT
Heat transfer is the movement of heat from one object or area to another. There are three types of heat transfer: conduction, convection, and radiation.
Conduction is when heat moves through a solid object by the collision of atoms and molecules. An example of this is when you touch a hot stove and feel the heat.
Convection is when heat is transferred by the movement of a liquid or gas. An example of this is when a pot of soup on the stove is heated and the hot soup rises to the top while the cooler soup sinks to the bottom.
Radiation is when heat travels through space as electromagnetic waves. An example of this is when the sun warms the Earth.
7.MS-PS3-3. Apply scientific principles of energy and heat transfer to design, construct, and test a device to minimize or maximize thermal energy transfer.*
7.MS-PS3-4. Conduct an investigation to determine the relationships among the energy transferred, how well the type of matter retains or radiates heat, the mass, and the change in the average kinetic energy of the particles as measured by the temperature of the sample.
7.MS-PS3-6(MA). Use a model to explain how thermal energy is transferred out of hotter regions or objects and into colder ones by convection, conduction, and radiation.
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