Teach Engineering: How Much Heat Will It Hold?

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This is a 50-minute lab for grades 3-5 on the topic of heat capacity. Students work in teams to collect data on the heat capacity of various common materials. The main objective is to promote understanding of how heat capacity is related to the storage of thermal energy. By graphing the change in temperature over time, students also gain awareness of which materials make good insulators and which are better conductors. Printable student worksheets and vocabulary lists are included.

This activity is part of a module titled "How Hot Is It?" See Related items on this page for a link to the full module.

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Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Thermo & Stat Mech - First Law = Heat Capacity = Heat Transfer - Thermal Properties of Matter = Temperature	- Elementary School	- Instructional Material = Best practice = Laboratory = Lesson/Lesson Plan

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Restriction:: © 2005 Regents of the University of Colorado
Keywords:: energy, energy storage, experiential learning, heat energy, temperature, thermal energy, thermodynamics, thermometer
Record Cloner:: Metadata instance created October 20, 2008 by Caroline Hall
Record Updated:: October 25, 2011 by Caroline Hall
Last Update when Cataloged:: April 21, 2006
Other Collections:: The Physics Front

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Accompanies Teach Engineering: Make Your Own Temperature Scale

This activity for Grades 3-5 explores the difference between heat and temperature, as students construct their own thermometers and temperature scales.

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