Grade 7 Lesson
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Homework:
G&L Week 10 Quiz, Mon, November 25th.
Bring in cans and materials for our STEM Project
Today’s Agenda:
Finish Exploring Specific Heat.
If finished before peers, complete the Extension Activity attached to the assignment.
Extension Assignment - Exploring Specific Heat
For this activity you will use the PhET simulation titled Energy Forms and Changes. Click this link to open it!
Follow these instructions, but do your work on the document you already completed.
Put it at the end of the document below question 15.
Steps
Review the work you completed on Exploring Specific Heat, items 1-15.
Open the simulation.
Brainstorm and consider ways to explore the specific heat of Brick and Iron. You have samples of these included in the sim. DO NOT USE the Energy Symbols option in your experiments!
Devise (create) two different experiments to help you infer which material has a higher specific heat. Complete your work for each experiment as follows:
Describe your experiment and method.
Make a data table and collect data from your experiment.
Use the data to conclude which material has a higher specific heat.
Do steps a-c separately for each experiment.
Record this work on the Exploring Specific Heat worksheet under question 15.
Finally, check your work using the “Energy Symbols” and compare to what you concluded.