(#15) Heat
Your students will study heat in all its forms: how it conducts through metals and nonmetals; how it convects through water and air; how it radiates through space. Test tubes of water wrapped in shiny foil or dull black paper lead students to conclusions about heat absorbers and emitters; cooling curves reveal the best insulator and the best conductor; a jar of moist sand demonstrates the greenhouse effect. Whether heat is supplied by their own hands or a burning peanut, your students will discover that mass and temperature both count when computing calories.
(#15) HEAT is part of our Self-Directing Task Card Series. It is a 56 page soft-bound book organized into three main parts:
INTRODUCTION
* A TOPS Model for Effective Science Teaching * Getting Ready * Gathering
Materials * Sequencing Task Cards * Long Range Objectives * Review / Test
Questions
TEACHING NOTES (20 lessons)
* Hot Wire * Heat Race * Conductors / Insulators * Cold Finger * Rise and
Fall * Convention Machine * Too Hot to Handle? * Paper Cooking Pot *
Radiation * Reflection / Absorption * Best Emitter? * Best Absorber? * The
Greenhouse Effect * Hold that Heat * Cold Hands * Water Mix (1) * Water
Mix (2) * Heat Capacity (1) * Heat Capacity (2) * Peanut Power
REPRODUCIBLE LINE MASTERS
* 20 Open-Ended Task Cards * Graph Paper
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(#15) HEAT requires no special lab equipment other than microscope slides, Bunsen burners (required in only 1 activity), test tubes, lab thermometers, a hot plate, 100 mL graduated cylinders and gram balances (or TOPS balances from #05 Weighing). Gather these and other simple materials, photocopy the 20 task cards, and you're ready to explore TOPS Learning Systems hands-on.
GRADE RANGE: 8-12
ORIGINS: written by Ron Marson / illustrated by Peg Marson / copyrighted
in 1990
by TOPS Learning Systems / ISBN 0-941008-85-1
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#15 Heat @ $9.50
#SS110 100 mL Graduated Cylinder @ $4.25
#SS111 Digital Gram Pocket Scale @ $14.50 (optional)
