Students test whether the color of a material affects how much heat it absorbs. Students will place an ice cube in a box made of colored paper (one box per color; white, yellow, red and black), which they will place in the sun. The students will make prediction as to which color will melt the ice cube first. They will record the order and time required for the ice cubes to melt.

Concepts

engineering, heat energy, solar energy, stem

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Additional Tags

light absorption, melting, integrated teaching and learning program and laboratory, teachengineering, solar cell, optical engineering

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)