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Teach Engineering: Heat It Up! ActivityTeach Engineering: Heat It Up! Activity
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TeachEngineering
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Grade
3rd - 5th
Subjects
Science
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Activities & Projects
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Lexile Measures
1010L
Activity

Teach Engineering: Heat It Up!

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Through a teacher demonstration using water, heat and food coloring, students see how convection moves the energy of the Sun from its core outwards. Students learn about the three different modes of heat transfer (convection, conduction, radiation) and how they are related to the Sun and life on our planet.

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Concepts

conduction, convection, engineering, heat transfer, radiation, stem

Additional Tags

4-ps3-2, integrated teaching and learning program and laboratory, teachengineering

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional

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