Priority Standard:
- 5.P.3.1 Explain the effects of the transfer of heat (either by direct contact or at a distance) that occurs between objects at different temperatures (conduction, convection or radiation).
- 5.P.3.2 Explain how heating and cooling affect some materials and how this relates to their purpose and practical applications.
Essential Questions/Big Ideas:
- What is heat?
- How can heat change the properties of a substance?
- How does heat move from one place to another?
- What are some natural examples of each type of heat transfer?
- What are the effects of combining warmer objects and cooler objects?
- How many ways can you describe conduction?
- How is convection at work in the world around you?
- How would you explain the process of radiation?
- Explain how bodies of water hold heat?
- Do all materials respond the same way to being heated or cooled? (i.e., water)
- Do some materials conduct heat better than others?
- Explain how energy can be transferred from warm objects to cold objects.
- Explain how heating and cooling changes the properties of materials.
- When warmer things are put with cooler things, the warmer things lose heat and the cooler things gain heat until they are all at the same temperature.
- Heating and cooling can cause changes in the properties of materials, but not all materials respond the same way to being heated and cooled.
- Convection, conduction, and radiation are the three main types of heat transfer.