MS-PS3-4: Thermal Energy Transfer
Plan an investigation to determine the relationships among the energy transferred, the type of matter, the mass, and the change in the average kinetic energy of the particles as measured by the temperature of the sample. (Scale, Proportion, and Quantity)
Clarification Statement: Examples of experiments could include comparing final water temperatures after different masses of ice melted in the same volume of water with the same initial temperature, the temperature change of samples of different materials with the same mass as they cool or heat in the environment, or the same material with different masses when a specific amount of energy is added.
Assessment Boundary: Assessment does not include calculating the total amount of thermal energy transferred.
Science Practices
Planning and Carrying Out Investigations
Disciplinary Core Ideas
PS3.A: Definitions of Energy
PS3.B: Conservation of Energy and Energy Transfer
Crosscutting Concepts
Scale, Proportion, and Quantity
Assessments
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Instructional Resources
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Phenomena
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Common Core Connections
ELA/Literacy
WHST.6-8.7 - Conduct short research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question), drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions that allow for multiple avenues of exploration.
Mathematics
6.SP.B.5 - Summarize numerical data sets in relation to their context.
MP.2 - Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
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