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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Earth Processes

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore and discuss the process of evaporation. They discuss how wet things become dry. Students observe the process of evaporation and they make predictions about the observations they make about evaporation. Students...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Chasing El Nino

For Students 9th - 12th
In this El Nino worksheet, high schoolers review this specific change in the climate cycle by completing 20 short answer questions.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

WHY DO SOME THINGS FLOAT WHILE OTHERS SINK

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students explore how density can cause things to sink or float by experimenting with a jar, oil and corn syrup.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Induction: Inquiry in Action

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students investigate the factors that affect the induced current in a loop of wire. They discuss Faraday's Law and Lenz's Law. Students identify the different variables that affect the magnetic flux and calculate the magnetic flux...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Meteorology Word Search Puzzle

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this science worksheet, students look for the words that are related to the theme of the worksheet. They also work on the skills of spelling and word recognition.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Food Webs

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders discover how organisms depend upon each other in an ecosystem. In this ecosystems lesson, 4th graders use food webs to discuss the interdependence between organisms in an ecosystem.
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Put Some Energy Into It! Use a Calorimeter to Measure

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this science fair project, use a calorimeter with an attached heating element to measure how water responds to added thermal energy.
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Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Heat and Light From Electricity

For Students 6th - 8th
Understand the energy transformations that happens when you light a bulb with a battery. Activity requires students to build a simple circuit and take temperature and time measurements. Lab includes procedure with questions that can be...
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Activity
New York University

New York University: Measurement of Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides information about the distinction between heat and temperature, and allows you to check your understanding through exercises. The Kelvin, Fahrenheit, and Celsius temperatures are compared and discussed.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Efficiency of a Water Heating System

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students use a watt meter to measure energy input into a hot plate or hot pot used to heat water. The theoretical amount of energy required to raise the water by the measure temperature change is calculated and compared to the electrical...
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eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Thermal Physics: What Does Heat Do?

For Students 9th - 10th
This physics tutorial covers the topic of measuring the quantity of heat that is transferred between the system and the surroundings. Students learn about calorimetry- the science associated with determining the changes in energy of a...
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eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Thermal Physics: Measuring the Quantity of Heat

For Students 9th - 10th
Through interactive exercises and illustrated example problems, students learn about specific heat capacity and measuring the quantity of heat.
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Handout
Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Heat of Fusion

For Students 9th - 10th
The heat of fusion is defined and described. A graphical representation of the heat of vaporization is given. A method for measuring and calculating the heat of fusion is also presented and explained.
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Energy Transfers

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will model and measure energy transfers from light to heat.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Heat Flow

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson, students study the difference between reactions that absorb versus release heat as well as how to measure this change in energy.
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Article
American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: How Do We Measure Air Temperature?

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out how scientists measure the air temperature to accurately report the weather.
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Energy Efficiency

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners measure energy outputs and inputs to determine the efficiency of conversions and simple systems. One associated activitiy includes Lego motors and accomplishing work. The other investigates energy for heating water. Students...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Light vs. Heat Bulbs

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students measure the light output and temperature (as a measure of heat output) for three types of light bulbs to identify why some light bulbs are more efficient (more light with less energy) than others.
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Activity
Chemistry Collective

Chem Collective: Measuring the Heat Capacity of an Engine Coolant Ii

For Students 9th - 10th
Measure and compare the heat capacity of an unknown liquid with an unknown density.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Calorimetry

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Using diagrams and practice problems, students learn how the units of calories are used to measure the energy of the heat transfer. They also discover how...
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Unit Plan
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Heat and Temperature

For Students 7th - 9th
Learn that temperature measures average kinetic energy, and heat is the transfer of energy from hot systems to cold systems. Consider what makes a good conductor. (Requires Java)
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Handout
Physics4kids

Physics4 kids.com: Thermodynamics & Heat: Enthalpy

For Students 9th - 10th
Concise information about enthalpy, the measure of the total energy of a thermodynamic system.
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Interactive
Other

Ask Numbers: Measurement Conversion Calculators and Charts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
What kind of unit conversion would you like to do? This site will allow you to do a multitude of conversions. Just click on the specific measurement you are needing to convert. It also provides a history of measurements and a chart of...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Let's Get Breezy!

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students apply an understanding of the concept of heat transfer through convection, conduction, and radiation as they use wireless temperature probes to investigate the heating capacity of different materials under heat lamps.