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Teach Engineering: How Much Heat Will It Hold?

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Students relate thermal energy to heat capacity by comparing the heat capacities of different materials and graphing the change in temperature over time for a specific material. Students learn why heat capacity is an important property of thermal energy that engineers use in many applications.

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Concepts
conductors, engineering, heat capacity, heat energy, insulators, thermal energy, stem, specific heat capacity
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Additional Tags
integrated teaching and learning program and laboratory, teachengineering
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
NGSS
4-PS3-2