Workshop Outline: Heating Matter

      

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1. ELICIT: What Do We Know about Heating Matter?

 

2. EXPLORE: What Can We Find out about Heating Matter?

 

3. INQUIRE: What is the Difference between Heat and Temperature?

A. Taking the Temperature

B. Mixing Water at Different Temperatures

C. Two Metal Bolts

D. Bolt versus Water

E. Heat, Temperature, and Change of State

F. Make Sense

G. Apply

 

4. INQUIRE: How Can Heating (or Removing Heat) Affect the Physical State of a Sample of Matter?

A. Changes of Physical State

B. Evaporation: The Disappearing Liquid

C. Condensation: The Dew Drop Inn

D. The Water Cycle

E. What is Boiling?

F. Changing the Boiling Point of Water

G. Melting and Freezing: Butter or Margarine?

H. Changing the Freezing Point of Water: Frosty the Snow Can

I. Make Sense

J. Apply: Catching Steam (OPTIONAL)

 

5. REFLECT: What Have We Learned

 

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