Description

Overview:

This assessment task, from ClimeTime educators, is aligned with middle school grades 6-8. The assessment context within the middle school curriculum is thermal energy transfer and developing a model for particle motion as energy transfers. Students are presented with a discrepant event when two ice cubes of the same size next to each other melt at astonishingly different rates. Before starting this assignment, students should have practice with drawing motion lines on particles and with drawing arrows for direction of heat transfer – this is not their first activity working with conduction and particles.
Resource includes a student task document, teacher guide, and task facilitation slides.

Subject:

Physical Science

Level:

Middle School

Material Type:

Assessment

Author:

Elizabeth Vroom, Jeff Ryan, Lexie Macnevin

Provider:

Washington Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction

Date Added:

05/06/2024