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Objective 1: Investigate the movement of heat between objects by conduction, convection, and radiation.
a. Compare materials that conduct heat to materials that insulate the transfer of heat energy.
b. Describe the movement of heat from warmer objects to cooler objects by conduction and convection.
c. Describe the movement of heat across space from the sun to Earth by radiation.
d. Observe and describe, with the use of models, heat energy being transferred through fluid medium (liquid and/or gas) by convection currents.
e. Design and conduct an investigation on the movement of heat energy.
Conduction, Convection, Radiation
Educator’s Guide to Convection
Heat Transfer – Radiation, Conduction, and Convection
Heat Transfer – Radiation, Conduction, and Convection II
The Space Place – Beat the Heat
Objective 2: Describe how light can be produced, reflected, refracted, and separated into visible light of various colors.
a. Compare light from various sources (e.g., intensity, direction, color).
b. Compare the reflection of light from various surfaces (e.g., loss of light, angle of reflection, reflected color).
c. Investigate and describe the refraction of light passing through various materials (e.g., prisms, water).
d. Predict and test the behavior of light interacting with various fluids (e.g., light transmission through fluids, refraction of light).
e. Predict and test the appearance of various materials when light of different colors is shone on the material.
Light Reflection (Great Photograph)
Physics of Light – Making Light
Objective 3: Describe the production of sound in terms of vibration of objects that create vibrations in other materials.
a. Describe how sound is made from vibration and moves in all directions from the source in waves.
b. Explain the relationship of the size and shape of a vibrating object to the pitch of the sound produced.
c. Relate the volume of a sound to the amount of energy used to create the vibration of the object producing the sound.
d. Make a musical instrument and report on how it produces sound.
Acoustics and Vibration Animations - Dan Russell, Kettering University
Frequency, Wavelength, and Pitch
School for Science – Sound Waves
Science of Sound – Teacher’s Notes