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Knowledge and Skills Statement

Force, motion, and energy. The student understands the behavior of thermal energy as it flows into and out of system.

the transfer of energy by direct contact between objects or particles

the transfer of energy through currents in liquids or gases

the transfer of energy without a medium

regularly interacting or interdependent group of items forming a unified whole

a phenomenon of energy that measures the random motion (kinetic energy) of particles (vibrations in solids or free motion in a gas) in a fluid

Research

Hazzard, Edmund. “Now You’re Cooking!: Heat Transfer Labs: From Basic Recipes to Full Inquiry.” The Science Teacher 79, no. 6  (September 2012): 45–50. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43557533

Summary: "Now You're Cooking" explains the variations in convection, conduction, and radiation transfers of thermal energy. Investigation opportunities in the classroom for each are detailed.