Activity Number 308

	Overview and Learning Objectives
	Classroom Practice
	Central Concepts
	Benchmarks and Standards
	Extensions and Connections
	Activity Credits
	Requirements

Heat and Temperature (SAM)

Interactive, scaffolded model

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	Overview and Learning Objectives Students learn that temperature measures average kinetic energy, and heat is the transfer of energy from hot systems to cold systems. They consider what makes a good conductor. Students will be able to: • Distinguish between heat and temperature at the atomic level. • Determine temperature is related to both the speed and the mass of atoms. • Explain that temperature is a measure of the average kinetic energy of atoms and molecules in a system. • Experiment with the amount of energy and the size of a system and its relationship to a rise in temperature. • Compare thermal radiation and heat conduction. return to top



	Classroom Practice Teacher Guide: http://sam.concord.org/publications/teacher-guides/heat_and_temp.ver2.pdf return to top



	Central Concepts Key Concept: Additional Related Concepts Physics/Chemistry Energy Energy transfer Heat energy Molecular movement Temperature return to top



	Benchmarks and Standards AAAS THE PHYSICAL SETTING: ENERGY TRANSFORMATIONS - Heat energy in a material consists of the disordered motions of its atoms or molecules (Full Text of Standard) THE PHYSICAL SETTING: ENERGY TRANSFORMATIONS - Transformations of energy usually produce some energy in the form of heat, which spreads around by radiation or conduction into cooler places (Full Text of Standard) NSES Physical-Science: Energy Conservation / Entropy - 3 Heat consists of random motion and the vibrations of atoms, molecules, and ions (Full Text of Standard) return to top



	Extensions and Connections Fermi Lab's ARISE Project suggests the following enhancement to this SAM unit: http://www.concord.org/~barbara/SAM/ARISE/ARISE_SAM_heat_temp.pdf return to top



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	Requirements Java 1.5+ - Java 1.5+ is available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X 10.4 and greater. If you are using Mac OS X 10.3, you can download MW Version 1.3 and explore within it instead. return to top

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National Science Foundation under grant number DUE-0402553

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Heat and Temperature (SAM)

Overview and Learning Objectives

Classroom Practice

Central Concepts

Additional Related Concepts

Benchmarks and Standards

Extensions and Connections

Activity Credits

Requirements