OpenSciEd 6.2: Thermal Energy

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How do water particles CHANGE when they evaporate?

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They start moving faster

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The gold marbles represent water particles. The colorful marbles represent plastic particles. What will eventually happen to the water particles if there is no lid?

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Since this represents an open system, the water particles will eventually evaporate.

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What does the blue particle that's up high in the circle represent?

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The blue circle up high represents a water molecule that has evaporated.

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Why do you only change one thing at a time in an experiment?

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Because you want to know what is responsible for the change in your investigation.

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What path of light causes you to see the child in this image?

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Sun transmits through window, reflects off child, transmits through window into your eye

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Why did the metal spoon become warm when Jenny stirred hot chocolate with it?

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The spoon is a conductor.

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Order of thermal energy transfer when stirring a hot drink with a metal spoon in a styrofoam cup.

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hot chocolate-spoon-hand

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What observation can you make about what happened to the snowman?

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It changed from a solid to a liquid.

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When you leave your cold drink outside, the glass may have water drops on it. This is an example of...

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condensation

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Predict what would happen to a glass of drinkable water if left outside overnight in negative degree weather.

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The water would change to a solid.