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    The document describes an interactive simulation that models heat transfer and specific heat capacity. It contains questions to guide exploration of how different materials (water, ice, iron, brick) absorb and release thermal energy when heated or cooled. The key findings are: 1) Iron holds more thermal energy than brick, though both lose energy to the air. 2) When heated iron is added to water, the iron's thermal energy is transferred to the water, warming it up. 3) A brick placed on iron and heated will warm up from the iron's thermal energy, showing heat transfer. 4) Cooled materials like iron and brick have different temperatures but the same reduced thermal energy levels. The water

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    The document describes an interactive simulation that models heat transfer and specific heat capacity. It contains questions to guide exploration of how different materials (water, ice, iron, brick) absorb and release thermal energy when heated or cooled. The key findings are: 1) Iron holds more thermal energy than brick, though both lose energy to the air. 2) When heated iron is added to water, the iron's thermal energy is transferred to the water, warming it up. 3) A brick placed on iron and heated will warm up from the iron's thermal energy, showing heat transfer. 4) Cooled materials like iron and brick have different temperatures but the same reduced thermal energy levels. The water

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    SPECIFIC HEAT CAPACITY: https://phet.colorado.

    edu/en/simulation/energy-forms-and-changes
    Learning Targets: Describe patterns of thermal energy transfer.

    Explain that some materials hold and release more energy than others (specific heat).

    When in doubt, add a thermometer!

    1. Is it possible to boil the water? Is it possible to freeze the water? (Make sure to attach the temperature gauge so
    you have a guide.) What do you need to do to make these changes?

    Yes, it is possible to freeze and boil the water. To make the change in the temperature is to increase or decrease
    the thermal energy.

    2. Chill the water as much as possible- then add heat and observe. List below at least three things you noticed
    (Make sure the energy symbols box is checked.)

    I noticed that the water molecules go into the ice.

    Then the water molecules come out of the fire.

    The are molecules start to evaporate.

    3. How do these outcomes tell you something about the iceberg phenomena?
    The thermal energy passes through the iceberg, and it melts the ice, then the water from the ice evaporates.

    4. Add heat to the Iron and heat to the brick at the same time. Which one can hold more energy? How/where do
    they lose their energy?

    Both the brick and the iron both lose energy in the air, but the iron holds more.

    5. Add a heated up bit of iron to room temperature water. Describe in detail what happens below.

    6. Place the brick on top of the iron and add heat. Describe what is happening in at least three sentences.

    7. Take the same set up from #5, an instead of heating it up, cool it down. Describe what is happening in at least
    three sentences.

    8. Once the brick and the iron are cooled down, do they have the same thermal energy? Do they have the same
    temperature? Does the room temperature water have more or less thermal energy?

    Prepare for Classroom Discussion about the following:


    From the first Tab, What material can hold the most heat? Which take the longest to cool down? (Is it the same
    order?

    How does heat flow? What evidence did you experience to justify that answer?

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