Thursday, September 20, 2012

Thursday/Friday, 20/21 September, 2012


Students will be able to:
-understand energy changes by showing an example in which a substance, water, changes state by absorbing energy from the surroundings. 
-learn that absorbed energy causes the temperature of the surroundings to decrease.

Students did the following bell ringer:

On a particularly cold winter day, Kurt takes a plate of hot food outside to eat lunch. His mother calls him back inside and he forgets the plate outside. Which of the following will happen next?

A. Cold from the air gets inside the food until the food is the same temperature as the air.
B. Heat from the food transfers to the surrounding air until the food reaches the same temperature as the air.
C. Cold from the air moves into the food until the temperature of the food drops below the temperature of the air.
D. Heat from the food increases the temperature of the surrounding air until the air is the same temperature as the food.

Students completed the lab melting ice. It will be written in the interactive notebook next week.

Short STory 1 is due in class on Monday or Tuesday, depending on period.