Grade 06 Science - EC: S6.C.2.1.1
Grade 06 Science - EC: S6.C.2.1.1
Continuum of Activities
The list below represents a continuum of activities: resources categorized by Standard/Eligible Content that teachers may use to move students toward proficiency. Using LEA curriculum and available materials and resources, teachers can customize the activity statements/questions for classroom use.
This continuum of activities offers:
- Instructional activities designed to be integrated into planned lessons
- Questions/activities that grow in complexity
- Opportunities for differentiation for each student’s level of performance
Grade Levels
6th Grade
Course, Subject
Science
Related Academic Standards / Eligible Content
Activities
- What is the relationship between temperature and energy?
- How does particle movement in warm and cold objects compare?
- Identify examples in your everyday life that support the fact that heat moves from warmer objects to cooler objects until the temperature is even.
- Explain the following processes of heat transfer: conduction, convection, and radiation.
- Describe how particle movement has an impact on phase change, and the process heat plays in this process. Describe the particulars of a phase change (e.g.,melting, boiling).
- Support how kinetic energy relates to heat transferring from hot to cold objects.
Answer Key/Rubric
- The warmer an object, the more energy it contains.
- The particle movement of warm objects is greater than the particle movement of cold objects.
- Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
- A pot becomes warm when put on a stove.
- When the bathtub is too cold, hot water can be added to warm up the temperature.
- In a house, furnaces emit warmer air to increase the temperature of the cooler air.
- Conduction is the heat transfer of two objects of different temperatures by collisions of neighboring molecules.
Convection is how heat travels through liquids and gases. As a liquid or gas heats, it becomes less dense and rises. As it cools, it sinks. This produces a circular flow (convection currents).
Radiation is the transmission of heat energy in waves through space.
- As temperature (heat) increases, particle motion increases. The more heat, the faster and more freely particles are able to move. In the process of melting, a solid becomes a liquid. Since heat is added, the particles vibrate more rapidly, releasing their bond and allowing the particles to be more spaced out and free moving, as achieved by the liquid phase of matter.
- Temperature measures the average kinetic energy of the atoms and molecules. When hot and cold temperatures meet, the atoms and molecules at the boundary collide with each other. The kinetic energy of the atoms and molecules of the high temperature object is greater than the lower temperature object, so energy is transferred from the object with higher kinetic energy (hot) to the object with lower kinetic energy (cold).
