Students will investigate the laws of energy transfer within chemistry to create, test and improve designs.
Priority Standard
MS-PS 1-6: Undertake a design project to construct, test, and modify a device that either releases or absorbs thermal energy by chemical processes.
Supporting Standards
MS-PS 1-4: Develop a model that predicts and describes changes in particle motion, temperature, and state of a pure substance when thermal energy is added or removed.
MS-PS 1-5: Develop and use a model to describe how the total number of atoms does not change in a chemical reaction and thus mass is conserved.
Essential Question
How do scientists integrate the scientific method and engineering cycle to create, test and improve devices?
Big Ideas
Scientists define project requirements to better create an investigation that determines how the solution/prototype should be improved.
Scientists conduct investigations to draw conclusions about he law of conservation of mass, and apply these concepts of energy transfer to design projects.
MS-PS 1-6: Undertake a design project to construct, test, and modify a device that either releases or absorbs thermal energy by chemical processes.
Supporting Standards
MS-PS 1-4: Develop a model that predicts and describes changes in particle motion, temperature, and state of a pure substance when thermal energy is added or removed.
MS-PS 1-5: Develop and use a model to describe how the total number of atoms does not change in a chemical reaction and thus mass is conserved.
Essential Question
How do scientists integrate the scientific method and engineering cycle to create, test and improve devices?
Big Ideas
Scientists define project requirements to better create an investigation that determines how the solution/prototype should be improved.
Scientists conduct investigations to draw conclusions about he law of conservation of mass, and apply these concepts of energy transfer to design projects.
VOcabularyInsulator
Atoms Mass Thermal Energy Conservation of Mass Balance Equation Exothermic Reaction |
assessmentsStudents test the principles of thermal energy transfer to improve upon an existing product designed to insulate exothermic reactions.
Students test the principles of thermal energy transfer to improve upon an existing product designed to maximize endothermic reactions. |