Grade 12 · Week 28 · U7
Essential question: How does microscopic particle motion explain temperature and heat transfer?
Objects at the same temperature can contain different thermal energy.
Build an initial model and explanation for: How does microscopic particle motion explain temperature and heat transfer?
Record observations, questions, an initial model, and one claim that could be tested. Use these concepts where relevant: temperature; internal energy; heat; conduction; convection; radiation.
Study and explain the week's core ideas: temperature; internal energy; heat; conduction; convection; radiation
Open thermal physics text.
Revise Monday's model. Add two evidence-backed annotations and explain one limitation or uncertainty.
Specific heat and energy-balance calculations.
Show units, setup, calculation or graph reasoning, then write what the quantitative evidence can and cannot establish about: How does microscopic particle motion explain temperature and heat transfer?
Cooling-curve dataset or safe water-temperature simulation.
Use the course safety charter. If supervision, facilities, materials, or conditions are not appropriate, use the supplied-data/simulation alternative rather than improvising hazardous procedures.
Record variables or design constraints, procedure/model, observations/data, and one revision you would make after reviewing the evidence.
Answer the essential question: How does microscopic particle motion explain temperature and heat transfer?
Submit a claim, at least two specific pieces of evidence, reasoning that connects them, one limitation/counterclaim, and a correction note for any essential concept below 80%.
Select one artifact from this week and explain why it is trustworthy evidence of growth.