Physics of the Universe · Week 16 · Energy Conversion and Renewable Energy
Heat Engines and Efficiency
Investigating heat flow and efficiency and finding where students lose energy to stress and how to recover it.
- Students will
- Students plan and conduct a quick mixing test that shows hot and cool water reach one shared temperature, and calculate how much engine fuel energy becomes useful motion.
- SEL skill
- Find where your energy leaks to stress and choose a way to recover it
- What it looks like
- Students practice coping with stress by finding where their energy leaks and choosing ways to recover it.
- Content focus
- Heat engines and efficiency
- Format
- Think write pair share
Self-management
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Standards
- HS-PS3-4: High School Physical Science performance expectation
- Science and engineering practice: SEP3 Planning and carrying out investigations
- Crosscutting concept: CCC5 Energy and matter
- CA Environmental Principles and Concepts: Principle II: People influence natural systems
- Literacy in science: WHST.11-12.7 Conduct short and sustained research projects to answer a question or solve a problem.
- Traditional course: Physics
Fits these textbook chapters
- Physics Techbook, Concept 3.2: Conservation of Energy
- Physics Techbook, Concept 3.3: Laws of Thermodynamics
- Inspire Physics, Unit 3: Thermal Energy
- California HMH Science Dimensions: Physics in the Universe, Unit 4: Energy Conversion
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More self-management activities for Physics of the Universe
- Force and Motion Self-managementAnalyzing motion data to show that net force causes acceleration and identifying the forces that move students toward their goals.
- Balanced and Unbalanced Self-managementModeling balanced and unbalanced forces and noticing when the forces in life feel balanced or out of control.
- Magnets and Motors Self-managementInvestigating how electric current creates magnetic fields and channeling curiosity into persistence when a motor will not spin.
- The San Andreas Fault Self-managementModeling how plate motion builds and releases stress along the fault and practicing safe ways to release built up stress.
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