Unpacked Content
Scientific and Engineering Practices
Developing and Using Models; Planning and Carrying out Investigations; Engaging in Argument from Evidence
Crosscutting Concepts
Systems and System Models; Energy and Matter
Knowledge
Students know:
- How to recognize open and closed systems.
- How to utilize models for understanding.
- Temperature scales and conversions.
- How to perform graphical analysis.
- The relationship between work and energy.
- The difference between heat and temperature.
- How to develop models.
- The differences among conduction, convection and radiation.
- How to use evidence to support an argument/claim.
- How the second law of thermodynamics applies to entropy of an open system.
- How the second law of thermodynamics applies to entropy of a closed system.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Develop an appropriate experimental procedure.
- Create a data sheet.
- Collect and organize experimental data.
- Follow written and verbal instructions.
- Make measurements using standard units.
- Manipulate laboratory equipment.
- Work safely in collaborative lab groups.
- Communicate results of research.
- Manipulate equations.
- Interpret graphical data.
- Solve mathematical equations.
- Develop models to illustrate a phenomenon.
- Engage in scientific argumentation using valid evidence.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Heat energy can be transferred in various ways and used to do work within the limits defined by the laws of thermodynamics.
Vocabulary
- model
- thermodynamics
- entropy
- convection
- conduction
- radiation
- scientific argumentation
- open system
- closed system
- heat transfer
- laws of thermodynamics
- work
- internal energy
- temperature
- heat
- thermometer
- thermal equilibrium
- average kinetic energy
- kinetic theory of matter
- specific heat capacity
- conservation of energy
- thermal energy
- thermal conductivity
- heat exchanger
- heat sink
- heat reservoir
- isovolumetric
- isothermal
- adiabatic
- cyclic processes
- heat engine
- efficiency
