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Thermal Expansion Model
Duration: 30-60 minutes
Grade Levels: 4-12
An important part of understanding sea-level rise is understanding thermal expansion of water. Thermal expansion accounts for about half of the measured global sea-level rise. Students will build a model using everyday items to demonstrate that water expands when heat energy is added.
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Grade Levels: 4-12
Duration: 30-60 minutes
Concepts/Skills: PHYSICAL SCIENCES, EARTH, ENERGY, HEAT AND THERMODYNAMICS
Climate Standards Connections
| Next Generation Science Standards | ||
| Grade | Performance Expectation | Description |
| 4 | 4-PS3-2 | Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents |
| Climate Change Connections | heat transfer | |
| Clarification Statement & Assessment Boundary | Assessment does not include quantitative measurements of energy. | |