Learning objectives:

  • To think about a specific problem, fitting with the science curriculum to be developed in the classroom
  • To build an experiment related to the situation, to collect, analyze and interpret the related data.

Tasks:

Go through the following activities, selected from the unit “Heating and Cooling: Designing a Low Energy Home”:

1.1 Discussing and experimenting how to maintain warm a house model
1.2 Experimenting distribution of temperature inside the house model
1.3 Hypothesizing and experimenting the sunshine effects on the house model temperature