How Cool Is Your Environment?

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How Cool Is Your Environment?

Description:

In this activity, students calculate heat energy and convert from one temperature scale to another. The students will also be able to manipulate formulas needed for conversions.

Education Levels:

6, 7, 8

Subject:

Number Sense, Measurement

Resource Type:

Activity

Medium:

Text/HTML

Fee Status:

Free

Online provider:

Beacon Learning Center

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Keywords:

Mass, Fahrenheit, Celsius, Heat energy, Temperature

Mediator:

Middle school teachers, Elementary school teachers

Publisher:

Beacon Learning Center

Contributor:

Kenneth Blackman

Is Part Of:

http://www.beaconlearningcenter.com/Lessons/Level3MA.asp

Language:

English

Subjects/Topics

P21 Subject:

Mathematics

Learning Outcomes:

Conforms To

Sunshine State Standards Grade Level Expectations: Mathematics (1996)

Strand B: Measurement

Standard 1: The student measures quantities in the real world and uses the measures to solve problems.

Benchmark MA.B.1.3.2: The student uses concrete and graphic models to derive formulas for finding rates, distance, time, and angle measures.

Eighth
1. applies formulas for finding rates, distance, time and angle measures

Conforms To

Sunshine State Standards Grade Level Expectations: Mathematics (1996)

Strand B: Measurement

Standard 3: The student estimates measurements in real-world problem situations.

Benchmark MA.B.3.3.1: The student solves real-world and mathematical problems involving estimates of measurements including length, time, weight/mass, temperature, money, perimeter, area, and volume, in either customary or metric units.

Eighth
1. knows a variety of strategies to estimate, describe, make comparisons, and solve real-world and mathematical problems involving measurements

Conforms To

Sunshine State Standards Grade Level Expectations: Mathematics (1996)

Strand A: Number Sense, Concepts, and Operations

Standard 3: The student understands the effects of operations on numbers and the relationships among these operations, selects appropriate operations, and computes for problem solving.

Benchmark MA.A.3.3.2: The student selects the appropriate operation to solve problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of rational numbers, ratios, proportions, and percents, including the appropriate application of the algebraic order of operations.

Eighth
1. knows the appropriate operations to solve real-world problems involving integers, ratios, rates, proportions, numbers expressed as percents, decimals, and fractions

Conforms To

Sunshine State Standards Grade Level Expectations: Mathematics (1996)

Strand A: Number Sense, Concepts, and Operations

Standard 3: The student understands the effects of operations on numbers and the relationships among these operations, selects appropriate operations, and computes for problem solving.

Benchmark MA.A.3.3.3: The student adds, subtracts, multiplies, and divides whole numbers, decimals, and fractions, including mixed numbers, to solve real-world problems, using appropriate methods of computing, such as mental mathematics, paper and pencil, and calculator.

Eighth
1. solves multi-step real-world problems involving fractions, decimals, and integers using appropriate methods of computation, such as mental computation, paper and pencil, and calculator

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