Heat and Temperature Diagnostic Questions
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Fall 2009-Day 10
Instructional Strategies-Diagnostic Questions
Heat and Temperature Opening Activities
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Heat and Temperature Pre-Diagnostic Question
The Four Metal Plates:
1. Consider (without touching) four plates:two metal plates, a wooden plate, a Styrofoam plate.
Rank these in order of temperature.
Explain the reasoning for your predicted ranking.
2. Touch the four plates.
Rank these in order of temperature.
Explain the reasoning for your ranking.
Student Responses
Students will likely think that the plates are all different temperatures because the plates feel different when the students touch them.
The students will likely rate the dark metal plate as coldest, next the lighter metal plate, then the wood plate, and the styrofoam as the warmest.
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