Popcorn & Pinecones
Overview
Students will explore how heat acts as an input of energy and creates change through conduction and convection, using fire adapted pinecones and making popcorn as demonstrations of the phenomenon.
Activity Type:
Lesson
Target Grade Level:
K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Estimated Duration:
Varies
Topics:
Fire
Possible Connections to NGSS |
Performance Expectations K-LS1-1: Use observations to describe patterns of what plants, animals and humans need to survive. K-2-ETS1-2: Develop a simple sketch, drawing, or physical model to illustrate how the shape of an object helps it function as needed to solve a given problem. 2-PS1-4: Construct an argument with evidence that some changes caused by heating or cooling can be reversed and some cannot. 3-LS3-2: Use evidence to support the explanation that traits can be influenced by the environment. 3-LS4-3: Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some less well and some not at all. 4-PS3-2: Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents. 4-LS1-1: Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction. MS-LS2-4: Construct an argument supported by empirical evidence that changes to physical or biological components of an ecosystem affect populations. HS-LS4-5: Evaluate the evidence supporting claims that changes in environmental conditions may result in (1) increases in the number of individuals of some species, (2) the emergence of new species over time, and (3) the extinction of other species. |
Created by:
Climate Kids
