This activity looks at the energy losses in a model house and provides an environment where several explorations are possible...

Classroom Activity 11-14

Here is a simple situation. Put a hot object, say a pasty, in an insulated picnic box, cut off from the outside so that it is...

Physics Narrative 11-14

You pop a muffin in the microwave. You wrap your cold hands around a steaming mug of soup.

Physics Narrative 11-14

What is the relationship between the amount of energy in the thermal store of a warm object and the temperature of that object...

Physics Narrative 11-14

Let's think about conduction in solids first. Here each particle vibrates but ends up going nowhere over the longer term. This...

Physics Narrative 11-14

Radiation is quite different from both convection and conduction. Consider the case of warming by the Sun on a bright summer's...

Physics Narrative 11-14

The energy in the thermal store is not the same as the temperature of an object. But the temperature of an object can...

Physics Narrative

Distinguishing–eliciting–connecting. How to:

Teaching Guidance 11-14

You are watching a bonfire with a hot drink in one hand and a sparkler in the other. Somebody knocks into you. Which will warm...

Teaching Guidance 11-14

The underlying problem here is that the wrong track thinking shown here conjures up an image of heat as being like some kind...

Teaching Guidance 11-14

The idea of heat rising is very common in everyday speech and adds to the notion of heat being some kind of substance. In...

Teaching Guidance 11-14

There's a good chance you could improve your teaching if you were to try these strategies.

Teaching Guidance 11-14