Journal Entry:

You are on a camping trip with your family. While you are toasting marshmallows, one catches on fire. 1. List three more items you might have that will burn. 2. List three items that will not burn.

Learning Intentions

Closing Task:

You can identify substances that will combust and be able to explain why. 

Content Standards being covered in this unit:

Student can identify types of energy and explain energy changes.

Students can create a computational model to calculate the change in the energy of one component in a system when the change in energy of the other component(s) and energy flows in and out of the system are known (HS-PS3-1 and CCC Energy and Matter)

Students can develop a model to illustrate that the release or absorption of energy from a chemical reaction system depends upon the changes in total bond energy.(HS-PS1-4 and CCC Energy and Matter) .

Students can develop and use models to illustrate that energy at the macroscopic scale can be accounted for as a combination of energy associated with the motions of particles (objects) and energy associated with the relative position of particles (objects).(HS-PS3-2 and CCC Energy and Matter)

Students can plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence that the transfer of thermal energy when two components of different temperature are combined within a closed system results in a more uniform energy distribution among the components in the system (second law of thermodynamics) (HS-PS3-4 and CCC Energy and Matter)