1. Warm Up: The diagram below shows a man beside a camp fire
Warm Up: The diagram below shows a man beside a camp fire. How does thermal energy from the camp fire reach the man? Conduction, Convection, or Radiation?

2. Reviewing the CER Framework
Claim: a conclusion about a problem
Typically the claim answers a question
Evidence: scientific data that supports the claim
Appropriate and sufficient evidence
Reasoning: a justification that shows why the data counts as evidence to support the claim and includes appropriate scientific principles
Adapted from Toulmin’s model of argumentation
Adapted from NGSS Professional Development

3. Is Thermal Energy Transferred in this Experiment?
Partner up with a neighbor
TALK through a scientific explanation of our phenomenon using the CER framework
What can you CLAIM from your observations that explains the thermal transfer of energy?
What EVIDENCE supports your claim?
What is your REASONING for why your evidence supports your claim?
WRITE these scientific explanations on your Lab Sheet.
Adapted from NGSS Professional Development

4. Scientific Explanation
Share your scientific explanations with someone else
See if you can identify the CLAIM, EVIDENCE, and REASONING in their explanation
Was their explanation convincing? How could it be improved?
Pass The Thermal Energy Lab to the Right.
Adapted from NGSS Professional Development

5. Session 14 Conduction, Convection and Radiation
Read The Discovery Education Articles Heat
Define Conduction, Convection, Radiation, Heat and Temperature in your Science Notebook.
Look at the Handout with the three different Popcorn Machines.
Answer using the CER Method: What are the three ways you can pop popcorn?

6. Heat: Total amount of kinetic energy of a substance.
Temperature: Measurement of average kinetic energy of particles.
CER Question: What are the three ways you can pop popcorn?