Review for:Comparison of land and water temperature

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posted: on April 16, 2007 at 9:55AM

My rating of this resource: ****

My experience using this resource:
Physics

Topic I was teaching:
Specific heat capacity

My learning goal for which this resource was used:
Students will explain the differences in land and water heating and cooling using the concept of specific heat capacity.

Course Level:
Intro or Regular

How I/my students used the resource:
I put a data table obtained from this resource into a Word document and requested for my student to graph the data in Excel. When they completed the graph they had to analyze it and answer some questions related to the data and specific heat capacity in writing.

Value Added:
Increases graphing skills, Increases data collection & analysis skills, Provides additional content

Strengths:
The strength is that this resource provides real-life data that can be used for teaching a heat topic.

Weaknesses:
None

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