PCK 3 : Equilibrium and thermometry

Objectives : to design and build effective food container to keep your things hot and
cold.
Materials :
Food (coke, hot nudget, polystyrene (1m x 1m), ice, cardboard box, brown paper,
cotton wool, plastic bags, sawdust, coconut husk, glue, string, and cellophane tape,
pin
Activity : Building food containers to keep your things hot and cold.
Procedures :
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First identify the materials that are good heat insulators.

Design food containers to keep your food and cold. Draw your plans.
Explain your plans.
Makes your models.
Test them out

Plans
Type
Explanation

Hot
Cold
Used cotton wool in a Used ice, sawdust ad
polystyrene box because coconut husk in a
wool is a very good heat polystyrene box. Sawdust
regulator.

Thats

why and coconut husk slows

people wear wool on cold down the melting of the ice.

days. Then the outer of We also wrap the beaker
polystyrene we wrap it with with dark plastics in order to
the dark paper for trap the maintaining the cold
heat from goes outside. We temperature without
also design the cover of the decrease. Hence, the
box air-tight to prevent the temperature goes up
heat loss from the box. So, slower. Then we cover the
the box will maintain the polystyrene by using the
heat for the object that put cardboard board because
inside the box.

we do not want the heat

from the outside is absorb.

Then we make the cover
air-tight and make the cold
condition in the box trap in
box for a long time. We also
add more cotton in this cold
container because cotton
provides poor insulation for
cold weather because it
does not trap much air, gets
wet easily and, once wet,
takes a long time to dry.
More, we also add on more
coconut husk on the
surface of the box because
its provide a poor insulation
too.

Results

The model we build is The model we build is

effective in trapping heat.

effective in trapping cold.

Question
1. Are your models effective? Why or why not/
Yes. Because we picked the correct materials given. Polystyrene acts as a
very good heat and cold insulator. Plus the wool ,sawdust and coconut husk
helps a lot
2. We use a to keep our food cold. How does it perform this task?
it compresses air in the pipe's behind the fridge and places it into chamber, to
keep it cold it takes air from within the fridge and re-compresses it.A
refrigerator will keep food cold by converting gas into liquid, then liquid into

vapour. Basic physics maintains that when two surfaces come in contact with
the other, the surface with the higher temperature will cool to equal the
temperature of its alternate. Coils and metal parts inside a refrigerator are
loaded with cold liquid. The liquid inside generates cold air outside the coils.
This happens when the heat from inside the refrigerator reduces its
temperature to "match" temperatures with the cold liquid inside the coils.
When you open a refrigerator door, you generally will notice a dramatic
change in air temperature. Food inside is kept cold because the refrigerator is
able to convert gas into liquid. That liquid passes through a series of parts that
can also opt to change that liquid into vapour--this is done by compressing
molecules
Mastery of knowledge and skills questions.
1. What have you learnt from these activities?
I learn to keep hot and cold food more effectively. I also learn how to design a
food container about how to maintain the hot and cold of the food or drink. I
also know about how to choose good materials for keep the heat and cold
food in a long time.
2. Which part of the primary science curriculum teaches this particular topic?
Year 5 Material
3. Discuss how you can use these activities in your teaching and learning?
I can teach the pupils about how to keep maintain the temperature of our body
when we at the hot condition or cold condition. Example when the surrounding
is hot, we must prevent to wear black cloth to make our body not sweating
and maybe dehydrate. Besides that, I would teach the student to know the
properties of some materials due to important of using the different materials
like cotton, nylon, and others. In addition, the pupils also know about how to
be creative to design the simple experiment about how to maintain the ice not
to become easily melting.
4. What was the role of the teacher in these activities?

The role of the teacher in the above practical is teacher act as facilitator.
Teacher also can act as demonstrator and be as observer.

Reference :
1. Does Cotton Provide the Best Insulation for Cold Weather? | eHow.com
http://www.ehow.com/facts_7206248_cotton-provide-insulation-coldweather_.html#ixzz1IlBY8lzY