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Educator Workshop: Save the Penguins! Teaching the Science of Heat Transfer Through Engineering Design

By Philadelphia Science Festival (other events)

Monday, April 28 2014 4:30 PM 6:30 PM EDT
 
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"Keep the penguins chilly with this cool investigation! Learn how to introduce engineering design and the fundamentals of heat and energy transfer to your middle school class. Receive a curriculum guide and learn how to expand this STEM lesson into a unit on alternative energy sources.

In the investigation, students build dwellings that protect penguin-shaped ice cubes from increasingly warming temperatures and test materials for their ability to slow thermal energy transfer in order to keep the ice penguins cool.  Students then build a penguin home using the material of their choice to see how well the dwellings keep the penguin-shaped ice cubes from melting in a test oven. Presented by Temple University College of Education."