Conduction, Convection or Radiation?
5th grade heat transfer sort: twelve cards into conduction, convection or radiation, plus a metal slide question and a sun to Earth question. Answer key.
5th Grade Heat Transfer Worksheets
5th grade heat transfer worksheets: conduction, convection and radiation, conductors and insulators of heat, a cup insulation investigation and a check.
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Heat Transfer worksheets to download
Heat Transfer in a Pot on a Stove
5th grade heat transfer diagram: label conduction, convection and radiation on a pot of water on a stove, then answer three questions. Answer key included.
Heat Conductors and Insulators
5th grade heat conductors and insulators: sort twelve materials, pick the best material for six jobs and explain why air insulates. Answer key included.
Keep It Warm Cup Investigation
5th grade keep it warm cup investigation: record water temperatures every five minutes for four cups, graph them and answer three questions. Sample data key.
Staying Warm and Cool Reading
5th grade heat transfer reading: a passage on thermoses, down coats and penguins with eight questions, including true or false and an evidence response.
Heat Transfer Check
5th grade heat transfer check: mark six examples as conduction, convection or radiation, answer five multiple choice questions and one short answer. Answer key.
Curriculum objectives covered
4-PS3-2
“Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.”
5-PS1-3
“Make observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties.”
5.G.A.2
“Represent real world and mathematical problems by graphing points in the first quadrant of the coordinate plane, and interpret coordinate values of points in the context of the situation.”
RI.5.1
“Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.”
RI.5.4
“Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 5 topic or subject area.”
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