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Thermal Shock Demo
Kind of Activity:
Group Work
Objective:
Students will view an experiment on thermal shock to help them better understand what happened to Lila's copper pot
Common Core Standards:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.2
Structure:
In the letter Lila writes to Elena, she talks about a copper pot exploding in her kitchen. There seems to be no rhyme nor reason to why this happened, but this is actually a phenomenon called thermal shock. Thermal shock occurs when a material is unevenly heated and so tension occurs within the material, sometimes causing it to break. The following website provides good basic information about thermal shock: ...
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