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Unit on the Earth's atmosphere focusing on Conduction, Convection and Radiation. Students define the terms in a foyer box (examples and pictures). The next part is a description of the way those 3 types of energy heat the earth's atmosphere. The independent practice is to sort out 10 different "activities" to decide whether they are are conduction, convection, or radiation. There is a multiple choice exit slip - great for data. Answer key provided at the end.

This is a great activity to break down the steps of the scientific method. Students start out by making observations about their hands and then form a hypothesis to "test" which one is dominant by having them see how many boxes they can check in a thirty second time period. They record their data and graph it in order to justify that their left or right hand is dominant (since it should be the hand that checks more boxes). A very easy way to demonstrate the steps of the scientific method as well