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Mars Thermos — NASA JPL lessonScience · Engineering & Technology · Grades 4–8Lesson plan

Student teams use the engineering design process and everyday materials to design an insulator that will keep a small amount of water from rapidly changing temperature. This activity incorporates both science and engineering process skills. Students will design and build an insulator and use it to conduct a scientific experiment, complete with control. Students learn the application of heat transfer and basic thermodynamics, while practicing their data collection and analysis mathematics skills

From NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL Education · Public domain (US Gov) · original source

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