Tools
What tool would be most helpful for someone who wants to travel West?
What is a compass?
How does snow change from a solid to a liquid?
What is melts?
On a windy day a kid flew a kite. What energy is required to fly a kite?
What is mechanical energy?
Why are electrical wires are coated with a rubber or plastic?
What are good insulators?
You have a paper boat that has a mixture of sand and iron fillings inside the boat, what force would be best to help separate the sand and iron fillings?
What is magnetism?
If a thermometer is placed in two beakers of water, which property is being tested?
What is temperature?
A student places a cork and a quarter in a tub of water, what will happen to the two objects?
How will the quarter sink, and the cork float?
What forms of energy from the sun reach the earth?
What is light and thermal energy?
Mrs. Smith puts her coffee in an insulated cup. It stays hot even though the day is cold. How does the cup keep my coffee hot?
How does it block the flow of heat from the liquid?
Which force is most likely responsible for helping players score points in basketball?
What is gravity?
You need to know if your doorway is wide enough for your bed to fit through. Which tool would best help you measure the doorway?
What is a tape measure?
Sample 1 has 25ml of water and sample 2 has 75ml of water. What will happen if you mix one sugar cube in both samples?
How will sample 1 taste sweeter?
A student uses a stick to hit a metal triangle, which makes a tinkling sound. She places the metal triangle on a couch cushion and hits the triangle again, less sound is made this time. This demonstrates what?
How are sounds created by vibrations of air molecules?
You are building a heat resistant spoon. Which of the following materials is least likely to get hot? Ceramic, wood, glass, iron.
What is wood?
Which force most likely explains why skates roll differently on surfaces such as wood, cement, rubber, or carpet?
What is friction?
Which tool would best help you to separate a solution?
What is heat?
You have a beaker of water and you drop a piece of foam and an Iron nail in the beaker. What is the order from least dense to most dense?
What is Foam, water, and Iron nail?
What is an important safety practice during a lab investigating thermal energy?
What is wearing insulated gloves when handling heated beakers?
Why are down feathers used by many sleeping bag companies?
How are they good insulators?
What does Mrs. Frizzle Plays Golf Poorly stand for?
What is magnetism, friction, gravity, push, and pull.
Which tool would be best for Jessica to use in order to see the cells in an Oak Tree leaf?
What is a microscope?
The water and beaker have a combined mass of 150g. If you freeze the water what will be the combined mass of the beaker and ice?
What is 150g?
Which of the following is not an example of thermal energy?
Rubbing your hands together. A hot plate boiling water. Plugging in a portable radio. Burning wood in a fireplace.
What is plugging in a portable radio?
What is a good conductor of electrical energy?
What is metal?
A Scout Troop wanted to test the effects of friction on moving toy cars. Using the same toy car in every trial, they slid it across sand paper, tile, carpet, and grass.
Which tools were most likely used in their investigation?
What is a timing device and a meter stick?