Unit Overview
How do you boil water without pots?
Students tackle a real historical puzzle: how people boiled water using just hot rocks. They test what happens when hot and cold water mix, use a simulation to see heat moving at the particle level, then design their own experiment—before returning to finally explain exactly how stone boiling works.
Performance Expectations:
HS-PS3-4
Lesson Set 1:
Lesson 1
How have various cultures done this in the past?
Lesson 2
How can we measure energy transfer?
Lesson 3
How do we know energy always spreads out evenly instead of staying concentrated — and can we use that idea to identify a hidden substance?