🔥 Part 1: Understanding Heat Transfer

1. What is thermal conductivity?

How hot something can get

How well a material allows heat to pass through it

How quickly something cools down

The temperature of a material

2. Which materials do you predict will be good thermal conductors? (Select all that apply)

Metal spoon

Wooden ruler

Plastic bottle

Copper rod

3. In our experiment, we will measure temperature every _______ minutes for a total of _______ minutes.

1 minute, 5 minutes

2 minutes, 10 minutes

5 minutes, 15 minutes

3 minutes, 12 minutes

📊 Part 2: Data Recording and Analysis

4. Record your temperature measurements (°C) in the table below:

Time (minutes)	Metal Rod	Wooden Stick	Plastic Rod
0	____°C	____°C	____°C
2	____°C	____°C	____°C
4	____°C	____°C	____°C
6	____°C	____°C	____°C
8	____°C	____°C	____°C
10	____°C	____°C	____°C

5. Which material showed the greatest temperature increase? Rank the materials from best conductor (1) to poorest conductor (3):

Best conductor: _________________ (rank 1)

Medium conductor: _________________ (rank 2)

Poorest conductor: _________________ (rank 3)

6. Explain why the metal rod conducted heat differently than the wooden stick:

🌟 Part 3: Real-World Applications

7. Give two examples of how thermal conductivity is important in everyday life:

Example 1: _________________________________________________

Example 2: _________________________________________________

8. Why do cooking pots have metal bottoms but plastic or wooden handles?

9. Complete this sentence using scientific vocabulary:

Materials that allow heat to transfer easily are called _____________, while materials that do not allow heat to transfer easily are called _____________.

10. Based on your investigation, what conclusion can you draw about the relationship between material type and thermal conductivity?

Thermal Conductivity Investigation

Thermal Conductivity Investigation

🔥 Part 1: Understanding Heat Transfer

📊 Part 2: Data Recording and Analysis

🌟 Part 3: Real-World Applications

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