Understanding Heat: Adding and Removing Heat Worksheet for 9-Year-Olds

Instructions

Read the questions below and write your answers in the spaces provided. Use your knowledge of heat, temperature, and how they affect different materials. Have fun!

1. What happens to ice when you add heat to it?

2. Describe what occurs when water boils. How does adding heat change the water?

3. If you take a pot of hot soup away from the heat, what happens to the soup as it cools down? Explain why.

4. Fill in the blanks: When heat is _____ to a material, its temperature _____; when heat is _____ from a material, its temperature _____.

5. List three materials that conduct heat well and three materials that do not. Use the spaces below.

Conductors:

Insulators:

6. Imagine you are a water droplet. Write a short paragraph about your journey as heat is added to you.

7. Draw a simple diagram to show what happens to molecules when heat is added to a solid.