Classroom Activity
Cool Suits Activity
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Audience: Educators & StudentsGrades: 3-5
This lesson will help your students answer the questions:
Which color, black or white, reflects energy better? Which color absorbs energy better?
In this lesson, students will
-- Gather data by measuring temperature in two different colored envelopes (black and white).
-- Use data to infer which color reflects energy better and which color absorbs energy better.
Cool Suits Activity
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The Cool Suits Activity is the lesson that accompanies How Will Your Imagination Help You Become an Explorer?, one of the topics in the 21st Century Explorer series. Each exploration topic in NASA's Kids Science News Network™ 21st Century Explorer series has a 30-second newsbreak videoclip, online Web explanation (background information), hands-on activity guide based on national education standards, online glossary and quiz.
All components of How Will Your Imagination Help You Become an Explorer? are available on the 21st Century Explorer topic page →.
Also in this series:
Those Who Have Come Before Me Activity
Food For Spaceflight Activity
Get a Leg Up Activity
Speed It Up Activity
Designing a Crew Exploration Vehicle Activity
What's Hidden Inside Activity
Moon Mining Activity
Let's Investigate Mars Activity
Cleaning Water Activity
Making Regolith Activity
Ray Shielding Activity
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