Unit C Section 2 Summative Assessment – Ultimate Camping Cooler - FOR MARKS

Section 2: Thermal energy transfers in different ways.

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  Project – Ultimate Camping Cooler

In this project, you will design the ultimate camping cooler. You are required to submit this project to your teacher for marks. Very carefully, read the whole project and how to do it. Be sure to read the requirements and rubric, they explain the expectations for this project and how it will be marked. Click here if you need tips on how to create a good project!

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Situation

You are leaving this afternoon for an overnight summer camping trip without any electricity. You want to pack some ice cream to eat tomorrow afternoon. How will you keep the ice cream frozen for 24 hours without electricity? Ice often melts after 12 hours in a regular camping cooler.

To solve your problem, you need to develop the ultimate camping cooler.

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Project Task

Design a camping cooler that keeps food completely frozen for 24 hours.

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Before you begin your design your ultimate camping cooler, ask yourself these questions:

"What do I know about preventing heat transfer?"

"What materials help prevent heat transfer?"

"Would I want to use conductors or insulators?"

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Method

Choose the way you would like to communicate your design. You can choose from the following ideas.

• Build and test a real camping cooler. Then, photograph or video various aspects of your camping cooler to share with your teacher.
  
  
• Draw several pictures to show clearly the interior and exterior features of your camping cooler design. Use pencil and paper, or use a computer drawing program such as Adobe Photoshop or Gimp.
  
  
• Write a detailed description or story about your camping cooler design.
  
  
• Use any other creative ideas you have, but check with your teacher first!

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Requirements

Below you see 3 questions. It is very important when you answer the questions, keep in mind you need to explain your cooler design very clearly. How you answer the questions is up to you. Here are some options:

• You can provide written answers to these questions.
  
  
• You can include the answers as labels if you produce a drawing of your design.
  
  
• Another option is to address these questions by recording yourself (and your model or drawings) on video or make an audio recording.

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Questions-  In answering these questions, you are highlighting your knowledge of conduction, convection and radiation. You need to explain, in your own words, what these are and how they transfer heat.  Give lots of detail and use the science vocabulary you have learned in this unit.

1. How does your camping cooler design prevent heat transfer by conduction? What materials did you choose to help with this? Why?  How does the material you chose prevent heat transfer?  
   
   
2. How does your camping cooler design prevent heat transfer by convection? What materials did you choose to help with this? Why?  How does the material you chose prevent heat transfer? 
   
   
3. How does your camping cooler design prevent heat transfer by radiation? What materials did you choose to help with this?Why?  How does the material you chose prevent heat transfer? 

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Rubric

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Submitting Your Work

• If you print your work and/or do pencil drawing(s) on another piece of paper, you must scan your work to submit it.
• If you have prepared any other electronic images or documents for this project, you must submit them.
• If you have used an Internet location where your project is located, you must submit the URL so your teacher can view your work.

When you are ready to submit your completed project, click the "Add submission" button at the bottom of this page. If you would like to view a tutorial on how to submit your assignment, click here.

Note that when you submit anything to your teacher, PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR NAME IN THE DOCUMENT TITLE. For example, you might title it something like this:

UnitC_Section2project_Jenny_Smith.doc

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Download

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