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Heat and insulation

Heat and insulation
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Key Info
  • Heat and insulation
  • Duration: 00:56
  • A demonstration of the use of a camera to show hot and cold areas. Using a camera which can detect varying degrees of temperature, children are asked to identify whether an object is hot or cold. The term 'insulator' is introduced and it is explained how people use insulation on a daily basis in the form of clothes. It also details how animals use insulation to keep warm and how we use insulation in the home.
  • Credits: Oxford Scientific Films
  • Subject:

    Science

       Topic:

    Changing Materials: Reversible Change

  • Keywords: insulator, insulate, temperature, heat
Ideas for use in class
  • To reinforce work on insulators, especially when the vocabulary has initially been introduced to the class. Could be used in a plenary session or given to the children who could then use the context of the video to work out what the term 'insulator' means.
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  • Clip language : English
  • Aspect ratio : 16x9
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