Save the Penguins Challenge

1. Save the Penguins Challenge

2. Video Links • Penguins in a Pickle • Climate Change's Effect on Penguin Population

3. Save the Penguins • This project is part of your heat assessment. • To complete it successfully you will need to put everything we have learned about heat to good use!

4. Connection • The methods and design features we find to keep our ice cube penguins cool, mimic the ways engineers keep our homes cool/warm. • If we can find ways to use less energy to heat and cool our homes, there are less greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. It’s a win-win!

5. Our Challenge • As a class, we will work as an engineering team. • We have been challenged to design a shelter to keep our ice cube “penguin” cool within our test environment. • We will use what you’ve learned about heat, heat transfer, insulators, and conductors to help. • Heat transfer in the form of conduction, radiation, and convection are present within our test environment.

6. Our Challenge • Using the materials from the Cold Stuff lab, we will be building a shelter for our ice cube penguin. • Our first penguin shelter will be made with cotton as our insulator. The second with air and the third with steel wool. • We will then place 3 identical ice cube “penguins” inside the different shelters to the test environment for a set amount of time. We will then weigh what is left of the “penguins” to determine how effectively our shelters protected the penguins from thermal energy.

7. Assessment • Each student will submit a penguin reflection sheet. • This reflection demonstrates your knowledge of heat transfer. • The Penguin Reflection serves as part of your heat assessment.