Benchmark 4E The Physical Setting: Energy Transformations

Benchmark 4E
The Physical Setting: Energy Transformations
Grades 3-5, page 84

When warmer things are put with cooler ones, the warm ones lose heat and the cool ones gain it until they are all at the same temperature. A warmer object can warm a cooler one by contact or at a distance.

NSES Content Standard B
Physical Science: Light, heat, electricity, and magnetism
Grades K-4, page 127
Heat can be produced in many ways such as burning, rubbing, and mixing one substance with another. Heat can move from one object to another by conduction.

NSES Content Standard B
Physical Science: Transfer of energy
Grades 5-8, page 155
Energy is a property of many substances and is associated with heat, light, electricity, mechanical motion, sound, nuclei, and the nature of a chemical. Energy is transferred in many ways.

NSES Content Standard B
Physical Science: Transfer of energy
Grades 5-8, page 155
Heat moves in predictable ways, flowing from warmer objects to cooler ones, until both reach the same temperature.