Class

Date
Time
Venue
Attendance

Learning Area

: Chapter Heat
Specific heat capacity

Learning Objectives
:
i)
Students to know the definition of heat capacity
ii)
Students to know the definition of specific heat capacity
iii)
Students to know relationship between heat (Q), specific heat capacity (c), mass (m) and change of
temperature (
iv)
Students are able to solve problems regarding specific heat capacity
Learning Outcomes

A student is able to:

State that different object will have different temperature if exposed to same amount of heat
Define specific heat capacity
State that
i)
heat (Q),
ii)
specific heat capacity (c),
iii)
mass (m)
iv)
change of temperature (
Solve problems involving specific heat capacity

Pre-requisites

Relevant Prior Knowledge

Relevant Prior Skills

1) Thermal equilibrium

1) Reading thermometer

2) Heat conductor

2) Reading stopwatch

3) Heat and temperature

3) Reading digital balance

Activities
Core Content

Engagement
(5 mins)

:
Teacher Activities
(Including Key Thinking
Questions)

Student Activities (Include

Formative Assessment
Evidence)

1. Teacher ask
student to form a
group of three.
2. Teacher ask
students to go
outside the class
to do an activities
prepared by
teacher.
3. Teacher ask
student to touch
the object by
hand.
4. How do you feels?

1. Student make group

of three.
2. Student moves
outside.
3. Student follow
teachers
instruction.
4. Student spot the
changes in
temperature.

Techniques, Tools &

Resources (Lab Tools,
Apps, Books, Web
Pages etc)

Notes

1. Small stone
2. Larger stone
3. Glass of water
with the same
mass as large
stone

Teacher already
prepared this
activity 30 minutes
before the class.
Teacher need to
have 3 objects
which are small
stone, larger stone
and glass of water
that being exposed
to the sunlight

Exploration
20 mins

1. In group 2-4,
students are ask to
determine a change of
temperature after
heating and cooling
(Activity 1) :
(i) Different mass of
water
- 1 beaker of 200 ml
water and 1 beaker of
500 ml water is heated
5 minutes using an
electric heater and let it
cooling in 5 minutes
(ii) Same mass of water
and aluminium block is
heated 5 minutes using
a electric heater and let
it cooling in 5 minutes
2. Teacher ask the
student a result for
each experiment:
-Which
substance/material heat
faster?
-Which
substance/material cool
faster?
-Which
substance/material
store heat more
-Which

1. Students make a
Lab Tools:
group.
2. Students do the
1) practical book
experiment and
2) lab apparatus
discuss among
them.
3. Students answer the
questions given by
teacher.

While doing this

experiment,
teacher walks
around to check
students activities.

Explaination
20 mins

1. Teacher explain base

on Activity 1:
(i) heat capacity
definition based on
same substance but
different mass
experiment (higher
mass, higher heat
capacity)
(ii) specific heat
capacity definition
based on both same
mass but different
substance (water has
higher specific heat
capacity than
aluminium) and
Q
c
m
formula ,
and
its unit
(iii) difference
between heat capacity
and specific heat
capacity
(iv) factor affect
heat capacity and
specific heat capacity
2. Teacher introduce
table consist a list of
specific heat capacity
for difference type of
substances

1.

Elobration
20 mins

1. Teacher ask student

in group 4-5 students
to plan and do a
experiment which to
find specific heat
capacity of
aluminium block
2. Teacher ask student
Pt
c
m
to use formula
in calculation to find
specific heat capacity of
aluminium block
3. Teacher ask student :
(i) Why in this
experiment, the specific
heat capacity of
aluminium is larger than
actual value?
(ii) What precaution
steps can be taken to
avoid this problem?
4. Teacher ask student
to complete a
experiment report after
the class

Evaluation
5 mins

1. Teacher gives a quick

quiz (Quiz 1) consist of
3 questions and discuss
all the
answer
2. Teacher ask a
student :
(i) Why we are not
feel pain when the red
charcoal ambers at
satay stall touch our
arm even though it has
few hundred degrees
Celsius?
(ii) Why a water is
used as a cooling agent
in car radiator?

Language Focus/vocabulary: Heat Capacity

Specific Heat Capacity
Sea Breeze
Land Breeze
Teaching and Learning Methods:
Experiment
Discussion
Scientific Skills:

Observing
Measuring and using numbers
Controlling numbers
Relationship
Communicating

Interpreting data
Experimenting
Thingking skills: comparing and contrasting
Making inferences
Relating
Making conclusions
Making hypotheses