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All source lessons are retained in sequence across 36 class periods; recurring exit tickets and reflections are embedded in investigation, testing, and portfolio days. Related discussions and model revisions are combined where feasible, while distinct investigations, two-design testing, redesign, transfer assessment, action product, and exhibition remain intact.

Launch
Students will launch the Cold Cup Challenge by examining everyday containers, practicing reliable temperature measurement, and refining testable questions about how particles, materials, and light affect thermal energy transfer.
Days 1 - 3
🥤 Container Museum Mystery
Launch 55m
🌡️ Thermometer Reliability Lab
Knowledge/Skill Building 60m
🧭 Cold Cup Question Board
Deliverable 60m

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Launch & Define
Students will conduct a sequence of cup, lid, evaporation, and water-droplet investigations; model matter and temperature in a cup system; research existing container solutions; and define a stakeholder-centered engineering problem. Teams will use quantitative evidence to produce a gated design brief with measurable thermal-performance criteria and constraints for cost and waste, without tasting any samples.
Days 4 - 9
🧊 Cold Cup Feature Test
Knowledge/Skill Building 55m
Adapted from source
🌡️ Hot-Water Lid Labs
Knowledge/Skill Building 60m
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💧 Droplets, Evaporation, Particle Models
Knowledge/Skill Building 58m
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🔎 Cold-Container Solution Research
Research 52m
🖍️ Cup-System Model Gallery
Project Work 60m
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📋 Lid Explanation Design Brief
Assessment 60m
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Research & Plan
Students will investigate how light and particle interactions transfer energy into and through a closed cup system, use evidence to revise their models, and compare multiple cold-cup concepts before selecting a design for construction.
Days 10 - 15
💡 Light and Water-Bath Evidence
Knowledge/Skill Building 58m
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🌡️ Food Coloring and Joule
Knowledge/Skill Building 60m
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🖥️ Liquid and Gas Simulations
Knowledge/Skill Building 58m
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🔵 Collisions and Butter Conduction
Knowledge/Skill Building 60m
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🧊 Revised Cup-Wall Model
Assessment 60m
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📊 Cold-Cup Concept Matrix
Project Work 60m

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Choose & Build
Students will apply evidence about light absorption, sleeves, double walls, and particle collisions to select, construct, and commission two competing cold-cup prototypes. Teams will document dimensions, materials, mass, cost, and predicted energy-transfer pathways before submitting a controlled test plan and an individual scientific defense of their design choices.
Days 16 - 21
📚 Light, Sleeves, and Double Walls
Knowledge/Skill Building 55m
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🔎 Cup Feature Evidence Audit
Knowledge/Skill Building 55m
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📐 Two Prototype Build Blueprints
Deliverable 60m
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🧰 Prototype A Construction Log
Project Work 60m
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🌡️ Prototype B Commissioning Trial
Project Work 60m
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📝 Fair-Test Plan and Mechanism Defense
Deliverable 60m
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Test & Refine
Students will fairly test competing cold-cup prototypes, analyze quantitative evidence, exchange structured feedback, construct and retest a targeted revision, and defend the mechanisms behind their design choices. They will also investigate a teacher-approved sealed chemical heating or cooling device, compare energy and matter across cup, organism, and ecosystem systems, and complete individual transfer and reflection tasks.
Days 22 - 27
🌡️ Competing Cup Trials
Project Work 60m
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📈 Warming Graphs and Systems
Knowledge/Skill Building 55m
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🛠️ KSH Redesign Review
Knowledge/Skill Building 55m
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🔁 Design Two Retest
Project Work 60m
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🧪 Sealed Thermal Pack Test
Knowledge/Skill Building 60m
📝 Cold Cup Transfer Defense
Assessment 60m
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Showcase & Reflect
Students will evaluate community cup choices, create and revise an audience-facing action product, and complete an evidence-based readiness checkpoint for the Cold Cup Expo.
Days 28 - 33
🏙️ Community Cup Trade-Off Research
Research 55m
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⚖️ Cup Choice Evidence Seminar
Knowledge/Skill Building 55m
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🧩 Model-to-Audience Explanation Lab
Knowledge/Skill Building 50m
🛠️ Community Action Product Build
Project Work 60m
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🔄 Two-Peer Product Revision
Deliverable 60m
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✅ Expo Evidence Readiness Gate
Assessment 60m
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Showcase
Students will prepare, present, and defend their tested cold-cup designs at a public exhibition, then complete an individual evidence-based explanation of their engineering and scientific growth.
Days 34 - 36
🧰 Cold Cup Evidence Rehearsal
Knowledge/Skill Building 55m
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🌡️ Cold Cup Expo Live Test
Assessment 60m
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📝 Thermal Engineering Growth Defense
Assessment 55m
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