Heat Detectives: Tracking Heat Transfer

Warm up your scientific thinking with this colorful worksheet! Students will read about how heat moves from hotter objects to colder objects. Then, learners will look at nine scenarios with accompanying images and draw arrows to show the direction of the heat transfer in each instance. 

This worksheet is perfect for third, fourth, and fifth graders learning about the different types of energy and how that energy moves through the world. An understanding of how heat is transferred can give students context for many physical interactions they see in their everyday lives, such as a stove heating up a pot of water. This knowledge can also set them up to learn about more complicated heat and energy concepts. 

Learn more with the Energy Transformation worksheet.