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E-lessons

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E-LESSON DATA

TITLE OF THE E-LESSON
E-lesson – Vointa Park – Mpemba effect
GEOGRAPHICAL AREA
Vointa Park
COUNTRY
Romania
INTRODUCTORY TEXT TO THE LESSON
E-lesson presents the Mpemba effect, named after Erasto Batholomeo Mpemba (b.1950) in 1963, and reflects the observation that, in some circumstances, warmer water can freeze faster than colder water. The video e-lesson presents 2 experiments of the Mpemba effect and the suggested explanations.

Learning objectives:
- To study different temperatures of waters and ways to reach them.
- To observe the experiment of warmer water which can freeze faster than colder water.
- To study terminology like: freezing, boiled, melting, evaporation, convection, frost, solutes, thermal conductivity.
- To observe when the water reaches 0 °C or 100 °C
THEMATIC AREA
Physics
TARGET AGE GROUP
17, 16, 15
VIDEO