Phase Changes
Helpful before this lesson
- Not completed: Temperature and Thermometers
- Not completed: Heat and Thermal Energy Transfer
- Not completed: States of Matter
- Not completed: Molecular Structure and Bonding
These topics can make this lesson easier, but you can start now.
Learning Objectives
- Students will be able to identify and name the six phase transitions
- Students will be able to explain what happens to particle arrangement during phase changes
- Students will be able to interpret heating curves showing phase changes
Core Concepts
- melting
- freezing
- evaporation
- condensation
- sublimation
- deposition
- latent_heat