Heat Transfer

Recharge your thermal energy unit with comics that make science stick!

This comic-style, heat transfer reading passage and worksheet introduces students to conduction, convection, and radiation in a fun and fully illustrated format.

Students will read engaging science cartoons, then reinforce their learning with Doodle Notes and a types of heat transfer worksheet that boost understanding and retention.

Product Overview

The comic-style science reading passage will cover the basics of thermal energy transfer with the help of captivating illustrations and easy-to-grasp diagrams. Your learners will read about the different types of heat transfer- conduction, convection, and radiation. They will examine several relatable examples complete with explanations and vivid details.

The Doodle Notes and follow-up heat transfer worksheet will allow you to assess understanding of the concepts. Your students will be prompted to apply their knowledge to think through and draw examples.

What’s Inside this Heat Transfer activity?

Comic-Style Reading Passage

• Highly visual and engaging content providing an overview of thermal energy transfer
• Color and B&W
• Print up as a handout, poster, or anchor chart
• A great addition to interactive notebooks
• Gets off the screens and puts reading in their hands

Doodle Notes

• Fill-in-the-blank style guided notes
• Solidifies understanding and keeps students involved
• Another great addition to interactive notebooks
• A good homework option

Heat Transfer Worksheet

• Builds on your learners’ understanding of the concepts
• Encourages students to apply what they have learned about conduction, convection, and radiation as they examine or draw more examples
• Engage the more artistic learners in your classroom
• Serves as a great homework option or additional support

Easel Activity

• Easy to upload to your virtual classrooms
• Great homework or make-up work option

Answer Keys

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What makes Cool School Comics such an impactful learning tool?

They are FUN! 

• This is the most crucial benefit.
• Students are more willing to participate and more engaged.
• The content STICKS.

Visual learning is EFFECTIVE. 

• About 65% of the population consists of visual learners.
• Visual information is processed faster.
• Students who SEE information are more likely to retain it.

EASY to implement! 

• These lesson plans are complete and ready to go, requiring minimal prep time.
• You only need to make copies, upload supplementals to your virtual classrooms, and set up the hands-on activities.
• Lots of flexibility! You can print these as posters, add them to interactive notebooks, hand them out to students, or share them virtually. There is plenty of room for modifications.

Comics make content ACCESSIBLE

• Naturally differentiated, comics accommodate a wide range of learning abilities and styles.
• Great for classrooms with a diverse population of learners
• They can simultaneously rope in both your gifted and struggling students (and everyone in between).
• Reluctant readers gravitate toward comics.
• Comics help English Language Learners (ESL, ELL) and some SPED students find success.

*Doodle Notes is a trademarked term used with permission. Please visit www.Doodlenotes.org for more information.

Be the hip teacher seizing the graphic novels craze. Your students will LOVE it!

*Doodle Notes is a trademarked term used with permission. Please visit www.DoodleNotes.org for more information