Touch and Tell -- What Is Hot and Cold?
Here's a question for you:
How much can you trust your own sense of hot and cold?
Procedure:
- Set up three bowls of water. You can use food coloring to help demonstrate this. The cold one colored blue, the very waram one colored red,and the room temperature one with no color.
- Soak your left hand in warm water and your right hand in cold water for about three minutes.
- Now plunge both hands into the bowl of room temperature water.
- Tell how each hand feels after step 3. Be prepared to log your results
- Repeat with a friend.
- Compare results.
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