How can we Keep Medicine Cool?

NGSS Phenomena:
One of the teachers at your school is diabetic and needs help keeping their medicine cold on a field trip. Your teacher asks you to design something that uses a chemical reaction to keep the medicine cold (under 46 degrees Fahrenheit). The device needs to be small enough to keep inside of the above cooler bag and needs to keep the medicine cold for over 4 hrs.

1. Which of the following could you use to identify the product of this reaction?

2. What would we expect to happen to the mass of the cooler before and after the reaction?

3. What evidence would best show that a chemical reaction has occurred in your design?

4. You need to create a chemical reaction that is .

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exothermic
endothermic

5. What are the criteria for this design problem?

6. Describe something you could build that would use a chemical reaction to keep your teacher’s medicine cold during the field trip. Remember, you will need a container and something to use for a chemical reaction. Explain both how your design will transfer energy and how it will meet the criteria and constraints: Keep the medicine cold (under 46 degrees Fahrenheit) for over 4 hours and be small enough to fit inside of the cooler bag.

7. What measurements would allow you to test the success of your solution?

8. What are the constraints of this design problem?

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  • Energy and Matter: Flows, Cycles, and Conservation

  • MS-PS1-6

  • PS1.B: Chemical Reactions

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