The teachers are given background information about the experiment. Students prepare three experimental treatments with jars of hot water and cartons insulated to various degrees with cotton. The students wait fifteen minutes and take the temperatures of the water in the three treatments. They record their data and computations on handouts and discuss their results. As an extension, the book suggests that the class discuss the way that humans are insulated.
Tables correlate the activities with math and process skills.
Reproducible handouts are found throughout the book.