Different types of hot dogs will cool at different rates after they have been cooked. This activity takes the first steps in investigating this phenomenon by measuring the rate that a warmed hot dog cools. Students can compare the ingredients of various types of hot dogs (all-beef, veggie, turkey, etc.) to help explain the differences in cooling rates.

Concepts

heat transfer

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Additional Tags

cooling rate, heat and temperature, ti, texas instruments, which hot dog cools faster?

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)