|Fig. 1: Winter in Boston|
|Fig. 2: Summer in Boston|
|Fig. 3: Winter in Miami|
|Fig. 4: Summer in Miami|
These visualizations give students clear ideas about where a house loses or gains energy the most. They can then adjust the insulation values of those weak points and run simulations to check if they have been fixed or not. Compared with just giving students some formulas or numbers to figure out what they actually mean to science and engineering practices, experiential learning like this should help students develop a true understanding of thermal conduction and insulation in the context of building science and technology.
Here is a YouTube video of the heat flux view.