What is Energy Transfer?

A table of energy sources and users. Image description under Featured Image Description Heading.
Learning Goals

Learning Goals:

  1. Students will obtain the foundational knowledge of energy sources and forms of energy.
  2. Students will learn that energy can transfer from one form to another.
  3. Students will be able to match images of energy transformations to their respected vocabulary.
Materials List

Handouts

Classroom Supplies

  • 1 Flashlight with light bulbs
  • 1 Crank generator attached to LED
  • 1 Motor attached to battery
  • 1 Solar module attached to LED (note: you probably want a 2V module with a red or green LED if you want it to light up in sunlight or with a shop light)
  • 1 Battery charger with rechargeable batteries
  • 1 Marble
  • 1 Cardboard tube
  • 1 Electric heater
  • 1 Electric radio
  • 1 Circuit with battery attached to light bulb

Important Links

Next Generation Science Standards

Next Generation Science Standards

  • 4-PS3-2. Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.
Featured Image Description

Three rows outlined in black. In the first row a sketch of a black outlet plug with yellow prongs and electric bolts is on the left side. a blue arrow in the middle pointing right to a black and white sketch of a toaster with two pieces of bread in it. In the second row the left side has a sketch of food items, a piece of tan pie with a chocolate drizzle, a red tomato with green stem, a burrito in a pale wrap with brown beans green lettuce, cut tomato and grated yellow cheese spilling out, a yellow banana, and a half an orange. In the middle is a blue arrow pointed to the right. On the right is a black sketch of a person on a bicycle riding to the right. On the third row on the left is a yellow sun image with yellow triangular rays, in the middle a blue arrow pointed right, and on the right a blue 3D building sketch with two windows on the front with a door opening, a window on the right side, and a 4×3 solar panel on the roof, to it’s left their is a power pole with two wires connecting to the building.

Lesson 2 of 9 / Time: 2.5 hours

Students will continue to build an understanding of the fundamentals of energy through observing and describing a variety of energy transformations and build on their foundational vocabulary for identifying and discussing energy concepts. In this lesson, students will engage with examples of electrical energy, both stored and kinetic in order to build their understanding of energy fundamentals concepts. This will allow them to gain a stronger sense of unseen forms of energy. At this point, students should be ready to be assessed on their understanding of concepts using both the informal and formal assessments that are provided at the end of this lesson.

 

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