Learning Goals
Learning Goals:
- Students will be able to name and describe at least 5 kinds of energy
- Students will be able to identify and explain simple energy transformations
Materials List
Handouts
- Introduction to Energy Worksheet
- Energy Transformation Cards (per pair of students)
Classroom Supplies
- 1.5 V light bulb
- D-cell or AA batteries
- Alligator clips
- Magnet
- Paper clips (10-20)
- Small electric motor
- Solar Module (1-3 V size)
- 100W lamp for use with solar module
- Battery Charger
- Paper cup
- Marbles
- Cardboard Tube (from wrapping paper or paper towel)
- Electric Heater (recommend parabolic heater)
- Electric Radio
Important Links
Next Generation Science Standards
Next Generation Science Standards
MS-PS3-3 (Crosscutting Concept)
- The transfer of energy can be tracked as energy flows through a designed or natural system.
MS-PS3-5
- Construct, use, and present arguments to support the claim that when the kinetic energy of an object changes, energy is transferred to or from the object.
- When the motion energy of an object changes, there is inevitably some other change in energy at the same time.
- Energy may take different forms (e.g. energy in fields, thermal energy, energy of motion).
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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.