Learning Goals
Learning Goals:
- Students will be able to identify the different ways that electrical energy (electricity) is transformed (generated) and identify different everyday items that use electricity.
Materials List
Handouts
- Solar Student Worksheet, Part 1: Making Electricity
- Solar Student Worksheet, Part 2: What Things Use Electricity?
Important Links
- Lesson Plan
- Slides: Making Electricity
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.
- 4-ESS3-1. Obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are derived from natural resources and that their uses affect the environment.
- 5-ESS3-1. Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth’s resources and environment.
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