Introduction
Today you are going to learn about energy. We will be looking at circuits, insulators, and conductors.
Throughout the lesson you will fill out an organizer to take notes on.
Task
As you are learning more about matter, I want you to interact with this learning circuit. You will learn about circuits, insulators, and conductors.
Interactive Website: click here to access the interactive website.
While you are doing this activity, fill out this organizer full of information you learned.
Process
What is energy?
Energy is the ability to do work. Energy may exist in the forms of potential, kinetic, thermal, electrical, chemical, and other forms. Energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.
Let's watch this video to get an understanding of different types of energy in our everyday lives!
Evaluation
Answer these questions after you have watched video!
Conclusion
You have learned so much about different types of energy today. Kinetic, Mechanical, and Potential energy. Good job on completing this lesson!
Credits
YouTube, YouTube, www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9.
www.learningcircuits.co.uk/worksheet/learning-circuits-worksheet.pdf.
Learning Circuits - Learn about Electricity for Free (Grade 4), www.learningcircuits.co.uk/.
Teacher Page
4-PS3-2
Performance Expectation: Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.
Clarification Statement: When energy is transferred it may change forms such as when light from the sun warms a window pane.
Disciplinary Core Idea:
DEFINITIONS OF ENERGY Energy can be moved from place to place by moving objects or through sound, light, or electric currents. (UE.PS3A.b)
CONSERVATION OF ENERGY AND ENERGY TRANSFER Energy is present whenever there are moving objects, sound, light, or heat. When objects collide, energy can be transferred from one object to another, thereby changing their motion. In such collisions, some energy is typically also transferred to the surrounding air; as a result, the air gets heated and sound is produced. (UE.PS3B.a)
Light also transfers energy from place to place. (UE.PS3B.b)
Energy can also be transferred from place to place by electric currents, which can then be used locally to produce motion, sound, heat, or light. The currents may have been produced to begin with by transforming the energy of motion into electrical energy. (UE.PS3B.c)