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Plan and carry out investigations that explain transference of energy from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.
Plan and carry out investigations that explain transference of energy from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.
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Vocabulary
- Construct
- Transfer
- Energy
- Potential energy
- Kinetic energy
- Friction
- Conduction
- Absorb
- Reflect
- Circuit
- Open circuit
- Close circuit
- Heat
- Radiation
- Convection
- Collision
- Motion
- Electrical energy
- Stored energy
Knowledge
Students know:
- Energy is present whenever there are moving objects, sound, light, or heat.
- The transfer of energy, including the following:
- Collisions between objects.
- Light traveling from one place to another.
- Electric currents producing motion, sound, heat, or light.
- Sound traveling from one place to another.
- Heat passing from one object to another.
- Motion, sound, heat, and light causing a different type of energy to be observed after an interaction.
- Heat is produced in many ways.
- Heat can move via conduction.
- The properties of different objects cause them to be able to absorb, reflect, and/or conduct energy.
- Electric currents pass through a circuit.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Collaboratively plan and carry out an investigation that converts energy one form to another.
- Identify the phenomenon.
- Identify the evidence to address the purpose of the investigation.
- Collect the data.
- Construct an explanation using evidence about heat production.
- Develop a model demonstrating that different objects can absorb, reflect, and/or conduct energy.
- Develop a model demonstrating electric circuits.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Energy can be transferred in various ways and between objects.
- Heat energy can be produced in many ways.
- The properties of objects, e.g. ability to absorb, reflect, or conduct energy, relate to their function.
- Electric energy can be transferred through circuits.
Scientific and Engineering Practices
Planning and Carrying out Investigations; Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions; Developing and Using Models
Crosscutting Concepts
Energy and Matter
