Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Static!

Subject Area

Science

Grade(s)

4

Overview

In this interactive lesson, students enjoy zaps, flashes, and bad hair days as they read together with a Gray Crowned Crane about static electricity. Learn to use images when reading to help clarify meaning and improve understanding of an informational text.

    Science (2015) Grade(s): 4

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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.

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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
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    Lesson/Unit Plan

    Resource Provider

    PBS
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