SC15.4.2

Science (2015) Grade(s): 4

SC15.4.2

Plan and carry out investigations that explain transference of energy from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.

Unpacked Content

Scientific and Engineering Practices

Planning and Carrying out Investigations; Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions; Developing and Using Models

Crosscutting Concepts

Energy and Matter

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.

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

Aligned Learning Resources

Solar Ovens
Greeting Card Dissection
Got Power? An Introduction to Electricity
Got Power? What Is Electricity?
Got Power? Creating a Complete Electric Circuit
Thermal Energy: Reading Thermometers Lab
This Too Shall Pass: Rube Goldberg Energy Transfers
Introduction to Glass Fusing
Steve Trash Science: Plants/Wicked Waves of Sound
Current Electricity & Electric Circuits StudyJam
Light StudyJam
Electricity StudyJam
Sound StudyJam
Light Absorption, Reflection, & Refraction StudyJam
Scientific Theory & Evidence StudyJam
Investigations to Collect Data StudyJam
Scientific Methods StudyJam
Energy and Matter StudyJam
Static!
Lighting Designer: Kids Work!
Circuits | NASA Online
Building Circuits
Circuits With Friends
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