During the first trimester of school, our science curriculum will be focused on Energy. We will start by reading and learning about energy, then discovering it, then experimenting with it, and finally applying it to a new situation: the Energy Debates.
Here are the Big Ideas that we are focused on:
Here are the Big Ideas that we are focused on:
- Energy takes many forms. (Lessons 1, 2, and 9)
- We can observe energy all around us. (Lessons 1, 2, and 9)
- Energy can move, or transfer, from place to place. Sometimes it changes form as it transfers. (Lessons 3 and 9)
- Machines help us use energy transfers to perform useful tasks.(Lessons 4 and 9)
- Warmer things lose heat, or transfer heat energy, to cooler things until they both become the same temperature. (Lessons 5, 6, and 7)
- Some materials conduct heat energy more easily than others.(Lessons 6 and 7)
- Not all transfers of energy are desirable. Often energy is “wasted” or transferred to non-useful forms. (Lesson 8)
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