Unit 5: Transfer of Energy

(4 weeks - Trimester 2)

Full Curriculum

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Performance Expectations
4-PS3-2. Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents

4-ESS3-1. Obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are derived from natural resources and their uses affect the environment. 
 

Standards
4-PS3-2
4-ESS3-1

Essential Questions

 

What is energy?

How is energy transferred?

From what natural resources are energy and fuels derived? In what ways does the human use of natural resources affect the environment?

 

STEMscopes

Transfer of Energy in Collision

Energy and Electric Currents