Lessons are intended to take 1-2 days to complete (1.5-2 weeks)
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Energy is all around us
Standards: 1-PS4-1&4 Plan and conduct investigations to provide evidence that vibrating materials can make sound and that sound can make materials vibrate. Use tools and materials to design and build a device that uses light or sound to solve the problem of communicating over a distance
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Lessons Developed by Laurie Trotter
Description: Students will learn about Light Energy .Students will read some text and watch a few videos. Students will examine the amount of Energy they use at home and come up with a plan to reduce and save energy.
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Description: Students will learn about how Energy comes from Heat;from the Sun and man-madeheat. Students will watch a video, read a book and write up some amazing Energy facts!
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Description: Students will learn about How they use energy all the time by sleeping, eating good food and exercising.
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Description: Students will learn the Energy from Sound! Students will read some text and watch a few videos.
They will also go on a Sound Safari Expedition!
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Description: Students are invited to Think like a Scientist and try some experiments that will have them observing and documenting their data.
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Light and sound energy
Standard: 5.PD.2 : Light and sound are forms of energy that behave in predictable ways
Lessons developed by Corey Bubon
Description: Students will learn how light can be reflected, refracted, and absorbed. Students will watch a video, read the slides, complete a Frayer Model and take a quiz.
Description: Students are invited to conduct an experiment to determine the temperature changes caused by light striking different surfaces. Students will select three objects from around their house, make a prediction, test their hypothesis, and analyze the results to draw their conclusions.
Description: Students are invited to read about transparent, translucent, and opaque, watch a video, complete a sorting activity and draw a building explaining the usefulness of different materials in the design with relationship to light energy.
Description: Students are invited to watch a video from PBS that can be directly uploaded into Google Classroom, answer questions, read an article and write a paragraph about the author's purpose.
Description: Students and family members are invited to build a four-stringed instrument that can play a tune in different pitches. Students are also invited to write a summary about the project they built and explain why they designed it the way they did.