Essential Questions:

1) What evidence can you find that energy is being transferred from place to place through electricity?

2) How can a device convert one type of energy to another?

Learning Outcomes:

1) Ask questions to determine cause and effect relationships of electric or magnetic interactions between two objects not in contact with each other.

2) Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.*

In this Mobile Maker Tub, students will explore the nature of electricity. They will read about the early uses of electricity and how electricity can be harnessed and transferred. This unit can be used independently or it can be used in preparation for the Circuits unit.

Grade Levels: 4th-8th

Standards: Engineering, Physical Science, Reading Informational Text, Writing

NGSS

Related PEs and Bundles:

4-PS3-4 Energy, 4-PS3 Energy, 4.Energy

Disciplinary Core Idea:

PS3B: Conservation of Energy and Energy Transfer;

PS3D: Energy in Chemical Processes and Everyday Life

ETS1.A Defining Engineering Problems

Estimated # of days: 5-6; 45 min. sessions