Forms of Energy Activities & Experiments - Light, Sound, Heat, Electricity
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Four complete units offer dozens of hands-on activities, stations, and science experiments. Kids explore forms of energy: light (radiant), sound (acoustic), heat (thermal), and electricity (electrical). Review, assessment, and video links are also included.
Open the previews to take a closer look. You’ll see that each unit offers engaging, standards-based activities for your classroom.
These physical science modules were specially created for teachers who embrace active learning.
Light Energy - For each guiding question, kids explore with hands-on activities and draw conclusions. They work well as stations or labs.
- How Does Light Travel?
- Which Materials Are Transparent, Translucent, and Opaque?
- Which Materials Reflect?
- What Is Refraction?
- What Is Color?
Video links, review, assessment, and a variety of extension activities are also included.
Sound Energy – In stations or labs, students investigate guiding questions with a variety of hands-on activities. Then they generalize to nail down the concept.
- What Is a Sound?
- How Does It Travel?
- What Is Amplitude?
- What Is Pitch?
- Which Materials Conduct and Insulate?
- Does It Travel Better Through Solids, Liquids, or Gases?
Video links, review, assessment, and a STEM challenge are also included for this form of energy.
Thermal Energy - For each guiding question, kids explore two or three simple (but powerful) heat activities and draw conclusions. You can conduct them as labs or present them as demonstrations.
- What is thermal energy?
- How does heat travel?
- What is conduction?
- What is convection?
- What is radiation?
- Which materials insulate and conduct?
- How does heat change matter?
- How do we measure heat?
Video links, review, assessment, and a full-blown thermal energy experiment are also included.
Electrical Energy - Using inquiry, students explore key electricity concepts.
- A Battery and a Bulb
- Simple Circuits
- Insulators and Conductors
- Resistors
- Series & Parallel Circuits
Video links, review, assessment, and extension activities are also included for this form of energy.
Printable and digital versions of the light, sound, heat, and electricity labs and assessments are included.
- A PDF provides a traditional pencil and paper option.
- Easel Activities offer digital versions.
Your third, fourth, of fifth grade students will love it – and so will you!
- Engagement is at an all-time high as kids explore science concepts with hands-on activities.
- When they do it themselves, students truly understand each form of energy.
- Labs or stations address the intent of your standards. For example, if you teach, NGSS 4-PS3-2, you can rest assured that students will have ample opportunity to "make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents."
Enjoy teaching!
Brenda Kovich
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