How energy travels around

ScienceEnergyAges 9–10

Observe and provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents

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Name source, destination and transfer pathway for energy.

Activity

Ask the learner to explain one prerequisite idea before starting. If uncertain, revisit it; graph order is not learner readiness.

Policy

Check readiness rather than assuming source graph order establishes attainment.

Instructions

Use supplied scenarios and optional adult-assembled low-voltage battery torch. Never use mains wiring or short a battery; no dismantling required.

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Use the supplied stage cards on screen or scrap paper; adult key stays separate.

Materials are ready in each step. Use them on screen or print just the current step. Put teaching examples aside before the learner tries.

What this lesson covers and its limits

These are bounded opportunities, not learner attainment. Partial and blocked source requirements remain so.

partial: Observe and provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents
Bounded objective: Name source, destination and transfer pathway for energy. No actual four-pathway experiment; supplied scenarios and observation plans only. Optional torch demonstration conditional.
partial: Give at least one example of energy transfer by each: sound, light, heat, electric current
Four transfer examples supplied, not observed.
partial: Explain that energy moves from a source to a destination through these means
Source/destination/pathway requested per scenario.
partial: Describe how electric currents transfer energy from a battery to a bulb through wires
Battery circuit to bulb explained; no assembled-circuit claim.
partial: Can {{name}} give examples of how energy moves around — like heat from a radiator warming a room, light from a lamp reaching your eyes, or electricity flowing through a wire?
Try offers new-scenario-planning for the bounded objective; it does not establish every part of the source assessment. No actual four-pathway experiment; supplied scenarios and observation plans only. Optional torch demonstration conditional.

No actual four-pathway experiment; supplied scenarios and observation plans only. Optional torch demonstration conditional.

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Name source, destination and transfer pathway for energy.

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Give at least one example of energy transfer by each: sound, light, heat, electric current
Explain that energy moves from a source to a destination through these means
Describe how electric currents transfer energy from a battery to a bulb through wires

“Can your child give examples of how energy moves around — like heat from a radiator warming a room, light from a lamp reaching your eyes, or electricity flowing through a wire?”

Curriculum record

Type: Conceptual
Subject: Science
Domain: Energy
Age range: Ages 9–10

Standards

ngss-k5:4-PS3-2