6th+Grade+Energy


 * Established Goals: **

 (6.9) Force, motion, and energy. The student knows that the Law of Conservation of Energy states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it just changes form. The student is expected to: (A) investigate methods of thermal energy transfer, including conduction, convection, and radiation; (B) verify through investigations that thermal energy moves in a predictable pattern from warmer to cooler until all the substances attain the same temperature such as an ice cube melting; and (C) demonstrate energy transformations such as energy in a flashlight battery changes from chemical energy to electrical energy to light energy.

**Enduring Understandings: ** **//S// ****//tudents will understand that…// **

  ¨ Energy can neither be created or destroyed  ¨ Energy can only change forms  ¨ There are different methods of thermal energy transfer

<span style="display: block; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.3in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .3in; text-indent: -0.3in;"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Essential Questions (framed in appropriate “kid language”):

<span style="display: block; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.3in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .3in; text-indent: -0.3in;"> <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.3in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .3in; text-indent: -0.3in;"> ¨ <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">How can energy change forms? <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.3in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .3in; text-indent: -0.3in;"> ¨ <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">What is the pattern of movement of thermal energy? <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.3in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .3in; text-indent: -0.3in;"> ¨ <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">What are the methods of thermal energy transfer?

//<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Students will know… //

<span style="display: block; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.3in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .3in; text-indent: -0.3in;"> <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.3in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .3in; text-indent: -0.3in;"> ¨ <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Methods of thermal energy transfer include conduction, convection and radiation <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.3in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .3in; text-indent: -0.3in;"> ¨ <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Thermal energy moves in a predictable pattern form warmer to cooler <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.3in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .3in; text-indent: -0.3in;"> ¨ <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Energy transformation includes chemical to electrical to light

//<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Students will be able to… // <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.3in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .3in; text-indent: -0.3in;"> ¨ <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Explain the law of conservation of energy <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.3in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .3in; text-indent: -0.3in;"> ¨ <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Investigate methods of thermal energy transfer <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.3in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .3in; text-indent: -0.3in;"> ¨ <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Explain the predictable pattern of electrical energy <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.3in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .3in; text-indent: -0.3in;"> ¨ <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Demonstrate energy transformation