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🔬 4th Grade · Science4-PS3-1Unit 1: Energy

Speed and energy

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🎯 Objective: Students use evidence to relate an object’s speed to its energy.

Lesson outline

  1. Ramps and balls.
  2. Measure.
  3. Discuss.
  4. Exit: faster means…?

Lesson 1 of 6 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

4-PS3-1

Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), Grade 4 — typical US unit order

🏁 Unit goals

  • Relate speed to energy
  • Show energy transfer by sound, light, heat and electric currents
  • Design a device that converts energy

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🦫 Encyclopedia: Science🦫 Kids encyclopedia⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Energy”

  1. Speed and energy
  2. Collisions
  3. Energy transfer
  4. Circuits
  5. Energy converter design
  6. Energy resources

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