4th Grade Energy Unit – Digital and Printable Curriculum NGSS Aligned

Description

• Easy, Print-and-Go PDF that includes a TEACHER GUIDE and STUDENT JOURNAL (Bonus File).

• Hyperlinked Table of Contents
• Scope and Sequence
• Video Lectures for Every Lesson (Youtube)
• Lesson Slide Decks (Google Slides and Editable)
• Lesson Check for Understanding (Google Form)
• Lesson plans
• Quick Digital Links to all Assessments
• Materials List
• Tips for Teaching
• Examples of Student Outcomes
• Posters and Vocabulary Journal
• Task Cards
• Flipbooks
• Answer Key

• All the pages the students will need to complete the unit
• Lesson Notes Pages
• Reading Passages and Comprehension
• Engaging Lesson Activities (Webquests, Centers, Stem Challenge)
• Vocabulary Pages
• End of Unit Assessment
• Early Finisher Work (Word Searches, Coloring Pages, Extension Writing Activities, Create-a-Comic, Information Flags)

• Part 1 – Energy Basics Lessons: Students will complete a ‘buy-in’ activity by doing a demonstration of what happens to people in cars when they don’t wear seat belts. They will read a seatbelt article. Once they get an introduction, they will be guided through the Guided Lesson Slide Deck and complete a learning experience Webquest.
• Part 2 – Potential and Kinetic Energy Lessons: Students will continue learning more about kinetic and potential energy with a Guided Lesson Slide Deck and review the content by completing a flip book and potential and kinetic reading passages. You may display the flip book on bulletin boards.
• Part 3 – Speed and Energy Lessons: Students move on to learn about energy transfer by going through the Guided Lesson Slide Deck and completing reading passages. They will partake in a hands-on science lab (pendulum lab). They may play review games with the task cards or complete them in centers/for homework.
• Part 4 – Energy Transfer Lessons: The students will go through the Guided Lesson Slide Deck and learn about friction, speed, and energy. They will complete a hands-on science lab (friction and energy lab), and complete early finisher work. You may choose to have the students complete assessments after this part or after Part 5.
• Part 5 – Stem Design Challenge Lessons: Students will take everything they have learned about energy in this cumulative project. This project is an Egg Collision STEM Challenge. Students will go through the engineering design process as they work through building a restraint system to keep an egg safe in a toy car.

• 4th Grade Elementary Teachers
• 5th Grade Elementary Teachers to review previous standards
• Homeschool Science Curriculum for 4th-5th Grade
• Learning Pods Curriculum for 4th-5th Grade

---

---

• 4-PS3-1 Use evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of that object.

• 4-PS3-2 Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.

• 4-PS3-3 Ask questions and predict outcomes about the changes in energy that occur when objects collide.

• 4-PS3-4 Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.

• 5.2 The student will investigate and understand that energy can take many forms. Key ideas include a) energy is the ability to do work or to cause change; b) there are many different forms of energy; c) energy can be transformed; and d) energy is conserved.
• 5.3 The student will investigate and understand that there is a relationship between force and energy of moving objects. Key ideas include a) moving objects have kinetic energy; b) motion is described by an object’s direction and speed; c) changes in motion are related to net force and mass; d) when objects collide, the contact forces transfer energy and can change objects’ motion; and e) friction is a force that opposes motion.

• 6.8: The student knows force and motion are related to potential and kinetic energy. The student is expected to: Student Expectation
• 6.8A: Compare and contrast potential and kinetic energy.
• 6.8B: Identify and describe the changes in position, direction, and speed of an object when acted upon by unbalanced forces.
• 6.8C: Calculate average speed using distance and time measurements.
• 6.8E: Investigate how inclined planes can be used to change the amount of force to move an object.