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Forms of energy
Grade: 5
Strand: Understanding Earth and Space Systems (Conservation of Energy and Resources)
Big idea: Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, but it can be transformed.
Overall Expectations:
2. investigate energy transformation and conservation;
3. demonstrate an understanding of the various forms and sources of energy and the ways in
which energy can be transformed and conserved.
Specific Expectations:
2.4 use appropriate science and technology vocabulary, including energy, heat, light, sound, electrical, mechanical, and chemical, in oral and written communication;
3.1 identify a variety of forms of energy (e.g., electrical, chemical, mechanical, heat, light, kinetic) and give examples from everyday life of how that energy is used (e.g., electrical energy for cooking; chemical/electrical energy to run our cars; mechanical energy to hit a baseball; light energy for managing traffic on the roads; heat energy to warm homes and schools);
3.3 describe how energy is stored and transformed in a given device or system (e.g., in a portable electric device, chemical energy stored in a battery is transformed into electrical energy and then into other forms of energy such as mechanical, sound, and/or light energy);
3.4 recognize that energy cannot be created or destroyed but can only be changed from one form to another (e.g., chemical energy in a battery becomes electrical energy).
