1 - Getting Started ~4 mins
Look around this room for a moment. What is working right now without anyone pushing it by hand?
The lights, the interactive whiteboard, maybe a heater or a clock: something is making each of those do its job. What do you think that something is called?
2 - What Jobs Does Energy Do? ~4 mins
Look at the classroom lights. Something is making them work. That something is called energy.
Energy makes things do a useful job. The jobs we will hunt for today are lighting, heating, moving, and making sound.
What energy job is the classroom light doing right now?
3 - What Would Happen Without Power? ~10 mins
We are going on an energy hunt with picture cards. For each card: what is it, and what does it do for us?
Then the big question for every card: what would happen if it had no power at all?
Work in your small group with the cards you are given. Talk about each one before you move on.
4 - Sort by the Energy Job ~7 mins
Sort your cards into four groups on the table: lighting, heating, moving, and making sound.
When your group agrees, be ready to hold up one card and tell the class why it belongs in that group.
5 - Record in Your Journal ~8 mins
On your Investigation Journal page, do three rows.
For each row, write or draw a thing that uses energy and the job it does.
Now add one more row about your body: write yourself (or “my body”) and a job you do with energy from food, such as running or thinking.
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