Standard(s): Physical Science, Science and Technology, Science Inquiry, Scientific Ways of Knowing

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1 GRADE 1 ENERGY MAKES THINGS HAPPEN Unit Summary: Students will explore ways to make things move, change direction, speed up, and stop. Experiment with batteries and electricity. Explore solar energy, identify energy sources, explain how people use and conserve energy. Length of Unit: Critical Questions: Why/How do things move? What is energy? How do we get energy? How do we keep our homes warm/cool? How do we use energy? Why is the sun important? How can we save energy? Ohio Standards Connections: Standard(s): Physical Science, Science and Technology, Science Inquiry, Scientific Ways of Knowing Benchmark(s): K2SKA A. Recognize that there are different ways to carry out scientific investigations. Realize that investigations can be repeated under the same conditions with similar results and may have different explanations. K2SKB B. Recognize the importance of respect for all living things. K2SKC C. Recognize that diverse groups of people contribute to our understanding of the natural world. K2STA A. Explain why people, when building or making something, need to determine what it will be made of and how it will affect other people and the environment. K2STB B. Explain that to construct something requires planning, communication, problem solving and tools. K2PSB B. Recognize that light, sound and objects move in different ways. K2PSC C. Recognize sources of energy and their uses.- Indicator(s): 1PS5 5. Explore the effects some objects have on others even when the two objects might not touch (e.g., magnets). 1PS6 6. Investigate a variety of ways to make things move and what causes them to change speed, direction and/or stop. Energy Makes Things Happen Trumbull County Educational Service Center Page 1

2 1PS7 7. Explore how energy makes things work (e.g., batteries in a toy and electricity turning fan blades).- 1PS8 8. Recognize that the sun is an energy source that warms the land, air and water. 1PS9 9. Describe that energy can be obtained from many sources in many ways (e.g., food, gasoline, electricity or batteries). 1ST4 4. Explore ways people use energy to cook their food and warm their homes (e.g., wood, coal, natural gas and electricity). 1ST5 5. Identify how people can save energy by turning things off when they are not using them (e.g., lights and motors).- 1ST6 6. Investigate that tools are used to help make things and some things cannot be made without tools.-- 1SI1 1. Ask "what happens when" questions. 1SI2 2. Explore and pursue student-generated "what happens when" questions 1SI3 3. Use appropriate safety procedures when completing scientific investigations. 1SI4 4. Work in a small group to complete an investigation and then share findings with others. 1SI5 5. Create individual conclusions about group findings. 1SI6 6. Use appropriate tools and simple equipment/instruments to safely gather scientific data (e.g., magnifiers, timers and simple balances and other appropriate tools). 1SI7 7. Make estimates to compare familiar lengths, weights and time intervals. 1SI8 8. Use oral, written and pictorial representation to communicate work. 1SI9 9. Describe things as accurately as possible and compare with the observations of others. 1SK1 1. Discover that when a science investigation is done the same way multiple times, one can expect to get very similar results each time it is performed. 1SK2 2. Demonstrate good explanations based on evidence from investigations and observations. 1SK3 3. Explain that everybody can do science, invent things and have scientific ideas no matter where they live. Pre-Assessment: KWL Chart, Brainstorm and discussion, web electricity, Ask Critical Questions Scoring Guidelines: Teacher Judgment Ongoing Assessment: Observation experimentation, prediction, journals, investigations Post-Assessment/Summative Assessment: Teacher made test: students identify energy sources Scoring Guidelines: Instructional Procedures: Read Alouds Energy Makes Things Happen Trumbull County Educational Service Center Page 2

3 Move objects, Explore force and motion (push and pull) Move marbles, balls, toy cars across horizontal, sloped surfaces, through tilted tubes. Make curved sides for tracks and add obstacles. Make a spool racer- thread spool, rubber band, cotton swab, washer, paperclip. Use various size rubber bands. Twist, record lengths and discuss. Explore magnets. Use to attract objects under paper, oak tag, desktop. Line them up so they repel each other. Draw a racetrack on a paper plate. Put paperclip in the track. Put a magnet under the plate to move the clip. Make electromagnets Experiment with solar energy Flashlight experiment (conserving energy) Enormous Carrot how things get stuck (jar lids, root veggies, wagons, sleds, cars), push/pull wagon flat/hill (vary # of kids-load), movement car/truck inclined plane Cook using electric skillet/microwave Use fan to show energy (electric and hand) Use various electric and battery operated devices (fans, can opener, walkie-talkies). Light up bulbs with batteries Use glasses of water and soil. Keep 2 on windowsill and 2 in closet. Compare temperature by touch. Fill three jars with sand. Cover two completely: one with foil, one with black paper. Put the thermometer in jars and place in sun. Check temperature every 15 minutes for three hours. Compare and discuss. Remove from sun. Continue checking temp. for next two hours. Discuss. Energy Makes Things Happen Class discussion: running out of gas, not eating breakfast. Explain how the sun gives us energy. Illustrate. Mike Mulligan= various fuels produce energy, machines make work easier, need energy to move things, kids make pinwheels Unit Daily Planner Energy Makes Things Happen Trumbull County Educational Service Center Page 3

4 Differentiated Instructional Support for All Learners: Materials and Resources Needed: magnets, objects to attract and repel, objects to move (balls, marbles), big books, trade books, batteries, small light bulbs, flashlight, soil, water, fan, electric skillet, microwave, other objects that use electricity Homework Options and Home Connections: magnet experiments List Things You Moved Today Draw Pictures of Things That Turn On Interdisciplinary Connections: Language Arts, Health, Math, Art Technology Connections: Associated Vocabulary: magnet, force, Poles, push, appropriate, Repel, pull, change, attract, coal, Motion, natural gas, Solar, turning off lights/motors Key Vocabulary: sun, electricity, Energy, energy sources, Energy conservation, explore, investigate, recognize, Describe, discover, demonstrate, explain, Source, identify General Tips: Literature Connections: Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel V.L. Burtun Energy Makes Things Happen Trumbull County Educational Service Center Page 4

5 Energy Makes Things Happen by Brubaker-Bradley Scholastic Push or Pull Marcia Freeman Using Electricity Angela Royston The Enormous Carrot V.Vagin Topic Relationship to other grades; Pulls from, Pushes to: KPS1 1. Demonstrate that objects are made of parts (e.g., toys, chairs) KPS4 4. Explore that things can be made to move in many different ways such as straight, zigzag, up and down, round and round, back and forth, or fast and slow. KPS5 5. Investigate ways to change how something is moving (e.g., push, pull) PS3 3. Identify contact/noncontact forces that affect motion of an object (e.g., gravity, magnetism and collision). 3PS4 4. Predict the changes when an object experiences a force (e.g., a push or pull, weight and friction).-- Research Connections: Energy Makes Things Happen Trumbull County Educational Service Center Page 5