Content Standard: H. Energy
Students will understand concepts of energy.
Common Assessment(s)

Performance Indicators Students will be able to:	Essential Elements (Specific grade level learning objectives)			Suggested Performance Activities	Suggested Classroom Assessments	Vocabulary
2. Demonstrate that energy can not be created or destroyed but only changed from one form to another	Students understand kinetic energy transfers to potential energy and vice versa.			Students construct objects that demonstrate the law of conservation of energy.	Objects are assessed through use of rubric	Law of conservation of energy Kinetic and Potential energy
3. Compare and contrast the ways energy travels.	Understand how energy moves and effects of traveling through a medium. Understand that light is a wave that travels through a medium or vacuum.			Students will use toys to become aware that energy waves are in air, water, and light. Probewave labs on light and temperature. Use Van de Graaf	Students will compare and contrast the way energy travels through a medium.	Crest trough bar height pitch vibrations bending waves amplitude frequency convection conduction radiation
4. Describe the characteristics of static and current electricity.	Students understand the differences and similarities of static and current electricity.			Students will read and discuss Science Voyages p. 162-173. Students will conduct labs: Analyzing Electric Forces and Lighting a bulb with one wire.	Students explain and demonstrate the differences between static and current electricity.	Positive and negative charges conductors insulators electrons circuit voltage resistance magnet Van de Graaf
6. Describe how energy put into or taken out of a system can cause changes in the motion of particles of matter.	Understand the effect of energy on the motion of particles.			Lab examining effects of temperature on substances.	Students will explain their observations in terms of the motion or molecules in a paragraph with graphs.	temperature molecules