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Electrical Energy

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Electrical Energy

TEKS Objective

Explore the uses of energy including mechanical, light, thermal, electrical, and sound energy.

Essential Understanding

The student knows that energy occurs in many forms and can be observed in cycles, patterns, and systems.

Science Background

Electricity: Explore More, Iowa Public Television (website) – Electricity can be produced from many different resources, ranging from fossil fuels to nuclear power or wind.

Electricity
Explore More, Iowa Public Television, www.iptv.org

The Energy Story: Energy Quest (website) - Content and information on different types of energy.

The Energy Story
Energy Quest, California Energy Commission, www.energyquest.ca.gov

Signature Lesson

Light Your Way: TeachEngineering (website) - Guides students through the design and construction of a working portable flashlight.

Light Your Way
TeachEngineering, www.teachengineering.org

Supporting Lessons

Lights Out: TeachEngineering (website) - This lesson introduces the concept of electricity by asking students to imagine what their lives would be like without electricity.

Lights Out
TeachEngineering, www.teachengineering.org

Elementary Electricity Lesson Plan: Duke-Energy (PDF) - Students employ the discovery method to investigate the concept of electricity and learn how electricity works.

Elementary Electricity Lesson Plan
Duke-Energy, https://www.duke-energy.com

 

Elaboration Lessons and Extensions

Powering the US: TeachEngineering (website) - Students learn about the electric power industry in the United States, and the environmental impacts associated with a variety of energy sources.

Powering the US
TeachEngineering, www.teachengineering.org

Assessment Ideas

Powering Smallsburg: TeachEngineering (website) - Students act as power engineers who must make decisions based on a given budget, an expected power demand from the community, and different power plant options to consider.

Powering Smallsburg
TeachEngineering, www.teachengineering.org

After students learn about circuits, have them answer the questions at the end of the page linked below.

http://www.myschoolhouse.com/courses/O/1/68.asp

 

 

Literature Connections

DK Eyewitness Books: Electricity. Parker, S. (ISBN-13: 978-0756613884)

Charged Up: The Story of Electricity. Bailey, Jacqui (ISBN-13: 978-1404811294)

Dear Mr. Henshaw. Cleary, Beverly (ISBN-13: 978-0688024055)

Discovering Electricity. Bains, Rae (ISBN-13: 978-0893755652)

Related Science TEKS

(5.1A) Science Safety
The student is expected to demonstrate safe practices and the use of safety equipment as described in the Texas Safety Standards during classroom and outdoor investigations.

(5.2B) Ask Questions, Formulate a Hypothesis
The student is expected to ask well-defined questions, formulate testable hypotheses, and select and use appropriate equipment and technology.

(5.2C) Collect Data
The student is expected to collect information by detailed observations and accurate measuring.

(5.2D) Analyze Evidence and Explain
The student is expected to analyze and interpret information to construct reasonable explanations from direct (observable) and indirect (inferred) evidence.

(5.2F) Communicate Conclusions
The student is expected to communicate valid conclusions in both written and verbal forms.

(5.2G) Graphs, Tables, Charts
The student is expected to construct appropriate simple graphs, tables, maps, and charts using technology, including computers, to organize, examine, and evaluate information.

Related Math TEKS

(5.12B) Use experimental results to make predictions.

(5.14B) Solve problems that incorporate understanding the problems, making a plan, carrying out the plan, and evaluating the solution for reasonableness.

(5.15A) Explain and record observations using objects words, pictures, numbers, and technology.

Additional Resources

Electricity and Renewable Energy, Teacher Information: Energy for Keeps (PDF) - Basic information about renewable energy, the history of electricity, and the physics involved in electricity generation. Covers nonrenewable and renewable energy resources, environmental facts and considerations, and energy conservation and efficiency.

Electricity and Renewable Energy, Teacher Information
Energy for Keeps, US Department of Energy, www1.eere.energy.gov

What is Electricity? Energy Quest (website) - Teaches “energy ethic” to conserve finite resources and help ensure our energy future.

What is Electricity?
Energy Quest, California Energy Commission, www.energyquest.ca.gov

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