Energy and Energy Transformations
Advanced Science Road Map
Essential Question:
How is energy conserved?
What will I learn?
How will I learn it?
Level 4
Students will understand that waves are a propagation of a
disturbance that transports energy and momentum but not
matter, and that at the atomic and nuclear levels energy is
not continuous but exists in discrete amounts.
Students will create a model of a town
infrastructure that incorporates multiple energy
sources.
Level 3
Students will understand the difference between potential
energy and kinetic energy, how the law of conservation of
energy applies universally, and how energy can be
transformed from one form to another.
Students will complete a summative
assessment, and will complete a project
exploring energy types. Project will be to
produce a product that encompasses aspects
of energy types, the law of conservation of
energy, and energy transformations.
Level 2
Students will understand how to differentiate between
potential and kinetic energy.
Students will construct their roller-coaster and
correct misconceptions from their blueprints.
Students will understand how to identify examples of
potential and kinetic energy.
Students will complete workbook pages 273281. Students will take cornell notes on
potential and kinetic energy, and design a
rollercoaster on the opposite page with labels
for potential and kinetic energy.
Level 1
Students will understand how to identify energy
transformations.
Students will diagram energy transfers using a
flow map for a given situation as a group.
Students will complete a stations lab exploring
multiple energy transfers.
Students will understand how to compare and contrast
different forms of energy.
Students will complete workbook pages 231239. Students will work together in groups to
compare and contrast different forms of energy
with a foldable.
Entry
Students will understand that energy is involved in all
physical processes and is a unifying concept in many
areas of science.
Students will classify cards with examples into
various situations to understand that energy is
involved in all physical processes.
(classifications: energy v. non-energy, energy
sources v. energy receivers, processes that
require energy v. processes that do not)
Philosophical chair discussion as a class to
discuss law of conservation of energy: when
does it apply in real world situations?
Standards:
SC.6.P.11.1 Identify and differentiate between kinetic energy and potential energy. Describe and
apply the law of conservation of energy to real world situations.
SC.912.P.10.1 Energy is involved in all physical and chemical processes. It is conserved and
can be transformed from one form to another and into work.
Depth of Knowledge Questions:
1. How would you describe energy?
2. List several types of energy.
3. What is another way of describing potential energy?
4. What are two factors that determine and object’s potential energy?
5. What is another way of describing kinetic energy?
6. What are two objects that determine and object’s kinetic energy?
7. Define the law of conservation of matter.
8. What is efficiency?
9. Classify processes into types of energy.
10. How do you know that energy is being utilized?
11. What happens to energy when it is involved in a process?
12. Compare and contrast potential and kinetic energy.
13. How could you determine the efficiency of an appliance?
Vocabulary:
1. energy
2. kinetic energy
3. potential energy
4. mechanical energy
5. law of conservation of energy
6. energy transformations
7. efficiency
8. chemical energy
9. electromagnetic energy
10. light energy
11. thermal energy
12. nuclear energy
13. sound energy
14. thermal energy