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Grade 05 Science - EC: S5.C.2.1.3

Grade 05 Science - EC: S5.C.2.1.3

Continuum of Activities

Continuum of Activities

The list below represents a continuum of activities: resources categorized by Standard/Eligible Content that teachers may use to move students toward proficiency. Using LEA curriculum and available materials and resources, teachers can customize the activity statements/questions for classroom use.

This continuum of activities offers:

  • Instructional activities designed to be integrated into planned lessons
  • Questions/activities that grow in complexity
  • Opportunities for differentiation for each student’s level of performance

Grade Levels

5th Grade

Activities

  1. Define energy.
  1. Put the law of conservation of energy in your own words. How does that relate to kinetic and potential energy?
  1. Create a Venn diagram with one side labeled “Kinetic Energy” and the other “Potential Energy.” Compare and contrast.

  2. There are 3 types of potential energy: gravitational, elastic, and chemical.
    Look at the list of classroom supplies and state what type of potential energy each object has.
  1. Spring loaded pen
  2. A battery
  3. Plastic ruler
  4. Crayon
  1. With a partner, act out 3 examples of potential energy changing to kinetic energy. Ask you audience, “How can you distinguish the difference between kinetic and potential energy?” What type of potential energy is observed?

Answer Key/Rubric

  1. Energy is the ability to do work.

  2. Acceptable responses might include, but are not limited to:
  • Energy cannot be created nor destroyed.
  • Energy can only be stored (potential) or transferred (kinetic energy is an example when moving).
  • When an object has energy, it is stored (potential energy) until it is acted upon to move (kinetic energy).
  1. Acceptable responses might include, but are not limited to:

  1. Acceptable responses might include, but are not limited to:
  1. Spring loaded pen- elastic
  2. Battery- chemical
  3. Plastic ruler- elastic and gravitational
  4. Crayon- gravitational
  1. Acceptable responses might include, but are not limited to:
  • Holding an object (gravitational) → throwing an object
  • Pinching a spring (elastic) → releasing the spring
  • Holding a piece of food (chemical) → digesting a piece of food

Suggested Rubric: This rubric may be used to assess a student’s overall mastery of the standard or eligible content:

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