Grade 04 Science - EC: S4.C.2.1.2
Grade 04 Science - EC: S4.C.2.1.2
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
Activities
- What type of energy does your body need to help you run? What type of energy do you have while you are running?
- What type of energy does a car need to drive? What type of energy does a car have while it is in motion?
- What type of energy does a toaster need to toast bread? What type of energy does the toaster have when it is turned on?
- List two types of energy that the sun provides for people.
- Write 2 or 3 sentences to summarize how electrical energy is gotten in order to power your television.
- Write 2 or 3 sentences to summarize how your body gets energy from food.
- What do you think would happen if the sun no longer provided energy for people? Write a paragraph to explain at least three consequences. Use facts to defend your thinking.
Answer Key/Rubric
- Your body needs chemical energy to run. You have mechanical or kinetic energy while you are running.
- A car needs chemical energy to drive. It has mechanical or kinetic energy, sound energy, and heat energy while it is driving.
- A toaster needs electrical energy. It has heat and light energy when it is turned on.
- Light and heat
- Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
- Coal is mined and transported to a factory where it is burned.
- The chemical energy in coal is transformed in electrical energy.
- The electric companies in the area send the electricity through power lines to my house.
- When I plug my television into the wall, the electricity travels through the wire and powers my television.
- Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
- There is chemical energy in all of the food that I eat.
- When I eat food, my body digests it.
- My body absorbs the chemical energy and changes it into energy that I can use to move and perform my other body functions.
- Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
- The sun’s energy creates heat. Without heat from the sun, the Earth’s temperature would be extremely cold.
- Plants would not be able to survive. Plants rely on the sun to make their food. If plants died, people would lose one of their food sources.
- Some animals would lose their only food source. If the animals on the bottom of the food chain die because they don’t have plants to eat, then the animals at the top of the food chains would die, too.
- People rely on plants to provide us with oxygen. Without sunlight, plants will die. If the plants die, then there will not be any oxygen for people to breathe.
