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Key Learning: SC.5.P.10.1 Investigate and describe some basic forms of energy, including light, heat, sound,
electrical, chemical, and mechanical SC.5.P.10.2 Investigate and explain that energy has the ability to cause
motion or create change. (The benchmark code is a link to the CPALMs resources available for the standard.)
Unit Essential Question:
How can you describe some basic forms of energy, including light, heat, sound, chemical
and mechanical and explain that energy has the ability to cause motion?
Concept: Energy
Concept: Forms of Energy
Concept: Renewable/
Nonrenewable Energy
Lesson Essential Question:
What is energy?
Lesson Essential Question:
How do you describe different
forms of energy?
Lesson Essential Question:
What is the difference between
renewable and nonrenewable
energy resources? Give
examples of each.
Vocabulary:
Energy*
Vocabulary:
Potential Energy *
Kinetic Energy*
Mechanical Energy
Chemical Energy
Heat*
Light*
Sound *
Resources:
Text: pgs. 284-305
Notebook-Graphic organizer for
Energy Transfer and
Energy/Motion
Study Jams (Energy Light &
Sound) - Heat; Light and Sound
Vocabulary:
Renewable
Nonrenewable
Resources:
Graphic Organizers – Frayer
Model (preview Vocab) and
Vocab Tab
Text - pgs. 278-283
Study Jams (Matter) – Energy &
Matter
Notebook – Graphic Organizer
for Energy
Resources:
KQED QUEST
PBS Energy Sources
Writing Prompt: Energy
Rubric:
Use vocabulary from the unit and specific
examples from the text to describe some
Forms of
Energy
basic forms of energy and explain and give
examples of how energy has the ability to
cause motion or create change. Be sure to
use proper English Language conventions:
grammar, punctuation, spelling…
Examples
how energy
causes
motion or
change
Proper
Grammar:
punctuation,
spelling,
capitalization
4
Correct
description
of 3 or
more forms
of energy
3
Correct
description
of 2 or more
forms of
energy
3 or more
explained
examples
2 or more
explained
examples
2
Correct
descripti
on of 1 or
more
forms of
energy
1
explained
example
1
incorrect
descriptions
forms of
energy
0
None
Example are
listed, but
not
explained
None
No
mistakes
Few
mistakes
Many
mistakes