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How energy travels around

Observe and provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents

Lesson

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Name source, destination and transfer pathway for energy.

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Activity

Ask the learner to explain one prerequisite idea before starting. If uncertain, revisit it; graph order is not learner readiness.

Policy

Check readiness rather than assuming source graph order establishes attainment.

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Instructions

Use supplied scenarios and optional adult-assembled low-voltage battery torch. Never use mains wiring or short a battery; no dismantling required.

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Use the supplied stage cards on screen or scrap paper; adult key stays separate.

Materials are ready in each step. Use them on screen or print just the current step. Put teaching examples aside before the learner tries.

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What this lesson covers and its limits

These are bounded opportunities, not learner attainment. Partial and blocked source requirements remain so.

  • partial: Observe and provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents

    Bounded objective: Name source, destination and transfer pathway for energy. No actual four-pathway experiment; supplied scenarios and observation plans only. Optional torch demonstration conditional.

  • partial: Give at least one example of energy transfer by each: sound, light, heat, electric current

    Four transfer examples supplied, not observed.

  • partial: Explain that energy moves from a source to a destination through these means

    Source/destination/pathway requested per scenario.

  • partial: Describe how electric currents transfer energy from a battery to a bulb through wires

    Battery circuit to bulb explained; no assembled-circuit claim.

  • partial: Can {{name}} give examples of how energy moves around — like heat from a radiator warming a room, light from a lamp reaching your eyes, or electricity flowing through a wire?

    Try offers new-scenario-planning for the bounded objective; it does not establish every part of the source assessment. No actual four-pathway experiment; supplied scenarios and observation plans only. Optional torch demonstration conditional.

  • No actual four-pathway experiment; supplied scenarios and observation plans only. Optional torch demonstration conditional.

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Name source, destination and transfer pathway for energy.

Name source, destination and transfer pathway for energy.

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PhET Interactive Simulations · Practice link — not the full lesson

Energy Forms and Changes

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Before you open · source notes

Energy Forms and Changes supports hands-on exploration for How energy travels around. Not every lab worksheet.

Free interactive page, no sign-in required for the tested path.

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Ask the learner what they changed in the sim or page and what they observed.

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Public PhET Interactive Simulations page. An anonymous GET on 2026-11-12 returned HTTP 200 with no login or payment prompt for this URL. Opening the link does not save practice or assess mastery. An adult should preview and guide the learner.

PhET Interactive Simulations. “Energy Forms and Changes.” External page; Gakuva does not copy, host, embed, or redistribute materials.

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Check understanding

  • Give at least one example of energy transfer by each: sound, light, heat, electric current
  • Explain that energy moves from a source to a destination through these means
  • Describe how electric currents transfer energy from a battery to a bulb through wires
“Can your child give examples of how energy moves around — like heat from a radiator warming a room, light from a lamp reaching your eyes, or electricity flowing through a wire?”

Curriculum record

Type
Conceptual
Subject
Science
Domain
Energy
Age range
Ages 8–12

Standards

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