Our current unit in How the World Works on Energy has been quite exciting. After becoming familiar with the different forms of energy that we experience in our daily lives, we took our thinking further by inquiring about how energy transforms.
Our lines of inquiry are:
● Different forms of energy ● How energy is used and transformed ● The Scientific process
We have learned that there are more to toys than just fun and games. Toys have energy and can create energy transformations!
Fourth graders built paper bangers, gas machines, flying plates, and paper windmills. As they played, they observed what form of energy each toy had and how that energy was transformed into a different form of energy.
After observing how energy was transformed in each toy, they begin to experiment with variables and tested out their own questions. One questions was "Which material will make the loudest bang?"
They found that in order to create a fair test it was important to keep certain variables the same and to change the variable they were testing. To find out which material made the loudest bang, ask your daughter about the results.
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