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PS3: Energy

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PS3:  Energy

PS3.A: Definitions of Energy
PS3.B: Conservation of Energy and Energy Transfer
PS3.C: Relationship Between Energy and Forces

 

In PS3: Energy, performance expectations are designed for students to create an understanding of energy, energy conservation and transfer, the relationship between energy and forces, and energy in everyday life. Some key concepts in energy for grades 3-5 understanding are the motion of energy, conservation of energy, and the relationship between magnets and energy.

 

5-PS3-1 Use models to describe that energy in animals’ food (used for body repair, growth, motion, and to maintain body warmth) was once energy from the sun.

 

 

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Exploring Our Fluid Earth, a product of the Curriculum Research & Development Group (CRDG), College of Education. University of Hawai?i, 2011. This document may be freely reproduced and distributed for non-profit educational purposes.