How to access photographs from the server

All the photographs for this unit of inquiry are kept in this location: File Server>Shared Multimedia>Images>Primary Photos 06-07>4S>Energy Demos.

You can copy and paste photos from this folder into your electronic ui book, photos just like this one:

Learning Reflection

Write a reflection about what you just learned in Mr. Simms' classroom. Type it into your electronic ui books. Include information about things you didn't know before, new vocabulary, questions that you have got for Mr. Simms now and so on...

How is energy measured

Read the section called "How do we measure energy?" and use the information you find to answer the following questions:

1) What units can energy be measured in?
2) Why have human beings decided that we need to measure energy?

Type your answers into you electronic ui books.

Now read the next section of the text and complete this sentence in your eui book...

Energy cannot be __________ and it cannot be ___________.

Write a paragraph in your eui book to explain what that means. Include examples of how energy changes from one form to another. Can you also include examples of where the energy came from each time?

The Energy Quest

To help you with this inquiry, you will be using the Energy Quest website.
Click on this link here to take you to the site. Then, open up Firefox again in a new window and come back here to get instructions for the first part of the quest.

Part 1 - The Energy Story

(a) Open up a new Microsoft Word document and save it as "Energy Quest" in your folder. This will be your electronic UI book. We're not going to have paper UI books for this unit of inquiry.

(b) Make the title "Energy Quest" using Word Art.

(c) Make your first heading "Part One - The Energy Story"

(d) Click the computer screen on the desk on the Energy Quest homepage

(e) Read the text carefully and answer these questions in short paragraphs in your Word document.

• What is the definition of energy?
• What "work" can you see, feel or hear energy doing around you at the moment? Try to include five examples.

(f) Click on the link to the "What is energy?" section

(g) Read the first section, and then read the "Stored and Moving Energy" section.

(h) Type the explanations of potential and kinetic energy into your Word document. Then find one library book that contains more information about potential and kinetic energy. Type any information you find that helps you to understand what they are.

(i) Read the pencil example very carefully and do what it says so that you really understand it. Read it again and do it again if you need to. Then, on a piece of white A4 paper, draw a clear diagram to explain what it means. We will then scan your drawing and you can insert it into your Word document.

Verkha, Rhythma and Henrica's Website

http://batteryenergy.blogspot.com/

Have a look!

The Websites You've Been Using in ICT

http://www1.eere.energy.gov/kids/




http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/

Mr Simms' "Energy Circus"

A huge "thankyou" to Mr. Simms for giving Grade 4 a superb introduction to the different forms of energy we're learning about. His gadgets and experiments really captured the kids' imagination and attention. They left the "circus" with a very good understanding of the different forms of energy and how they can be changed from one form to another.