This guide was developed to support teachers in teaching topics with real-world context, and provide them with the background to feel competent and comfortable when teaching about energy. The guide includes numerous education features, such as teaching tips and student thinking, that help to connect the content to classroom practice.

This resource is a compilation of text, videos, and other elements to create a scaffolded 5E learning experience for students. In this lesson, students explore forms of energy.

Students will understand what magnets are and how they can use magnets to apply force on objects. Students will learn that many magnetic objects have iron in them and observe this in cereal.

This article startswith illuminating the spectrum of visible and invisible light. It then defines the electromagnetic nature of light in form of minute energy packages. In the last section the text focuses on the danger of sunlight, which is mostly in the invisible part of the spectrum - the ultraviolet light. The article is written for native speakers age 8 and up.

In this lesson, students will measure the heat created at different centers. The centers will be electrical, mechanical, stationary, and human created movement.

In this lesson, students engineer a circuit and explain how energy is passed from one source to another.

In this lesson, students learn how to create electromagnets using batteries, copper wire, metal (nail), and paper clips. Students will then identify what objects are attracted to magnets, and how this attraction works.

This resource is a compilation of text, videos, and other elements to create a scaffolded 5E learning experience for students. In this lesson, students learn about various forms of energy and investigate the effects of increasing and decreasing heat, light, and sound energy on objects.

In this lesson, students will act out open and closed circuits as a whole class with some students acting as the "motors" or "light bulbs." It is followed by individual journal writing and a class discussion.

In this physics lab, students investigate the difference between series and parallel circuits using wire, light bulbs, and D batteries.

ELL students will discover how magnetic poles interact with each other and with other materials in this set of video. Close captioning and descriptions are available.

In this lesson, students examine the components of a portable light device - a battery operated flashlight. This initial exploration and the discussion it generates is used to begin a guided exploration of simple circuitry. Students attempt to light a bulb using a battery, a wire, and a light bulb.

In this lesson, students examine interactions between objects and practice making claims with supporting evidence. In the second part of the lesson, students link interactions to energy as they practice identifying the energy sources and the energy receivers in different situations.

In this lesson, students discover the internal components of an incandescent light bulb. Students expand their circuitry knowledge by considering the pathway of electrical energy through a light bulb and by incorporating the bulb into an entire electrical system - a complete circuit. They also explore the concept of a system by considering the implications of a nonworking component of a light bulb.

In this lesson, students consider the energy transformations that take place as energy is transferred. Note: This lesson builds on concepts and activities covered by Lesson 2.

In this lesson, students construct model water wheels using simple materials. Students test the water wheels and compare how efficiently each uses available energy.

In this lesson, students are introduced to the many forms of energy. Energy station materials are explored and discussed to introduce and clarify characteristics of each form of energy.

In this lesson, students explore turbines by designing and building blades for a simple wind turbine.

In this lesson, students develop an understanding of energy efficiency and the importance of energy conservation by comparing different light bulbs. By comparing the amount of energy, heat, bulb life, and light output each bulb delivers, students learn that some bulbs provide the same light output using less electrical energy. The lesson culminates with a discussion about the broader impact of using energy wisely.