LESSON MATERIALS:

• Student Exploration Sheet

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• Teacher Guide

• Vocabulary Sheet

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• Exploration Sheet Answer Key

• Assessment Questions

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

• Create energy pathways to showwhere our energy comes from.  
• Describe the different forms ofenergy.
• Identify ways that energy isconverted from one form to another.
• Determine that sunlight is theprimary source of most of the usable energy on Earth.
  • Solar cells convert sunlight to electricity.
  • Sunlight causes wind and rain, powering wind turbines and hydroelectricity.
  • Sunlight provides energy for plant growth.
  • Plants or plant remains can be burned or eaten to provide energy.
• Describe four types ofrenewable resources. (Extension)

VOCABULARY:

• chemical energy, electrical current, energy, fossil fuel, global warming, gravitational energy, hydroelectricity, kinetic energy, light, nonrenewable resource, nuclear energy, renewable resource, sound, thermal energy