Academic Standards
6.1.4: Recognize that objects in motion have kinetic energy and objects at rest have potential energy.
Air Track
Inclined Plane - Sliding Objects
Potential Energy on Shelves
Sled Wars
6.1.5: Describe with examples that potential energy exists in several different forms (e.g., gravitational potential energy, elastic potential energy and chemical potential energy).
Energy Conversions
Inclined Plane - Sliding Objects
Potential Energy on Shelves
Sled Wars
6.1.6: Compare and contrast potential and kinetic energy and how they can be transformed from one form to another.
Energy Conversion in a System
Energy Conversions
Inclined Plane - Sliding Objects
Sled Wars
6.1.7: Explain that energy may be manifested as heat, light, electricity, mechanical motion, and sound and is often associated with chemical reactions.
Energy Conversion in a System
Energy Conversions
Inclined Plane - Sliding Objects
6.2.1: Describe and model how the position, size and relative motions of the earth, moon and sun cause day and night, solar and lunar eclipses, and phases of the moon.
2D Eclipse
3D Eclipse
Phases of the Moon
6.2.2: Recognize that gravity is a force that keeps celestial bodies in regular and predictable motion, holds objects to earthÂ?s surface and is responsible for tides.
6.2.5: Demonstrate that the seasons in both hemispheres are the result of the inclination of the earth on its axis, which causes changes in sunlight intensity and length of day.
Seasons in 3D
Seasons: Earth, Moon, and Sun
Seasons: Why do we have them?
Summer and Winter
6.3.1: Describe specific relationships (i.e., predator and prey, consumer and producer, and parasite and host) between organisms and determine whether these relationships are competitive or mutually beneficial.
Food Chain
Forest Ecosystem
Prairie Ecosystem
6.3.2: Describe how changes caused by organisms in the habitat where they live can be beneficial or detrimental to themselves or to native plants and animals.
Coral Reefs 1 - Abiotic Factors
6.3.3: Describe how certain biotic and abiotic factorsÂ?such as predators, quantity of light and water, range of temperatures and soil compositionÂ?can limit the number of organisms an ecosystem can support.
Food Chain
Prairie Ecosystem
Rabbit Population by Season
6.3.4: Recognize that plants use energy from the sun to make sugar (i.e., glucose) by the process of photosynthesis.
Cell Energy Cycle
Energy Conversions
Photosynthesis Lab
6.4.1: Understand how to apply potential or kinetic energy to power a simple device.
Inclined Plane - Sliding Objects
Sled Wars
6.4.3: Describe the transfer of energy amongst energy interactions.
Correlation last revised: 5/11/2018