6th+Sci+Energy


 * Subject/Course:** Science

**Grade Level:** 6

**Standard: Energy**

**SPI or Check for Understanding (#): 0607.10.1** Distinguish among gravitational potential energy, elastic potential energy, and chemical potential energy

**Assessment Topic:** What are the different types of energy?

**Essential Question (s):** What type of energy does a ball in the air have? What type of energy does a stretched rubber band have? What type of energy does an apple have? How does gravitational potential energy change as you go up a roller coaster?

**Subject/Course:** Science

**Grade Level:** 6

**Standard: Energy**

**SPI or Check for Understanding (#): 0607.10.2** Interpret the relationship between potential and kinetic energy

**Assessment Topic:** How is potential and kinetic energy connected?

**Essential Question (s):** What type of energy does an apple have? How is that transferred to energy of motion? How does the energy in a ball held over your head change forms when you release it? How does our body use potential energy in food to move and work?

**Subject/Course:** Science

**Grade Level:** 6

**Standard: Energy**

**SPI or Check for Understanding (#): 0607.10.3** Recognize that energy can be transformed from one type to another

**Assessment Topic:** Energy transformation

**Essential Question (s):** Where do plants get the energy they need to survive? Where do consumers get their energy to survive? What would happen to the earth if the sun became blocked? What types of energy do we get from the sun?

**Subject/Course:** Science

**Grade Level:** 6

**Standard: Energy**

**SPI or Check for Understanding (#): 0607.10.4** Explain the Law of Conservation of Energy using data from a variety of energy transformations

**Assessment Topic:** Law of Conservation of Energy

**Essential Question (s):** What does the Law of Conservation of data state? Why can energy never be destroyed or created? How does energy transform from the top of a roller coaster to the bottom? Why does the roller coaster eventually stop?