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How long did it take to travel across the country before cars and planes?
Electricity, Light, & Heat Unit | Lesson 3 of 3

How long did it take to travel across the country before cars and planes?

Electricity, Light, & Heat Unit | Lesson 3 of 3
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What’s one place you’d like to visit in your life? How would you travel there?

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How could this device be useful?

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Moving air makes the spinner move. Does that give you any ideas about how heat could make the spinner move?

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If you need a natural stopping point!

Teachers: If you are short on time, this is a good stopping point. You can experiment with heat on another day.

If you’re continuing right now, advance to the next slide.

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experiment


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a test used to discover new information about a question
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heat energy


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energy that is in the form of heat
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heat engine


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a device that turns heat energy into movement
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energy transfer


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when energy travels from one place to another
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invent


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to create something new, often an object or a way of doing something
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Lesson narration:

Grade 4

Electricity, Light, & Heat

Heat Energy & Energy Transfer

4-PS3-2, 4-PS3-4

Activity Prep

Print Prep

In this lesson, students explore how heat is another form of energy that can make things go. In the activity, Heat Spinner, students first make a paper Heat Spinner and observe how air can create movement. Then, students use their Heat Spinners to experiment with a heat source (an incandescent bulb) and discover how heat energy can make the spinner move in different ways.

Preview activity

Exploration

11 mins

Wrap-Up

4 mins

Grade 4

Electricity, Light, & Heat

Heat Energy & Energy Transfer

4-PS3-2, 4-PS3-4

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