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INTRODUCTION
The Energy Efficiency World booklet teaches the basic principles of energy and how to use it efficiently. Topics include renewable and nonrenewable energy sources, energy transfer and transformation, electrical circuits, reducing greenhouse gases, and energy efficiency tips for home and school. This content is appropriate for students in grades 4-6.
This booklet supports the following Oregon Common Curriculum Goals and Academic Content Standards in the area of science.
Grade 4
Energy
4.1 Structure and Function: Living and non-living things can be classified by their characteristics and properties.
4.1P.1 Describe the properties of forms of energy and how objects vary in the extent to which they absorb, reflect, and conduct energy.
4.2 Interaction and Change: Living and non-living things undergo changes that involve force and energy.
4.2P.1 Describe physical changes in matter and explain how they occur.
4.3 Scientific Inquiry: Scientific inquiry is a process of investigation through questioning, collecting, describing, and examining evidence to explain natural phenomena and artifacts.
4.3S.1 Based on observations identify testable questions, design a scientific investigation, and collect and record data consistent with a planned scientific investigation.
4.3S.2 Summarize the results from a scientific investigation and use the results to respond to the question being tested.
Grade 5
Science
5.2 Interaction and Change: Force, energy, matter, and organisms interact within living and non-living systems.
5.3 Scientific Inquiry: Scientific inquiry is a process of investigation based on science principles and questioning, collecting, describing, and examining evidence to explain natural phenomena and artifacts.
5.3S.1 Based on observations and science principles, identify questions that can be tested, design an experiment or investigation, and identify appropriate tools. Collect and record multiple observations while conducting investigations or experiments to test a scientific question or hypothesis.