Please keep your work neat and presentable! Rational: At the end of each unit students will be responsible for completing a culminating task that provides evidence they have internalized the concepts and content of the given unit. Strand 5: Culminating Task: Students will create a device of their own creativity that will store or create energy and then transform the electrical energy into either mechanical or thermal energy. The following details need to be addressed in your device. > Must create or store electrical energy. Don't overthink this! > Device must transform the electrical energy into mechanical or thermal energy. Don't bring anything in that will burn down the school:) > Small report explaining what your device is, how it works and an explanation of how it is converting electrical energy into either thermal or mechanical energy.
Concept 1: Properties and Changes of Properties in Matter Understand physical and chemical properties of matter.
No performance objectives at this grade level but you must understand the concept of the 4 states of matter.
Concept 2: Motion and Forces Understand the relationship between force and motion
No performance objectives at this grade level
Concept 3: Transfer of Energy Understand that energy can be stored and transferred
PO 1. Identify various ways in which electrical energy is generated using renewable and nonrenewable resources (e.g., wind, dams, fossil fuels, nuclear reactions).
PO 2. Identify several ways in which energy may be stored.
PO 3. Compare the following ways in which energy may be transformed: • mechanical to electrical • electrical to thermal
PO 4. Explain how thermal energy (heat energy) can be transferred by: • conduction • convection • radiation