Hunting for Energy
1. There are a few reasons why I choose to put this article within my collection. For example, while reading the article this activity can be modified to fit any age or grade level. With bei... See More
1. There are a few reasons why I choose to put this article within my collection. For example, while reading the article this activity can be modified to fit any age or grade level. With being able to modify these different activities to introduce the different forms of energy or how the energy can be transferred to other forms of energy. Also, the energy scavenger hunt could start inside the classroom to the hallways and finally outside on the playground.
2. While reading this article, I really enjoyed learning about setting up energy transfer stations. Within the transfer stations, they will be able to look at the day to day items that they see or handle. For example, how a simple flashlight when turning it on causes different energy to transfer throughout the flashlight.
3. When thinking about what types of TEKS I could do for hunting for energy, of course, when looking at the transfer stations would be 6.9A, B and C. Which all three TEKS work with understanding how different energy gets transferred from simply turning them on or when temperature increases or decreases. Another TEK that could play a part for the scavenger hunt would be for 3rd-grade TEK 3.6A which is the student is expected to: explore different forms of energy, including mechanical, light, sound, and thermal in everyday life.
4. After completing the article I completely agree with everything that it talks about the different ways that students can "hunt for energy." Also how they have created different activities that can be modified for any age or grade level to make sure that they understand the different forms of energy.