Students investigate energy transformations and how forces work to transform energy, build a battery and develop evidence that there is energy stored in the battery. Students explore the relationship between effort force and effort distance by lifting their sled using inclined planes, pulleys, and levers. Students explore motion of 3 vehicles they construct and determine how the forces applied to the cars change their speed.
Unit Kit comes with a Teacher's Guide, a Teacher's Tools CD, 16 reusable Student Guides, and the materials needed for a class of 32. Material Set contains additional equipment that's needed if the unit is taught to more than one class each day. Refurbishment Set replenishes kit consumables.
The
5-Class Unit Kit and
5-Class Refurbishment Set contain enough materials to teach the unit up to 5 times per day. Kids Discover Nonfiction Readers are sold separately.
