View largerForms of energy poster for 4th grade
Naming forms of energy and where we see them
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Energy Worksheets: Potential and Kinetic Energy
Potential and kinetic energy, speed and energy, how energy moves and changes form, and what happens when objects collide.
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Potential and kinetic energy
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View all 2 pagesPotential and kinetic energy sort worksheet
Sorting examples of stored (potential) energy and energy of motion (kinetic)
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View all 2 pagesPotential and kinetic energy cut and paste
Sorting examples of stored (potential) energy and energy of motion (kinetic)
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View all 2 pagesPotential and kinetic energy roller coaster worksheet
Using a roller coaster model to relate height, speed and energy
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Speed, transfer and collisions
View all 2 pagesSpeed and energy Investigation: ramp data worksheet
Analyzing data to relate the speed of an object to its energy
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View all 2 pagesEnergy transfer Worksheet: match the energy change
Identifying how devices change energy from one form to another
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View all 2 pagesEnergy Transfer: Sound, Light, heat and electric current
Classifying ways energy moves from place to place
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View all 2 pagesCollisions and energy reading passage for 4th grade
Explaining the energy changes that happen when objects collide
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Words, review and design
View all 2 pagesEnergy vocabulary Worksheet: fill in the blank
Using energy vocabulary in context
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View all 2 pagesEnergy quiz for 4th grade (Free Printable)
Reviewing energy, speed, transfer and collisions
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View largerDesign a device that converts energy (Design Challenge)
Designing, testing and improving a device that converts energy from one form to another
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About these energy worksheets
Energy is what makes things move, light up, heat up and make sound. Stored energy is called potential energy: a book on a high shelf, a stretched rubber band, a battery. Energy of motion is called kinetic energy, and the faster something moves, the more kinetic energy it has.
These energy worksheets for 4th grade start with a forms of energy poster and a potential or kinetic sort (with a cut and paste twin). A roller coaster diagram shows stored energy changing into motion, and ramp data link speed to energy. Children then trace energy as it moves by sound, light, heat and electric current, explain collisions, and design a device that changes energy from one form to another.
Every page is black and white, prints on US Letter or A4, and every page with right answers has an answer key on page 2.
Standards
NGSS 4-PS3-2Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.NGSS 4-PS3-1Use evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of that object.NGSS 4-PS3-4Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.NGSS 4-PS3-3Ask questions and predict outcomes about the changes in energy that occur when objects collide.CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.4Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words or phrases in a text relevant to a grade 4 topic or subject area.
How to use them
- Start with the poster. Hold a ball up high (potential), then drop it (kinetic). Ask where the energy went.
- Use the sort or its cut and paste twin as a quick check, then talk through the roller coaster together.
- Run the ramp test with a toy car or ball and a paper cup before the ramp data page, so the numbers mean something.
- Read the collisions passage after rolling two marbles into each other.
- Finish with the quiz and the design challenge.
Teaching tips
- Energy is never used up. It changes form. When a coaster slows on a hill, some energy has turned into heat and sound.
- Speed and energy go together: a faster object of the same mass has more energy.
- In a collision, energy moves from one object to the other, and some changes into sound and heat.
- Heavier objects at the same speed also carry more energy, but 4th grade standards focus on speed.
Questions teachers and parents ask
What is the difference between potential and kinetic energy?
Potential energy is stored energy, like a sled at the top of a hill. Kinetic energy is the energy of motion, like the sled racing down. As the sled goes down, potential energy changes into kinetic energy.
How does speed relate to energy?
The faster an object moves, the more energy it has. A ball rolled faster hits a cup harder and pushes it farther.
What happens to energy when objects collide?
Some energy moves from one object to the other, and some changes into sound and heat. That is why you hear a crack when a bat hits a ball.
Are the ramp numbers real?
They are realistic practice data. Running the test with a toy car or ball, a ramp and a paper cup gives your own numbers to compare.