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Standard - MST4: Students will understand and apply scientific concepts, principles, and theories pertaining to the physical setting and living environment and recognize the historical development of ideas in science.
Key Idea Code - MST4.PS:
Key Idea - MST4.PS4: Energy exists in many forms, and when these forms change energy is conserved.
Academic Level - MST4.E.PS4:
Performance Indicator - MST4.E.PS4B: Students observe the way one form of energy can be transformed into another form of energy present in common situations (e.g., mechanical to heat energy, mechanical to electrical energy, chemical to heat energy.)
Major Understandings - 4.2a : Everyday events involve one form of energy being changed to another.
- animals convert food to heat and motion
- the Sun’s energy warms the air and water
Major Understandings - 4.2b : Humans utilize interactions between matter and energy.
- chemical to electrical, light, and heat: battery and bulb
- electrical to sound (e.g., doorbell buzzer)
- mechanical to sound (e.g., musical instruments, clapping)
- light to electrical (e.g., solar-powered calculator)