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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.I.PS4:
Performance Indicator - MST4.I.PS4A: Students describe the sources and identify the transformations of energy observed in everyday life.
Major Understandings - 4.1a : The Sun is a major source of energy for Earth. Other sources of energy include nuclear and geothermal energy.
Major Understandings - 4.1b : Fossil fuels contain stored solar energy and are considered nonrenewable resources. They are a major source of energy in the United States. Solar energy, wind, moving water, and biomass are some examples of renewable energy resources.
Major Understandings - 4.1c : Most activities in everyday life involve one form of energy being transformed into another. For example, the chemical energy in gasoline is transformed into mechanical energy in an automobile engine. Energy, in the form of heat, is almost always one of the products of energy transformations.
Major Understandings - 4.1d : Different forms of energy include heat, light, electrical, mechanical, sound, nuclear, and chemical. Energy is transformed in many ways.
Major Understandings - 4.1e : Energy can be considered to be either kinetic energy, which is the energy of motion, or potential energy, which depends on relative position.