Naming types of energy
Name and use vocabulary for types of energy and energy transfer โ kinetic energy, potential energy, heat energy, light energy, sound energy, electrical energy, chemical energy, stored energy, energy transfer, energy transformation โ and describe energy changes in familiar situations using these terms
Typical age: 7โ9 years
โIf your child stretches a rubber band and lets it go, can they name what type of energy it had when stretched โ and what it changed into?โ
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- Speed and energyREQUIRED
Relating an object's speed to its energy requires 'kinetic energy' vocabulary
- Energy can't be created or destroyedREQUIRED
Explaining conservation of energy and dissipation requires energy store and transfer vocabulary
- Energy stores and transfersREQUIRED
Identifying energy stores and transfer pathways is a formalisation of the energy type vocabulary introduced earlier
- How energy travels aroundREQUIRED
Describing energy transfer by sound, light, heat, and electric current requires energy type vocabulary