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Science and Technology/Engineering | Grade : 4

Discipline - Physical Science

Core Idea - Energy

[4.PS.3.3] - Ask questions and predict outcomes about the changes in energy that occur when objects collide. Clarification Statement: Changes in energy can include a change in the object’s motion, position, and the generation of heat and/or sound. State Assessment Boundary: Analysis of forces or quantitative measurements of energy are not expected in state assessment.

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Predecessor Standards:

  • 3.PS.2.1
    Provide evidence to explain the effect of multiple forces, including friction, on an object. Include balanced forces that do not change the motion of the object and unbalanced forces that do change the motion of the object. Clarification Statements: Descriptions of force magnitude should be qualitative and relative; Force due to gravity is appropriate but only as a force that pulls objects down; State Assessment Boundaries: Quantitative force magnitude is not expected in state assessment; State assessment will be limited to one variable at a time: number, size, or direction of forces.

Successor Standards:

  • 7.PS.3.5
    Present evidence to support the claim that when the kinetic energy of an object changes, energy is transferred to or from the object. Clarification Statement: Examples of empirical evidence could include an inventory or other representation of the energy before and after the transfer in the form of temperature changes or motion of an object. State Assessment Boundary: Calculations of energy are not expected in state assessment.

Same Level Standards:

  • 4.PS.3.1
    Use evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of that object. State Assessment Boundaries: State assessment will be limited to analysis of kinetic energy. Accounting for mass, quantitative measures of changes in the speed of an object, or any precise or quantitative definition of energy is not expected in state assessment.
  • 4.PS.3.2
    Make observations to show that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents. Clarification Statement: Evidence of energy being transferred can include vibrations felt a small distance from a source, a solar-powered toy that moves when placed in direct light, warming a metal object on one end and observing the other end getting warm, and a wire carrying electric energy from a battery to light a bulb. State Assessment Boundary: Quantitative measurements of energy are not expected in state assessment.