Look around this room for a moment. What is working right now without anyone pushing it by hand?
The lights, the interactive whiteboard, maybe a heater or a clock: something is making each of those do its job. What do you think that something is called?
Look at the classroom lights. Something is making them work. That something is called energy.
Energy makes things do a useful job. The jobs we will hunt for today are lighting, heating, moving, and making sound.
What energy job is the classroom light doing right now?
We are going on an energy hunt. Look for real things around our classroom and corridor that are using energy. Look with your eyes: no touching plugs, sockets or heaters.
For each thing you find, ask:
- What is it doing?
- Where does it get its energy?
- What would happen if it had no power at all?
Write each thing, and where it gets its energy, in the hunt table on your Investigation Journal page. Can you find something for all five pictures? Who can find something that gets its energy from food?
Stand behind your chair and jump on the spot until we say stop. What was your energy doing? Now feel your cheeks. What else was it doing? Where did that energy come from?
Now sort the picture cards into four groups on the table: lighting, heating, moving, and making sound.
When your group agrees, be ready to hold up one card and tell the class why it belongs in that group.
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