Energy and Control: Grade 3 - Forces and Movement

Overall Expectations (O.E. column below)
  1. demonstrate an understanding of how movement is caused by forces and by energy that is stored and then released;
  2. investigate how different forces affect the operation of everyday devices, and design and construct devices that use a form of energy to create controlled movement;
  3. identify objects, devices, and systems in everyday life that are affected by forces and movement and explain in what ways they are useful to us.
Related Web Pages
Site Name Online O.E. Description
Energy Quest - Energy Ed. From the California Energy Commission
1,2,3
This site is loaded with interactive materials for students at all elementary school levels - PJI . It contains puzzles, games, quizes, experiments on a variety of energy related topics.
The Canadian Sustainable Energy Website 3 Links to many other energy sites.
Making Waves - An Online Guide to Sound And Electromagnetic Radiation 1 This page may give teachers and students some ideas for their own web projects as well as provide information.
Whelmers 1,3 Great Science experiments that fall into many of the areas covered in the strands.