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Energy Transformations KWLH Chart

Read the short story and use the activities to record what you know, what you wonder, how you could investigate, and what you learned. Some answers are examples; your own sensible ideas are welcome.

Read: A windy afternoon

Amira is helping set up a small wind turbine at a coastal science centre. The wind makes the turbine blades spin. Inside the turbine, a generator changes some of the blades’ kinetic energy into electrical energy. Wires carry the electricity to a small lamp. The lamp changes electrical energy into light and also gives off some heat. Not all the energy ends up in the useful form we want: some spreads to the surroundings as sound and heat.

1.Write one thing you already knew before this activity about energy changing from one form to another. If you are not sure yet, write a sensible guess.
2.In the story, what form of energy makes the turbine blades spin?
  • Movement energy
  • Light energy
  • Sound energy
  • Electrical energy
3.Complete the first part of the energy pathway: wind movement → energy in the spinning blades.
4.Complete the next part of the energy pathway: electrical energy → energy that lets us see.
5.True or false: The lamp gives off only light energy, with no other energy reaching the surroundings.
TrueFalse
6.Write one question you would like to investigate about wind turbines or energy transformations.
7.Amira wants to test whether stronger wind makes a model turbine spin faster. Which investigation is the fairest?
  • Use the same turbine, measure its rotations for the same time, and change only the wind strength.
  • Use a different turbine each time and guess which one spins fastest.
  • Change the wind strength and the time measured at the same time.
  • Watch the turbine once without recording anything.
8.Write the energy changes in order, from the moving wind to the light from the lamp. Include the energy in the spinning blades and the electricity.
9.If Amira wants the lamp to shine, which energy output is useful for her goal? Name one other output that is not useful for making the lamp shine.
10.After reading and answering, write one new fact you learned about energy transformations.
11.Choose one idea from Question 1 or one question from Question 5. Explain how your thinking has changed, or what evidence would help you answer your question.

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  • Energy Transformations KWLH Chart, page 1 of 2: Read: A windy afternoon

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