GSE

Lesson (s)

Number and Title

Gap

Overlap

PS2 (5-6)- 6

Students demonstrate an

understanding of energy by…

6a differentiating among the properties of various forms of energy.

6b explaining how energy may be stored in various ways (e.g. batteries, springs, height in terms of potential energy).

6c describing sound as the transfer of energy through various materials (e.g. solids, liquids, gases).

PS2 (7-8)- 6

Students demonstrate an

understanding of energy by…

6a using a real world example to explain the transfer of potential energy to kinetic energy.

6b constructing a model to explain the transformation of energy from one form to another. (e.g. an electrical circuit changing electrical energy to light energy in a light bulb).

6c explaining that while energy may be stored, transferred, or transformed, the total amount of energy is conserved.

‘6d describing the effect of changing voltage in an electrical circuit.

- Physics Kit-Unit 3-Lesson 9-Mechanical 

  Energy/Potential and Kinetic

- Catastrophic Events:

  Radiation/Convection/Conduction

- Gravitational-Physics Kit-Unit 2:Lesson 5-

  Acceleration Due to Gravity/Terminal 

  Velocity Lab

- Astronomy Kit-Electromagnetic

  Spectrum

Energy-Huge Gap:

- Chemical-Glycolsis (HBS?)

- Electrical

- Sound-Doppler Effect-

  Oceanography?

- Speed of Sound versus Speed of 

  Light

*Add Energy Unit to Physics Kit?

Note:  Video Stream Unit???

PS3 (5-6)–8

Students demonstrate an

understanding of motion by…

8a using data or graphs to compare the relative speed of objects.

Students demonstrate an

understanding of force (e.g.,

friction, gravitational, magnetic) by…

8b recognizing that a force is a

push or a pull.

8c explaining that changes in

speed or direction of motion are caused by forces.

8d showing that electric currents and magnets can exert a force on each other.

PS3 (7-8) – 8

Students demonstrate an understanding of motion by…

8a measuring distance and time for a moving object and using those values as well as the relationship s=d/t to calculate speed and graphically represent the data.

8b solving for any unknown in the expression s=d/t given values for the other two variables.

8c differentiating among speed, velocity and acceleration.

Students demonstrate an understanding of force (e.g., friction, gravitational, magnetic) by…

8d making and testing predictions on how

unbalanced forces acting on objects change speed or direction of motion, or both.

8e describing or graphically

representing that the acceleration of an object is proportional to the force on the object and inversely proportional to the object’s mass.

8f differentiating between mass

and weight.

- Physics Unit-Unit 1 Motion-Lessons 2-4 

  (Speed, velocity, Acceleration)

- Astronomy Unit-Gravity

- Physics  Kit-Unit 2-Forces:  Lessons 5-8

- Physics Kit-Unit One-Motion:  Lessons 2-4

- Physics Kit-Unit Two-Forces:  Lesson 8

- Physics Kit-Unit Two-Forces

- Properties of Matter Kit/Astronomy Kit  

  (Gravity)

- Electrical Currents and Magnets

PS3 (7-8) - LA

Students.demonstrate an understanding of the visible spectrum of light by…

LAa experiment how light from the sun is made up of a mixture of many different colors of light (e.g. using prisms, spectrometers, crystals).

LAb representing in words, diagrams, or other models the visible spectrum as a part of the electromagnetic spectrum (consisting of visible light, infrared, and ultraviolet radiation) and composed of all colors of light

LAc differentiating between electromagnetic and mechanical waves.

Waves-Cover with Energy?