• Participate in a supported learning community alongside your peers to build content and pedagogical knowledge and skills. (Common to all courses)
• Experience phenomena driven lessons which model three dimensional NGSS teaching and learning appropriate for 3rd–8th grade students. (Common to all courses)
• Explore different types of energy including mechanical, electrical, thermal, sound and light.
• Build an understanding of energy by making connections between the various types of energy.
• Understand that energy is neither created nor destroyed.
• Learn that most energy can be divided into either kinetic or potential energy.

NGSS Disciplinary Core Ideas

PS1: Matter and its interactions

• PS1.A: Structures and properties of matter
• PS1.B: Chemical reactions

PS2: Motion and stability: forces and interactions

• PS2.B: Types of interactions

PS3: Energy

• PS3.A: Definitions of energy
• PS3.B: Conservation of energy and energy transfer
• PS3.C: Relationship between energy and forces
• PS3.D: Energy in chemical processes and every day life

LS1: From molecules to organisms: structures and processes

• LS1.C: Organization for matter and energy flow in organisms

ETS1: Engineering design

• ETS1.A: Defining and delimiting engineering problems
• ETS1.B: Developing possible solutions
• ETS1.C: Optimizing the design solution