After a great dodgeball game versus Mme. Helbecque's grade 6 immersion class, we began our electricity unit. As the grade 5s just finished a unit on energy, they are also included in this activity.In order to explore several different forms of energy and how those forms can be converted to or from electrical energy, students are creating a poster for one of the forms of energy.
The poster should include:
- the name of the form of energy prominently located on the poster
- a brief definition (one or two sentences) maximum of the energy form (this is to be written in the student's own words)
- a picture which shows the chosen energy form and how it can be converted to or from electrical energy (for example, if doing solar energy, do not just draw the Sun... the students needs to draw the Sun with its solar rays hitting a solar panel and being converted to electrical energy)
I will also be looking to see if the students' posters:
- are neat and organized
- contain no spelling or grammatical errors
- include colour
- have the information organized in a way that it is easy to read
Today, we started the rough copies and I am asking that students arrive to class tomorrow with their rough copies completed so that we can work on the good copies in class. These posters will be displayed in the classroom so that students can refer to them throughout the unit.
