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//Click on the GSE numbers, e.g PS1 (K-2) - POC - 2, in the table below to reach additional information about each GSE. // ||  Grade Span Expectations (5-8) ||  ||  Grade Span Expectations (HS) ||  || Students demonstrate an understanding of energy by…**
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 * **PS2 (K-2) - 4

4a describing observable effects of light using a variety of light sources.

4b experimenting and describe how vibrating objects make sound (e.g., guitar strings, seeing salt bounce on a drum skin).

4c identifying the sun as a source of heat energy. || **PS2 (3-4) - 4 Students demonstrate an understanding of energy by…**

__4a experimenting to identify and classify different pitches and volumes of sounds produced by different objects.

4b using data to explain what causes sound to have different pitch or volume

4c describing or showing that heat can be produced in many ways (e.g. electricity, friction, burning).__

4d drawing, __diagramming__, building, and explaining a complete electrical circuit.

__4e using experimental data to classify a variety of materials as conductors or insulators__ || **PS2 (5-6) - 6 Students demonstrate an understanding of energy by…**

6a __differentiating among the propertie__s 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.__ || **PS2 (9-11) - 5 Students demonstrate an understanding of energy by…

**__5a describing or diagramming the changes in energy (transformation) that occur in different systems (eg. chemical = exo and endo thermic reactions, biological = food webs, physical = phase changes).

5b explaining the Law of Conservation of Energy as it relates to the efficiency (loss of heat) of a system.__ || **PS2 (Ext) - 5 Students demonstrate an understanding of energy by…

**__5aa Identifying, measuring, calculating and analyzing qualitative and quantitative relationships associated with energy transfer or energy transformation.

5bb quantitatively determining the efficiency of a given system. <span class="wiki_link_new"> <span class="wiki_link_new">. <span class="wiki_link_new"> __ || **Example Extension(s)** ||