Energy Portfolio Rubric

The portfolio will include one section for each lesson taught.  Each section will include the work done for each lesson:

        1)  What is Energy?

            a.  Student will have a K-W-L sheet with what they know about energy, the questions      
                 they have about energy and What they have learned.  This should start at the      
                 beginning of the unit and completed when handing in notebook.

            b.  They must write where they found the answer to their questions.

        2)  Light Energy

             a. Labeled pictures showing the various forms of energy. Must include one picture for 
                 each form (light, heat, electrical, solar, nuclear, etc)

             b. Written paragraph showing the comparison between energy then and now.

             c. Ben Franklin's Connect the dot invention and any other research done on Ben  
                 Franklin.

        3)  Heat Energy

             a. Light web showing results of experiment done with a flashlight and
                 different items. (See Sample Below)

             b. Labeled illustration

        4)  Electrical Safety
             a.  Definition of "Conductor" and "Insulator".
             b.  A list of what objects are conductors and insulators.
             c.  Graph showing results of experiment done to see which container warms fastest.

        5)  Conserving Energy
             a. Any certificate earned while visiting a website.
             b. Questionnaire developed on energy conservation.  Must have at least five
                 questions.  (See Sample Questionnaire Below)
             c. Graph showing the number of epals they gave the questionnaire to and
                 their responses.
             d. Signed Declaration of "Energy Independence".

        6)    Answers to Questions on Scavenger Hunt.

        7)  The picture collage that they do should include pictures that show all about
             energy; it's sources, heat, light, electricity, safety, conservation, etc.  They may include  
             the energy vocabulary within their collage.
 

     Sample  Light Web


 
 
 
 

Sample  Questionnaire

1. What do you know about energy conservation?
  (When doing graph label how many students knew how to conserve energy)

2. Do you shut the door of your house when you come in or go out?
  (This will conserve the air conditioner and heat energy)

3. Do you shut the lights off when you leave a room?
   (This will conserve electrical energy)

4. Do you close the door of the refrigerator when you get something to drink or do you leave the door open?
  (Closing the door quickly will prevent the cold air from escaping and keep the
     refrigerator from working harder therefore, wasting electricity.)

5. Do you shut the water off when you are lathering in the shower?
  (If you let the hot water run it wastes and then the water heat must reheat the whole tank again using electricity longer.)
 

*Teachers can create their own rubrics at Rubistar

Teacher Resources

FOR ANY BOOK YOU NEED:

Amazon.com
Barnes and Noble.com

Elaine Levenson, TEACHING CHILDREN ABOUT SCIENCE. Prentice Hall Inc.: 1985. Electricity Chapter 5 and Light Chapter 7.

Nicola Baxter. HOT OR NOT?. Childrens Press.  http://bn.com

Allan Fowler. HOT AND COLD, Childress Press.  http://bn.com

Franklin M. Branley. FLASH, CRASH, RUMBLE AND ROLL.

Anne Hillerman. DONE IN THE SUN: Solar Projects for Children.

Jack Challoner. EYEWITNESS: ENERGY.

Trudy Rising with Peter Williams, LIGHT MAGIC: AND OTHER SCIENCE ACTIVITIES ABOUT ENERGY . Firefly Books LTD.: March  1994.

The Atoms Family CD, Miami Museum of Science Store. Miami Museum of Science

Guest Speaker Florida Power and Light Company