Movement Makes Heat
One form of energy turns into another in your own hands: movement becomes heat you can feel — rubbed palms to a cheek, a rubbed coin to the lip.
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The Solar Car Fair Test
No energy in, no going. Light is the car's ONLY fuel — so dimming the light must change the going. A real fair test: change one thing, keep everything else the same.
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Three Ways Heat Moves
Heat travels three ways, and each gets its name said out loud: radiation (felt from the side), convection (warm air rising above), conduction (heat walking up the spoon).
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The Material Heat Cannot Cross
Aerogel is 99.8% air held in a glass skeleton — the best solid insulator there is. It teaches conduction by flatly refusing to do it: ice sits unmelted above steaming water.
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The Candle Is a Fuel
Wax is stored energy. Burning lets it out — as heat AND light at once — and the wax's tiny particles are not destroyed: like a falling block tower, only the arrangement changes.
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Energy Gets Passed Along
Energy can be handed from one thing to another. Here's one to hold back for the review: a rolling ball knocks the next ball into motion — the push travels.
- 1 watercolor poster — Four Kinds of Energy Make Things Go
- 5 experiment cards — from Movement Makes Heat to the candle-as-fuel demo
- Student binder — Overview, Copywork, What Makes It Go? worksheet
- Teacher guide, opening oration, and supply list
- Original song — "Nothing Goes by Magic" + lyric sheet
- Every sheet is 8.5×11, black-and-white printer-safe