Faster Means More Energy is a free printable Grade 4 science worksheet on relating the speed of an object to the energy it has, aligned to NGSS performance expectation 4-PS3-1. It prints 4 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions, 24 of them with different questions, so no two students in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.
4-PS3-1
Look at the results, then answer.
LessonPrint · 4-PS3-1 · Set 1 · free to copy for classroom use
Set 1. Prints on its own sheet.
It practices relating the speed of an object to the energy it has — 4 questions for Grade 4, all on NGSS 4-PS3-1: Explain how an object's speed relates to its energy. The instruction to students is “Look at the results, then answer”, and the answer key follows on the next sheet.
4-PS3-1, under Physical Science for Grade 4. The published performance expectation reads: “Use evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of that object.” The worksheet assesses that performance expectation rather than a paraphrase of it.
Faster Means More Energy is written for Grade 4, typically ages 9-10. It is one of the sheets on 4-PS3-1, so it suits any student working at that standard — including older students revisiting it and younger ones working ahead.
Yes. All 4 answers are generated from the same problems as the questions, so the key cannot drift out of step with the sheet. It starts on a fresh sheet of paper, after the questions, so it is not handed out with the class by accident.
25 versions, of which 24 ask genuinely different questions — this skill does not have 25 distinct questions to give, so the rest reorder them and no two students still share a paper. Set 1 downloads all 25 as one PDF.
Yes. Faster Means More Energy, its answer key and its 25 versions are free to print and photocopy for your own class, with no account, no email capture and no subscription at the download step. Please do not resell them or republish them as your own.
Yes — “Faster Means More Energy” is a 55-minute Grade 4 plan for 4-PS3-1, timed section by section, with the misconceptions to expect and an exit ticket. Faster Means More Energy is the practice that follows it.
Explain how an object's speed relates to its energy.
Teaching this next? Faster Means More Energy is the 55-minute plan for it, with the misconceptions to expect.
Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to 4-PS3-1 of the Next Generation Science Standards.