Four Ways Energy Travels is a free printable Grade 4 science worksheet on evidence that energy is transferred by sound, light, heat and electric current, aligned to Common Core standard 4-PS3-2. It prints 3 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two pupils in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.
Set 15 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. All 25 sets ask different questions.
Four Ways Energy Travels
4-PS3-2
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Sort each one into how the energy travelled.
1.Sort each one: By sound or By light or By heat or By electric current?
Sort: A battery lights a bulb along a wire, A struck tuning fork makes a paper cone buzz, A torch lights a card across the room, A radiator warms the air across a room
By soundBy lightBy heatBy electric current
2.Sort each one: By sound or By light or By heat or By electric current?
Sort: A solar cell turns a small fan, A loudspeaker rattles a window, A cell turns a motor at the end of a circuit, A spoon in hot water warms at the far end
By soundBy lightBy heatBy electric current
3.Sort each one: By sound or By light or By heat or By electric current?
Sort: A switch starts a buzzer across the bench, Thunder shakes a door, A hot pan warms the handle, Sunlight warms a dark cloth
By soundBy lightBy heatBy electric current
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Answer key — Four Ways Energy Travels
Set 15. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. A battery lights a bulb along a wire — By electric current 2. A radiator warms the air across a room — By heat 3. A struck tuning fork makes a paper cone buzz — By sound 4. A torch lights a card across the room — By light
2.1. A cell turns a motor at the end of a circuit — By electric current 2. A loudspeaker rattles a window — By sound 3. A solar cell turns a small fan — By light 4. A spoon in hot water warms at the far end — By heat
3.1. A hot pan warms the handle — By heat 2. A switch starts a buzzer across the bench — By electric current 3. Sunlight warms a dark cloth — By light 4. Thunder shakes a door — By sound
More practice for 4-PS3-2
Show that energy travels by sound, light, heat and electric current.
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