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 NGSS performance expectation 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 students in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.
Set 20 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 traveled.
1.Sort each one: By sound or By light or By heat or By electric current?
Sort: A spoon in hot water warms at the far end, A battery turns a motor at the end of a circuit, A solar cell turns a small fan, A struck tuning fork makes a paper cone buzz
By soundBy lightBy heatBy electric current
2.Sort each one: By sound or By light or By heat or By electric current?
Sort: Thunder shakes a door, A radiator warms the air across a room, A switch starts a buzzer across the bench, Sunlight warms a dark cloth
By soundBy lightBy heatBy electric current
3.Sort each one: By sound or By light or By heat or By electric current?
Sort: A flashlight lights a card across the room, A battery lights a bulb along a wire, A hot pan warms the handle, A loudspeaker rattles a window
By soundBy lightBy heatBy electric current
LessonPrint · 4-PS3-2 · Set 20 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Four Ways Energy Travels
Set 20. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. A battery turns a motor at the end of a circuit — By electric current 2. A solar cell turns a small fan — By light 3. A spoon in hot water warms at the far end — By heat 4. A struck tuning fork makes a paper cone buzz — By sound
2.1. A radiator warms the air across a room — 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
3.1. A battery lights a bulb along a wire — By electric current 2. A flashlight lights a card across the room — By light 3. A hot pan warms the handle — By heat 4. A loudspeaker rattles a window — By sound
More practice for 4-PS3-2
Show that energy travels by sound, light, heat and electric current.
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