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 23 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: Thunder shakes a door, A spoon in hot water warms at the far end, A cell turns a motor at the end of a circuit, A solar cell turns a small fan
By soundBy lightBy heatBy electric current
2.Sort each one: By sound or By light or By heat or By electric current?
Sort: A hot pan warms the handle, A torch lights a card across the room, A struck tuning fork makes a paper cone buzz, A switch starts a buzzer across the bench
By soundBy lightBy heatBy electric current
3.Sort each one: By sound or By light or By heat or By electric current?
Sort: Sunlight warms a dark cloth, A radiator warms the air across a room, A loudspeaker rattles a window, A battery lights a bulb along a wire
By soundBy lightBy heatBy electric current
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Answer key — Four Ways Energy Travels
Set 23. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. A cell 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. Thunder shakes a door — By sound
2.1. A hot pan warms the handle — By heat 2. A struck tuning fork makes a paper cone buzz — By sound 3. A switch starts a buzzer across the bench — By electric current 4. A torch lights a card across the room — By light
3.1. A battery lights a bulb along a wire — By electric current 2. A loudspeaker rattles a window — By sound 3. A radiator warms the air across a room — By heat 4. Sunlight warms a dark cloth — By light
More practice for 4-PS3-2
Show that energy travels by sound, light, heat and electric current.
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