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 9 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 hot pan warms the handle, A torch lights a card across the room, A battery lights a bulb along a wire, Thunder shakes a door
By soundBy lightBy heatBy electric current
2.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 cell turns a motor at the end of a circuit, A loudspeaker rattles a window, A solar cell turns a small fan
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 struck tuning fork makes a paper cone buzz, A radiator warms the air across a room, A switch starts a buzzer across the bench
By soundBy lightBy heatBy electric current
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Answer key — Four Ways Energy Travels
Set 9. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. A battery lights a bulb along a wire — By electric current 2. A hot pan warms the handle — By heat 3. A torch lights a card across the room — By light 4. Thunder shakes a door — By sound
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 radiator warms the air across a room — 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. Sunlight warms a dark cloth — By light
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