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What to Expect
Type : Virtual School Program
Grades : 5, 6
Duration : 40 minutes
Price : Free for public school boards in Ontario; $150 for privately-funded or out-of-province schools
Language : English only
Discover why energy is neither created nor destroyed and learn how various forms of energy are transformed. Explore electrical energy generation and its impact on our daily lives.
| 3.1 | Identify a variety of forms of energy and give examples from everyday life of how that energy is used |
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| 3.2 | Identify renewable and non-renewable sources of energy |
| 3.3 | Describe how energy is stored and transformed in a given device or system |
| 3.4 | Recognize that energy cannot be created or destroyed but can only be changed from one form to another |
| 1.1 | Assess the short- and long-term environmental effects of the different ways in which electricity is generated in Canada, including the effect of each method on natural resources and living things in the environment |
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| 1.2 | Assess opportunities for reducing electricity consumption at home or at school that could affect the use of non-renewable resources in a positive way or reduce the impact of electricity generation on the environment |
| 2.6 | Use appropriate science and technology vocabulary, including current, battery, circuit, transform, static, electrostatic, and energy, in oral communication |
| 3.3 | Identify materials that are good conductors of electricity and good insulators |
| 3.4 | Describe how various forms of energy can be transformed into electrical energy |
| 3.5 | Identify ways in which electrical energy is transformed into other forms of energy |
| 3.8 | Describe ways in which the use of electricity by society; including the amount of electrical energy used, has changed over time |
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