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Understanding the Learning
Targets for Energy Effects
Lesson 1
1.
I can paraphrase how the sun produces light and heat.
 What conditions on the sun actually contribute to nuclear fusion?
 What actually fuses in the sun?
 What is created when the fusion occurs?
 Why is there a loss of mass?
 What is released from the sun?
2.
I can explain how the light from the sun warms the earth.
 What happens to the light that reaches the earth?
 What energy transformation takes place?
 What happens to the particles that gain energy from the sun?
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Lesson 2
3.
I can describe the 3 main properties of waves.
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I can explain how light travels.
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5. I can illustrate and label the parts of a wave.
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6. I can describe the characteristics of light waves.
 What type of waves are light waves and what does that mean?
 What can light waves travel through?
 What do light waves transfer?
 How are energy and frequency of light waves related?
Lesson 3
7. I can differentiate between the light waves that make up visible light (ROY G. BIV).
 Compare the colors based on wavelength, frequency and amount of energy.
 How do we see the colors ROY G. BIV when they are mixed?
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8. I can explain how rainbows are made.
 How do the colors (ROY G. BIV) get separated?
 What happens to light when it changes mediums?
 What do we know about the angles the colors bend or refract at?
Lesson 4
9. I can summarize how scientists know there is light beyond the visible light spectrum.
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10. I can compare and contrast the different parts of the ENTIRE electromagnetic spectrum.
Think about the order of the waves and what that means related to wavelength, frequency
and amount of energy.
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Lesson 5
11. I can understand how the earth’s atmosphere shields the surface of the earth from most
of the harmful UV rays from the sun.
 What can happen to the UV light that makes it to Earth’s atmosphere?
 What are the most dangerous forms of UV light?
12. I can describe the effects of UV radiation on objects that react to it.
 How do we know UV radiation exists if we cannot see it?
 What can overexposure to UV light cause?
 What happens to the UV beads in the presence of UV light?
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Lesson 6
13. I can describe the ways in which light waves behaves when they interact with different
types of materials or matter.
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14. I can explain what happens to the light when it is absorbed, transmitted and reflected.
 Absorbed  Transmitted 
Reflected-
Lesson 7
15. I can illustrate how the angle of the sun affects the heating of the earth.
 Why does the sun strike the Earth at different angles?
 Compare the angles the sun strikes at the poles vs. the equator
 Compare the intensity of the light and the temperature of the poles vs. the equator
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16. I can identify why only a tiny amount of light energy from the sun is transformed into heat
energy on earth.
Think about distance between earth and sun, the angle of the sun and also how the
atmosphere affects the amount of light reaching the surface.
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Lesson 8
17. I can explain how sound is produced.
 What types of waves are sound waves?
 What causes sound?
 What are the parts of a sound wave?
18. I can explain how sound travels.
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19. I can describe how we hear sounds. (Think about volume and pitch and the ear!)
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Lesson 9
20. I can compare how sound waves travel through different mediums.
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Lesson 10
21. I can describe how echoes occur.
 What is an echo?
 What type of surfaces cause echoes?
 What conditions are ideal for creating echoes?
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Lesson 11
22. I can demonstrate how musical instruments produce sound.
(Think about the various types of instruments you have observed and how they created sound)
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Lesson 12
23. I can compare and contrast sound and light waves.
SOUND WAVES
LIGHT WAVES
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Lesson 13
24. I can communicate how water waves transfer energy.
 What kind of waves are water waves?
 How do water waves move?
 What is transferred?
 What determines the size of the wave?
 What causes ocean waves
Lesson 14
25. I can define what seismic waves are and what causes them.
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