If you are searching for a unique forms of thermal energy activity for your 4th or 6th-grade science class, look no further! This PRINT-AND-GO, comic-style reading passage, guided notes, and worksheet will have them eager to learn about the energy in our lives.
Ideal for struggling readers, English language learners (ESL, ELL), graphic novel lovers, checked-out students, and everyone in between. Your students will instantly engage in the diagrams and illustrations because comics make reading science FUN!
This pairs well with theย Heat Transfer FREEBIE!
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Product Overview
Your 4th or 6th-grade students will love reading about thermal energy and rate of heat transfer when it is presented in this science cartoon format. The comic reviews the concept of thermal energy and dives into what affects the rate of heat transfer. Students will examine multiple relatable examples in the comic, and then they will complete a rate of heat transfer worksheet prompting them to apply their understanding of the concepts.
What’s Inside?
Comic-Style Reading Passage
- Highly visual and engaging content providing an overview of the rate of heat transfer
- Color and B&W
- Print up as a handout or add to your collection of forms of energy anchor chart s
- The B&W version serves as a great science coloring sheet
- A great addition to interactive notebooks
- Get off the screens and put reading in their hands
Doodle Notes
- Fill-in-the-blank style guided notes
- Solidifies understanding and keeps students involved
- Another great addition to interactive notebooks
- A good homework option
Thermal Energy Worksheet
- Builds on your learners’ understanding of rate of heat transfer
- Encourages students to apply what they have learned
- Engage the more artistic learners in your classroom
- Serves as a great homework option or additional support
Easel Activity
- Easy to upload to your virtual classrooms
- Great homework or make-up work option
Answer Keys
What makes Cool School Comics such an impactful learning tool?
They are FUN!ย
- This is the most crucial benefit.
- Students are more willing to participate and more engaged.
- The content STICKS.
Visual learning is EFFECTIVE.ย
- About 65% of the population consists of visual learners.
- Visual information is processed faster.
- Students who SEE information are more likely to retain it.
EASY to implement!ย
- These lesson plans are complete and ready to go, requiring minimal prepย time.
- You only need to make copies, upload supplementals to your virtual classrooms, and set up the hands-on activities.
- Lots of flexibility! You can print these as posters, add them to interactive notebooks, hand them out to students, or share them virtually. There is plenty of room for modifications.
ACTIVE LEARNING
- Every lesson plan has a low-prep, wallet-friendly, hands-on component.
- Instructions are in a visual format
- Follow-up questions or a lab report are always included
Comics make content ACCESSIBLE
- Naturally differentiated, comics accommodate a wide range of learning abilities and styles.
- Great for classrooms with a diverse population of learners
- They can simultaneously rope in both your gifted and struggling students (and everyone in between).
- Reluctant readers gravitate toward comics.
- Comics help English Language Learners (ESL, ELL) and some SPED students find success.
Be the hip teacher seizing the graphic novels craze. Your students will LOVE it!
*Doodle Notes is a trademarked term used with permission. Please visitย www.DoodleNotes.org for more information
This energy lesson is designed to align with NGSS standards for both 4th-grade and middle-school science.
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