2020 4-PS3-3

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The Oklahoma Academic Standards for Science (OAS-S) are three-dimensional performance expectations representing the things students should know, understand, and be able to do to be proficient in science and engineering. Performance expectations are considered standards and include a science and engineering practice (indicated in blue and represent everyday skills of scientists and engineers), disciplinary core ideas (represented in orange and represent science ideas used by scientists and engineers), and crosscutting concepts (indicated in green and represent ways of thinking like scientists and engineers).

Each dimension in the OAS-S grows in complexity and sophistication across the grades. To learn more about the prior knowledge and skills students have developed (or future knowledge/skills) associated with that specific dimension, each section in the standard below is hyperlinked to that specific vertical learning progression page.

4th Grade (4) Energy
4.PS3.3 Ask questions and predict outcomes about the changes in energy that occur when objects collide.
Clarification Statement: Collisions include any interactions between objects when they come in contact with one another and transfer energy. Emphasis is on the change in energy due to the change in speed, not forces, as objects interact.
Assessment Boundary: Assessment does not include quantitative measures of changes in the speed of an object (acceleration) or quantitative measurements of energy.
Science and Engineering Practices	Disciplinary Core Ideas	Crosscutting Concepts
Asking Questions Ask questions that can be investigated and predict reasonable outcomes based on patterns such as cause and effect relationships.	Definitions of Energy Energy can be moved from place to place by moving objects or through sound, light, or electric currents. Conservation of Energy and Energy Transfer Energy is present whenever there are moving objects, sound, light, or heat. When objects collide, energy can be transferred from one object to another, thereby changing their motion. In such collisions, some energy is typically also transferred to the surrounding air; as a result, the air gets heated and sound is produced. When objects collide, the contact forces transfer energy so as to change the objects’ motions.	Energy and Matter Energy can be transferred in various ways and between objects.
Connections to other Performance Expectations in Grade 4
Motion