Below are ideas for extending this topic beyond the Exploration and Activity you just completed.

• Lesson Assessment and Answer Key
• Activity: Energy Scavenger Hunt Can you find them all?
• Activity: Rubber Band Race Cars Challenge your students with an engineering activity where they build cars that move using energy from a twisted rubber band!
• Reading: A rubber band led to the first airplane engine.
• Readings: Read more about the relationship between energy, cars, and us!
• ELA Extension: Energize student writing with prompts .
• Videos: Explore a people-powered theme park and use fire to measure energy!

In this Mystery Science extension activity, students look at a drawing of a town and search for all the places where they see stored energy being released. The activity can be found here and the answer key can be found here

These readings are free with registration at Newsela or Readworks, both excellent sources of supplemental reading.

• Healthy foods are fuel for your body. Check out this story for healthy eating tips. (Readworks,Grade 3)

• Read about a funny-looking car that was built to use less energy from gasoline. (Newsela, Grade 3)

Food stores energy and is the fuel that keeps your body moving. Calories — yes, the same calories that people talk about when they are trying to lose weight — are one way to figure out how much energy food contains. More calories means there is more energy. This video shows you another way that scientists can figure out how much energy is in a particular food -- by setting the food on fire! (3:15)

An Italian restaurant owner built a people-powered amusement park. It only contains rides that are powered by people. To ride these rides, people have to put energy in by pedaling, pushing, or climbing. Take a quick tour and watch people use their own energy to make a loop-de-loop! (1:38)