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Energy is present whenever there are moving objects, sound, light, or heat. It's all around us all the time. My students deserve a chance to do more than read about energy. With the sail cars, we can watch how energy can be transferred from one object to another. Students can collaborate and work together to determine how to best harness one form of energy to make their cars go. When students can experience science concepts in a hands-on way, they will remember them forever. My fourth graders need to understand how energy can be converted from one form to another, and the K'nex sets will do just that. Students will use the guides as a jumping off point as they build their own models that use solar or water power to make things move. These are the sorts of lessons that start to shape the engineers and inventors of the future.

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Energy is present whenever there are moving objects, sound, light, or heat. It's all around us all the time. My students deserve a chance to do more than read about energy. With the sail cars, we can watch how energy can be transferred from one object to another. Students can collaborate and work together to determine how to best harness one form of energy to make their cars go. When students can experience science concepts in a hands-on way, they will remember them forever. My fourth graders need to understand how energy can be converted from one form to another, and the K'nex sets will do just that. Students will use the guides as a jumping off point as they build their own models that use solar or water power to make things move. These are the sorts of lessons that start to shape the engineers and inventors of the future.

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