This 3-page 5th grade sheet shows a pot of water heating on a stove burner with four numbered pointers. They mark the burner under the pot, the circular currents in the water, wavy heat lines reaching a hand and the metal handle. Students write conduction, convection or radiation in a box for each, with one word used twice. Page 2 has three written questions, and the answer key gives each label with a short reason.
4-PS3-2
“Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.”
Each of the four pointers ties one part of the pot to the way heat moves there.
A word bank, a labeled diagram and four boxes. Pointer 1 is the burner touching the pot, 2 the rising and sinking water, 3 the heat reaching a hand and 4 the handle.
Three questions to answer in full sentences: why the warm water rises in the middle, why a pot handle is plastic or wood instead of metal, and which kind of transfer needs no matter.
A label and a one-line reason for each pointer, then model answers to the three questions.
Follow the heat
Have students trace the path from the burner to the water, up the handle and out to the hand with a finger before they label. Pointers 1 and 4 share an answer, and tracing shows why.
Handle question
Pair question 2 with a real pot or a photo of one. Students who write that plastic is an insulator should also say what it slows down.
Radiation check
Question 3 works as a quick spoken check at the door. The answer is radiation, and it ties back to the hand in the diagram.
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