Energy at Work

🔌💡 Energy at Work

By SpecialEdSimplified | Created by Erica Price & Christina Willoughby

Empower your students to explore how energy changes the world around them with “Energy at Work,” a comprehensive science unit designed specifically for students with moderate to severe disabilities. This hands-on, visual-rich curriculum supports alternate assessment standards and builds real-world science connections through engaging, scaffolded instruction.

✅ What’s Included:

• 7 complete lesson plans following the SpecialEdSimplified format (Pretest, Vocabulary, Application, Review, Posttest)

• Teacher’s Guide with answer keys, teaching strategies, and extension activities

• Vocabulary cards with SymbolStix supports

• Sorting activities on input and output energy

• Hands-on engineering task (Build a Solar S’more Oven!)

• Comic strips, discussion visuals, and retell sequences

• Bulletin board display set to reinforce learning

• Pre- and post-assessments to monitor progress

🔍 Key Learning Targets:

• Identify energy forms and how energy changes from one form to another

• Understand the difference between input and output energy

• Learn how engineers design tools that use energy to solve problems

• Explore real-world devices like fans, flashlights, toasters, and solar ovens

• Participate in structured experiments and retell tasks for comprehension

Some instructional text and visual elements on this page were generated or adapted with the assistance of AI technology (OpenAI’s ChatGPT), and reviewed by SpecialEdSimplified for accuracy and alignment with instructional goals.

🔒 Please Note: This product is for single classroom use only. If multiple teachers will be using this resource, please purchase additional licenses. 

These activities are based on Common Core Standards. Price and Willoughby, LLC make no guarantees regarding student test performance.