Thermal Energy in Action

🌡️ Thermal Energy in Action

A comprehensive, student-friendly science resource designed specifically for learners with disabilities.
Give your students a meaningful, accessible, and engaging science experience with Thermal Energy in Action, a complete instructional unit that blends hands-on experiments, adapted texts, visual supports, and simplified scientific concepts. This set was created to make high-quality science instruction easier for teachers—and more successful for students.

✔️ What’s Included

📘 Six Complete Science Lessons

Each lesson includes:

Student-friendly science explanations
Symbol-supported visuals
Check-for-understanding assessments
Realistic images + icons
Hands-on activities and simple experiments
Sorting, matching, sequencing, and observation pages

Lessons cover:

What happens when hot and cold meet
Key vocabulary (thermal energy, conduction, convection, radiation, energy)
How heat moves from warm to cool
Three types of heat transfer
Conservation of energy
Unit review

✔️ Adapted Story Set (5 Original Science Stories)

Each story aligns to a lesson concept and is written at a 3rd-grade reading level with clear, supportive illustrations.

Stories included:

The Warm and Cool Surprise (Lesson 2)
Hot Soup and the Cold Spoon (Lesson 3)
Sam’s Heat Experiment (Lesson 4)
Where Did the Heat Go? (Lesson 5)
The Heat Moves Everywhere (Lesson 6)

These stories help build background knowledge, reinforce science concepts, and support comprehension.

✔️ Other Included Items

Teacher Toolkit (answer key)
Bulletin Board posters
Vocabulary Cards

🔒 Please Note: This product is for single classroom use only. Additional licenses are required for multiple classrooms.
All instructional materials are aligned to academic standards but are intended to support functional application and concept understanding.
Some instructional language and visual elements in this product were developed with support from AI (OpenAI’s ChatGPT and/or Gemini), then reviewed and edited by SpecialEdSimplified for accuracy and alignment with student needs.