Energy Conservation Scenarios

Energy Conservation Scenarios Worksheet (Grade 6 Science, TEKS 6.8B)

Give students a routine for tracing energy in any system. This one-page reading and activity sheet teaches four questions to ask: what is the initial energy, is it a transfer or a transformation, what is the final energy, and what evidence shows where the energy went. Students apply them to rubbing hands, a bouncing ball, a candle, and hot cocoa.

What's Inside

• A Big Question box: "How can we show that energy is conserved?"
• A short reading with the four questions
• Activity 1: Students circle the initial energy, the kind of change, and the final energy for four scenarios
• Activity 2: Students match each scenario to its evidence
• A visual answer key with answers marked in red

How Teachers Use It

Use it to wrap up TEKS 6.8B or as practice for TEKS 6.8B. The sheet takes about 10 minutes, needs no prior knowledge, and prints clearly in black and white.

This worksheet is part of the Reading in Science series for grade 6. It supports TEKS 6.8B: describe how energy is conserved through transfers and transformations in systems such as electrical circuits, food webs, amusement park rides, or photosynthesis. It is one of seven connected TEKS 6.8B sheets that follow energy through systems. The unit big idea is that energy can be stored, transferred, and transformed, but it is not created or destroyed.

Why It Works

Each sheet opens with a Big Question, teaches the key terms in plain words with simple black-and-white doodles, and then asks students to use only what the page taught. Simple whole-number energy units make conservation visible, and the visual answer key lets teachers check work fast.