Energy Transformations - Inferences Activity

Four illustrated clue cards, four quick decisions. A plant in sunlight, a flashlight, a roller coaster dropping, and a rabbit eating grass. For each, students circle the energy transformation they can figure out, then underline the words that tipped them off. The four scenarios map to the four systems 6.8B names, using reasoning rather than recall.

What's Included

• 1 student page: 4 illustrated inference cards with three answer choices each
• 1 teacher key page with the answer and the exact clue words for every card, plus a short note on the underlining task
• Letter-size PDF, no prep

How It Helps You Teach

• Practices tracing a transformation from a real situation: photosynthesis, a circuit, a machine, and a food web
• Students name the starting and ending forms of energy from the clues
• Reasoning-based, not recall - students infer from a real scenario

Pair It With

Part of an Energy Transformations set: Context Clues, Inferences, Science in the News, the Name the Transformation sort, and a Reading in Science. Check out our library for the rest.

Perfect for 6th grade physical science, science reading and reasoning practice, morning work or review, and TEKS 6.8B support. Topics include: energy transformation, photosynthesis, electrical circuits, food webs, and machines.

Standards: TEKS 6.8B; NGSS DCI PS3.B; CCSS RI.6.1. Part of the Daily Science series by Workybooks.