Saving Energy: Conservation, Efficiency, and Technology

Saving Energy: Conservation, Efficiency, and Technology Worksheet (Grade 6 Science, TEKS 6.11B)

Most electricity comes from burning coal and natural gas, so saving energy also saves resources and cleaner air. This one-page sheet teaches the three ways to manage energy, conservation, efficiency, and technology, with real U.S. Department of Energy data comparing LED and old incandescent bulbs.

What's Inside

• A Big Question box: "How can we use less energy and still get the job done?"
• Three cards that define conservation, efficiency, and technology with doodles
• A real data box on LED bulbs from the U.S. Department of Energy
• Activity 1: Students sort eight actions as C, E, or T
• Activity 2: Three circle-the-word sentences using the real data
• A visual answer key with answers marked in red

How Teachers Use It

Use it as practice for TEKS 6.11B. The sheet takes about 10 to 15 minutes, needs no prior knowledge beyond the 6.11A sheets, and prints clearly in black and white.

This worksheet is part of the Reading in Science series for grade 6. It supports TEKS 6.11B: explain how conservation, increased efficiency, and technology can help manage air, water, soil, and energy resources. It is one of eight connected TEKS 6.11B sheets that build on the 6.11A resource sheets. Every case study uses the same four questions: resource, human activity, impact, and solution. The unit big idea is that human activities can change how quickly resources are used, replaced, or depleted, and conservation, efficiency, and technology can help manage them.

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. The same four-question chain repeats across the unit, so students build one way of thinking about any resource problem, and the visual answer key lets teachers check work fast.