GROUP 1: Not wasted, Just

transformed

What you need:

Flashlight, battery

What to do:
1. Get a flashlight.
2. Turn on the flashlight.
3. Observe the flashlight using your
different senses.
4. Answer the questions below based
on what you had observed. Write your
answers on a separate sheet of paper.
Questions:

a. Based on the activity, what is energy

transformation?

b. When the flashlight is turned on,

what energy transformation happened
from the battery to the bulb? Fill in the
blanks with forms of energy.

___________ energy to __________ energy

to _____________ energy and _________
energy
 GROUP 2: Picture Analysis

What you need:

Pictures or illustrations of energy
transformation takes place in a
flashlight

What to do:
1. Without a flashlight, analyze and
describe what you would see and feel
based on the picture below.
Questions:

a. What energy transformation takes place in

a flashlight?

b. Where do the chemical energy in a

flashlight came from?

c. Is the energy destroyed in this kind of

transformation? Why?

d. Is it an example of single or multiple

transformation? Why?

e. If there is no battery, will the flashlight

light? Why?
 GROUP 3: Investigating the
Transformation of Energy

What you need:

Guitar, battery-operated toy, candle,
matches.

What to do:
Observe how energy is transformed in the
different objects when they work.

1.Light the candle.

- How many materials did you use in
performing this activity? What are those
materials?

- What form of energy is present in the

candle?

- How did this energy change to another

form when the candle was lighted?

2. Pluck the string of a guitar.

 - How is energy changed when you pluck the
strings of the guitar?

3.Place the battery in the battery-operated car.

- What form of energy is present in the
battery?

- Into what form of energy does the toy car

possess when you put battery on it?

- What energy transformation takes place

when the toy car moves?

- How can energy transformed from one form

to another?