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Topic 4 "How energy moves from one thing to another" — your read (2 October 2026)
Skim first
The lessons in teaching order, each with its one rule sentence; then the intro script; then the question types. The review page follows.
The lessons and their rules
| Lesson | Atom | Rule sentence |
|---|---|---|
| L01 Find the giver and the receiver | ENE4-001 | The thing the energy comes from is the giver. The thing the energy goes to is the receiver. The receiver is the thing that changes. |
| L02 Name the carrier | ENE4-002 | The thing that carries the energy is the carrier. Sound, light, heat and electricity are carriers. Find the giver and the receiver, then ask what traveled between them. |
| L03 Energy can move across a gap | ENE4-003 | Energy can move between two things that are not touching. Light, sound and heat can carry energy across a gap. Electricity needs a wire from the giver to the receiver. |
The intro script (109 words, about 54 s)
Here's a school field on a sunny morning, and Miss Murphy's class is reading outside. The Sun warms Bennett's face. Across the field, a band practices, and the drum booms. Bennett hears every beat. The drum is far away, and the Sun is farther still. Nothing touched Bennett. But his face warmed up, and the boom reached his ear. So what reached him, and how did it get across the whole field? To find out, we will look at where energy comes from and where it goes, what carries it, and whether two things have to touch. Okay, so are you ready to follow the energy across the field?
The question types (from TYPES_G4T04.md)
- Type 1: Pick the giver (or the receiver) of a described transfer; the two things and two bystanders as options.
- Type 2: Name the role of one thing in a described case: giver / receiver / carrier (and "the cord") as options.
- Type 3: Name the carrier of a described transfer whose giver and receiver are named and whose receiver's change is stated; the fixed set sound / light / heat / electricity.
- Type 4: Parse the sentence: which word names the giver / receiver / carrier; the sentence's own words as options.
- Type 5: Pick the one transfer among four that crosses a gap / touches / needs a wire / is heat across a gap.
- Type 6: The true sentence about a described case of touching or a gap, or the carrier a fact names.
- Type 7: A claim is fixed as wrong in the stem; pick the sentence that shows it.
- Type 8: Chain: a receiver that is now the giver; two moves to one receiver; two carriers across one gap.
- Type 9: Type the role word or the carrier's name for a described transfer, or the term from its meaning.
The first Energy topic of Grade 4, built with no blueprint. Three lessons: energy moves from a giver to a receiver (the Sun and your face, a drum and your ear, a lamp and the page are one pattern); name the carrier (heat, light, sound, electricity); energy can move across a gap, but electricity needs a wire from the giver to the receiver. Every key agreed by two cold readers and every changed item re-read; the non-author figure review and the guidance-and-accuracy review are applied. Pictures of real things and children are placeholders until you answer.
The two the reviewers put to you (built as recommended; say if you want either the other way)
1. Is light the course's carrier from the Sun, with "heat" never offered against it for the Sun?
Grade 3 said "the Sun's light carries energy to the puddle", and this topic keeps that sentence. But L03 also teaches that a fire's heat crosses a gap, so a child who says "the Sun's heat" is not wrong.
Built: light in every taught sentence; no quiz or bank item pits light against heat for the Sun (the two that did were replaced by headlights and a projector); the written answers accept "the Sun's heat".
Recommendation: keep it so.
Keep / make heat the Sun's carrier / accept both everywhere
2. Does the fireplace stay in L03 as a case of heat crossing a gap?
Without it the lesson's cases say "light and sound cross gaps, heat needs touching", which Topic 6 and grades 6-8 would have to unteach.
Built: the fireplace stays; a face at arm's length warms across the gap.
Recommendation: keep it.
Keep / cut
The lessons
3. L01 Find the giver and the receiver — the Sun warms Bennett's face, a drum is heard across the field, a lamp lights Blake's page: three happenings, one pattern. The thing the energy comes from is the giver; the thing that changes is the receiver. The same lamp switched off is the non-example. page
4. L02 Name the carrier — a heater warms Brady's hands (heat) and the wall outlet feeds the heater through its cord (electricity): the minimal pair. Heat, light, sound and electricity carry energy from a giver to a receiver; the receiver's change is the evidence. page
5. L03 Energy can move across a gap — the mug touches Brady's hands; nothing touches his face by the fire or in the sun; a drum is heard across a field. Light, sound and heat cross a gap; electricity needs a wire from the giver to the receiver. page
Applied without asking
Grade 3 Topic 12's sentences reused word for word (a thing HAS energy; a carrier CARRIES it; never "forms of energy", never "energy at work"); "carrier" never appears before L02 coins it; L03's quiz asks whether two things HAVE to touch for energy to move (not whether they touch); a scarf and a blanket removed as "givers"; "the Moon's light" replaced (a planting phrase); every carrier stem names the receiver's change; the bank's definition stems describe a case rather than print the rule; 52 items, 17 / 18 / 17 per atom; summary before practice; 11 picture placeholders with briefs.
Also on the site
Topic intro and poll · summary and three questions · mixed practice · the PP100 bank · the type sheet
After you answer
1 and 2 → nothing changes on the page if you keep them; "heat" or "accept both" is a one-hour text pass. Either way, the picture pass starts, and the five-video batch goes with Topic 1's on your word.