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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Paper Roller Coasters: Kinetic and Potential Energy

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this instructional activity, your students will learn about kinetic and potential energy as they build their own roller coasters from simple classroom materials.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Kinetic and Potential Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
Given diagrams, illustrations or relevant data, students will identify examples of kinetic and potential energy and their transformations.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Ap Physics: Gravitational Potential Energy

For Students 11th - 12th
By the end of this section, you will be able to explain gravitational potential energy in terms of work done against gravity, show that the gravitational potential energy of an object of mass m at height h on Earth is given by PEg = mgh,...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Potential Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students explore the differences between kinetic and potential energy, and understand how they are dependent on each other.
Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Atoms and Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
Online activity walks learner through exploration of kinetic and potential energy using animations. Through graphs, a quantitative connection is made between the movement and the energy involved. This information is then related to the...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Energy of Motion

For Teachers 6th - 8th
By taking a look at the energy of motion all around us, students learn about the types of energy and their characteristics. They first learn about the two simplest forms of mechanical energy: kinetic and potential energy, as illustrated...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Force and Potential Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
The activity investigates conservation of energy. Some topics explored are friction, kinetic energy, conservation of energy, and potential energy. The resource consists of video clips, lecture notes, practice problems, and exam...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Converting Potential Energy to Kinetic Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
If you'd like to investigate the physics of amusement park rides, then this project is for you. You'll build a roller coaster track for marbles using foam pipe insulation and masking tape, and see how much the marble's potential energy...
Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Biology: Enzymes and Energy: Types of Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
An article that reviews over the different types of energy: kinetic, potential, and chemical.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Introduction to Potential and Kinetic Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
Energy is the ability of a system to do work. That system may be batteries powering an electronic game system or windmills capturing wind energy to power a city. When an object or an organism does work, energy is transferred to another...
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Energy in a Roller Coaster Ride

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive roller coaster ride produced for Teacher's Domain illustrates the relationship between potential and kinetic energy. As the coaster cars go up and down the hills and around the loop of the track, a pie chart shows...
Interactive
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Energy Skate Park

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore kinetic, potential, and thermal energy as you send a skateboarder along several pre-built tracks, then design your own. Charts and graphs show the distribution of the different forms of energy, illustrating how the total energy...
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eSchool Today

E School Today: Energy

For Students 4th - 8th
Explains different kinds of energy, covering kinetic, potential, gravitational, mechanical, sound, thermal, chemical, electrical, and radiant energy. Also looks at storage, transfer, and dissipation of energy. Includes a short...
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Conservation of Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
In the following tutorial, students will learn about the law of conservation of energy. They will read about some of the many forms of energy. They will understand the definition of efficiency of an energy conversion process as the...
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University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Energy Skate Park

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive skate park simulation that teaches about energy, conservation of energy, kinetic energy, potential energy, and friction. This simulation can either be downloaded or played online and includes handouts, lesson plans, and...
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University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Energy Skate Park: Basics

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive skate park simulation that teaches about conservation of energy, kinetic energy, potential energy, thermal energy, and friction. This simulation can either be downloaded or played online and includes handouts, lesson...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Kinetic and Potential Energy of Motion

For Teachers 7th - 9th
In this lesson, students are introduced to both potential energy and kinetic energy as forms of mechanical energy. A hands-on activity demonstrates how potential energy can change into kinetic energy by swinging a pendulum, illustrating...
Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Plix: Potential Energy Diagrams: Conservation of Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Drag the red point up and down to explore the interaction between potential energy and kinetic energy in a barbell.
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Science Struck

Science Struck: Difference Between Kinetic and Potential Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what kinetic and potential energy are and how they differ.
Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Plix Series: Potential Energy Diagrams

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Observe what happens in the change in the type of energy during a reaction in this simulation. After the activity, answer a self-correcting challenge question.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Potential Energy: How Does It Work?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Describe the difference between energy in motion and at rest, and demonstrate energy's capacity for doing work. Draw a picture of water moving a turbine, and discuss other ways that a turbine might be made to move.
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Other

Brilliant: Conservation of Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses conservation of energy, and explains what kinetic energy is, some kinds of potential energy, and how work and energy are related using the work-kinetic energy theorem. Provides lots of examples along with calculations.
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Energy Storage Derby and Proposal

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In Activity 5, as part of the Going Public step, students demonstrate their knowledge of how potential energy may be transferred into kinetic energy. Students design, build and test vehicle prototypes that transfer various types of...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Forms of Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this online lesson students will investigate examples of kinetic and potential energy and their transformations.

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