Weatherthings
Weather Things: Air
The 3 simple ingredients of sun, air and water lead to every type of weather on Earth. The atmosphere is constantly trying to balance heat from the sun with water vapor and air to create a dynamic planet. The unique properties of the...
Bonneville
The Great Marble Drop
Mike and Kellie, a team of electrical engineers, demonstrate how to to design a contraption that accurately drops a marble onto a target. The materials needed and general instructions are provided on the website or via a downloadable...
Scholastic
Study Jams! Energy & Matter
After Sam knocks a glass off the lunchroom table, he uses it as a springboard for explaining kinetic and potential energy. He mentions that sound is a type of kinetic energy and introduces the different forms of energy: thermal,...
Curated OER
Table Top Trebuchet
How cool would it be to build a trebuchet 1/40th the size of one that would have been used to knock down a castle wall? Build this project with middle or high schoolers at any level (varying the information provided for each), and have a...
Khan Academy
Work from Expansion, Thermodynamics, Physics
Sal's series on the Law of Thermodynamics continues with this video on how heat and work are added to, or taken away from, a system. As a result of the heat and work energy, the system that is being worked on will transform into another...
PBS
Thermal Radiation: Heat Transfer | UNC-TV Science
What do people, campfires, and microwaves have in common? Investigators explore heat transfer by thermal radiation, discover the role of electromagnetic waves, and see examples of radiation while viewing a video. Scholars challenge their...
PBS
Conduction: Heat Transfer | UNC-TV Science
Find out why a metal spoon heats up when placed in a cup of hot tea. Scientists explore how conduction transfers thermal energy between particles by watching a video. An example further breaks down the concept using labeled animations.
Smithsonian Institution
Fired up about Energy
Pupils often inadvertently develop misconceptions due to assumptions made during instruction. A video presentation from the Good Thinking PD series describes how misconceptions about the transfer and conservation of energy occur. By...
Crash Course
Thermodynamics: Crash Course History of Science #26
Scientists discovered the first law of thermodynamics 25 years after the second law of thermodynamics. The seemingly obvious discoveries sometimes confuse scientists while more complex challenges encourage extra study—and take more time...
Bozeman Science
PS3C - Relationship Between Energy and Forces
How do you help your pupils understand the relationship between energy and forces? The video tackles standard PS3C using a concept map and demonstrations. The narrator also provides key vocabulary scholars should master at each grade level.
Teacher's Pet
Energy Transfer in Trophic Levels
Learn more about food chains, the food web, and the concepts relating to them. It focuses on consumers, producers, decomposers, energy transfer, and energy loss across trophic levels.
Teacher's Pet
The Flow of Energy: Heat
When you're hot, you're hot! But, how does something get hot? Young scientists discover the properties of heat energy in an insightful video. The narrator discusses the differences between kinetic and potential energy, how heat transfers...
MinutePhysics
Every Force in Nature (Theory of Everything, Part III)
Can you explain the standard model without doing the math? You bet! The short video uses sheep and currency exchange to express the fundamentals of the equation that explains everything. The narrator then relates the analogy to the...
American Chemical Society
The Energy of Toys
Many children's toys demonstrate energy transfer without electricity. The video highlights the drinking bird, which bobs up and down thanks to a chemical reaction. It also demonstrates other classic toys that show energy transfer...
SciShow
The Physics of Roller Coasters
Applied physics excites learners because it is about race cars, airplanes, and even roller coasters. Roller coasters are the focus of a video that focuses on the physics of roller coasters starting and stopping. It highlights the...
DoodleScience
Calculating Power and Fuses
Watt is this video about? It explains how to calculate power when you know the energy and time, and continues by discussing fuses, currents, and electrical surges.
DoodleScience
Energy Transfer and Efficiency
Offering more than just light, a lamp can serve a dual purpose as a heater. The video shows that a lamp converts electricity to light and heat energy. Although the purpose of the lamp is light, most of the energy is in the form of heat....
DoodleScience
Evaporation and Condensation
Sweating isn't gross; it actually serves an important purpose! Learn how evaporation absorbs energy and condensation releases energy.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Chilling Water Problem
An example of how ice can cause energy to transfer and reduce the temperature of water. [11:23]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Heat of Formation
An explanation to show how heats of formation are calculated. [12:35]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Hess's Law and Reaction Enthalpy Change
Using Hess's Law and standard heats of formation to determine the enthalpy change for reactions. [15:40]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Hess's Law Example
An example using Hess's Law to calculate enthalpy change. [12:08]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Bond Enthalpy and Enthalpy of Reaction
An explanation of using bond enthalpy to calculate enthalpy of reaction. [11:47]