Steve Spangler Science
Magic Rollback Can - Sick Science! #051
Have your class explore potential and kinetic energy or conservation of energy. They can make a device called a rollback can. Like magic, the can returns to where it started after it has been pushed away.
Steve Spangler Science
Bounce No Bounce Balls - Cool Science Experiment
Steve Spangler plays a sneaky trick on Mark by giving him a rubber ball that doesn't bounce! Video viewers learn that different types of rubber have different properties. Show this in your physical science unit when teaching the...
Curated OER
NASA: Law of Conservation of Energy
Cute animations and an animated narrator lead young physicists through kinetic energy calculations. The law of conservation of energy is also explored. The quality of visuals is somewhat blurry, but because of the enthusiasm and clarity,...
Curated OER
Bowling Ball- Conservation of Energy
A homemade video of a physics teacher demonstrating the conservation of energy with a bowling ball pendulum. It is entertaining because he stands against a wall and releases the ball right in front of his face, trusting that because of...
Curated OER
STEMbite: Energy Transfer
Terrific toys turn into a demonstration of the transfer of energy. Potential energy becomes kinetic energy as the wind-up toy walks, a popper flies into the air, and a balloon whizzes when the air inside is expelled. The concept of...
Bill Nye
Bill Nye The Science Guy on Energy
Energize your physical scientists with this little video on potential and kinetic energy, transformation of energy, and the generating of electricity. Bill Nye walks viewers through the process of burning coal to create steam, turn a...
DoodleScience
Heat and Thermodynamics
Looking for a review that won't take up an entire class period? Here is a video that provides a quick review of heat and thermodynamics. It covers more than nine topics in less than five minutes.
DoodleScience
Collisions
What can you learn in two minutes? In this case, you can learn about collisions. Kinetic energy, momentum, elastic, and inelastic collisions are all included with definitions and a quick example of each.
Curated OER
Conservation of Energy
What is the point of the concepts of energy? Sal tackles this question in this video. After an explanation of conservation of energy, he works to describe how potential energy converts into kinetic energy. He uses an example of an uneven...
Curated OER
Work and Energy (Part 2)
After reviewing the equation and terms from the previous video, Sal, the narrator, works through an example of an item that is fighting with the force of gravity. He introduces potential energy and begins to explain conservation of...
Curated OER
Work and Energy (Part 1)
Start working with work and energy with your higher-level physics class. The narrator, Sal, starts off with defintions of the two terms, showing how they are related to one another. He then goes into an example and derives a formula for...
Curated OER
Video 9 - Kinetic Energy
Using a game of billiards to model kinetic engergy, a video explains the relationship between work and energy and how energy is transferred. The billiard balls are a nice example because each ball has the same mass and weight. Class...
Curated OER
How Compressors Work
Two types of air compressors are shown to viewers, piece by piece. This video is educational, but long and detailed. Unless your young engineers have a keen interest in air compressors, it may not be worth showing in class.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Blossoms: The Mystery of Motion: Momentum, Kinetic Energy & Conversion
In this video lesson, the concept of momentum applied to hard-body collisions is explained using a number of simple demonstrations, all of which can be repeated in the classroom. Understanding Newton's Laws is fundamental to all of...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: First Law of Thermodynamics Introduction
An introduction to the concept that energy cannot be created nor destroy, but can only change form. [9:18]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Carnot Cycle and Carnot Engine
An introductory explanation of the Carnot Cycle and the Carnot Heat Engine. [20:52]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Biology: Energy and Enzymes: Introduction to Energy
Learn the basics of the conservation of energy in this video. Learn about potential and kinetic energy. [10:57]
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Science in Focus: Energy: Energy in Cycles
Video workshop explores the everyday activities, such as walking, running, or playing a stringed instrument, that generate energy cycles, as well as the reasons energy cycles diminish and the ways to keep them sustained. [58:20]
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Science in Focus: Energy: Force and Work
What is force and work? The lesson unit and sixty-minute video focus on answering questions about force, work, and power. [55:16]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Chemistry: Vapor Pressure
A video lecture explaining that vapor pressure is the pressure exerted by a vapor in equilibrium. Also explained is how kinetic energy relates to temperature and vapor pressure. The video also explores how evaporation plays a role in...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Energy Transfer in a Trebuchet
On NOVA, a team of carpenters, timber framers, engineers, and historians recreate a medieval throwing machine called a trebuchet. This adapted video segment explores how understanding energy transfer informs their design. [4:17]
PBS
Pbs Kids Clubhouse Adventures: Read Good Books!: Kids Build Balloon Rockets
KIDS Clubhouse Adventures kids read and discover more about energy. In this feature, kids make balloon rockets using fishing line, tape, straws and balloons, and learn about potential and kinetic energy.
University of Nottingham
Sixty Symbols: Symbols of Physics and Astronomy: Energy
University of Nottingham professors discuss energy, and show the conversion of potential energy to kinetic energy through a variety of simple demonstrations. [4:25]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Gas: Lesson 1
This lesson will explore a gas from a molecular viewpoint and describe its general properties. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "Gas."