Bozeman Science
Water Potential
Water flow isn't solely based on gravity. Pupils explore the formula for the potential of water through a measurement of psi based on the solute potential and the pressure potential. The lesson analyzes the example of placing salt...
DoodleScience
Charge, Current and Voltage
This brief video provides definitions for charge, current, and voltage and compares and contrasts these terms. The video also discusses coulomb, amps, and joules.
DoodleScience
Hooke's Law
A trampoline and a spring both produce gravitational potential energy. Use Hooke's Law to quantify the amount of force needed to create the desired outcome.
Curated OER
Video 10 - Potential Energy
The final video in a 10-part series, a resource models and explains potential energy using animated cartoons. Two characters, most likely meant to represet David and Goliath, demonstrate potential energy. A relatively straightforward...
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.
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
Electrical Circuits: Voltage
Voltage in relation to electrical circuits is the topic of this clip. First potential energy is explained in terms of gravity, then the idea is conveyed to describe how the chemicals in a battery act as potential energy for an electrical...
Curated OER
Voltage and Current, Part 1
First in a two-part series, this video is comprised of diagrams, pictures, and animated images explaining how an imbalance of electrons causes them to move. Stored electric charge is revealed as potential energy, and a water tower...
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]
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]
OpenSciEd
Open Sci Ed: 8.3 Forces at a Distance: Teacher Playlist
This teacher playlist demonstrates the Forces at a Distance unit investigations where the students investigate the cause of a speaker's vibration in addition to the effect.
OpenSciEd
Open Sci Ed: 8.3 Forces at a Distance: Student Playlist
This student playlist demonstrates the Forces at a Distance unit investigations where the students investigate the cause of a speaker's vibration in addition to the effect.
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: Gravitational Potential Energy Defined Mathematically
This lesson gives a mathematical relationship for gravitational potential energy. [7:05]
Bozeman Science
Bozeman Science: Total Energy
In the following video Paul Andersen explains how the total energy of a system is the combination of kinetic, potential and internal energy of the objects. He then shows you how to calculate the kinetic energy, gravitational potential...