Nothing can happen without energy. Here you can learn about the many different ways that energy makes things happen.

Students drop water from different heights to demonstrate the conversion of water's potential energy to kinetic energy. They see how varying the height from which water is dropped affects the splash size. They follow good experiment...

This site, which is provided for by the Penn State University, gives twenty one chapters of charts, graphs, and information on synthetic fuels.

The goal is for the students to understand the environmental design considerations required when generating electricity. The electric power that we use every day at home and work is generated by a variety of power plants. Power plants...

Students learn about the difference between temperature and thermal energy. They build a thermometer using simple materials and develop their own scale for measuring temperature. They compare their thermometer to a commercial...

This site from NASA provides The Space Place which gives a great explanation of energy sources for young readers using the space shuttle, cars, and our human body as examples.

Learn about one of the most misunderstood principles of physics, the second law of thermodynamics.