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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Using Plant Surveys to Study Biodiversity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An extended field investigation intended as launch into several concepts in environmental science including biodiversity, human impacts on natural systems, and energy transfer in ecosystems.
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Bio Topics

Bio Topics: Food Chains and Webs

For Students 4th - 8th
Trace the energy transfer through food chains and food webs. Check your understanding by hovering your mouse over questions to reveal the answers.
Interactive
University of Utah

University of Utah: Learning Center: learn.genetics: Great Salt Lake Food Web

For Students 6th - 8th
Visualize how energy transfer takes place in two linked food chains, and how it demonstrates the interdependence organisms of the Great Salt Lake.
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Other

Inheritance, Evolution, and Ecosystems

For Students 9th - 10th
Students learn about inheritance, evolution, and ecosystems. Some topics explored in the tutorial are five kingdoms, respiration, energy transfer, and nutrient cycle.
Interactive
OpenSciEd

Open Sci Ed: Net Logo: Conduction in Solids Full (Fixed)

For Students 9th - 10th
This simulation shows conduction of thermal energy within and between solids, based on the kinetic energy of particles, and collisions between neighboring particles.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Transfer of Energy: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson explains the difference between the types of energy, including Potential Energy and Kinetic Energy. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Transfer of Energy."
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Science4Fun

Science4 Fun: Heat Transfer

For Students K - 1st
What is heat transfer? Illustrated discussion of the three methods of heat transfer: conduction, convection, radiation.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Mechanical Energy: Lesson 3

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will explain how an electric current produces an electric force, which can be used to create mechanical energy. It is 3 of 4 in the series titled "Mechanical Energy."
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Other

Fund. Of Phys. Geography/energy, Temperature, and Heat

For Students 9th - 10th
A page describing (in part) the distinction between energy, temperature and heat. Includes a graphic illustrating the quantity of energy needed to transform water between various states. Methods of thermal energy transfer (convection,...
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Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Heat Convection

For Students 9th - 10th
Using understandable words and exceptional graphics, this page describes the transfer of energy by means of the convection process. Contains several links to related topics.
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BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Work, Power and Efficiency

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on energy and power. Energy is a key principle in physics, as it allows work to be done. The rate at which energy is transferred is called power and the amount of energy that is usefully transferred is called...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Heat and Heat Transfer Methods: Heat

For Students 11th - 12th
By the end of this section, you will be able to do define heat as a transfer of energy.
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Other

California Energy Commission: Solar Energy Science Projects [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Four science projects in which students learn how solar energy works and how thermal energy is transferred and utlized in a solar air heater, a solar water heater, a solar hot dog cooker, and a solar cell.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: The Three Bears Heat Investigation It's Just Right

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity uses the story of the three bears as a way to investigate conduction, convection, radiation, and insulation properties. It also could be used to describe the laws of thermodynamics and conservation of energy.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: The Lightbulb Just Went On!

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders discover how electricity can be converted to light energy.
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Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Where Does All the Energy in an Explosion Come From?

For Students 9th - 10th
Students construct a model of chemical reactions involving energy and electrostatic interactions and compare reactions and changes in energy through the following activities. Activity 1 What energy changes occur during an explosion?...

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