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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Energy: Machines, Motion and Light: Lesson 4

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will present how light and motion energy can be used to power machines. It is 4 of 4 in the series titled "Energy: Machines, Motion and Light."
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Energy: Machines, Motion and Light: Lesson 2

For Students 7th - 8th
This lesson will present how light and motion energy can be used to power machines. It is 2 of 4 in the series titled "Energy: Machines, Motion and Light."
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Other

Puhinui School: The Atoms Family: The Mummy's Tomb: Raceways

For Students 3rd - 8th
Help the Mummy build a rollercoaster to entertain the Atoms Family monsters by investigating the concepts of kinetic and potential energy.
Unit Plan
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Motion of a Mass on a Spring

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial investigates the motion of a mass on a spring and how a variety of quantities change over the course of time. Such quantities will include forces, position, velocity and energy - both kinetic and potential energy. Take the...
Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physics Simulation: Power and Efficiency Simulation

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore kinetic and potential energy by towing objects up a frictionless slope.
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Billy on Hill (Level 2)

For Students 9th - 10th
Students must predict the distance traveled by a person on a sled. The person will start with potential energy due to gravity and then lose some energy on a hill. They will then lose the remaining energy on a level surface. You have to...
Activity
Museum of Science

Museum of Science and Industry: Online Science: Activities: Make a Comeback Can

For Students 3rd - 8th
Step-by-step instructions, with photos, of how to make a metal can come back when it is sent rolling away. The can uses both kinetic and potential energy to roll away and back.
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Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium What Is Happening When a Spark Occurs?

For Students 9th - 10th
Activity 1 of this module investigates: How does potential energy change when things are pushed or pulled? Exploring how force is related to potential energy, this activity investigates how potential energy is changed when a spring is...
Unit Plan
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: What Is Happening When a Spark Occurs?

For Students 9th - 10th
Activity 4 in the module investigates If energy cannot go away, why don't things move forever? Conservation of energy is examined. A reading activity, Energy Conservation, is included in this activity.
Interactive
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Masses and Springs

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this interactive, animated lab to explore conservation of mechanical energy.
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Ramp and Review (For High School)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this hands-on activity - rolling a ball down an incline and having it collide into a cup - the concepts of mechanical energy, work and power, momentum, and friction are all demonstrated. During the activity, students take measurements...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Work and Power: Waterwheel

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Investigating a waterwheel illustrates to students the physical properties of energy. They learn that the concept of work, force acting over a distance, differs from power, which is defined as force acting over a distance over some...
Unit Plan
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: How Can a Small Spark Start a Huge Explosion?

For Students 9th - 10th
In this module Activity 4 investigates How are bonds formed and broken? This activity explores the relationship between energy and the formation and breaking bonds, using the ideas of energy transfer and conversion.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Conserving Energy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students will find both the kinetic and potential energies as the cart rolls down the ramp. They will find the sum of the two energies, and show that this value is constant at all times.
Activity
Center of Science and Industry

Cosi Columbus: Catapult

For Students 3rd - 8th
Science experiment that demonstrates how energy is transferred. Includes full list of materials, procedures, and scientific explanation of how the tension in the catapult causes an object to travel far.
Handout
Estrella Mountain Community College

Estrella Mountain: Laws of Thermodynamics

For Students 9th - 10th
Estrella Mountain Community College provides excellent introductory information on the laws of thermodynamics. Has some learning objectives outlined at the end of the page.
Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Roller Coaster Marbles: How Much Height to Loop the Loop?

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a really fun project even if you don't like going on roller coasters yourself. You'll build a roller coaster track for marbles using foam pipe insulation and masking tape, and see how much of an initial drop is required to get...
Whiteboard
SMART Technologies

Smart: Tracing the Transformation of Energy in a System

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Trace the transformations of energy (kinetic to potential, etc.) in a system, e.g., a person rowing a boat or child swinging.
Whiteboard
SMART Technologies

Smart: Tracing the Transformation of Energy in a System

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Trace the transformations of energy (kinetic to potential, etc.) in a system in this activity created by SMART. Students are asked to choose the type of transformation represented within different situations, such as a person rowing a...
Handout
Physics4kids

Physics4 kids.com: Energy Around Us

For Students 3rd - 8th
If you need a brief overview of energy than check out this website. Energy is defined and several different types of energy are mentioned. The site also has an online quiz you can take to measure your understanding.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: It's a Kid's World: Body Sense

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Investigate potential and kinetic energy by investigating the elasticity of a metal coil toy, the Slinky. Explore the development of muscle coordination in children and measure how practice improves performance of motor skills.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Heat

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this online lesson students will describe how the macroscopic properties of a thermodynamic system such as temperature, specific heat, and pressure are related to...
Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: The Height Limits and Linearity of Bouncy Balls

For Students 9th - 10th
You might think that plants and animals have little in common with batteries, springs, or slingshots, but they actually do have something in common. Both living and non-living things store and transfer energy from one form to another. In...
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Chemical Reactions

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides an overview of the role of energy in chemical reactions.

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