E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Mexican Diner: What Is Energy?
Meet Carlos at his Mexican diner, and he will tell all about energy and energy transformations.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Energy and Its Forms
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students explore the different forms of energy and investigate how the law of conservation of energy plays an important part of those forms.
Science4Fun
Science4 Fun: Energy
What is energy? Article provides a brief discussion of the many different forms of energy.
Other
Ed informatics.com: What Is Work, Energy and Power?
Defines work, energy, and power. Explains the work-energy principle, types and forms of energy, and presents some exercises to try.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Energy: Lesson 3
This lesson discusses the role energy plays within living things. It is 3 of 7 in the series titled "Energy."
Other
Forms of Energy: Heat, Radiant, Electrical, Chemical, Nuclear Energy
Explains what each of these types of energy is and provides examples.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Energy Conservation on an Incline
This site is a discussion and animation about whether the total mechanical energy of a cart rolling down an incline is conserved, which can be determined if there are any external forces acting upon it.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Renewable Energy Living Lab
Students become familiar with the online Renewable Energy Living Lab interface and access its real-world solar energy data to evaluate the potential for solar generation in various U.S. locations. They become familiar with where the most...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Household Energy Conservation and Efficiency
Students complete three different activities to evaluate the energy consumption in a household and explore potential ways to reduce that consumption. The focus is on conservation and energy efficient electrical devices and appliances.The...
The Tech Interactive
The Tech Museum of Innovation: Save the Hiker [Pdf]
Can you build a device that will deliver life-saving treatment to someone in a hazardous situation? During this instructional activity, young scholars will learn how energy is converted and transferred between objects. Working in groups...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Power Your House With Wind
Students learn how engineers harness the energy of the wind to produce power by following the engineering design process as they prototype two types of wind turbines and test to see which works best. Students also learn how engineers...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Student Analysis of a Person Jumping on a Trampoline
For this activity, students learn about conservation of mechanical energy as they measure the velocity of a girl jumping on a trampoline using a direct measurement video with an embedded frame counter and ruler.
Other
Institute for Energy Research: Fossil Fuels
A detailed article providing information about fossil fuel resources in the United States and how they impact economic growth. Several reports, which can be downloaded, examine energy policies, the potential for economic growth, and...
Utah State Office of Education
Utah State Office of Education: Force, Energy, & Motion
A unit on energy, force, and motion presented with interactive and classroom activities. Students gain an understanding of weight, mass, potential and kinetic energy, sound, and heat with this engaging resource.
Physics4kids
Physics 4 Kids: Energy in Motion Quiz
Take this ten question multiple choice quiz on energy in motion.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Forms of Energy
Expose students to this introduction to several different forms of energy.
Curated OER
Hyper Physics: Elastic Potential Energy
This site from Georgia State University Physics Department defines elastic potential energy and explains its origin. Provides an equation for computing elastic potential energy and an opportunity to practice solving problems with an...
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Distance Traveled (Fired by a Spring)
Students must predict the distance traveled by a box that has been projected horizontally by a compressed spring. The box will start with potential energy due to elasticity and it will turn into KE without loss. It will then lose its...
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Van De Graaff Discharge
Charge up the Van de Graaff generator and drag the discharge wand close enough to form a spark. What happens to the electric potential energy when you charge the Van de Graaff and when the spark occurs?
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Energy Transformation
Given descriptions, illustrations, or scenarios, students will identify energy transformations, such as how energy in a flashlight battery changes from chemical energy to electric energy to light energy.
Science Struck
Science Struck: What Is Potential Difference and How to Calculate It
Explains the concept of electric potential difference and how it is calculated.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Swinging Pendulum
This activity shows students the engineering importance of understanding the laws of mechanical energy. More specifically, it demonstrates how potential energy can be converted to kinetic energy and back again. Given a pendulum height,...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Amusement Park Ride: Ups and Downs in Design
This unit has students design and build foam tubing roller coasters. The design process integrates energy concepts as they test and evaluate their designs that address the task as an engineer would. The goal is for students to understand...
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Dissolving
Impact on potential energy when a substance dissolves in water. Add water to a substance and observe the impact on potential energy as the substance dissolves. Observe the interactions between molecules as the substance dissolves over...
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