Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Energy of a Pendulum
In this interactive, drag a pendulum to set its initial height and observe how height is related to potential energy. Then release the pendulum and observe the change from potential energy to kinetic energy, and ultimately to thermal...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Plix: Potential Energy Diagrams: Conservation of Energy
[Free Registration/Login Required] Drag the red point up and down to explore the interaction between potential energy and kinetic energy in a barbell.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Antilles: What Are the Different Forms of Energy?
Students will learn about the different types and sources of energy, including heat and light, electrical, potential, and kinetic energy.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Forms of Energy
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this online lesson students will investigate examples of kinetic and potential energy and their transformations.
Simon Fraser University
Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Energy, Heat, and Temperature
As part of a larger resource called "Getting started in Chemistry," this page examines various topics related to energy. The types of energy discussed include kinetic, potential, thermal, and chemical.
Canada Science and Technology Museum
Canada Science and Technology Museum: Background Information for Energy
Energy! What do you know about it? Use this terrific site to find out everything about it through a series of Q&As. Educators will find useful lesson plans at the related Teacher's site.
US Energy Information Administration
U.s. Eia Energy Kids
This comprehensive lesson teaches all about energy, including the different forms, the periodic table, history of human energy use and production, and energy units. It contains an interactive energy calculator, games and activities, and...
Other
Need: Exploring Nuclear Energy [Pdf]
This downloadable article addresses all aspects of nuclear energy. Visual charts make understanding of cycles and concepts easier. Most useful for older students and educators. PDF (requires Adobe Reader).
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Put Your Water to Work: Using Hydropower to Lift a Load
Water creates a lot of energy, just look at the Grand Canyon. In this science fair project, you will demonstrate the power of water by converting the kinetic energy in moving water to mechanical energy, which will lift a small weight.
Science Struck
Science Struck: The 13 Types of Energy and Their Applications
Read about all the different kinds of potential and kinetic energy. Includes energy formulas and examples of energy applications.
Energy4Me
Energy4me: What Is Energy
Learn the difference between potential and kinetic energy, and how this plays a role in the sources we use for our energy needs.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Pushing It Off a Cliff
Lesson 2 moves into the Research and Revise step and focuses on the conservation of energy solely between gravitational potential energy and kinetic energy. Students start out with a virtual laboratory, and then move into the notes and...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: It's Tiggerific!
In Lesson 3, as part of the Research and Revise step, learners investigate potential energy held within springs (elastic potential energy). Class begins with a video of either spring shoes or bungee jumping. Students then move on into...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Move It!
Mechanical energy is the most easily understood form of energy for young scholars. When there is mechanical energy involved, something moves. Mechanical energy is a very important concept to understand. Engineers need to know what...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Biology: Enzymes and Energy: Types of Energy
An article that reviews over the different types of energy: kinetic, potential, and chemical.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Falling Water
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...
Vision Learning
Visionlearning: General Science: Energy: An Introduction
Instructional module focusing on energy. Discussion includes forms of energy, conservation of energy, and the laws of thermodynamics. Site also includes an interactive practice quiz and links relating to the topic.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Forms of Energy
Given diagrams, illustrations, or descriptions, students will identify the types of energy.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Energy: Machines, Motion and Light
An introductory lesson describing the definition of energy, and highlighting different sources of usable energy.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physics: Energy Study Guide
Understand and review energy concepts with this study guide.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Chemistry: Types of Energy
This section of a chemistry textbook reviews the different forms of energy: kinetic, potential, and chemical.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Work and Energy: Energy Transformation on Roller Coasters
Using a roller coaster as an example, the transformation of mechanical energy from the form of potential to the form of kinetic and vice versa is explained and illustrated in the animation.
Open Curriculum
Open Curriculum: Simplifying the Energy Zoo
Physics students find out how to effectively define and clarify kinetic and potential energy.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Energy Transformations
This lab is designed to have students investigate the transformations that occur when elastic potential energy is converted to kinetic energy. Students will be able to modify the mass of the object, the spring constant of the spring and...
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