Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Energy and Work Amusement Park Style
This is a lesson presenting energy and work. It covers: types of energy, forms of energy, work, law of conservation of energy, and renewable and nonrenewable energy sources. In the activities section, one will find links to Internet...
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Next: Energy
Multiple activities explore and explain the different forms of energy, the ability to do work.
Other
Forms of Energy: Heat, Radiant, Electrical, Chemical, Nuclear Energy
Explains what each of these types of energy is and provides examples.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Energy
During this lesson, students will learn about energy. Students will have the opportunity to navigate the Internet to locate information about energy. They will also have the opportunity to create a slideshow to demonstrate their new...
eSchool Today
E School Today: Mechanical Energy
Learn about mechanical energy, and its forms of potential and kinetic.
Other
Energy Resources: Hydro Electric Power
Alternative forms of energy site showcases Hydro-electric power. Discover how it works, it's advantages and disadvantages as well as whether or not it's considered to be a renewable resource.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Kinetic and Potential Energy of Motion
In this lesson, students are introduced to both potential energy and kinetic energy as forms of mechanical energy. A hands-on activity demonstrates how potential energy can change into kinetic energy by swinging a pendulum, illustrating...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Rolling Blackouts & Environmental Impact
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...
Geography 4 kids
Geography4 kids.com: Cycling Energy
Energy comes from both the interior of the earth as well as from the sun. Understand how and what happens with these energy forms.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: The Energy of Light
In this introduction to light energy, students learn about reflection and refraction as they learn that light travels in wave form. Through hands-on activities, they see how prisms, magnifying glasses and polarized lenses work. They also...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: The Grid
The class forms a "Presidential Task Force" for a week, empowered by the president to find answers and make recommendations concerning the future of the national power grid. Task force members conduct daily debriefings with their...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Blowing in the Wind
Wind energy is becoming a viable alternative to more traditional forms of energy generation. In this lesson, students will determine the feasibility of wind generation in different areas of the United States. Finally, students will...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Get Charged!
Students are introduced to the idea of electrical energy. They learn about the relationships between charge, voltage, current and resistance. They discover that electrical energy is the form of energy that powers most of their household...
Energy for Sustainable Development
Esd Bulgaria: Kids & Energy: Oil (Petroleum)
A brief description of how oil is formed and where it comes from.
Globio
Glossopedia: Light
Light is a form of energy. We see it in many different forms all around us. It's the sunlight that pours through your bedroom window and wakes you up. Images and in-depth information on light can all be accessed in this article.
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Finding the Carbon in Sugar
Learners learn that fossil fuels release energy when they are burned, and this takes the forms of light, heat, gases, etc. In this lesson they explore combustion with a candle and with sugar. The lesson and accompanying PowerPoint can...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Ionic and Covalent Bonding
In this tutorial, students learn about ionic and covalent bonds and predict which elements will form which type of bond. Includes interactive exercises as well as videos.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Greenewables
Students form expert engineering teams working for the (fictional) alternative energy consulting firm, Greenewables, Inc. Each team specializes in a form of renewable energy used to generate electrical power: passive solar, solar...
Museum of Science
The Atom's Family: Radiometer
Help Dracula find out about light waves by using a virtual radiometer.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Plant Cycles: Photosynthesis & Transpiration
What do plants need? Students examine the effects of light and air on green plants, learning the processes of photosynthesis and transpiration. Student teams plant seeds, placing some in sunlight and others in darkness. They make...
American Chemical Society
Middle School Chemistry: Temperature and Rate of a Chemical Reaction
Watch molecules collide with enough energy that bonds break and form new bonds in a chemical reaction.
Arizona State University
Arizona State University: Photosynthesis Center
Educational site introduces users to Dr. Gene Splicer who is learning how plants and some other life forms use sunlight to grow and invites users to learn along with him.