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eSchool Today

E School Today: Energy

For Students 4th - 8th
Explains different kinds of energy, covering kinetic, potential, gravitational, mechanical, sound, thermal, chemical, electrical, and radiant energy. Also looks at storage, transfer, and dissipation of energy. Includes a short...
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Vision Learning

Visionlearning: Mechanics: Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
Definitions of various forms of energy are presented along with a brief scientific history of energy related concepts.
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Geographypods

Geographypods: Theme 3: Economic Development: Energy Systems

For Students 9th - 10th
This learning module looks at human-made systems of energy, covering different types of energy and power stations. Includes handouts, slideshows, maps, activities, photographs, an interactive animation, and videos.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Thermal Radiation

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How thermal energy is transferred by thermal radiation and sources of thermal radiation.
Handout
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physics: Thermal Properties Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
A study guide for concepts related to thermal energy.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Energy, Light and Sound: Heat

For Students 3rd - 7th
A video and a short quiz on heat, covering its difference from temperature, thermal energy, and the means by which heat is transferred.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Energy Transfer in Musical Instruments

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This lesson covers concepts of energy and energy transfer utilizing energy transfer in musical instruments as an example. More specifically, the lesson explains the two different ways in which energy can be transferred between a system...
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Climate Literacy

Clean: Zero Energy Housing

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students investigate passive solar building design with a focus solely on heating. Then they design and build their own model houses, and test them for thermal gains and losses during a simulated day and night.
Handout
Purdue University

Purdue University: Thermal Convection

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students build a model representing the properties of Earth's mantle, illustrating how thermal energy creates movement in a fluid.
Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Conversion of Electric Potential Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the conversion of electric potential energy to thermal energy.
Handout
Simon Fraser University

Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Energy, Heat, and Temperature

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Forms of Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
[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.
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State Energy Conservation Office-Texas

State Energy Conservation Office: Electricity From the Sun [Pdf]

For Students 4th - 6th
Discusses forms of renewable energy that rely on the sun. For example, wind is created when solar energy heats the air, and biomass is solar energy that has been stored in plants.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Ap Physics: Conservation of Energy

For Students 11th - 12th
By the end of this section, you will be able to explain the law of the conservation of energy; describe some of the many forms of energy; and define efficiency of an energy conversion process as the fraction left as useful energy or...
Handout
Simon Fraser University

Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Understanding Entropy

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the General Chemistry Virtual Textbook, this site examines a variety of topics related to entropy. Other topics covered include how thermal energy is stored in molecules, quantum states, microstates and energy spreading, and...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Capturing the Sun's Warmth

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In the exploration of ways to use solar energy, students investigate the thermal energy storage capacities of different test materials to determine which to use in passive solar building design.
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Heat Transfer

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about thermal energy, also known as heat or heat energy, and the ways in which it can move from one object to another,
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Forms of Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
Given diagrams, illustrations, or descriptions, students will identify the types of energy.
Interactive
Wisc-Online

Wisc Online: Chemistry: Heat Transfer

For Students 9th - 10th
Answer the thermal energy transfer questions correctly, and advance around the baseball diamond.
Article
Physics4kids

Physics 4 Kids: Heat and Thermal Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
When scientists originally studied thermodynamics, they were really studying heat and thermal energy. Heat can do anything: move from one area to another, get atoms excited, and even increase energy. Did we say energy? That's what heat...
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Simon Fraser University

Chem1 Virtual Textbook: How Thermal Energy Is Stored in Molecules

For Students 9th - 10th
With an overview of topics related to chemical energetics, this site provides a foundation to a study of thermodynamics and thermal energy. Other topics covered include kinetic energy, translation, rotation, vibrations, density, and more.
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Simon Fraser University

Chem1 Virtual Textbook: How Molecules Take Up Thermal Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
With an overview of topics related to chemical energetics, this site provides a foundation to a study of thermodynamics with information on thermal energy. Topics covered include heat capacity, temperature, translational motions of...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Thermal Energy

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews properties of thermal energy. Examples of Electrical energy, light waves, sound waves and conduction, convection and radiation are given.
Handout
US Energy Information Administration

U.s. Eia Energy Kids: Timelines: Solar Thermal

For Students 9th - 10th
Timeline of key milestones in the use of solar power as a source of renewable energy.

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