Government of South Australia
Don't Waste Your Energy
Don't lift another finger, this physical and environmental science unit has everything you need to begin teaching your class about energy. Starting with a look at the greenhouse effect, these lessons and activities take young scientists...
Columbus City Schools
Keeping It Hot!
Hot off the presses, this collection of thermal energy activities, lessons, and printables is sure to amaze. Demonstrate how thermal energy moves about in a system using simple materials. Pupils demonstrate their understanding...
Columbus City Schools
The Magic of Energy: A Disappearing Act?
Using the 5E method for teaching about kinetic energy, potential energy, and conservation of energy, this two-week unit with many videos and possible extensions is sure to keep pupils engaged as they are learning.
Columbus City Schools
What’s Up with Matter?
Take a "conservative" approach to planning your next unit on mass and matter! What better way to answer "But where did the gas go?" than with a lab designed to promote good report writing, research skills, and detailed observation....
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Thermal Energy
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] What thermal energy is and how it relates to temperature and mass.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Fourth Grade Science: Physical Science: Transfer of Thermal Energy
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the conduction of thermal energy, how convection transfers thermal energy, and provides an example of the radiation of thermal energy.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Conservation of Energy
In the following tutorial, students will learn about the law of conservation of energy. They will read about some of the many forms of energy. They will understand the definition of efficiency of an energy conversion process as the...
Vision Learning
Visionlearning: Mechanics: Energy
Definitions of various forms of energy are presented along with a brief scientific history of energy related concepts.
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.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Thermal Radiation
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How thermal energy is transferred by thermal radiation and sources of thermal radiation.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Ap Physics: Conservation of Energy
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...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Kinetic Theory: Atomic & Molecular Explanation of Pressure & Temp
By the end of this section, you will be able to express the ideal gas law in terms of molecular mass and velocity; define thermal energy; calculate the kinetic energy of a gas molecule, given its temperature; describe the relationship...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Heat
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Definition of heat and how thermal energy is transferred.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Thermal Conductors and Insulators
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Descriptions and examples of thermal conductors and insulators are discussed and shown.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Forms of Energy
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Introduction to the seven different forms of energy.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Forms of Energy
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Introduction to forms of energy including the seven different forms.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Fourth Grade Science: Physical Science: Forms and Changes of Energy
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses different forms of energy and how energy changes form.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Physical Oceanography
A student learning module with a focus on the relationship of temperature and salinity with density, ocean-influenced weather patterns, and how light and sound move through ocean water.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Physical Science: Heat and Temperature
With this learning module, students will understand the difference between heat and temperature, convert temperatures among different temperature scales, and calculate specific heat.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Heat Conduction
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Investigates what conduction is, how it works, and gives examples of conduction.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Convection
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Definition of convection, how it occurs, and examples of convection.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Heat Transfer
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students explore the relationship between heat and energy transfer, and learn about the three ways that heat can be transferred between objects of different...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Transfer of Electric Charge
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Transfer of electric charge: transfer of electrons, conservation of charge and three ways electric charge can be transferred.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Heat Transfer
Students explore the relationship between heat and energy transfer, and then describe how energy is transported through the processes of conduction, convection, and radiation. [Free Registration/Login may be required to access all...