Concord Consortium: How Can a Small Spark Start a Huge Explosion?

Students explore connections between electric forces and molecules using simulations, and explain energy transfers using conservation of energy. This concept will be explored in the following activities. Activity 1 What makes materials different from each other? Activity 2 What holds the atoms of a molecule together? Activity 3 When atoms get close to each other, what happens to their potential energy? Activity 4 How are bands formed and broken?