Energy Balance: The Ins and Outs

Is your class in the dark about photosynthesis? Shed some sunlight on an important biological process with a thoughtful activity. After answering questions to help determine their level of knowledge, learners work with chemical equations...

Learners demonstrate understanding of food chain by assuming roles of animals, playing tag, and simulating feeding relationships.

When you're hot, you're hot! But, how does something get hot? Young scientists discover the properties of heat energy in an insightful video. The narrator discusses the differences between kinetic and potential energy, how heat transfers...

An informative video segment describes how to balance chemical equations. It ensures pupils will obey the laws of conservation of mass and shares tips to assist young chemists who may need additional help to ensure a more simplistic way...

Balancing chemical equations is difficult even for top learners, and oxidation-reduction reactions can be the most difficult to understand. Using the half-reaction method, the instructor demonstrates four examples. Learners can watch the...

Here's an interactive with real potential ... potential energy, that is! Scholars analyze scenarios, then rank objects in order of greatest to least kinetic energy, potential energy, and speed. The interactive provides support materials,...

Students research the type of chemical reaction that occurs when metal rusts. They conduct an experiment looking at the rate of corrosion in steel wool. This is lesson three in a three lesson unit on the transfer of energy.

Many scholars are overwhelmed when asked to balance chemical equations because they don't understand subscripts. Directly address this common point of confusion with a video that explains how to count the number of atoms in each molecule...

What has more energy than a room full of pupils after a fire drill? This lesson plan! Explore the changes in energy during different chemical reactions, discover why some reactions feel cold and others feel hot, and tackle the concept of...