Curated OER
Energy Audit Form
In this energy activity, students calculate the energy costs of using certain household appliances. Students complete 3 graphic organizers.
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Forms of Energy
In this energy worksheet, students complete a graphic organizer by writing in the different forms of energy and a description of each form of energy.
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Electric Current
In this electric current worksheet, students review vocabulary words associated with electricity. Students understand how electricity is used in their lives every day. This worksheet has 12 fill in the blank questions.
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Electronic Technology
In this electronic worksheet, students complete 4 short answer, 6 fill in the blank, and 4 term identifications about electronics.
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Multi-Talented Electrical Energy
Students explore energy conversions by demonstrating the conversion of electrical energy into light, heat, sound, and magnetic energy. Students create a simple device that converts electrical energy from batteries to heat, light, sound...
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Electrical Energy
Students conduct an experiment to find out how well different wires radiate heat when voltage is applied across the wire. They use the results of their experiments to consider how the gauge of the wire and the type of wire affect the...
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Mechanical, Electrical and Radiant Energy
Young scholars write a hypothesis and complete a lab. In this investigative lesson plan students complete their lab and a worksheet about energy.
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Home Energy Audit: Energy Worksheet
In this energy worksheet, high schoolers compare work and energy, determine which situations require the greater amount of work, and explain kinetic and potential energy. This worksheet has 4 short answer questions and 4 fill in the...
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Burning Waste Coal
In this coal instructional activity, high schoolers compare the process of cogeneration with other process for generating power. Students determine what happens to the waste coal. This instructional activity has 2 short answer and 8 true...
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Kinds of Energy
In this energy worksheet, students brainstorm and write down the 3 different types of energy. This worksheet is a graphic organizer.
eSchool Today
E School Today: Energy
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...
Vision Learning
Visionlearning: Mechanics: Energy
Definitions of various forms of energy are presented along with a brief scientific history of energy related concepts.
Canada Science and Technology Museum
Canada Science and Technology Museum: Background Information for Energy
Energy! What do you know about it? Use this terrific site to find out everything about it through a series of Q&As. Educators will find useful lesson plans at the related Teacher's site.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Potato Power
Students use potatoes to light an LED clock (or light bulb) as they learn how a battery works in a simple circuit and how chemical energy changes to electrical energy. As they learn more about electrical energy, they better understand...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Conductivity
Students make a simple conductivity tester using a battery and light bulb. They learn the difference between conductors and insulators of electrical energy as they test a variety of materials for their ability to conduct electricity.
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...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Electrostatics
Through informational text, interactive activities, practice problems, and virtual simulations, students learn about the basic properties of electricity in this unit.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Chemical Reactions
This site provides an overview of the role of energy in chemical reactions.
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.
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Lessons in Electric Circuits
Learn anything you ever wanted to know and more about electrical circuits here. Complete with in-depth explanations and detailed diagrams.
Science Museum, London
Science Museum: Pocket Motor
Teacher directed activity shows students how flowing electrical current produces a magnetic field by building a simple motor.
FT Exploring
Ft Exploring: What Type of Energy Is It?
How many types of energy are there? Are there many forms of energy, such as electrical, mechanical, and chemical? Or are there really just two types of energy - kinetic energy and potential energy? Here you can learn about these...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Matter: Energy & Matter
A video and a short quiz on the different forms of energy, and how energy moves or changes matter.
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Capacitor
A capacitor is similar to a battery in that both store electrical energy. But a capacitor can't actually produce new electrons; it only stores them.