Discovery Education
Discovery Education: The Ultimate Roller Coaster Contest
Middle schoolers design and build a three hill "tennis ball" roller coaster made of cardboard. During the design and building process, students explore the concepts of potential and kinetic energy and how they change as the roller...
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.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium What Are the Factors That Affect How Strongly Objects Interact With Each Other?
Activity 2 of this module explains How do factors like distance and amount of charge affect interactions between objects? The activity investigates the effect that the distance between two charged objects has on the strength of the...
NASA
Nasa: Kepler's Second Law
This site from NASA states Kepler's second law of planetary motion and depicts its meaning with an informative diagram. Relates the law to conservation of energy principles and discusses the eccentricity of a satellite's (or a planet's)...
MadSci Network
The Mad Scientist Network: Bouncing Rubber Ball
A question and answer format is used to relate elastic potential energy to the bounce of a rubber ball. Explanation of this simple phenomenon is thorough, complete, and free of trite statements.
Concord Consortium
The Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Nodding Donkey (Pump Jack)
View a simulation of the mechanics that make an oil pump do its job.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Mechanical Energy: Lesson 3
This lesson will explain how an electric current produces an electric force, which can be used to create mechanical energy. It is 3 of 4 in the series titled "Mechanical Energy."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Mechanical Energy: Lesson 4
This lesson will explain how an electric current produces an electric force, which can be used to create mechanical energy. It is 4 of 4 in the series titled "Mechanical Energy."
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Energy Conservation on an Incline
This site is a discussion and animation about whether the total mechanical energy of a cart rolling down an incline is conserved, which can be determined if there are any external forces acting upon it.
Rudiments of Wisdom
Rudiments of Wisdom: Energy
Check out this cartoon on various types of energy and energy conservation.