Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Balloon Car
Students will design, build, and race balloon-powered cars in this fun lesson that teaches about engineering design and kinetic and potential energy.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Paper Roller Coasters: Kinetic and Potential Energy
In this lesson, your students will learn about kinetic and potential energy as they build their own roller coasters from simple classroom materials.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Teaching Engineering Design With an Egg Drop
Learners build a device to protect an egg and prevent it from breaking when dropped.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Force and Potential Energy
The activity investigates conservation of energy. Some topics explored are friction, kinetic energy, conservation of energy, and potential energy. The resource consists of video clips, lecture notes, practice problems, and exam...
Georgia State University
Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Conservation of Energy
This site is from the Physics Department at Georgia State University. The conservation of energy as a fundamental conservation law is presented and compared to other conservation laws (momentum and angular momentum). Links to further...
City University of New York
Energy: Characteristics of Life
An explanation of types of energy, how living things use energy and how they can convert energy forms. This is a good, basic, start to studying this characteristic of life.
Energy for Sustainable Development
Esd Bulgaria: Kids & Energy: Seven Energy Principles
Outlines the seven main principles of energy.
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Science World: Capacitor
A rather mathematical explanation of a capacitor. Gives all the appropriate formulae, with many hotwords for further info.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Maximizing Kinetic Energy: An Investigation Using Marbles
Using marbles to construct a marble run, learners will learn about projectile motion, kinetic energy, potential energy, final velocity, and forces.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Com Padre: Introduction to Work and Energy: The Hopper Popper Surprise
This activity will provide students with a qualitative understanding of the Work-Energy Theorem, especially on how the energy transferred depends on the distance over which the force is applied.
Museum of Science
The Atom's Family: Radiometer
Help Dracula find out about light waves by using a virtual radiometer.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Mechanical Equilibrium
Wikipedia provides information on mechanical equilibrium, the state of a mechanical system in which the sum of the forces on each particle of the system is zero.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Electrical Potential
Wikipedia provides detailed information on electrical potential, including a definition, introduction, and mathematical formulas.
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...
Open Curriculum
Open Curriculum: Simplifying the Energy Zoo
Physics students find out how to effectively define and clarify kinetic and potential energy.
Other
Fearof Physics: Videos
Looking for some more explanantion on a topic covered in physics class? This site contains videos that explore some physics concepts. Videos are broken down by topics. Some videos also give examples on how to solve problems.
Other
Wikibooks: Physics Study Guide
A handy resource that gives an overview of equations and definitions pertinent to an introductory, college-level physics course, with two of its three sections focusing on motion-related topics and principles.
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.
Center of Science and Industry
Cosi Columbus: Rubberband Rollback
A simple experiment that explores potential and kinetic energy involving the use of a can, a rubber band, some washers, and other everyday materials. Discover why the can rolls forward, then back.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Masses and Springs
Use this interactive, animated lab to explore conservation of mechanical energy.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Energy: Lesson 5
This lesson discusses the role energy plays within living things. It is 5 of 7 in the series titled "Energy."
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Antilles: What Are the Different Forms of Energy?
Students will learn about the different types and sources of energy, including heat and light, electrical, potential, and kinetic energy.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Pirates: What Is Energy Conversion?
This lesson covers the different types of energy, the definitions of kinetic and potential energy, how energy can be converted into different forms, and the law of conservation of energy.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Energy: Lesson 7
This lesson discusses the role energy plays within living things. It is 7 of 7 in the series titled "Energy."