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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Conservation of Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this online tutorial students are asked to demonstrate and apply the law of conservation of energy in one dimension.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Heat

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Using the law of conservation of energy as a starting off point, students use the specific heat equation to perform calculations that relate mass, specific heat,...
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Other

Brilliant: Conservation of Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses conservation of energy, and explains what kinetic energy is, some kinds of potential energy, and how work and energy are related using the work-kinetic energy theorem. Provides lots of examples along with calculations.
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Interactive
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Energy Skate Park

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore kinetic, potential, and thermal energy as you send a skateboarder along several pre-built tracks, then design your own. Charts and graphs show the distribution of the different forms of energy, illustrating how the total energy...
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Vision Learning

Visionlearning: General Science: Energy: An Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th
Instructional module focusing on energy. Discussion includes forms of energy, conservation of energy, and the laws of thermodynamics. Site also includes an interactive practice quiz and links relating to the topic.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Energy Conversions

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students evaluate various everyday energy conversion devices and draw block flow diagrams to show the forms and states of energy into and out of the device. They also identify the forms of energy that are useful and the desired output of...
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Conservation of Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
In the following tutorial, students will learn about the law of conservation of energy. They will read about some of the many forms of energy. They will understand the definition of efficiency of an energy conversion process as the...
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Nonconservative Forces

For Students 9th - 10th
In the following interactive students will begin to define nonconservative forces and explain how they affect mechanical energy. They will show how the principle of conservation of energy can be applied by treating the conservative...
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eBook
OpenStax

Open Stax: Rotational Kinetic Energy: Work and Energy Revisited

For Students 11th - 12th
From a chapter on Rotational Motion and Angular Momentum in a Physics textbook. This section of the chapter discusses developing an equation for rotational work, how to determine the rotational kinetic energy along with a problem-solving...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Energy Skate Park

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity focuses on the conservation of energy solely between gravitational potential energy and kinetic energy. Students work with a virtual laboratory set at a skate park. They make predictions of graphs before they use the...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Energy on a Roller Coaster

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity utilizes hands-on learning with the conservation of energy and the interaction of friction. Students use a roller coaster track and collect position data. The students then calculate velocity, and energy data. After the...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Energy and the Pogo Stick

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity utilizes hands on learning with the conservation of energy with the inclusion of elastic potential energy. Students use pogo sticks to experience the elastic potential energy and its conversion to gravitational potential...
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Pushing It Off a Cliff

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson 2 moves into the Research and Revise step and focuses on the conservation of energy solely between gravitational potential energy and kinetic energy. Students start out with a virtual laboratory, and then move into the notes and...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: It's Tiggerific!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In Lesson 3, as part of the Research and Revise step, students investigate potential energy held within springs (elastic potential energy). Class begins with a video of either spring shoes or bungee jumping. Students then move on into...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: How a Hybrid Works

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In Lesson 4, students conclude the Research and Revise step of the Legacy Cycle, as they investigate different forms of hybrid engines as well as briefly conclude a look at the different forms of potential energy. Students apply basic...
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: The Work Energy Theorem

For Students 9th - 10th
This page explores the quantitative relationship between work and mechanical energy in situations in which there are no external forces doing work. It is a basic analysis of situations in which mechanical energy is conserved. Examples...
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Online Course
Yale University

Open Yale Courses: Fundamentals of Physics

For Students 9th - 10th
Intended for students with a strong math and science background, a course introducing physics concepts of Newtonian mechanics, special relativity, gravitation, thermodynamics, and waves. Twenty-four class sessions in video format are...
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Interactive
Concord Consortium

The Molecular Workbench Database: Energy Conservation in Chemical Reactions

For Students 9th - 10th
Follow the energy conversion from potential to kinetic in this interactive activity that explores total energy in chemical reactions.
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Handout
US Energy Information Administration

U.s. Eia Energy Kids: What Is Energy: Forms of Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
Government energy information site provides users with an understanding of what energy is, the forms of energy, energy efficiency, sources of energy as well as the Law of Conservation of Energy.
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Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Atoms and Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
Online activity walks learner through exploration of kinetic and potential energy using animations. Through graphs, a quantitative connection is made between the movement and the energy involved. This information is then related to the...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Ap Physics: Conservation of Energy

For Students 11th - 12th
By the end of this section, you will be able to explain the law of the conservation of energy; describe some of the many forms of energy; and define efficiency of an energy conversion process as the fraction left as useful energy or...
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Handout
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Work, Energy, and Energy Resources: Glossary

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a glossary of words and definitions of terms having to do with work, energy, and energy resources.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Student Analysis of a Person Jumping on a Trampoline

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For this activity, students learn about conservation of mechanical energy as they measure the velocity of a girl jumping on a trampoline using a direct measurement video with an embedded frame counter and ruler.
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eBook
Other

Bc Open Textbooks: Energy and the Simple Harmonic Oscillator

For Students 11th - 12th
This resource examines how to determine the maximum speed of an oscillating system. It discusses how the concept of law of energy can be applied in solving these types of problems.