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National Institute of Educational Technologies and Teacher Training (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion: La Transferencia De Energia en Los Ecosistemas

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learn about the transfer of energy in the ecosystem.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Food Webs: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will explain how to create a food web to show transfer of energy within a community. It is 1 of 4 in the series titled "Food Webs."
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Heat Transfer

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about thermal energy, also known as heat or heat energy, and the ways in which it can move from one object to another,
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Solar Water: Heat It Up!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore energy efficiency, focusing on renewable energy, by designing and building flat-plate solar water heaters. They apply their understanding of the three forms of heat transfer (conduction, convection and radiation), as...
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American Chemical Society

Middle School Chemistry: Heat, Temperature, and Conduction

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students observe, describe, and draw a model on the molecular level, showing how energy is transferred from one substance to another through conduction.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Using Heat From the Sun

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In this lesson, students will first discuss where energy comes from, including sources such as fossil fuels, nuclear, and such renewable technologies as solar. After this initial exploration, students will investigate the three main...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Project Ideas: Electronics and Solar Energy With a Robot Bug

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this science fair project, use the "frightened grasshopper" solar-powered toy to explore how solar energy is converted into kinetic energy. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up consistently beginning with an abstract,...
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Absorption of Radiant Energy by Different Colors

For Students 6th - 8th
In this science fair project, use an infrared thermometer to measure the temperature of differently colored paper exposed to sunlight, and calculate energy emission using the Stefan-Boltzmann equation. Find discussion questions, a list...
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Project Ideas: Transferring Heat by Convection in a Tank

For Students 9th - 10th
In this engineering science fair project, students will determine the most effective method for quickly raising the temperature of a liquid in a tank. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up consistently beginning with an abstract,...
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Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Greenhouse Light and Temperature

For Students 6th - 8th
An interactive tool where students can create a model of a greenhouse and use a light sensor to measure the amount of light it receives from a lamp at various times of the day. Temperature is also measured. Data is plotted on graphs,...
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Other

Siemens Science Day: Physical Science: You're Getting Warmer

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This hands-on science activity allows students to explore how materials absorb sunlight differently. Students will create model houses with different materials on the roof and see which material allows the most heat to be absorbed into...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Trb 3:5 Investigation 6 Heat From Machines

For Teachers 3rd
Learn how heat energy can be produced by mechanical and electrical machines.
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The Wonder of Science

The Wonder of Science: Ms Ps3 3: Thermal Energy Transfer Solution

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Lessons to show thermal energy transfer. Middle schoolers will "apply scientific principles to design, construct, and test a device that either minimizes or maximizes thermal energy transfer".
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Unit Plan
BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Changes in Energy Stores

For Students 9th - 10th
Energy can be described as being in different "stores". It cannot be created or destroyed but it can be transferred, dissipated or stored in different ways. There are seven main stores of energy: magnetic, internal (thermal), chemical,...
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Free Transfer

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage discusses different types of energy transfer. This text is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Energy Transfers

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will model and measure energy transfers from light to heat.
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Other

California Energy Commission: Solar Energy Science Projects [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Four science projects in which students learn how solar energy works and how thermal energy is transferred and utlized in a solar air heater, a solar water heater, a solar hot dog cooker, and a solar cell.
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Handout
Oklahoma Mesonet

Oklahoma Climatological Survey: Overview of Radiation

For Students 9th - 10th
This site details what radiation is, the physics of radiation, and radiative transfer as it occurs in nature. Content explores the electromagnetic spectrum, electromagnetic waves, properties of radiation, and solar radiation.
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Unit Plan
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: How Can a Small Spark Start a Huge Explosion?

For Students 9th - 10th
In this module Activity 4 investigates How are bonds formed and broken? This activity explores the relationship between energy and the formation and breaking bonds, using the ideas of energy transfer and conversion.
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Unit Plan
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: How Can a Small Spark Start a Huge Explosion?

For Students 9th - 10th
Students explore connections between electric forces and molecules using simulations, and explain energy transfers using conservation of energy. This concept will be explored in the following activities. Activity 1 What makes materials...
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Other

National Engineers Week Foundation: Hearing the Light

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn how laser communication systems are built by observing how sound can be encoded into, and transmitted by a light beam.
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BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Exothermic and Endothermic Reactions Aqa

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on Exothermic and Endothermic Reactions. Exothermic reactions transfer energy to the surroundings. Endothermic reactions take in energy from the surroundings. It provides links to a video and a test.
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Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Radiant Energy Flow

For Students 6th - 8th
A virtual lab to look at the physical features of Earth that affect the amount of the Sun's energy that hits Earth. Students investigate how solar and infrared radiations enters and leaves the atmosphere with this model. Virtual lab...
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Grade 3 5 Module: Designed for Efficiency [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this 3-5 teaching module, students conduct experiments, explore with online interactives, and watch videos that help them understand how vehicles work. Then, students demonstrate their understanding by designing energy efficient...

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