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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Conservation of Energy in Chemical Reactions

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers the law of conservation of energy and how energy is conserved in chemical reactions.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: What Is Conservation of Energy?

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn what conservation of energy means, and how it can make solving problems easier.
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Article
Open Curriculum

Open Curriculum: Conservation of Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
This Kahn Academy tutorial helps students understand the principles of conservation of energy and mass. [10 min, 6 sec]
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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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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Energy Transfer in Musical Instruments

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This lesson plan covers concepts of energy and energy transfer utilizing energy transfer in musical instruments as an example. More specifically, the lesson plan explains the two different ways in which energy can be transferred between...
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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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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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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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State Energy Conservation Office-Texas

State Energy Conservation Office:energy Sources: Biomass Energy From Agriculture

For Students 9th - 10th
Texas has the potential for becoming a leading provider of biomass energy due to its agricultural industry. Some crops produced in Texas, such as canola, switchgrass, sorghum, and sugarcane, have been identified as energy crops that...
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Handout
State Energy Conservation Office-Texas

State Energy Conservation Office: Energy Sources: Fuels From Biomass: Biodiesel

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses biodiesel fuel production and the benefits that this renewable energy resource has for the environment and the economy.
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Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Exploring Solar Power

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This unit provides students the opportunity to explore methods engineers have devised for harnessing sunlight to generate power. Students will initially explore heat transfer and heat storage through the construction, testing, and...
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Handout
State Energy Conservation Office-Texas

State Energy Conservation Office: Energy Sources: Biomass: Manure for Fuel

For Students 9th - 10th
Texas is famous for its cattle ranches, and all those cattle produce a lot of manure. Texans are working on projects to harness the energy in manure in various ways. Dry manure has been and continues to be burned for heating and cooking....
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Lesson Plan
Nature Conservancy

The Nature Conservancy: Renewable Energy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students explore solar and wind power-two important renewable energy sources.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Conservation of Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students investigate how all types of energy, including work, relate to each other and are conserved in a closed system.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Conservation of Energy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity assesses students' knowledge and understanding of conservation of energy.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Two Dimensional Motion and Conservation of Energy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For this physics lab students look at conservation of energy to find the horizontal velocity of a sphere in order to predict where it will land.
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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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Lesson Plan
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Energy Balance & Greenhouse Effect Teaching Box

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This teaching box will help your students understand how conservation of energy determines the average temperature of a planet, including Earth. These activities also illustrate how the greenhouse effect prevents our home planet from...
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eBook
OpenStax

Open Stax: World Energy Use

For Students 11th - 12th
From a chapter on work and energy in a Physics textbook. This section of the chapter covers the difference between renewable and nonrenewable energy resources, the growth in the world's energy consumption, and the link between energy use...
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Handout
Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Conservation of Energy as a Fundamental Principle

For Students 9th - 10th
See how this principle translates in to fluids and the Bernoulli equation as well as into electric circuits and the voltage law and finally into heat and thermodynamics through the first law of thermodynamics.
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Handout
Encyclopedia of Earth

Encyclopedia of Earth: Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of articles on energy-related topics, including fossil fuels, conservation, alternative energy, and environmental issues.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Conservation of Energy of a Rollercoaster Using High Speed Video

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners use high speed video to determine whether a roller coaster is an example of a system in which mechanical energy is conserved. The activity is intended to give students experience extracting data from video clips, and using...
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PPT
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: Law of Conservation of Energy

For Students 3rd - 8th
Where does energy come from? How is it sustained? What does the Law of Conservation of Energy do? Find out!

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