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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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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Law of Conservation of Energy: Heat Transfer

For Students 9th - 10th
Given illustrations, scenarios, descriptions, and/or diagrams, students will demonstrate understanding of heat transfer.
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Handout
Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Potential Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Georgia State University Physics Department defines and explains the concept of potential energy. Using equations and graphics to illustrate the idea, it discusses the many types of potential energy (gravitational,...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Work, Energy, and Energy Resources: Problems & Exercises

For Students 11th - 12th
This is a list of 74 problems/exercises to solve over the content of Chapter 7: Work, Energy, and Energy Resources from the AP Physics online text.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

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

For Students 11th - 12th
This is a summary of the information in Chapter 7: Work, Energy, and Energy Resources for the AP Physics I course online.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Energy Storage Derby and Proposal

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In Activity 5, as part of the Going Public step, students demonstrate their knowledge of how potential energy may be transferred into kinetic energy. Students design, build and test vehicle prototypes that transfer various types of...
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Conservation of Energy: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson explains how energy can be transferred from one form to another, but is always conserved. It is 2 of 4 in the series titled "Conservation of Energy."
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Conservation of Energy: Lesson 4

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson explains how energy can be transferred from one form to another, but is always conserved. It is 4 of 4 in the series titled "Conservation of Energy."
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Conservation of Energy: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson explains how energy can be transferred from one form to another, but is always conserved. It is 1 of 4 in the series titled "Conservation of Energy."
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Handout
State Energy Conservation Office-Texas

State Energy Conservation Office: Passive Solar Design for Homes [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses different features that can be incorporated into a home's design in order to harness solar energy.
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PPT
Other

Geothermal Education Office: Geothermal Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
You will find an impressive amount of information including fact lists, definitions, and maps at this site. A great place to start a study of geothermal energy.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Conservation of Energy of While Rolling Down a Hill

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A real-life example of a ball rolling down a ramp to see whether mechanical energy really is conserved when objects roll down hills. Students analyze video clips of children rolling down a driveway on roller blades and various bikes and...
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Other

Energy Star: You Can Be an Energy Star [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 6th
The "Who's Guide to Saving Our Planet" helps students protect the environment through superior energy efficiency.
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Website
US Department of Energy

U.s. Department of Energy: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
Access to information, policy initiatives, advice, and analysis on issues of energy efficiency and renewable energy, from the U.S. Department of Energy. Its network is responsible for tracking the technological, economic, and...
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Energy Conservation

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Overview of how energy is used, and how it can be conserved.
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Plix: Potential Energy Diagrams: Conservation of Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Drag the red point up and down to explore the interaction between potential energy and kinetic energy in a barbell.
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: It's Tiggerific!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In Lesson 3, as part of the Research and Revise step, learners 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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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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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Career Profile: Energy Engineer

For Students 9th - 10th
With the emphasis on energy consevation, there is much need for someone in the career as an energy efficiency engineer. This Science Buddies site lays out the requirements needed for this career, as well as the education and job...
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Unit Plan
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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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Move It!

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Mechanical energy is the most easily understood form of energy for learners. When there is mechanical energy involved, something moves. Mechanical energy is a very important concept to understand. Engineers need to know what happens when...
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12 Exploration Series: Simulations: Physics: Ski Jump

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A simulation where students learn about the conservation of energy in a ski jump.
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Imagine Life Without Friction

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students are introduced to the concept of inertia and its application to a world without the force of friction acting on moving objects. When an object is in motion, friction tends to be the force that acts on this object to slow it down...
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Unit Plan
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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