OpenStax
Open Stax: World Energy Use
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...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12 Exploration Series: Simulations: Physics: Ski Jump
[Free Registration/Login Required] A simulation where students learn about the conservation of energy in a ski jump.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Conservation of Energy of a Rollercoaster Using High Speed Video
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...
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Energy Skate Park
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...
Other
Bc Open Textbooks: Energy and the Simple Harmonic Oscillator
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.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: First Law of Thermodynamics
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students analyze and explain everyday examples that illustrate the laws of thermodynamics, including the law of conservation of energy and the law of entropy.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Second Law of Thermodynamics
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students will analyze and explain everyday examples that illustrate the laws of thermodynamics, including the law of conservation of energy and the law of entropy.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Energy
This tutorial explains the difference between potential and kinetic energy. It also introduces the Law of Conservation of Energy.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Types of Energy
This interactive tutorial provides a brief review of the 2 types of energy and an explanation of the law of of conservation of 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.
Georgia State University
Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Energy of Falling Object
This site is from the Physics Department at Georgia State University. The reliance upon the law of conservation of energy as an approach to problem-solving is presented and encouraged. It is modeled through a problem involving a...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Hess's Law Lesson
Students can use TI InterActive! to explore Hess's Law and the conservation of energy during reactions.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Law of Conservation of Energy: Heat Transfer
Given illustrations, scenarios, descriptions, and/or diagrams, students will demonstrate understanding of heat transfer.
Canada Science and Technology Museum
Canada Science and Technology Museum: Background Information for Energy
Energy! What do you know about it? Use this terrific site to find out everything about it through a series of Q&As. Educators will find useful lesson plans at the related Teacher's site.
Concord Consortium
The Molecular Workbench Database: Energy Conservation in Chemical Reactions
Follow the energy conversion from potential to kinetic in this interactive activity that explores total energy in chemical reactions.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Work, Energy, and Energy Resources: Glossary
This is a glossary of words and definitions of terms having to do with work, energy, and energy resources.
Georgia State University
Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Potential Energy
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,...
Victorian Web
Victorian Web: Conservation of Energy and Thermodynamics
This site is about the trace of the evolution of historical ideas concerning energy conservation and the laws of thermodynamics.
CPALMS
Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Conservation of Mass and Energy in Living Systems
Learn about the conservation of mass and energy as it applies to different living systems.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Conservation of Mass
This site from Wilkopedia defines the law of conservation of mass. Included are links to related topics and terms used in the definition.
US Energy Information Administration
U.s. Eia Energy Kids: Forms of Energy: Laws
Article briefly discusses the law of conservation of energy and what is meant by energy efficiency.
New York University
New York University: Law of Conservation of Energy
Site presents a straightforward presentation of Rutherford's work concerning the Law of Energy Conservation. Provides an adequate summary of early science on the nucleus, and includes much needed illustrations.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Conservation of Energy of While Rolling Down a Hill
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...
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Pendulum Lab
An interactive simulation that teaches about periodic motion, simple harmonic motion, and conservation of energy. Observe one or two pendulums to determine how the swing is influenced by the length of the string, the mass of the pendulum...