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Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Energy of a Pendulum

For Students 9th - 10th
In this interactive, drag a pendulum to set its initial height and observe how height is related to potential energy. Then release the pendulum and observe the change from potential energy to kinetic energy, and ultimately to thermal...
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Lesson Plan
Climate Literacy

Clean: How Much Energy Is on My Plate?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity leads students through a sequence of learning steps that highlight the embedded energy that is necessary to produce various types of food. Students start by thinking through the components of a basic meal and are later...
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Unit Plan
CPALMS

Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Conservation of Mass and Energy in Living Systems

For Students 5th - 9th
Learn about the conservation of mass and energy as it applies to different living systems.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Energy Pyramids in Different Biome Locations

For Teachers 6th - 8th
A research activity where young scholars research the various biotic and abiotic factors that combine to make up a biome. The end product will be the creation of a PowerPoint presentation that identifies these factors and the creation of...
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Activity
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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Lesson Plan
The Tech Interactive

The Tech Museum of Innovation: Save the Hiker [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Can you build a device that will deliver life-saving treatment to someone in a hazardous situation? During this lesson, students will learn how energy is converted and transferred between objects. Working in groups and through the...
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eBook
OpenStax

Open Stax: Heat Transfer Methods

For Students 11th - 12th
In this section of the textbook, learn about the methods of heat transfer: conduction, convection, and radiation. Book can be downloaded.
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Professional Doc
OpenSciEd

Open Sci Ed: 6.2 Thermal Energy Teacher Professional Development Overview

For Teachers 6th
This four-day professional development session introduces teachers to the OpenSciEd materials generally in addition to the 6.2 Thermal Energy unit.
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Transfer of Energy: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson explains the difference between the types of energy, including Potential Energy and Kinetic Energy. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "Transfer of Energy."
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Kinetic Energy and the Work Energy Theorem

For Students 11th - 12th
By the end of this section, you will be able to explain work as a transfer of energy and net work as the work done by the net force and to explain and apply the work-energy theorem.
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Unit Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Energy, Light and Sound: Heat

For Students 3rd - 7th
A video and a short quiz on heat, covering its difference from temperature, thermal energy, and the means by which heat is transferred.
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Interactive
Wisc-Online

Wisc Online: Heat and Heat Transfer Part 1

For Students 9th - 10th
Review heat and heat transfer by solving these seven phrases! Then move on to "Heat and Heat Transfer Part 2"
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Interactive
Wisc-Online

Wisc Online: Heat and Heat Transfer Part 2

For Students 9th - 10th
After completing Heat Transfer 1, review heat and heat transfer by solving these seven terms.
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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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Handout
eSchool Today

E School Today: Mechanical Energy

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn about mechanical energy, and its forms of potential and kinetic.
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Article
Open Curriculum

Open Curriculum: Work: The Transfer of Mechanical Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
Read this illustrated article to help you understand the concept of work in regards to the transfer of mechanical energy.
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eBook
Other

Marietta College: Biology: Energy Flow Through the Ecosystem

For Students 9th - 10th
Read to understand how energy and inorganic nutrients flow through a food chain in an ecosystem.
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Lesson Plan
American Chemical Society

Middle School Chemistry: Changing State: Melting

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Discover the concept that energy transfer and molecular motion cause the change in state from a solid to a liquid. Also compare state changes of water to the state changes of other substances.
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Handout
Other

Ed informatics.com: What Is Work, Energy and Power?

For Students 6th - 8th
Defines work, energy, and power. Explains the work-energy principle, types and forms of energy, and presents some exercises to try.
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Heat Transfer

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore heat transfer and energy efficiency using the context of energy efficient houses. They gain a solid understanding of the three types of heat transfer: radiation, convection and conduction, which are explained in detail...
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Handout
Oklahoma Mesonet

Oklahoma Climatological Survey: Heat Transfer

For Students 9th - 10th
A discussion from the Oklahoma Climatological Survey of the thermal factors effecting the movement of air masses in the atmosphere. Numerous topics such as methods of heat transfer, latent heat, phase changes (including sublimation and...
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Handout
FT Exploring

Ft Exploring: Energy, Heat Flow, and Life

For Students 5th - 8th
Here you can learn all about heat flow, one of the major driving forces of nature, and how it works. It is the force behind weather, photosynthesis, animal behavior, and much more.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: What Is Power?

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn what power means and how we use it to describe the rate of energy transfer.
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Graphic
Oklahoma Mesonet

Oklahoma Climatological Survey: Earth's Energy Budget

For Students 9th - 10th
This 2-part resource details how the Earth absorbs just enough energy from the Sun to sustain life. Content explores incoming solar radiation and outgoing terrestrial radiation.

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