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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Drop and Pop Energy and Speed Exploration

For Students 4th
Fourth graders use a toy to make observations that speed is related to the amount of energy in an object as well as work with gravitational and elastic potential energy.
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eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Waves: Energy Transport and the Amplitude of a Wave

For Students 9th - 10th
Students explore the energy transport phenomenon that transports energy along a medium without transporting matter.
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Unit Plan
Utah State Office of Education

Utah State Office of Education: Force, Energy, & Motion

For Students 6th - 8th
A unit on energy, force, and motion presented with interactive and classroom activities. Students gain an understanding of weight, mass, potential and kinetic energy, sound, and heat with this engaging resource.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: The Great Egg Drop!

For Students 9th - 10th
Which came first: the chicken or the egg? One might ask the same question about potential and kinetic energy. Make observations while you watch the video below. Think about what scientific conclusion you could make from your...
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Chemistry: Kinetics and Equilibrium

For Students 9th - 10th
Through interactive activities in a module format, students learn about kinetics, collision theory, reaction rates, and rate laws. They will calculate rate laws from experimental data, concentration and time, and half-life of a reaction....
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Energy Forms and States Demonstrations

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Demonstrations explain the concepts of energy forms (sound, chemical, radiant [light], electrical, atomic [nuclear], mechanical, thermal [heat]) and states (potential, kinetic).
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Interactive
Concord Consortium

The Molecular Workbench Database: Energy Conservation in Chemical Reactions

For Students 9th - 10th
Follow the energy conversion from potential to kinetic in this interactive activity that explores total energy in chemical reactions.
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Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Energy

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Through nine lessons, students are introduced to a range of energy types--electrical, light, sound and thermal-as well as the renewable energy sources of wind, hydro (water) and solar power. Subjects range from understanding that the...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Potential Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students explore the differences between kinetic and potential energy, and understand how they are dependent on each other.
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Physics 1: Work, Energy, and Power

For Students 9th - 10th
The mathematical model for the relationships between work and energy serves to model physical problems and, more importantly, predict natural and man-made phenomena. Students discover the relationships which serve as a powerful...
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Transfer of Energy: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson explains the difference between the types of energy, including Potential Energy and Kinetic Energy. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Transfer of Energy."
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eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Energy Relationships for Satellites

For Students 9th - 10th
The orbits of satellites are described and an energy analysis is performed. Kinetic, potential and total mechanical energy are explained and applied to the motion of satellites.
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Unit Plan
CPALMS

Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Detective Peke and the Energy Transformers

For Students 5th - 7th
Explore kinetic and potential energy and how energy is conserved in this interactive tutorial.
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Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Pirates: What Is Energy Conversion?

For Students 5th - 7th
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.
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: What Is Energy?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
With an introduction to the ideas of energy, students discuss specific types of energy and the practical sources of energy. Hands-on activities help them identify types of energy in their surroundings and enhance their understanding of...
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Handout
Energy for Sustainable Development

Esd Bulgaria: Kids & Energy: Seven Energy Principles

For Students 3rd - 5th
Outlines the seven main principles of energy.
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Handout
City University of New York

Energy: Characteristics of Life

For Students 9th - 10th
An explanation of types of energy, how living things use energy and how they can convert energy forms. This is a good, basic, start to studying this characteristic of life.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Com Padre: Introduction to Work and Energy: The Hopper Popper Surprise

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity will provide learners with a qualitative understanding of the Work-Energy Theorem, especially on how the energy transferred depends on the distance over which the force is applied.
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Unit Plan
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium Where Does the Energy of a Spark Come From?

For Students 9th - 10th
Students define potential energy and explore the relationship between potential energy and field. How does potential energy change when things are pushed or pulled? Where does the energy that was used to charge the Van de Graaff...
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Unit Plan
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Energy Transport and the Amplitude of a Wave

For Students 9th - 10th
The energy transport phenomenon and amplitude are explored in this lesson. Questions are found at the end of the lesson to check understanding of the concepts presented.
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Plix Series: Potential Energy Diagrams

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Observe what happens in the change in the type of energy during a reaction in this simulation. After the activity, answer a self-correcting challenge question.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Potential Energy: How Does It Work?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Describe the difference between energy in motion and at rest, and demonstrate energy's capacity for doing work. Draw a picture of water moving a turbine, and discuss other ways that a turbine might be made to move.
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Unit Plan
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium What Is Happening When a Spark Occurs? Activity 2: What Happens to Energy When Objects Collide?

For Students 9th - 10th
An investigation of what happens to energy during changes.
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Average Kinetic Energy and Rms Speed Problem

For Students 9th - 10th
This program asks students to determine the average KE of a gas molecule in a sample and then find the rms speed of the particles that make up the sample.

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