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NASA

Nasa: From Stargazers to Starships: Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
Demonstrates how principles of kinetic energy, potential energy and energy conservation can be used to determine the speed of a descending object if given its initial height. Further discussion of other topics such as heat and...
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Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Physics for Kids: Potential Energy

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about potential energy in the science of physics. The energy of position and state can be calculated using mass, gravity, and height. The standard unit is the joule. How it is different from kinetic energy.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Linear Momentum & Collisions: Elastic Collisions in One Dimension

For Students 11th - 12th
By the end of this section, you will be able to describe an elastic collision of two objects in one dimension, define internal kinetic energy, derive an expression for conservation of internal kinetic energy in a one-dimensional...
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Activity
Other

Lancaster University: Particle Physics Package

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of experiments, projects, and articles that will help students understand particle collision and mass, kinetic energy, magnetic field, the Large Hadron Collider, and detection of the Higgs particle.
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eBook
OpenStax

Open Stax: Inelastic Collisions in One Dimension

For Students 11th - 12th
From a chapter on Linear Momentum and Collisions in a Physics textbook. This section of the chapter explains what happens during a one-dimensional inelastic collision, what a perfectly inelastic collision is, collisions in sports, and...
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eBook
OpenStax

Open Stax: Elastic Collisions in One Dimension

For Students 11th - 12th
From a chapter on Linear Momentum and Collisions in a Physics textbook. This section of the chapter explains what happens during a one-dimensional elastic collision, what internal kinetic energy is and how it can be expressed, and how to...
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway:linear Momentum & Collision: Inelastic Collisions in One Dimension

For Students 11th - 12th
By the end of this section, you will be able to define inelastic collision, explain perfectly inelastic collisions, apply an understanding of collisions to sports, and determine recoil velocity and loss in kinetic energy given mass and...
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CPALMS

Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Your Ice Cream Is Moving

For Students 5th - 9th
Learn how states of matter are dependent on an object's average kinetic energy.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Basics of Enzyme Kinetics Graphs

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the basics of enzyme kinetics graphs, and see examples of the graphs to understand the valuable data that is found on the graph. [12 min, 29 sec]
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Interactive
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Masses & Springs

For Students 9th - 10th
Hang various mass weights on spring scales while you adjust the spring stiffness and damping in this online activity. Slow down the action, take it to another planet, or watch the amount of potential, thermal, and kinetic energy.
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Interactive
McGraw Hill

Mc Graw Hill Learning Center: Gas Laws and Kinetic Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
From the companion web site for the Contemporary College Physics textbook. An ideal gas law simulation in which the motion of individual particles inside a closed container is simulated. The number of particles, external pressure, and...
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Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: What Is Happening When a Spark Occurs?

For Students 9th - 10th
Students define potential and kinetic energy, explore energy transfer and energy conservation, and connect energy to atomic structure. The following activities guide students to a conclusion: Activity 1. Can my finger start a fire?...
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Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium What Is Happening When a Spark Occurs?

For Students 9th - 10th
Activity 3 of this module investigates If moving objects have kinetic energy, do moving atoms have kinetic energy? This activity looks at how energy is related to movement of atoms.
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: All of the Energy in the Universe Is

For Students 9th - 10th
The energy in the universe never increases or decreases- but it does move around a lot. Energy can be potential or kinetic. George Zaidan and Charles Morton get excited about energy. [3:52]
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Exploring Energy Conservation With Rulers and Cars

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lab, students will investigate the law of conservation of energy. The lab is designed as something of an open, hands-on assessment where students demonstrate how to maximize the conversion of potential energy into kinetic energy.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Swinging Pendulum

For Teachers 7th - 9th
This activity demonstrates how potential energy (PE) can be converted to kinetic energy (KE) and back again. Given a pendulum height, students calculate and predict how fast the pendulum will swing by understanding conservation of energy...
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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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Interactive
OpenSciEd

Open Sci Ed: Net Logo: Conduction in Solids Full (Fixed)

For Students 9th - 10th
This simulation shows conduction of thermal energy within and between solids, based on the kinetic energy of particles, and collisions between neighboring particles.
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physics Simulation: Preschool Races

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learn about the relationship between rotational and translational kinetic energy, and how each are exchanged when objects roll down inclined ramps using this interactive simulation. A PDF worksheet and...
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Energy: Machines, Motion and Light

For Students 9th - 10th
An introductory lesson describing the definition of energy, and highlighting different sources of usable energy.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Energy

For Students 6th - 8th
Learn about various states of energy, and how those states affect living organisms.
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Units of Energy: Calorie and Joule

For Students 9th - 10th
A narrated screencast which discusses various units used to measure energy: calorie, kilocalorie, and joule. [2:22]
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Energy Conversion

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Decribes how energy changes from one form to another and energy changes between kinetic and potential energy.
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Rotational Kinematics Energy: Jersey Sure 2

For Students 9th - 10th
Students must predict the stopping location for a prize wheel at the Jersey Shore. Requires rotational kinematics equations and the equations for rotational kinetic energy.

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