NASA
Glenn Research Center: Conservation of Energy
From the Glenn Research Center at NASA, read about the law of conservation of energy. Included are formulas and many links to key terms.
Science Museum of Minnesota
Science Museum of Minnesota: Thinking Fountain: Friction
The Thinking Fountain provides this simple experiment for understanding friction and it relationship to energy.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Biology: Enzymes and Energy: Types of Energy
An article that reviews over the different types of energy: kinetic, potential, and chemical.
Science Struck
Science Struck: The 13 Types of Energy and Their Applications
Read about all the different kinds of potential and kinetic energy. Includes energy formulas and examples of energy applications.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: The Puck Stops Here
After learning about transfer of energy, specifically the loss of kinetic energy to friction, students get a chance to test friction. In groups they are given a wooden block, different fabrics, and weights and asked to design the "best"...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Chemistry: Kinetics and Equilibrium
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....
Vision Learning
Visionlearning: General Science: Energy: An Introduction
Instructional module focusing on energy. Discussion includes forms of energy, conservation of energy, and the laws of thermodynamics. Site also includes an interactive practice quiz and links relating to the topic.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Science of Everyday Life: 3 M Wind Energy Virtual Lab
Do you think you can design a wind turbine that supplies energy to 400 homes at the highest efficiency and lowest cost? Try your hand at turbine design in this interactive activity that allows you design, build, and test a device to...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Physics 1: Work, Energy, and Power
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...
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.
Museum of Science
Museum of Science and Industry: Online Science: Activities: Make a Comeback Can
Step-by-step instructions, with photos, of how to make a metal can come back when it is sent rolling away. The can uses both kinetic and potential energy to roll away and back.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Fifth Grade Science: Physical Science: Solids, Liquids, and Gases
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explains how to describe matter in the solid state, about the properties of liquid matter and gases, and what the relationship between energy and states of matter is.
Open Curriculum
Open Curriculum: Simplifying the Energy Zoo
Physics students find out how to effectively define and clarify kinetic and potential energy.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Examples of Thermal Energy
Describes examples of thermal energy in the natural world from the Sun, the oceans, and the Earth.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Physics for Kids: Potential Energy
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.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Basics of Enzyme Kinetics Graphs
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]
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Teaching Engineering Design With an Egg Drop
Students build a device to protect an egg and prevent it from breaking when dropped.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Masses & Springs
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.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Mexican Diner: What Is Energy?
Meet Carlos at his Mexican diner, and he will tell all about energy and energy transformations.
Museum of Science
Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago: Activities: Build a Roller Coaster
Build the roller coaster, then keep making adjustments to see how it affects the potential and kinetic energy of the marble along its tracks.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Energy Conversion
[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.
Crescent Public Schools
The Internet Science Room: The Kinetic Theory & Phase Change
This tutorial helps students understand the Kinetic Theory, which explains the effects of temperature and pressure on matter as it goes through phase changes.
Museum of Science
Museum of Science and Industry Chicago: Online Science: Drop Eggs Into Cups
Step-by-step illustrated instructions showing how to drop four eggs into four cups without touching them. Demonstrates the concept of inertia according to Newton's first law of motion.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Difference Between Kinetic and Potential Energy
Explains what kinetic and potential energy are and how they differ.