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Handout
Kidport

Kidport Reference Library: Energy

For Students 3rd - 5th
A simple introduction to energy, offering information on hydro-electric energy, fossil fuels, nuclear power, solar energy, and wind energy.
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Handout
Other

Forms of Energy: Heat, Radiant, Electrical, Chemical, Nuclear Energy

For Students 3rd - 8th
Explains what each of these types of energy is and provides examples.
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Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: Thermal Energy Facts

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what thermal energy is, describes some different types, and presents facts about each type.
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Energy: Machines, Motion and Light: Lesson 3

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will present how light and motion energy can be used to power machines. It is 3 of 4 in the series titled "Energy: Machines, Motion and Light."
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Energy: Machines, Motion and Light: Lesson 4

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will present how light and motion energy can be used to power machines. It is 4 of 4 in the series titled "Energy: Machines, Motion and Light."
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Energy: Machines, Motion and Light: Lesson 2

For Students 7th - 8th
This lesson will present how light and motion energy can be used to power machines. It is 2 of 4 in the series titled "Energy: Machines, Motion and Light."
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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 instructional activity, learners will learn how energy is converted and transferred between objects. Working in groups and...
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Lesson Plan
John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Balancing Mobiles

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this lesson plan, students will apply mathematical, science, and engineering concepts to experiment with balancing levers. They will learn to classify types of levers to design and build a simplified mobile. Students will explore...
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Build a Wall Marble Run

For Students 9th - 10th
In this activity, you will use recyclable materials to make your own wall marble run.
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Build a Balloon Car

For Students 6th - 8th
With craft and recycled materials, kids can make all kinds of rolling vehicles. Add balloons to make this balloon car and see Newton's laws of motion in action.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Practice Science Questions

For Students 9th - 10th
A link to quizzes over a wide range of science topics. Students can test their knowledge on topics from the cell to kinetic energy.
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Activity
Other

Puhinui School: The Atoms Family: The Mummy's Tomb: Raceways

For Students 3rd - 8th
Help the Mummy build a rollercoaster to entertain the Atoms Family monsters by investigating the concepts of kinetic and potential energy.
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Lesson Plan
Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Build Your Own Perpetual Motion Machine [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson for students to explore the conversion of energy from electrical energy to kinetic energy by constructing a homopolar motor. Also by constructing the motor, students can investigate magnetism, electricity, and RPM.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Internal Combustion Engines

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explains what an internal combustion engine is, how it works, and how kinetic energy from the engine turns the wheels of a car.
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Engineering in Sports

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Imagining themselves arriving at the Olympic gold medal soccer game in Beijing, students begin to think about how engineering is involved in sports. After a discussion of kinetic and potential energy, an associated hands-on activity...
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Activity
Center of Science and Industry

Cosi Columbus: Catapult

For Students 3rd - 8th
Science experiment that demonstrates how energy is transferred. Includes full list of materials, procedures, and scientific explanation of how the tension in the catapult causes an object to travel far.
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Activity
Other

Center for Education Partnerships: The Marble Roll

For Students 3rd - 9th
In this Science-athon, students try to make their marble roll the farthest across a flat surface, using their knowledge of forces, motion, and energy to guide them through their apparatus design. Teachers must enroll online.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Free Transfer

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage discusses different types of energy transfer. This text is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary...
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Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Photoelectron Spectroscopy

For Students 9th - 10th
An explanation of how photoelectron spectroscopy can be used to detect electron structures in atoms or molecules.
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Activity
Quizlet

Quizlet: 6th Grade Science: Energy Vocabulary: Flashcards

For Students 6th
This set of interactive flashcards focuses on 17 terms related to energy and their definitions. These include the following types of energy: Kinetic, Sound, Potential, Elastic potential, Chemical, Gravitational Potential, Electrical,...
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Quizlet

Quizlet: 6th Grade Science: Energy Vocabulary: Test

For Students 6th
This interactive assessment features 6 matching, 6 multiple-choice, and 5 true/false question over 17 terms related to energy and their definitions. These include the following: Kinetic, Sound, Potential, Elastic potential, Chemical,...
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Activity
Quizlet

Quizlet: 6th Grade Science: Energy Vocabulary: Match

For Students 6th
In this interactive game, students match 17 terms related to energy with their definitions. These include the following: Kinetic, Sound, Potential, Elastic potential, Chemical, Gravitational Potential, Electrical, Light, Energy, Energy...
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Physics 1: Rotational Kinematics and Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
This module is the introduction to model rotational motion. All of the concepts are conveniently recast into forms that have the same mathematical forms as their translational counterparts.
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Lesson Plan
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Potential Energy: How Is It Related to Kinetic Energy

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
After creating three different ramps with various heights, students will release toy cars from the tops of each ramp. Based on the elementary age level, students will collect data and analyze it.