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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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Activity
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: At the Speed of Bowling

For Students 9th - 10th
In this lab students will measure the energy of a bowling ball with vernier motion detectors. The students will calculate the energy of the ball at the beginning, mid point, and end of a bowling alley. Students will inquire about the...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Energy Transfer Through Food Chains

For Students 1st - 5th
This tutorial review over food chains and how energy is transferred through them.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The Puck Stops Here

For Teachers 5th - 7th
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"...
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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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Interactive
Wisc-Online

Wisc Online: Chemistry: Heat Transfer

For Students 9th - 10th
Answer the thermal energy transfer questions correctly, and advance around the baseball diamond.
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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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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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Lesson Plan
The Wonder of Science

The Wonder of Science: Ms Ps3 3: Thermal Energy Transfer Solution

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Lessons to show thermal energy transfer. Middle schoolers will "apply scientific principles to design, construct, and test a device that either minimizes or maximizes thermal energy transfer".
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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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Utah Education Network

Uen: Energy Transfers

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will model and measure energy transfers from light to heat.
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Other

California Energy Commission: Solar Energy Science Projects [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Four science projects in which students learn how solar energy works and how thermal energy is transferred and utlized in a solar air heater, a solar water heater, a solar hot dog cooker, and a solar cell.
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Unit Plan
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Where Does All the Energy in an Explosion Come From?

For Students 9th - 10th
Students construct a model of chemical reactions involving energy and electrostatic interactions and compare reactions and changes in energy through the following activities. Activity 1 What energy changes occur during an explosion?...
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Unit Plan
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Where Does All the Energy in an Explosion Come From?

For Students 9th - 10th
In this module Activity 3 investigates What changes in energy occur when atoms rearrange during a chemical reaction? This activity explores the relationship between energy and chemical reactions. A bonus reading includes Energy and...
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Unit Plan
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: What Happens to the Energy of Water Molecules During Hurricanes?

For Students 9th - 10th
In this investigation students will add energy to the model of how molecules interact by completing the following activities. Activity 1 What does boiling do to water molecules? Activity 2 How hot can water go? Activity 3 How does energy...
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Unit Plan
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Where Does All the Energy in an Explosion Come From?

For Students 9th - 10th
In this module Activity 1 investigates What energy changes occur during an explosion? Students make observations of exploding balloons and a simulation, and ask questions about what occurs during an explosion, setting the scene for more...
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Unit Plan
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: What Happens to the Energy of Water Molecules During Hurricanes?

For Students 9th - 10th
Activity 2 investigates How Hot Can Water Get? In Activity 2 students analyze the relationship between energy changes and phrase changes as they discuss what happens when water boils. Bonus reading includes Why is Temperature Constant...
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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, students will learn how energy is converted and transferred between objects. Working in groups and...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Colliding Marbles

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this lesson, students use marbles of various sizes to see how collisions can transfer energy from one object to another. Resources include videos of the lesson in actions, examples of student work, and a lab worksheet for students.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Chillin' With Colored Paper

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars work with ice cubes and different colored paper to develop observations in order to prove energy can be transferred from one object to another. Resources include videos of the lesson plan in action, examples of student...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Moving Pennies

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students will demonstrate how energy can be transferred from one object to another. They will work with pennies to develop questions and predict what happens when objects collide. Resources include videos of the lesson in action and a...

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