US Department of Energy
U.s. Dept. Of Energy: Comparing Light Bulbs [Pdf]
A guided activity for students to compare incandescent and CFL light bulbs observing the production of heat and light.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Matter and Energy: Chemical Equations
Explore balanced chemical equations in this tutorial. Tutorial includes videos, interactive activities, and practice to help students understand balanced chemical equations and the Law of Conservation of Mass.
Georgia State University
Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Energy Cycle From Plants to Animals
Find out about the essential role energy plays in cell function and in sustaining life. Trace energy transformations as they pass from one living thing to another.
Science Struck
Science Struck: The Law of Conservation of Mechanical Energy
The Law of Conservation of Mechanical Energy is explained here.
Other
Maths Revision: Work, Energy & Power
Basic definitions and examples for the concepts of work, energy, and power. Covers kinetic and potential energy, and conservation of energy.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Law of Conservation of Mass Explained With Examples
Explains the Law of Conservation of Mass, or Law of Conservation of Matter, and gives two examples for it.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Energy
Seven hands-on lessons module where students learn about energy. These inquiry-based explorations investigate where energy resources come from and how they are converted into electricity, how fossil fuels form, the importance of...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Ap Physics: World Energy Use
By the end of this section, you will be able to describe the distinction between renewable and nonrenewable energy sources and to explain why the inevitable conversion of energy to less useful forms makes it necessary to conserve energy...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Work Energy Theorem
Using diagrams, illustrations, and relevant data, students will calculate the net work done on an object, the change in an object's velocity, and the change in an object's kinetic energy.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Potential Energy and Conservative Forces
In the following interactive students will define conservative force, potential energy, and mechanical energy. They will explain the potential energy of a spring in terms of its compression when Hooke's Law applies. Students will also...
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"...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Hybrid Vehicle Design Challenge
This module is written for a first-year algebra-based physics class, though it could easily be modified for conceptual physics. It is intended to provide hands-on activities to teach the overarching concept of energy, as it relates to...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Energy Conservation
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Overview of how energy is used, and how it can be conserved.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: What Is Happening When a Spark Occurs?
Activity 4 in the module investigates If energy cannot go away, why don't things move forever? Conservation of energy is examined. A reading activity, Energy Conservation, is included in this activity.
Libre Text
Libre Texts: Physics: Conservation of Mass and Energy
A collective which looks at mass and energy. Identify the forms of measurement and how to convert them as well as scientific notation. Practice application with homework problems.
Other
North Carolina Department of Energy and Natural Resources: Grade Your Schoolyard
What is your school doing to protect and conserve water? Use the following questions to find out. When you are done, make some suggestions for how your school could improve. What could you and your class do to help?
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: The Three Bears Heat Investigation It's Just Right
This activity uses the story of the three bears as a way to investigate conduction, convection, radiation, and insulation properties. It also could be used to describe the laws of thermodynamics and conservation of energy.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Swinging Pendulum
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...
Open Curriculum
Open Curriculum: Thermodynamics
Students learn about the conservation of energy, aspects that affect energy in a system such as pressure and temperature, and to gain a better understanding of concepts such as entropy.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: May the Force Be With You: Drag
This lesson explores the drag force on airplanes. The young scholars will be introduced to the concept of conservation of energy and how it relates to drag. Students will explore the relationship between drag and the shape, speed and...
Other
Pembina Institute: Renewable Energy
Pembina Institute, a well respected Canadian research organization, has posted a variety of reports on renewable energy and energy efficiency here. Many of them respond to or make recommendations on federal and provincial government...
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: Conservation
Official site with information and resources relating to all aspects of environmental conservation: data, maps and laws. Specific environmental information by zip code provides immediate relevance to your world.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elastic Collisions
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this online tutorial students are asked to demonstrate and apply the law of conservation of momentum.
Learn AP Physics
Learn Ap Physics: Physics B: Work and Energy
A site dedicated to help students prepare for the AP Physics B test. This specific site reviews work and energy including work-energy theorem, conservation of energy, potential energy and power. Site contains links to video lectures and...
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