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OpenStax

Open Stax: Conservation of Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
In the following tutorial, students will learn about the law of conservation of energy. They will read about some of the many forms of energy. They will understand the definition of efficiency of an energy conversion process as the...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Energy and Work Amusement Park Style

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a lesson presenting energy and work. It covers: types of energy, forms of energy, work, law of conservation of energy, and renewable and nonrenewable energy sources. In the activities section, one will find links to Internet...
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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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Kinetic and Potential Energy of Motion

For Teachers 7th - 9th
In this lesson plan, students are introduced to both potential energy and kinetic energy as forms of mechanical energy. A hands-on activity demonstrates how potential energy can change into kinetic energy by swinging a pendulum,...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Energy

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
During this lesson, students will learn about energy. Students will have the opportunity to navigate the Internet to locate information about energy. They will also have the opportunity to create a slideshow to demonstrate their new...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The Energy of Light

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
For this introduction to light energy, students learn about reflection and refraction as they learn that light travels in wave form. Through hands-on activities, they see how prisms, magnifying glasses and polarized lenses work. They...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The Grid

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
The class forms a "Presidential Task Force" for a week, empowered by the president to find answers and make recommendations concerning the future of the national power grid. Task force members conduct daily debriefings with their...
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Other

Energy Resources: Fossil Fuels

For Students 9th - 10th
Alternative forms of energy site showcases fossil fuels. Discover how it works, its' advantages and disadvantages as well as whether or not it's a renewable resource.
Handout
Energy for Sustainable Development

Esd Bulgaria: Kids & Energy: Oil (Petroleum)

For Students 3rd - 8th
A brief description of how oil is formed and where it comes from.
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Rolling Blackouts & Environmental Impact

For Teachers 11th - 12th
The goal is for the students to understand the environmental design considerations required when generating electricity. The electric power that we use every day at home and work is generated by a variety of power plants. Power plants...
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BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Finding the Carbon in Sugar

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners learn that fossil fuels release energy when they are burned, and this takes the forms of light, heat, gases, etc. In this lesson they explore combustion with a candle and with sugar. The lesson and accompanying PowerPoint can...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Ionic and Covalent Bonding

For Students 9th - 10th
In this tutorial, students learn about ionic and covalent bonds and predict which elements will form which type of bond. Includes interactive exercises as well as videos.
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Greenewables

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students form expert engineering teams working for the (fictional) alternative energy consulting firm, Greenewables, Inc. Each team specializes in a form of renewable energy used to generate electrical power: passive solar, solar...
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Blowing in the Wind

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Wind energy is becoming a viable alternative to more traditional forms of energy generation. In this lesson, students will determine the feasibility of wind generation in different areas of the United States. Finally, students will...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Get Charged!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are introduced to the idea of electrical energy. They learn about the relationships between charge, voltage, current and resistance. They discover that electrical energy is the form of energy that powers most of their household...
Activity
Museum of Science

The Atom's Family: Radiometer

For Students 9th - 10th
Help Dracula find out about light waves by using a virtual radiometer.
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Plant Cycles: Photosynthesis & Transpiration

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
What do plants need? Students examine the effects of light and air on green plants, learning the processes of photosynthesis and transpiration. Student teams plant seeds, placing some in sunlight and others in darkness. They make...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Sounds Like Music

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Music can loosely be defined as organized sound. The activity objectives, understanding sound is a form of energy, understanding pitch, understanding sound traveling through a medium, and being able to separate music from sound, can...
Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Electric Current

For Students 9th - 10th
In this interactive, students can explore how current, voltage, and resistance are related in a model showing the flow of electrons in an electric circuit. They will learn about Ohm's law and how other forms of energy can be made from...
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Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Electricity

For Students 3rd - 4th
How does electrical energy get from one place to another? Explore how electricity is moved around and transformed into other forms of energy. (Requires Java)
Graphic
American Chemical Society

Middle School Chemistry: Temperature and Rate of a Chemical Reaction

For Students 9th - 10th
Watch molecules collide with enough energy that bonds break and form new bonds in a chemical reaction.
Interactive
Arizona State University

Arizona State University: Photosynthesis Center

For Students 9th - 10th
Educational site introduces users to Dr. Gene Splicer who is learning how plants and some other life forms use sunlight to grow and invites users to learn along with him.

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