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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: It's Tiggerific!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In Lesson 3, as part of the Research and Revise step, students investigate potential energy held within springs (elastic potential energy). Class begins with a video of either spring shoes or bungee jumping. Students then move on into...
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Biology: Enzymes and Energy: Types of Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
An article that reviews over the different types of energy: kinetic, potential, and chemical.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Falling Water

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students drop water from different heights to demonstrate the conversion of water's potential energy to kinetic energy. They see how varying the height from which water is dropped affects the splash size. They follow good experiment...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Liquids

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In the following online tutorial students will describe a liquid according to the kinetic-molecular theory. They will also learn how a liquid exhibits surface...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Waterwheel Work

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn the history of the waterwheel and common uses for water turbines today. They explore kinetic energy by creating their own experimental waterwheel from a two-liter plastic bottle. They investigate the transformations of...
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Unit Plan
Vision Learning

Visionlearning: General Science: Energy: An Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Forms of Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
Given diagrams, illustrations, or descriptions, students will identify the types of energy.
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Handout
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physics: Energy Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
Understand and review energy concepts with this study guide.
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eBook
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Chemistry: Types of Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
This section of a chemistry textbook reviews the different forms of energy: kinetic, potential, and chemical.
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eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Work and Energy: Energy Transformation on Roller Coasters

For Students 9th - 10th
Using a roller coaster as an example, the transformation of mechanical energy from the form of potential to the form of kinetic and vice versa is explained and illustrated in the animation.
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Article
Open Curriculum

Open Curriculum: Simplifying the Energy Zoo

For Students 9th - 10th
Physics students find out how to effectively define and clarify kinetic and potential energy.
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eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Work and Energy: How High Will It Go?

For Students 9th - 10th
This animation depicts the motion of a young child sliding across the snow on a sled. Students can analyze the work and energy involved in this scenario.
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Interactive
Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Energy Transformations

For Students 9th - 10th
This lab is designed to have students investigate the transformations that occur when elastic potential energy is converted to kinetic energy. Students will be able to modify the mass of the object, the spring constant of the spring and...
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Graphic
US Energy Information Administration

U.s. Eia Energy Kids: Energy Basics

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn about the definition of energy, the forms that it comes in, and the difference between renewable and nonrenewable sources.
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Unit Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Matter: Energy & Matter

For Students 3rd - 7th
A video and a short quiz on the different forms of energy, and how energy moves or changes matter.
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Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: Examples of Thermal Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes examples of thermal energy in the natural world from the Sun, the oceans, and the Earth.
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Energy: Lesson 5

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson discusses the role energy plays within living things. It is 5 of 7 in the series titled "Energy."
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Energy: Lesson 7

For Students 7th - 8th
This lesson discusses the role energy plays within living things. It is 7 of 7 in the series titled "Energy."
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Types of Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive tutorial provides a brief review of the 2 types of energy and an explanation of the law of of conservation of energy.
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Introduction to Work Energy Theorem

For Students 9th - 10th
Watch this screencast to understand the work-energy theorem in regards to energy. [8:45]
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Expanding the Work Energy Theorem

For Students 9th - 10th
A narrated tutorial which illustrates how the work-energy theorem can be expanded to include other kinds of energy. [10:07]
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Drop and Pop Energy and Speed Exploration

For Students 4th
Fourth graders use a toy to make observations that speed is related to the amount of energy in an object as well as work with gravitational and elastic potential energy.
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eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Waves: Energy Transport and the Amplitude of a Wave

For Students 9th - 10th
Students explore the energy transport phenomenon that transports energy along a medium without transporting matter.
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Unit Plan
Utah State Office of Education

Utah State Office of Education: Force, Energy, & Motion

For Students 6th - 8th
A unit on energy, force, and motion presented with interactive and classroom activities. Students gain an understanding of weight, mass, potential and kinetic energy, sound, and heat with this engaging resource.

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