This Thermal Energy unit has students investigating two ways to transfer energy into a drink: (1) the absorption of light and (2) thermal energy from the warmer air around the drink. They are then challenged to design their own drink...

This four-day professional development session introduces teachers to the OpenSciEd materials generally in addition to the 6.2 Thermal Energy unit.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] What thermal energy is and how it relates to temperature and mass.

Learn what thermal energy is and how to calculate it.

Chapter 20 of a report on the energy industry in Texas. It looks at power generated from the ocean, its history, and uses. This is a source that has been minimally developed in Texas and is unlikely to develop in the near future. It...

A two-lesson tutorial on thermal energy in the study of physics. Lessons include informational text, interactive activities, animations, and quick, interactive comprehension check-ins.

Teach students the relationship between temperature and thermal energy. It also addresses the three temperature scales: Fahrenheit, Celsius, and Kelvin.

An explanation, supported by pictures and animation, of how thermal energy transfers between objects.

Explore kinetic, potential, and thermal energy as you send a skateboarder along several pre-built tracks, then design your own. Charts and graphs show the distribution of the different forms of energy, illustrating how the total energy...

Chapter 10 of a report on the energy industry in Texas. It examines solar energy, its history, and how it is used. The solar power industry in Texas is described, its economic importance, methods of producing it, and how it is...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How thermal energy is transferred by thermal radiation and sources of thermal radiation.

A video and a short quiz on heat, covering its difference from temperature, thermal energy, and the means by which heat is transferred.

Learners investigate passive solar building design with a focus solely on heating. Then they design and build their own model houses, and test them for thermal gains and losses during a simulated day and night.

Explore the conversion of electric potential energy to thermal energy.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this online lesson students will investigate examples of kinetic and potential energy and their transformations.

Discusses forms of renewable energy that rely on the sun. For example, wind is created when solar energy heats the air, and biomass is solar energy that has been stored in plants.

Given diagrams, illustrations, or descriptions, students will identify the types of energy.

Answer the thermal energy transfer questions correctly, and advance around the baseball diamond.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews properties of thermal energy. Examples of Electrical energy, light waves, sound waves and conduction, convection and radiation are given.

Timeline of key milestones in the use of solar power as a source of renewable energy.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Descriptions and examples of thermal conductors and insulators are discussed and shown.

A video and a short quiz on the different forms of energy, and how energy moves or changes matter.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Introduction to the seven different forms of energy.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Introduction to forms of energy including the seven different forms.