This lesson explains the difference between the types of energy, including Potential Energy and Kinetic Energy. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "Transfer of Energy."

Online activity walks learner through exploration of kinetic and potential energy using animations. Through graphs, a quantitative connection is made between the movement and the energy involved. This information is then related to the...

Change happens when energy is transferred or converted. Included with the teaching unit, is a sixty-minute video that examines the conversion between potential and kinetic energy.

This lesson explains the difference between the types of energy, including Potential Energy and Kinetic Energy. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Transfer of Energy."

Can you build a device that will deliver life-saving treatment to someone in a hazardous situation? During this lesson, students will learn how energy is converted and transferred between objects. Working in groups and through the...

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...

Energy is the ability of a system to do work. That system may be batteries powering an electronic game system or windmills capturing wind energy to power a city. When an object or an organism does work, energy is transferred to another...

A video workshop looking at the concept of energy. Discussions include energy as it is used in everyday language to the complex scientific meaning of energy. Presents common student misconceptions, history, and the importance of energy...

A video workshop examining how the Sun provides energy for all living things beginning with the process of photosynthesis. Presents current scientific thinking about energy transfer through the food chain as well as ways to deal with...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Transfer of electric charge: transfer of electrons, conservation of charge and three ways electric charge can be transferred.

Heat transfer is an important concept that is a part of everyday life yet often misunderstood by students. In this lesson plan, students learn the scientific concepts of temperature, heat, and the transfer of heat through conduction,...

This unit provides students the opportunity to explore methods engineers have devised for harnessing sunlight to generate power. Students will initially explore heat transfer and heat storage through the construction, testing, and...

Through nine lessons, students are introduced to a range of energy types--electrical, light, sound and thermal-as well as the renewable energy sources of wind, hydro (water) and solar power. Subjects range from understanding that the...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage discusses different types of energy transfer. This text is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary...

This lesson explains how energy can be transferred from one form to another, but is always conserved. It is 2 of 4 in the series titled "Conservation of Energy."

This lesson explains how energy can be transferred from one form to another, but is always conserved. It is 4 of 4 in the series titled "Conservation of Energy."

This lesson explains how energy can be transferred from one form to another, but is always conserved. It is 1 of 4 in the series titled "Conservation of Energy."

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how energy is transfered from one organism to another.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how energy is transfered from one organism to another.

A virtual lab to look at the physical features of Earth that affect the amount of the Sun's energy that hits Earth. Students investigate how solar and infrared radiations enters and leaves the atmosphere with this model. Virtual lab...

In Activity 5, as part of the Going Public step, students demonstrate their knowledge of how potential energy may be transferred into kinetic energy. Students design, build and test vehicle prototypes that transfer various types of...

Trace the transformations of energy (kinetic to potential, etc.) in a system, e.g., a person rowing a boat or child swinging.

Students define potential energy and explore the relationship between potential energy and field. How does potential energy change when things are pushed or pulled? Where does the energy that was used to charge the Van de Graaff...

An investigation of what happens to energy during changes.