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 protocol, take measurements, calculate averages and graph results. In seeing how falling water can be used to do work, they also learn how this energy transformation figures into the engineering design and construction of hydroelectric power plants, dams and reservoirs.

Concepts

engineering, hydroelectric power, kinetic energy, potential energy, stem, energy

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Additional Tags

renewable energy, water experiment, integrated teaching and learning program and laboratory, teachengineering, hydroelectric energy

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)