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Hi Everyone,
I a looking for an inquiry lessons designed to teacher students the different forms of energy. My class period is only 47 minutes so I am limited with time. Any ideas?
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I hope this is not too late! I have a few videos on energy conversion activities that might help. Here they are:
http://vimeo.com/69829763
http://vimeo.com/103474919
http://vimeo.com/69413184
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I like the FOSS kit on energy that has a wide variety of science events, like a battery and motor or solar panel and light bulb. You can use the associated worksheets and truncate them to fit your timeframe. I think the kids need to have their hands on a few devices to make it real and then determine the science behind the event.
Good luck.
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Have you ever tried using 'poppers' for students to investigate energy and energy transformations? Students use oversized poppers (available on amazon for cheap) and design an experiment. I have kids do this and then they explore potential energy, kinetic, elastic, etc. and they are designing the experiment. Kids have lots of fun with this experiment!
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I used these sites to teach the different forms of energy and heat transfer. I thought that they were basic and easy to follow for all levels. I teach at the high school level. Joni
Forms of Energy: http://www.energyeducation.tx.gov
Heat Transfer: http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/asset/lsps07_int_heattransfer/
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Hi Caitlin, I know that this might be a tad late, but below is a link to the playlist of energy video demonstrations on FunScienceDemos YouTube channel. FunScienceDemos is a project I have been working on and it is home to hundreds of free science demonstrations for every idea that young learners should know. They are common core aligned and more demonstrations are regularly added.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLat8Jejmdx1vhE2ZgQJKWLdAxJFv--pY_
Check it out and subscribe!
Dr. George Mehler Ed.D.,
Temple University
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These are some great resources. Energy is often a very dry topic to teach and hard to keep it engaging. I found these tools an resources to help improve my energy lessons!
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I had my students do centers where they had a recording sheet answering questions.
Mechanical Energy- wind-up toys
Light energy- Your school might have solar powered toys, or you can always use UV changing beads
Sound energy- place a piece of wax paper over a speaker and then place rice on top of the wax paper, turn the volume up and down
Heat energy- have a cup of cold water and a cup of hot water. Place three drops of food coloring in each cup (preferebly red) and watch what happens within a minute
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You can show and lets children explore different types of models of energy like solar powered machines. This lesson could take more than one day.
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