written by Alice Flarend and Caroline Hall
consultant: David Straw

This AAPT lesson for high school conceptual physics incorporates student movement to promote deeper understanding of how energy moves and transforms among objects and systems. It features several interdisciplinary scenarios in which energy moves from one system to another or is converted from one form to another (energy transformation). Students play the role of "energy actors", moving from one defined system to another or transforming (i.e., from chemical-to-thermal energy). The lesson was inspired by an article in The Physics Teacher magazine, written by Abigail Daane, Lindsay Wells, and Rachel Scherr.

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Published October 16, 2018
Last Modified December 17, 2018

by Alice Flarend and Caroline Hall

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Published November 8, 2018
Last Modified December 17, 2018

by Alice Flarend and Caroline Hall

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Released under a ©AAPT, 2018

Published November 8, 2018
Last Modified December 17, 2018