Disciplinary Core Ideas: Physical Science -- EnergyConservation of Energy and Energy Transfer
1) HS-PS3.B.1: Conservation of energy means that the total change of energy in any system is always equal to the total energy transferred into or out of the system.
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2) HS-PS3.B.2: Energy cannot be created or destroyed, but it can be transported from one place to another and transferred between systems.
Activities correlating to this DCI:
Definitions of Energy
1) HS-PS3.A.1: Energy is a quantitative property of a system that depends on the motion and interactions of matter and radiation within that system. That there is a single quantity called energy is due to the fact that a system's total energy is conserved, even as, within the system, energy is continually transferred from one object to another and between its various possible forms.
Activities correlating to this DCI:
1) HS-PS3.B.1: Conservation of energy means that the total change of energy in any system is always equal to the total energy transferred into or out of the system.
Activities correlating to this DCI:
- AAPT Lesson: Energy Theater-Exploring Energy Transfer and Transformation
- PhET Simulation: Energy Forms & Changes
- FWEE Project: Walk Through a Hydroelectric Project
- PBS Learning Media: Energy Transfer in a Trebuchet
- Physics Classroom: What's Up and Down with KE and PE?
- Smarter Every Day Video: The Physics of Slingshots
- CK12.org Tutorial: Potential Energy
2) HS-PS3.B.2: Energy cannot be created or destroyed, but it can be transported from one place to another and transferred between systems.
Activities correlating to this DCI:
- AAPT Lesson: Energy Theater-Exploring Energy Transfer and Transformation
- PhET Simulation: Energy Skate Park
- Physics Classroom Interactive: Mass on a Spring
- Physics Classroom: Energy Transformation for a Pendulum
- Physics Classroom: Energy Transformation on a Roller Coaster
Definitions of Energy
1) HS-PS3.A.1: Energy is a quantitative property of a system that depends on the motion and interactions of matter and radiation within that system. That there is a single quantity called energy is due to the fact that a system's total energy is conserved, even as, within the system, energy is continually transferred from one object to another and between its various possible forms.
Activities correlating to this DCI:
- AAPT Lesson: Energy Theater-Exploring Energy Transfer and Transformation
- Greg Swackhamer: "Making Work Work"
- Energizer Model