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Pendulum Energy JS Model Package
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Wolfgang Christian, Mario Belloni, and Anne Cox
content provider: Barbara Christian and Laura Fauver
This is a simulation-based learning module for Grades 6-8, developed to help students visualize changing kinetic and potential energy in a pendulum system. It depicts a "puppet" on a swing suspended from a stationary point. Students can drag the swing to different heights, then activate the motion. As the swing moves in periodic motion, energy bar graphs are simultaneously displayed that show changing levels of kinetic and potential energy. A third graph of TE (Total Energy) shows clearly that the TE of the system is conserved, even though the kinetic and potential energies are continuously changing.
The resource includes two complete lesson plans: 1) Conceptual lesson with only energy data to explore transfer and conservation of energy, and 2) Computational Lesson incorporating height and speed data for calculating the mass of the puppet. This model was developed using the Easy Java Simulations (EjsS) version 5. It is distributed as a ready-to-run html page and requires only a browser with JavaScript support. Editor's Note: This computational model provides an excellent way to address two NGSS Core Ideas within the topic of Energy: 1) The Conceptual Lesson correlates with MS-PS3.B.1: "When the motion energy of an object changes, there is inevitably some other change in energy at the same time," and 2) The Computational Lesson correlates with MS-PS3.A.2: "Motion energy is properly called kinetic energy; it is proportional to the mass of the moving object and grows with the square of its speed."
1 supplemental document is available
Pendulum Energy Worksheet
Curricular materials for physical science classrooms for use with Pendulum Energy Models. download 996kb .pdf Published: March 19, 2015
1 source code document is available
Pendulum Energy JS Model Package Source Code
Source Code for the Pendulum Energy JS Model Package program. download 40kb .zip Published: March 19, 2015 Rights: This material is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0.
Next Generation Science StandardsDisciplinary Core Ideas (K-12)
Forces and Motion (PS2.A)
Types of Interactions (PS2.B)
Definitions of Energy (PS3.A)
Conservation of Energy and Energy Transfer (PS3.B)
Crosscutting Concepts (K-12)
Systems and System Models (K-12)
Energy and Matter (2-12)
Scientific Knowledge Assumes an Order and Consistency in Natural Systems (1-12)
NGSS Science and Engineering Practices (K-12)
Developing and Using Models (K-12)
AAAS Benchmark Alignments (2008 Version)4. The Physical Setting
4E. Energy Transformations
11. Common Themes
11B. Models
Common Core State Standards for Mathematics AlignmentsStandards for Mathematical Practice (K-12)
MP.2 Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
Ratios and Proportional Relationships (6-7)
Analyze proportional relationships and use them to solve real-world
and mathematical problems. (7)
Functions (8)
Use functions to model relationships between quantities. (8)
NSES Content Standards
Con.U: Unifying Concepts & Processes
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Christian, Wolfgang, Mario Belloni, and Anne Cox. Pendulum Energy JS Model Package. Vers. 1.0. Computer software. 2015. 11 Nov. 2024 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=13423&DocID=4016>.
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Month = {March},
Year = {2015}
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