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Supporting Worksheet: Types of Energy Transferred Lab Simulation

Topics

• Conservation of Energy
• Energy Systems
• Energy Transfer
• Energy Conversion
• Heat Conduction

Description

Explore how heating and cooling iron, brick, water, and olive oil adds or removes energy. See how energy is transferred between objects. Build your own system, with energy sources, changers, and users. Track and visualize how energy flows and changes through your system.

Sample Learning Goals

• Predict how energy will flow when objects are heated or cooled, or for objects in contact that have different temperatures.
• Describe the different types of energy and give examples from everyday life.
• Describe how energy can change from one form of energy into another.
• Explain conservation of energy in real-life systems.
• Design a system with energy sources, changers, and users and describe how energy flows and changes one form of energy into another.
• Tell the energy story for real-life systems.

This interactive learning activity is aligned with Solomon Islands Year Seven Science Curriculum:

• Strand: Energy and Changes
• Sub-strand: 7.4 Energy
• General Learning Outcome:
  • 7.4.2 know that there are different forms of energy (k)
  • 7.4.3 be able to show that energy can change from one form to another (s)
  • 7.4.5 appreciate the use of forms of energy in our daily lives (a)
• Specific Learning Outcome:
  • 7.4.2.1 identify and describe different forms of energy; heat, sound, elastic, electrical
  • 7.4.5.1 identify the form of energy in the following activities: music from radio, stretching rubber band, boiling water, using firewood, heating water using electrical jug

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University of Colorado Boulder
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