Activity Description:

Students will explore the Energy skate park learning object and apply their understanding of kinetic and gravitational potential energies to explain the skater’s motion.

These materials come from a resource called Science by Doing. Click on the links below to access the PDF resources for the activity.

Note – This activity uses the PhET Simulation also found in this course at: http://www.iresource.gov.sb/courses/science-7-4-energy/lessons/phet-simulation-energy-skate-park-basics/

Student Digital Activities:

To access the digital activities, go to https://www.sciencebydoing.edu.au/ click on “Are you a teacher?” and use the login details given to you after filling in the request form below:

Then, use the URL link below:

https://www.sciencebydoing.edu.au/curriculum/student/energy/digital/part2/activity2

This activity addresses the following Solomon Islands Year 7 Science Learning Outcomes for Unit 7.4: Energy

• 7.4.3 be able to show that energy can changed from one form to another (s)
  • 7.4.3.1 demonstrate energy transformation in the following situations: lighting a match, dropping a coconut, kicking a soccer ball, writing in the book, brushing your hair
• 7.4.4 know that the total amount of energy remains the same during energy transformations (k)
  • 7.4.4.1 state the law of conservation of energy: “Energy cannot be created nor destroyed, but can be changed from one form to another”

This material was sourced from the Science by Doing online curriculum unit Energy by the Australian Academy of Science, available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License at www.sciencebydoing.edu.au