Activity Description:

Students will observe someone throwing a ball as high in the air as possible. They will discuss the forces involved while the ball is being thrown and during its flight. They will also identify forms of mechanical energy involved; gravitational potential and kinetic energies, and how a transformation between these two forms of energy allows for the conservation of mechanical energy.

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Student Digital Activities:

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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

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