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William Templeton

Potential Energy and Kinetic Energy: Bouncing Golf Balls - 1 views

    • William Templeton
       
      For a an extension to this activity students could drop the ball from three predetermined heights, record the height of the first bounce, and then predict the height of the first bounce for a fourth starting height.
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    Use bouncing golf balls to understand the relationship between potential and kinetic energy.
Liz Dilts

ZOOM . activities . sci . Balloon Blast-Off | PBS Kids - 1 views

    • Liz Dilts
       
      6.4.2 Construct a simple device that uses potential or kinetic energy to perform work. Differentiation: Gifted students could go a step further and cover the next standard "6.4.3 Describe the transfer of energy amongst energy interactions" and do a write up on how energy was transferred during this activity
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    This is a familiar activity!  This fun activity teaches students about harnessing potential and kinetic energy!  Very good for students who need to learn or like to work in teams!  Also would be fun on a family night.
Lori Jones

5th Grade SC Unit 3 Activity 6 - 1 views

    • Lori Jones
       
      6.4.1  Potential / kinetic energy.  Love how this students to be the access of their own learning journey.  
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    Students will discuss and understand how to apply potential or kinetic energy to power a simple device (in this case, a yoyo.)   Standard 6.4.1 Working in groups, allow students to experiment with yoyos, a marble rollercoaster, etc.  Follow activity guidelines. Gifted students could design an amusement park (to be used in school.)   ELL's pair with a gifted student who can assist them with this project.  
Amanda McCarthy

The Amazing Returning Rod | Education.com - 1 views

    • Amanda McCarthy
       
      Students who need help constructing the rod can work in pairs to complete it or the teacher can have a few already made for those students. ELL students can work with a native English speaker when constructing the item to make sure they understand the instructions. Students who have a good understanding of energy could write a paper about what they see and why it happens.
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    In this activity, a metal rod can be made to roll back to you automatically when pushed away. This activity deals with stored energy. The students can construct their own metal rods.
Jessica Buell

Electric Science: Make a Battery! | Education.com - 1 views

    • Jessica Buell
       
      Fun 4th grade activity
    • Jessica Buell
       
      Adaptions: This is a great activity for ELL and special need students. Be sure to go over vocabulary and explain what electricity is and use the same terms for the experiements in order not to confuse them. Extensions: You can extend this activity to higher grades by first doing this experiment, then doing another experiment to demonstrate how batteries make electricty (by lighting a lightbulb)
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    Core Standard: Provide evidence that heat and electricity are forms of energy. (4.1.1, 4.1.2) Core Standard: Design and assemble electric circuits that provide a means of transferring energy from one form or place to another. (4.1.3, 4.1.4, 4.1.5)
Ashley Stewart

Keep a Candle Burning Underwater! | Education.com - 1 views

    • Ashley Stewart
       
      4.1.2 "Investigate the variety of ways in which heat can be generated and moved from one place to another. Explain the direction the heat moved." This activity can be used with gifted students by allowing them to observe another candle burning in a bowl with no water present. The students can then compare and contrast the differences in the candles and the way in which they burn, and make inferences about why they believe the candles are different. This activity can be used with older age groups in the same way. The older students may be able to light their own candles as they work in groups, while still monitoring their progress.
    • Susie Beesley
       
      How cool is this! I definitely want to try it!
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    Students watch a candle burn underwater, due to the quality of absorbing heat energy in this fun activity! Be sure to very closely supervise students.
Susan Shonle

EIA Energy Kids - Science Fair Experiments - 2 views

    • Susan Shonle
       
      Extensions: Natural Science connects with History (Colonial Herbs) Adaptations: Gifted students can research herbs from the Colonial time period in history.  Students will then select an herb to grow from seed and document sunlight requirements and results.  ESL & Special Ed students can keep a journal of drawings that depict findings in experiment.
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    Sprouting Seeds experiment (K-3) How much sun does a seed need to sprout? (double click PDF file to open)
Brandon Appleton

SDSC Education - Gravity - 2 views

    • Brandon Appleton
       
      To differentiate pair students with different ability levels. If ELL students struggle, provide pictures of what activities you hope to have them accomplish
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    Good web-site that can give you an entire unit on Gravity. Allows students to discuss energy and what causes things to go through motion with different weight and mass. 
Jean Guernsey

Making a battery | SEP LESSONS - 1 views

  • This is a great opportunity to talk about electricity as a form of energy and its conversion into heat, light and motion, and vice versa. Also, it's a good time to discuss how a power plant works and perhaps organize a field trip to a wind farm, solar energy farm, or power plant. Solar panels make very exciting demos and are avaiable at SEP. Also, consider helping make your school a solar school.
Laura Riggins

Odyssey of the Mind Curriculum Activity: Extend-sive Thinking - 1 views

    • Laura Riggins
       
      Sticky Note: This would be a great addition to a math lesson as well if the students were required to create, maintain, and balance a budget for creating this machine.
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    6.4.2 Construct a simple device that uses potential or kinetic energy to perform work. Activities 2 and 3 Sticky Note: This would be a great addition to a math lesson as well if the students were required to create, maintain, and balance a budget for creating this machine.
William Templeton

Rubber Band Racers - 1 views

    • William Templeton
       
      After the primary lesson students can extrapolate to real life devices and how they store energy to perform work.
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    Students work to design a rubberband race car.
katie wilds

Build a Balloon Powered Car | Education.com - 1 views

    • William Templeton
       
      While this activity does not cover a specific standard it does meet the requirement of teaching the design process.  Make sure that students must design, test, and revise their design to make the activity authentic.  A race would be a great final activity.  Assessment could come from an oral presentation on what they did and why or a visual presentation, such as a poster.
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      SC.2.3.7 2000Investigate and observe that the way to change how something is moving is to give it a push or a pull.
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    By focusing on the design aspect of this activity a budding scientist can learn a lot about solving a problem through the scientific design process.
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    Great for deciephering where energy comes from. The design process gives the student a full understanding of how the vehicle works and why it moves.
Mary Jo Mack

The Marshmallow Machine - 1 views

    • Mary Jo Mack
       
      6.4.2. "Construct a simple device that uses potential or kinetic energy to perform work"
    • Mary Jo Mack
       
      This is a great activity that takes this standard to a whole new level- using the body to make a model of a machine.  Once the students have completed the activity, I would challenge them to think of what we use in our every day life that is made out of machines like the "marshmallow-smashing machine." Sixth grade students will love coming up with silly noises and motions- awesome learning tool/visual for kinesthetic students!
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    Children are formed into groups to 'invent' a pretend machine that smashes marshmallows. Each child plays the role of a cog or part of the machine to move the marshmallow along. Children then read the story Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, a machine that digs its way to a happy ending, and recognize how technological devices affect our lives.
Mary Jo Mack

Rollin' Rollin' Rollin' - 1 views

    • Mary Jo Mack
       
      6.4.1 "Understand how to apply potential or kinetic energy to power a simple device"
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      This activity could be differentiated for gifted students by challenging them to use materials they can find around the classroom other than those provided once they have determined how to successfully build the wheel and axle devices out of the provided materials.
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    Children will use and describe processes of science and design technology to build and test simple wheel and axle devices made of disposable cups.
Laura Riggins

Odyssey of the Mind Curriculum Activity: Up to Speed - 1 views

    • Laura Riggins
       
      Sticky Note: This could also be added to a science lesson where students have been creating vehicles and also have a class vehicle and class ramp that students could test. That way they could compare their own vehicles with the class vehicle and same with the class ramp (kind of like a control subjects). It could also be added to math lessons because of the measuring involved in each part of the activity.
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    4.4.1 Investigate transportation systems and devices that operate on or in land, water, air and space and recognize the forces (lift, drag, friction, thrust and gravity) that affect their motion. Sticky Note: This could also be added to a science lesson where students have been creating vehicles and also have a class vehicle and class ramp that students could test. That way they could compare their own vehicles with the class vehicle and same with the class ramp (kind of like a control subjects). It could also be added to math lessons because of the measuring involved in each part of the activity.
Jessica Buell

Make an Electrical Zapper | Education.com - 2 views

    • Jessica Buell
       
      4th Grade Physical Science Activity. 4.1.4 Experiment with materials to identify conductors and insulators of heat and electricity. 4.1.5 Demonstrate that electrical energy can be transformed into heat, light, and sound.
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      Adaptions: have the ELL and special need students (as well as whole class in order not to single out students) draw a demonstration of how + & - affect each other before doign the experiment in oder to enhance understanding of what the objects represent in regards to their charge. Extensions: You can extend this activity to younger get students by using balloons and rubbing them on their heads. Also, draw a demonstration showing the charges. Then, have the students determine how the positive charge of the balloon affects different items.
katie wilds

Explore the Phases of the Moon | Education.com - 1 views

    • katie wilds
       
      SC.3.3 2000 - The Physical SettingStudents observe changes of the Earth and sky. They continue to explore the concepts of energy and motion.SC.3.3.1 2000Observe and describe the apparent motion of the sun and moon over a time span of one day.
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    This activity has the ability to show students why and how the phases of the moon really work. Not a lot of prep time and materials needed.Great for students to see a model of what is happening during the phases of the moon.
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