Energy
Vocabulary:
Energy Acronym : Mech 'n' Legs
Day 1: Energy
Starter Questions:
Vocabulary
Energy! Its some thing that we use every day. What we don't some times realize is how many type of energy there are. Today we looked at all of the types of energy, what causes them and if it is a stored energy or a moving energy.
Day 2: Energy Transfer
Starter Questions:
1. Name the Energy Acronym
2. List the 9 forms of energy
Our world is made up of energy and the only way we get useable energy is if it transfers. Which all energy does. All energy is also conserved and it can't be created or destroyed.
Day 3: Energy Transfer Lab
Starter Questions:
Day 3 Quiz
Today we worked on a lab that deminstrated the ideas of Gravitational Potential energy and Gravitational Kenetic energy. We looked at the variables that affect each type of energy and how it affects the marble's motion.
Day 4: Heat Transfer
Starter Questions:
1. What variables are connected with Gravitational Potential Energy?
2. Find the Energy Transfer
Sun -> What it gives off-> Rain clouds form -> Thunderstorm -> lightening strike-> Brush Fire
_______ -> ________ & _______-> ______->______->________-> ________&________
Heat is the most common bi-product from energy transfered. But how is that energy givin off? The three ways that this occurs is with Conduction, Convection and radiation. Convection is transfered heat through touching. Convection is heat transfered through the air. Radiation is the transfered through the vibrations of particals.
Day 5: Heat Transfer Labs
Starter Questions:
Day 5 Quiz (written in packet as starters)
