Physics of the Universe · Week 13 · Energy Conversion and Renewable Energy
Energy Is Conserved
Calculating energy changes in a system and tracking where students' emotional energy goes during a school day.
- Students will
- Students calculate energy at points on a roller coaster ride and show that total energy stays the same as it changes form.
- SEL skill
- Notice where your emotional energy goes during a day and name the feeling attached
- What it looks like
- Students recognize emotions and describe where their own emotional energy goes during a school day.
- Content focus
- Energy is conserved
- Format
- Think write pair share
Self-awareness
Self-awareness is recognizing what you feel, think, and value, and how your strengths and feelings influence your actions. More self-awareness activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- HS-PS3-1: High School Physical Science performance expectation
- Science and engineering practice: SEP5 Using mathematics and computational thinking
- Crosscutting concept: CCC5 Energy and matter
- Literacy in science: RST.11-12.3 Follow a complex multistep procedure when carrying out experiments or taking measurements.
- Traditional course: Physics
Fits these textbook chapters
- Physics Techbook, Concept 3.1: Types of Energy
- Physics Techbook, Concept 3.2: Conservation of Energy
- Inspire Physics, Unit 3: Energy and its Conservation
- California HMH Science Dimensions: Physics in the Universe, Unit 4: Energy Conversion
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More self-awareness activities for Physics of the Universe
- The Physicist in Me Self-awarenessStudents list the motion questions they wonder about, from skateboards to dust devils, and name the scientist identity they bring.
- Electric Charges Self-awarenessModeling attraction and repulsion between charges and reflecting on what attracts and repels us in hard situations.
- Semester Reflection: My Energy Story Self-awarenessStudents write an energy conservation story of their semester, showing where their effort went and what it built.
- Atoms That Change Self-awarenessModeling radioactive decay and reflecting on which parts of ourselves change and which stay stable.
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