Physics of the Universe · Week 18 · Energy Conversion and Renewable Energy
Semester Reflection: My Energy Story
Students write an energy conservation story of their semester, showing where their effort went and what it built.
- Students will
- Students calculate the energy change in a solar water heater, then write an energy conservation story of their semester that tracks where their effort went and explains what it built.
- SEL skill
- Describe how your feelings and effort changed over a semester
- What it looks like
- Students recognize emotions across the semester and describe how their feelings changed.
- Content focus
- Semester reflection: my energy story
- Format
- Think write pair share
Self-awareness
Self-awareness is knowing your own feelings, beliefs, and strengths well enough to see how they steer your behavior. 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: SEP8 Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information
- Crosscutting concept: CCC7 Stability and change
- Literacy in science: WHST.11-12.9 Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
- Traditional course: Physics
Fits these textbook chapters
- Physics Techbook, Concept 3.1: Types of Energy
- Physics Techbook, Concept 3.2: Conservation of Energy
- Physics Techbook, Concept 3.3: Laws of Thermodynamics
- Inspire Physics, Unit 3: Energy and its Conservation
- Inspire Physics, Unit 3: Thermal Energy
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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.
- Energy Is Conserved Self-awarenessCalculating energy changes in a system and tracking where students' emotional energy goes during a school day.
- Atoms That Change Self-awarenessModeling radioactive decay and reflecting on which parts of ourselves change and which stay stable.
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