3. Day 1: Foundations of Energy
Day 2: Mechanical Energy
Day 3: Thermal Energy
Day 4: Electrical Energy
Day 5: Chemical Energy
Course Outline
4. Pedagogy Themes
Next Generation Science Standards
• Disciplinary Core Ideas
• Science and Engineering Practices
• Crosscutting Concepts
Probing for and Engaging with Students’
Misconceptions
Lesson Design
• Active learning, Hands-on
• Backwards Design (Key Take-away)
• Science Inquiry Learning Cycle
• Engineering Design Cycle
5. Today’s Lessons
Light a Bulb
• Science Inquiry Learning Cycle
Change It Up
• Forms of energy and ways energy changes form
You’ve Got Potential
• Potential and kinetic energy
6. Energy as a Crosscutting Concept
Big Ideas About Energy
1. All energy is fundamentally the same, and it can
be manifested in different phenomena that are
often referred to as different “forms” or “types.”
2. Energy can be transformed/converted from one
form/type to another.
3. Energy can be transferred between systems and
objects.
4. Energy is conserved. It is never created or
destroyed, only transformed/converted or
transferred.
5. Energy is dissipated in all macroscopic (involving
more than just a few particles) processes.
7. Forms of Energy (Change It Up)
Mechanical
Energy
Gravitational
Energy
Elastic Energy
Motion EnergyThermal Energy
Electrical
Energy
Chemical
Energy
8. Potential and Kinetic Energy (You’ve Got
Potential)
Potential Energy: stored energy
Kinetic Energy: energy in action
12. What is energy?
How would you explain the scientific concept of energy to a neighbor?
Image: Scotto Bear (CC BY-SA 2.0)
13. Crosscutting Concept: Energy
Next Generation Science Standards—Energy and
Matter: Flows, Cycles, and Conservation
• Energy can be transferred in various ways and
between objects.
• Energy may take different forms.
• The transfer of energy can be tracked as energy flows
through a system.
• Energy cannot be created or destroyed—it only moves
between one place and another or it changes form.
Increasing
grade level
progression
See Teaching Energy Across the Sciences, K-12, pp. 33- 37
Definitions are in glossary:
Mechanical Energy (from the branch of physics called “Mechanics,” the study of the motion of and causes of motion of objects and systems): energy associated with the motion or position of object or objects
Thermal Energy: energy associated with the movement of atoms or molecules within a substance (the amount of which is determined by temperature, mass, and state of matter)
Electrical Energy: energy that can be transmitted by electric currents
Chemical Energy: energy stored in the bonds between atoms, molecules, or ions