| Middle School
- P.EN.M.1 Kinetic and Potential Energy -"Objects
and substances in motion have kinetic energy. Objects
and substances may have potential energy due to their
relative positions in a system. Gravitational, elastic,
and chemical energy are all forms of potential energy."
- Energy
Here your students can learn about the changes
between potential, kinetic and heat energy through
text, a series of hands on classroom activities
and even an online "Monkey Swing" game.
- Eureka: Potential Energy New
This is a YouTube
video that explains the concept of potential
and kinetic energy.
- Kinetic vs. Potential Energy New
This site
includes three short CLOZE activities that reenforce
the concepts of potential and kinetic energy.
- Let's Get Moving New
This is a printable page
designed to do as a whole class where the students
need to differentiate between examples of potential
versus kinetin energy. This is a PDF file.
- Motion and
Energy New
Click on view activites
under Motion and Energy section. How do objects
move? How far can a rubber band stretch? How
does energy affect what we can see, hear or feel?
Discover the science of motion and energy.
- Pendulum
Students are to work in groups to gather data
regarding the relationship between the length
of the pendulum and the length of the time it
takes for one complete period. Once the students
graph the data, they are then asked to predict
the appearance of the graph if the length of the
pendulum as 2X or 0.5X the original length. The
teacher may adjust the difficulty of this lesson
according to the level of the student.
- Potential
and Kinetic Energy
This is an excellent site with many links on potential
and kinetic energy. The site has links to animations
that illustrate the forms.These were specificly
identified for 5,6,and 7 grades.
- Potential
and Kinetic Energy
Excellent site that clearly defines and explains
potential and kinetic energy. The site provides
an assessment and examples one using a rubber
band.
- Scientific
Forms of Energy
Excellent site that clearly explains potential
and kinetic energy. The site has other resources
for energy including a glossary of terms.
- P.EN.M.3 Waves and Energy -"Waves have
energy and transfer energy when they interact with
matter. Examples of waves include sound waves, seismic
waves, waves on water, and light waves."
- Acoustics
of Baseball Bats
This site has animated wave patterns to show the
acoustical vibration of baseball bats. Compares
the vibration of a wood and aluminum baseball
bat. Uses familiar objects to teach science concepts.
- BBC
Science: How We See Things
This site allows students to investigate the bending
of light using mirrors. A quiz is included.
- Beyond
Discovery
Actual text book that explains how sound travels
through water. It explains the history of the
first time it was discovered that sound travels
through water.
- Creating
Sound Waves
Excellent discription of vibrations. Has a link
to get more information at the bottom of the page.
Click on: Where Do You Go From Here? and you are
on your way.
- Discovery
of Sound in the Sea (DOSITS)
Outstanding!
Oceanographers, submariners, whales, dolphins,
seals, in short, all working or living in the
ocean use sound to sense their surroundings, to
communicate, and to navigate. This web site will
introduce you to the science and uses of sound
in the sea. Includes a sound gallery of 60+ sound
recordings and vibration patterns of various ocean
creatures to show how ocean depth, temperature
and salinity affect sound quality.
- Doppler
Effect Two Sources
Students can manipulate frequency, speed of
sound and speed of objects and then watch two
waves vibrate and create interference patterns
in this interactive simulation.Gizmo can only
be used once a day without having to join.
- Doppler
Effect Single Source
This page shows the doppler effect when sound
comes from a single source. Gizmo can only be
used once a day without having to join.
- Echoes
Outstanding!
Five thumbs up. This has audio and reads the text
to the kids. You could read it as a class off
the computer, or have the kids listen to the computer
read the text and discuss the information after
the reading. There is also a mini quiz and animated
visuals… How Cool!!!
- Longitudinal
Waves
Interactive graphics that depict what happens
to the sound waves when the student "screams"
by moving a "chunk." Displacement, velocity and
acceleration are depicted. Gizmo can only be used
once a day without having to join.
- Model
Analysis of an Electric Guitar
This site shows how the shape of a guitar
can affect the vibration pattern. Nice animations
and additonal links for further student exploration.
- Nova
Online - Sounds Underwater
Learn about animal sounds underwater and how water
affects sound waves. This is an interactive true/false
quiz that addresses the concept of speed of sound
through different mediums. This site could be
used by individual students or as a class activity.
- Reflection
and Refraction of Light
Outstanding!
Here are five interactive games about light: reflection,
the visible spectrum and color, refraction, speed
of light, and irregular reflection with shaped
mirrors. It includes printable activity sheets
for teachers that explain the games, give correct
answers to the games, and extension activities.
When students "win" some of the games
they qualify to download a prize. The "prizes"
are fun sheets with great light facts or how to
build a periscope.
- Reflection
of Light
This interactive site shows how light is reflected.
You can manipulate the wavelength and angle to
change the reflected light. You can also access
extensive information on reflection by clicking
on "Back to Reflection of Light" at
the bottom of the page.
- Science
of Sound-Sound Site
Students can
play different sounds to gain an "ears on" experience
with different wave forms. The visual design will
keep students engaged in the activities. They
can make sound with rulers, design an eardrum
and experience slinky sound waves. Students can
search for different sounds in the online database.
You can add sounds to the database so the students
can hear the specific sounds that tie in with
the lesson.
- Science
Activities with Sounds and Waves
This site shows how a drum
head vibrates and illustrates with an MPEG movie,
the motion of a vibrating object. Requires an
MPEG player to view
- Seismic
Waves
This site takes you through both p waves and s
waves made during an earthquake and allows you
to link to other sites with simulations.
- Sound Simulation New
"This simulation
lets you see sound waves. Adjust the frequency,
volume, and harmonic content and you can see
and hear how the wave changes. Move the listener
around and hear what she hears. "
- The
Physics Classroom
Outstanding!
Has great explanations and great animations. This
site covers all benchmarks under waves and vibration.
Have fun, this is a goldmine of information.
- Wave
Motion - Echoes
Student interactive site. Needs ShockWave program
to work the student activity. Students work on
waves & vibrations to learn about echoes.
Gizmo can only be used once a day without having
to join.
- P.EN.M.4 Energy Transfer -"Energy is transferred
from a source to a receiver by radiation, conduction,
and convection. When energy is transferred from one
system to another, the quantity
of energy before
the transfer is equal to the quantity of energy after
the transfer."
- Bing! Bang! Boom! New
Here are three activites
that demonstrate convection, conduction, and
radiation.
- Converting
Energy
The best parts about this lesson plan
are the links to interesting sites that explain
about
energy concepts. The end product of the
lesson is experiments that students have developed
and conducted that answer questions about heat
energy.
- Energy
Conversions
This site contains general information about
energy conversions. It gives examples of the most
important forms of energy and gives some examples
of objects that convert one form of energy into
another (e.g. electric power plant, automobile
engine).
-
Energy
Quest
Outstanding -
Energy Quest is an award-winning energy education
website. Students click on items in a
room to go to various areas such as projects,
library, energy and transportation, homework
help, and how things work. Each area also
list several links to other information.
There is also a link for parents and teachers.
- How
Does Heat Travel? New
This site gives definitions
of radiation, conduction, and convection.
- Introduction
to Waves
This site helps students to understand the basic
structure of a wave. It gives students the opportunity
to adjust different parts of a wave such as amplitude,
wavelength, wave speed, and phase shift. This
first page could be used for middle school students
was well as the link entitled waves, while other
links could be used for high school students to
look at the physics of how waves behave and the
trigonometric realms of waves.
- IPPEX:
Interactive: Energy and Magnetism
This interactive student activity introduces
the basic concepts of electricity and magnetism.
Shockwave must be installed on the browser. It
can be downloaded from the Macromedia Web site
- Renewable
Resources in the U.S. Electricity Supply
This would be a good site for student reports
on renewable resources used for electricity production.
This site provides general information.
- States of Matter Simulation New
"Watch
different types of molecules form a solid, liquid,
or gas. Add or remove heat and watch the phase
change. Change the temperature or volume of a
container and see a pressure-temperature diagram
respond in real time. Relate the interaction
potential to the forces between molecules."
- The
Atoms Family
Outstanding - This site provides teacher
lesson plans, background reading material, and
student activities that show molecular movement
at different temperatures. The graphics are great,
the student or teacher can choose ability level
from K-12, and the activities are interesting.
Easy to follow directions for students and teachers.
- P.EN.M.6 Solar Energy Effects -"Nuclear
reactions take place in the sun producing heat and
light. Only a tiny fraction of the light energy from
the sun reaches Earth, providing energy to heat the
Earth. and providing energy that results in winds,
ocean currents, and storms. Light is also the primary
source of energy for living things. In plants, light
from the sun is transferred and stored as chemical
potential energy through a process called photosynthesis."
- Energy
and The Sun
Site explores how we get energy from the sun.
The site also has additional links.
- How
Do We Know Light is a Wave?
Great examples and explanation of light as
a wave and a lot of information concering the
topic of light.
- Introduction
to Photosynthesis
This site includes the following: Photosynthesis
Intro Page, Energy Changes, FIRST LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS,
THE SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS, THE REAL DEFINITION
OF ENERGY, FREE LESSON PLANS, Comments, Suggestions,
Corrections, Energy Flow in Living Organisms,
The Mysterious Everything, Photosynthesis Basics,
How Many Forms of Energy?, Energy Pyramids, Food
Chains & Food Web Links, Which Plants Use
CO2?, Respiration Resources, Photosynthesis Links,
Photosynthesis in a Leaf
- NOVA
OnLine - Photosysthesis
Require Flash. This is an animation of photosynthesis.
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