Energy!
Day 1
What is Energy?
3 min
• Discuss with your table
partners and Jot down. On
the top of your notes write
down: where have you heard
the word energy before?
What do you think it means?
Notes: What is Energy?
• Energy is anything that can
cause matter to change.
• Hitting a baseball, holding
a book above your head,
digesting food and heating
water all take energy!
Energy
• There are two types of
Energy:
–Kinetic Energy
–Potential Energy
Energy
• In these two types, there
are many different forms of
energy:
–Chemical, mechanical,
sound, heat, light, electrical,
nuclear, gravitational
Potential and Kinetic
Energy
What is Energy?
• Anything that can cause a
change in matter.
Two Types of Energy:
1) Kinetic Energy
2) Potential Energy
Potential Energy
1. Potential Energy is stored
energy.
2. An object with potential
energy has the ability to
move or change.
Potential Energy
3. Potential energy depends
on an object’s position or
condition.
Example:
Examples:
Potential Energy Wile E. Coyote and
Roadrunner
• Potential Energy: Wile E. Coyote and
Roadrunner
Kinetic Energy
4. Kinetic Energy is the
energy of movement.
5. It depends on the mass
and speed of a moving
object.
Examples:
Video
• potential and kinetic energy song
Potential or Kinetic?
Potential or Kinetic?
Potential or Kinetic?
Potential or Kinetic?
Potential or Kinetic?
Potential or Kinetic?
Card Sort
• Determine if the situation
on each card is showing
potential energy or kinetic
energy.
How are Potential Energy
and Kinetic Energy related?
• Energy can be transferred from
potential to kinetic energy.
• If an object has more potential
energy to start, then it will have
more kinetic energy when it
starts moving.
PE and KE Activity!
1. Hold a ball over your head, let it
bounce off the pavement and allow it
to continue bouncing.
2. Draw a diagram of the activity. Label
the points of kinetic and potential
energy.
3. Describe how the ball’s energy changes
from potential to kinetic.
Closure
• On a blank sheet of paper, draw a
picture showing potential energy
and a picture showing kinetic
energy. Explain in words why
each situation shows that type of
energy.
Homework
• Review the Forms of energy power
point.
• Complete the “Forms of Energy guided
notes on your tablet. This needs to be
completed before you come to class
tomorrow so you will be prepared for
the Lab demonstrations.
• You must submit the guided notes on
your tablet.