Potential &
Kinetic
Energy
Your Name Here
Directions:
Use your skills to research each of the items in the following
PowerQuest™.
Then, use your computer skills to place the information to create
a unique PowerPoint similar to the slides provided.
You may customize colors and appearance, but not delete
elements of content.
You may save your product in your backpack on EDMODO, flash
drive, or your student drive.
Complete the Potential & Kinetic Energy Power Quest
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using at least three of the following websites:
http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/energy.ht
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http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/story/chapter01.html
http://www.eia.gov/kids/energy.cfm?page=1
http://www.pdclipart.org/
Google images
http://en.allexperts.com/q/Science-Kids3250/f/Energy.htm
http://multimedia.mcb.harvard.edu/flash/rhino.swf
You may also use your ENERGY Vocab KIM chart
Energy: What are the two
types?
In this space name
one type of energy
In this space answer
the questions:
What is Energy?
What is the
measurement(unit) for
energy?
In this space
answer this
question:
The type of
energy you
have
depends on
what?
In this space name the
other type of energy.
Click on the link below to listen to the Potential and Kinetic energy song:
-Scroll down to the middle of the page
- Click on play
http://www.kidsknowit.com/educationalsongs/play-educationalsong.php?song=kinetic%20and%20potential
%20energy
Potential Energy
Find a picture that
illustrates Potential
Energy
In this space tell what
Potential Energy is.
Find a second
picture that
illustrates Potential
Energy.
caption
In this space
name the 3
types of
Potential
energy. Which
type is the most
important to
you? Justify
your answer.
caption
Picture
and caption
Picture
and
caption
Find a
picture. for
each type
of potential
energy and
put in the
boxes
above.
Picture
and
caption
Potential Energy Formula
In this space write the
formula for Potential
Energy.
Look at this Example: A hiker weighing 680 Newtons
Climbs up a hill 40 meters high. How many Joules of
Gravitational Potential Energy (G.P.E.) has the hiker
gained?
• G.P.E. = Weight x Height
• 680N x 40m = 27,200 Nm
-OR- 27,200 Joules
In this space solve this problem: Find the Potential energy (Use the formula above and
plug in the numbers)
A soccer ball that weighs 10 Newtons is kicked 100 feet into the sky. What is it’s
Gravitational Potential energy?
Kinetic Energy
Find a picture that
illustrates Kinetic
Energy.
In this space tell what Kinetic
energy is.
Find a second
picture that
illustrates Kinetic
Energy.
In this space answer the questions:
caption
What affects Kinetic
energy?
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Picture
Kinetic Energy depends on an objects m__________
and its ___________________.
THINK: Which ball would you have to push harder to
Get rolling?
Once rolling, the bowling ball would have more
k______ energy then a golf ball rolling at the same
Velocity (speed).
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Picture
and
caption
Picture
What are 3
ways you
use
kinetic
energy in
your
everyday
lives?
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caption
In this space write the
Formula for Kinetic energy.
Look at this Example: A 20 Kg shopping cart
moving at 5 m/s.
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20 x (5)2 (squared) divided by 2
20 x 25 divided by 2
500 divided by 2
= 250 Joules
In this space solve this problem: Find the Kinetic Energy (Use the formula above
and plug in the numbers)
A 10 Kg wagon moving at 5 m/s.
1. Go to http://www.quia.com/cz/8072.htm. Take the Potential vs.
Kinetic Energy quiz.
a. Click on “Click here to begin”.
b. Answer the questions.
c. Click “check answers”. Correct any incorrect answers.
d. Click “Next exercise” and answer the following questions.
e. Click “check answers”. Correct any incorrect answers.
f. Click “next exercise” and answer the following questions.
g. Once you have collected 3 coins, you may exit and go on to
number 2.
2. Go to http://www.quia.com/rr/35748.html to play “Who Wants To
Be a Millionaire: Energy Edition”. You only get TWO chances to try
and win $1,000,000.
a. Click on “Click here to begin”
b. Answer the questions (you may receive hints from the
computer)
c. Once you have attempted twice to win the $1,000,000 you
may move onto the next slide.
1. Go to http://multimedia.mcb.harvard.edu/flash/rhino.swf.
a. Click on “Falling Rhinoceros”.
b. Watch what happens to the Rhinoceros.
c. Answer the following questions:
-During the Rhinos fall most of the Potential energy is converted into
________ and a small amount of __________.
-Upon impact, the Kinetic energy is converted into what 3 forms of
energy? ____________, ________________,________________
-After the fall the Rhinos energy remains ________________.
Potential and Kinetic Energy
Check For Understanding:
Energy can only be changed into another sort of energy.
It can not be _____________________ nor can it be _______________________.
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caption
In this space give 3
examples of energy
being changed to
other forms.
Picture
and caption
Picture
and
caption
Picture
Find a
picture for
each
example
and put in
boxes
above.
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caption
Roller Coaster Energy
1. Go to the links below to learn and review the Potential and Kinetic Energy in a
roller coaster.
2. After you are done interacting with the roller coaster simulations answer the questions
below. http://gpb.pbslearningmedia.org/asset/mck05
_int_rollercoaster/
http://gpb.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/hew06.sci.phys.maf.rollercoaster/energy-in-a-roller
coaster-ride/http://adventure.howstuffworks.com/rollercoaster3.htm
http://adventure.howstuffworks.com/roller-coaster3.htm
a. What is Potential Energy? At Which point is Potential Energy the greatest?__________
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b. What is Kinetic Energy? At what point is Kinetic Energy the greatest?________________
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c. What do you know about the relationship about the Potential and Kinetic energy and the
path of the coaster?________________________________________________________
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More Roller Coaster Energy
1. Take a virtual ride on the Millennium Force at Cedar Point (Once you open the link
scroll down and click on the video on the left side of the page, just below where it
says “The best Amusement park In The World”)
2. Answer the question below.
https://www.cedarpoint.com/
a. What does a roller coaster have to do with Science and Energy?___________________
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1. Go to the link below to create your own roller coaster. Keep in mind all that you
learned about Potential and Kinetic Energy to make this coaster run!
http://www.learner.org/interactives/parkphysics/coaster/
2. Follow the steps below to create your roller coaster:
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h.
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j.
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Click “Begin”.
Select the “Height of the First Hill”.
Then click “next piece”.
Select the “Shape of the First Hill”.
Then click “ next piece: exit path”.
Select the “ Exit Path”.
Then click “ next piece”.
Select the “ Height of the Second Hill”.
Then click “next piece”.
Select the “Loop”.
Click “ See Your Roller Coaster”.