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Energy
Alison Hancock, Tresse
Keplinger, Kristin Palmer, Haley
Slusser, Dakota Smith
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Objectives
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The student will be able to predict the outcome of two
objects colliding.
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The student will be able to conduct a scientific experiment to
discover energy transfer.
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Children’s Ideas On Science
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Children often have the misconception that energy is
found in living things only.
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In this lesson, students will learn that inanimate objects
posses energy as well.
They will observe and make predictions about the changes
in the energy of a marble as it rolls down a ramp and
collides with another marble.
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Materials
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Marbles
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Cardboard tube
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Marked with positions A, B, C, D
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One per group
Tube holder
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One per group
Measuring tape
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Two per group
One per group
Colliding Marbles Worksheet
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Vocabulary
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Energy- ability to do work
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Law of Conservation of Energy- energy cannot be created
nor destroyed, but it can be transferred to another object
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Collision- when two objects bump into each other and the
energy is transferred from one object to the other
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Position- location of an object in space
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Speed- distance an object travels in a certain amount of time
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Experiment
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Questions
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How did colliding the marbles at different heights affect the
distance that the stationary marble traveled?
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Based on what you know now, how would you explain how
energy changes when objects collide?