Energy Transfers

Learning Target: 

• I can identify how energy changes form in a system

HOWLs Target:

• I treat all property with care.

Agenda

• Warm-up: FORMS
• What forms of energy does the macaque (the little critter) have?
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• A young macaque sits on a tree branch in Zhangjiajie National Forest Park. # Trial / Shutterstock
• Energy Transfers
• example:
• 
• Rube Goldberg
• Develop a plan for a Rube Goldberg machine
• must have 5 energy transfers
• must have 4 different types of energy
• must have 1 form of "lost" energy
• must have descriptions of the transfers and energies that demonstrate general understanding of the types of energy
• must have a description of how the machine demonstrates the law of conservation of energy
• instead of Goldberg machine, use another system such as nuclear power plant, or pencil sharpener
• Sailing T-shirt design contest

Homework:

• Energy Forms and Transfers assessment 5/4