Kinetic and Potential Energy Lesson Plan

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Candidate Name: Chelsea Tramel

Content/Grade: 6th Grade Science

Lesson Topic: Kinetic and Potential Energy

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Stage 1 – Desired Results Goals/Learning Outcomes: The student will be able to explain the difference between kinetic and potential energy, and be able to give examples of each. TEKS: 6.8A:

(8) Science concepts. The student knows that complex interactions occur between matter and energy. The student is expected to: (A) illustrate examples of potential and kinetic energy in everyday life such as objects at rest, movement of geologic faults, and falling water; Essential Questions:

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Compare similarities and differences between kinetic and potential energy. How is energy conserved when changing from one form to another (potential to kinetic, vice versa)? How do machines/objects gain potential energy and turn it into kinetic energy? How are potential and kinetic energy involved with real life situations?

Students will know … Students will be able to … Students will understand that … • Students will know the difference between potential and kinetic energy • Student will be able to give examples of life situations where potential and kinetic energy are taking place • Students will understand how potential energy is turned into kinetic energy when an object is put into motion. • Students will be able to demonstrate on a graph where the ball has potential energy and kinetic energy. • Students will have misunderstandings about how potential energy is transformed into kinetic energy. Stage 2 – Assessment Evidence Performance Tasks: • • • • •

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Materials needed: computers, web links from teacher website (warm up article, scrible, interactive website, atoms family, exit ticket quiz, homework sheet, lingro site, rhino video, and beeclip), chairs/stools, masking tape, yard stick, shooter marbles, 8-foot strip of vinyl ceiling moldings Students will be assessed through their answers to lab questions, exit ticket, extension assignment, and homework. Warm up: Students read the article and use scrible to mark the text, and then watch the interactive video and do the quiz at the end of it. Class Discussion: Cold Call Questions from teacher. Lab: Students will begin the lab after completing the warm up and class discussion, • 1. Place the chairs back to back, but about 3 feet apart. • 2. Tape the ends of the track to the chairs so that the center hangs down to the floor like the letter U. Use masking tape to secure the bottom of the track to the floor. • 3. Place a marble on one end of the track and let it roll down. How many times did the marble travel back and forth before it stopped in the middle? This activity illustrates potential and kinetic energy. Where was the marble when it had the most potential energy? Where was it when it had the most kinetic energy? • 4. Other possible discovery experiments: • Measure the highest point each time the marble rolls up the track. Keep a chart of each measurement. Why doesn't the marble rise as far up? Can you find the amount of energy that is lost on each trip? • What will happen when one marble is at rest on the track and another is dropped on the track? What if two marbles are on the track? Show HILARIOUS Rhino Video Students go to the Exit Ticket site and complete the quiz. Teacher hands out the homework assignment.

*All materials, task/lab descriptions, student work/problems, assessments, rubrics, etc., must be attached. Stage 3 – Learning Plan/Procedures


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