7.03 Energy Transformation

• Introduction
• Learn
• Try It
• Task

Introduction

Have you used a hair dryer, toaster, or flat iron today? Or have you eaten any food, turned on lights, or watched television?

If you have participated in any of these activities, then you have participated in and witnessed energy transformation. We discussed in the previous lesson how the total energy in a system is conserved but how energy has the ability to change forms. In this lesson, we will take a closer look at different types of energies and how they transform from one to another in different systems.

 

Lesson Objectives

Following successful completion of this lesson, students will be able to... Define thermal energy. Investigate the law of conservation of energy and energy transformations. Recognize and identify energy conversions in a system. Enduring Understandings Energy can be transformed from one form to another. Models can be used to show the conversion of energy from one form into another form of energy. The above objectives correspond with the Alabama Course of Study: Physical Science standards: 11, 12.