Potential Energy and Kinetic Energy

PhET Energy Skate Park - pay attention to the PE and KE because you will write a short constructed response about it.

PE and KE song

Group Work Assessment

You will need your GoogleDoc log in information to complete the group work assessment.

Block 1
Team 1
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Team 3
Team 4
Team 5
Team 6

Block 3
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Team 4
Team 5
Team 6
Team 7

Block 4
Team 1
Team 2
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Team 6

Block 5
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Team 7

Building Balloon Cars!

Research
Design
Build
Test
Improve
Race









Building Balloon Car Ideas
Zoom
Plastic Water Bottle Car
Questacon
Step-by-step directions
Directions from NASA
Make a Car
Tips for a fast car


Videos
Class balloon car release
Science Olympics
Figure Eight (a slow start, but worth watching)



Pictures of Balloon Cars
Student Cars
Class Cars (click on HTML to see picture and description)

Potential and Kinetic Energy

Learn our new science song about Potential and Kinetic Energy

Watch the Spring and Mass PhET simulation.

See the reaction to Potential Energy being converted to Kinetic Energy.

And... by popular demand, the F=ma song

Matter Song

Matter Song

Short Story Assignment

Do your prewriting here

Physical and Chemical Changes

Physical and Chemical Reading
More Physical and Chemical Readings

Use the readings above to complete the tracker in GoogleDocs.

If you have finished your GoogleDocs tracker, then you make take the online quiz.