Energy Skate Park: Basics
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About
Topics
- Energy
- Conservation of Energy
- Kinetic Energy
- Potential Energy
- Friction
Description
Learn about conservation of energy with a skater gal! Explore different tracks and view the kinetic energy, potential energy and friction as she moves. Build your own tracks, ramps, and jumps for the skater.
Sample Learning Goals
- Explain the Conservation of Mechanical Energy concept using kinetic energy (KE) and gravitational potential energy (PE).
- Describe how the Energy Bar and Pie Charts relate to position and speed.
- Explain how changing the Skater Mass affects energy.
- Explain how changing the Track Friction affects energy.
- Predict position or estimate speed from Energy Bar and Pie Charts.
- Calculate speed or height at one position from information about a different position.
- Calculate KE and PE at one position from information about a different position.
- Design a skate park using the concepts of mechanical energy and energy conservation.
For Teachers
Teacher-Submitted Activities
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Authors | Level | Type | Updated |
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| Energy Skate Park Basics - Clicker Questions |
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Trish Loeblein, Robert Parson | UG-Intro | MC | 9/2/15 |
| Energy Skate Park-NGSS aligned HS |
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PhET NGSS 2014 Workgroup | HS | CQs Lab |
5/27/15 |
| Energy Skate Park Basics |
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Noah Podolefsky | MS | Lab | 2/21/12 |
| Energy Forms Clicker Questions |
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Dr. Wendy Adams | MS UG-Intro HS |
MC | 8/20/15 | |
| Energy Skate Park-NGSS aligned |
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Sarah Borenstein | MS | Lab | 5/27/15 | |
| Energy Skate Park Basics Lesson |
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UTeach Middle School PhET Team | MS | Lab | 5/26/15 | |
| Energy Skate Park Lab (html5) |
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Chris Stoker | HS | Lab | 1/27/15 | |
| Alignment of PhET sims with NGSS |
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Trish Loeblein | HS | Other | 10/19/15 | |
| How do PhET simulations fit in my middle school program? |
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Sarah Borenstein | MS | Other | 10/19/15 | |
| MS and HS TEK to Sim Alignment | Elyse Zimmer | MS HS |
Other | 10/19/15 | ||
| PhET Simulations Aligned for AP Physics C | Roberta Tanner | HS | Other | 8/12/15 | ||
| NGSS Simulation Alignment/Correlation | Matthew Huffine | MS UG-Intro K-5 HS |
Other Demo |
3/20/15 | ||
| Energy Skate Park: Basics Lab | Sophie Lanchez | MS | Lab | 3/15/15 | ||
| Energy Skate Park Worksheet | David Kennedy | MS | Lab | 1/31/15 | ||
| Energy Skate Park Basics Energy Exploration | Jessica Colonel | MS | Lab | 3/21/13 | ||
| Conservation of Energy - conceptual | Paul Broberg | MS HS |
Lab | 4/17/12 | ||
| Conservation of Energy (basic) PhET Lab | Chris Bires | HS MS |
Lab | 4/7/12 | ||
| Introduction to Energy Model | Greg Schade | HS MS |
Lab | 2/21/12 | ||
| conservação da energia - | Luiz Sérgio S. S. Silva | MS | Lab | 4/8/15 |
Translations
Related Simulations
Software Requirements
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Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7 Sun Java 1.5.0_15 or later
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OS 10.5 or later Sun Java 1.5.0_19 or later
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Sun Java 1.5.0_15 or later
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Credits
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