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Forms of Energy: Moving and Stored

  • Grade 6
  • Applied Design, Skills and Technologies
  • 1 min 20 s
  • British Columbia
  • BC6-AD-30

Two labelled cards build up one form at a time, each with a small moving picture: moving (kinetic) energy as motion, sound, thermal (heat), light and electrical, and stored (potential) energy as chemical, elastic, gravitational, nuclear and magnetic. A swinging pendulum then shows mechanical energy as moving and stored energy added together, and the video ends on the recap that energy has many forms, most of them either moving or stored.

Concept: Forms of energy: moving, stored, heat, light and more

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The question this lesson answers

What different forms can energy take?

Most forms of energy are either moving energy or stored energy.

Transcript

What the lesson says

What different forms can energy take?

Most forms of energy are either moving energy or stored energy.

Moving energy is called kinetic energy, and stored energy is called potential energy.

Anything that moves, like a rolling ball, has motion energy.

Sound energy is carried by vibrations, like those from a speaker.

Thermal energy, or heat, is the energy of tiny moving particles.

Light energy travels out from bright things, like the Sun.

Electrical energy is carried by electric charges moving through a wire.

Chemical energy is stored in food and in batteries.

A stretched spring stores elastic energy.

A ball lifted up high stores gravitational energy.

Nuclear energy is stored in the nucleus, the centre of an atom.

Magnets that pull on each other store magnetic energy when they are held apart.

Mechanical energy is moving and stored energy added together, like in a swinging pendulum.

Energy comes in many forms, and most are either moving or stored.

Curriculum

Where this fits

British Columbia, Grade 6

Applied Design, Skills and Technologies, Power technology: forms of energyBC6-AD-30

Previous: Power: How Fast Energy Changes FormNext: Energy Is Never Used Up

British Columbia, Grade 7

Applied Design, Skills and Technologies, Power technology: forms of energyBC7-AD-27

Next: Energy Is Never Used Up

This lesson is also listed in Grade 7.

The outcomes and strands follow the British Columbia curriculum.

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