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Activity 58
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Activity 58
• Title: Follow the Energy
• Problem:
Can you follow the
transforming energy?
• Initial Thoughts:
On a separate piece of paper write the
title: Introduction to Activity 58
Copy These Lists Down
List 1
List 2
List 3
Roller coaster
Absorb
Potential Energy
Gravitational Potential
Energy
Release
The Law of Conservation
of Energy
Transformation
Energy
Energy Transfer
Chemical Energy
Interaction
Energy Transformation
Kinetic Energy
Height
Efficiency
1. Cross out the word or phrase that does not belong.
2. Circle the word or phrase that includes the others on the list.
Note: There may be more than one correct answer to a
single word sort.
Law of Conservation of Energy
List 1
• Roller coaster
• Gravitational
Potential Energy
• Transformation
• Chemical Energy
• Kinetic Energy
Why does this work?
Law of Conservation of Energy
List 2
• Absorb
• Release
• Energy
• Interaction
• Height
Why does this work?
Law of Conservation of Energy
List 3
• Potential Energy
• The Law of
Conservation of
Energy
• Energy Transfer
• Energy
Transformation
• Efficiency
Why does this work?
READ THE PROCEDURE!
Activity 58
Introduction:
Energy is never created or
destroyed. It is possible to
follow energy transfer
through many
transformations. Most of
earth’s energy can be traced
back to the Sun which emits
electromagnetic energy
(light).
Energy Cards
Each Pair will get 2
Cards  as you
finish with each
card, pass it to the
right until the
teacher tells you
to stop. We will
share our answers
as a class.
Event
number
8 (water
fall)
List of energy types
List of energy types
before transformation after transformation
Gravitational
Potential
Energy
Kinetic (motion,
sound)
Sentence(s) describing the
transformation
Water falling over the dam
loses gravitational potential
energy and gains kinetic
energy, until at the bottom it
has been transformed into
kinetic and some sound
energy.