Name ______
Period ______
Warm Up After the Energy Station Lab Rotation
Last class you completed a 7 Station Lab rotation. For homework, you looked up vocabulary terms to define different types of energy. Your mission is to think back through the lab stations and try to identify what type(s) of energy were represented at each station. Use your vocab sheet to help you with the terminology.
Station 1: Newton’s cradle, video of ping pong balls on mousetraps and a glacier calving
The main type of energy represented was: ______
Station 2: Rubber band just sitting, a rubber band stretched out as a slingshot, a ball perched up high and a ball low on the table.
The main type of energy represented was: ______
Station 3: Lamp shining on a thermometer, a thermometer not in the light and a video of hot spring geyser (some saw volcanoes)
The main type of energy represented was: ______
The lamp also had a second main type of energy given off: ______
The lamp only worked because it was powered by this type of energy ______
Station 4: Red, green and black lights that shown on different colored paper. There also would have been solar race cars if it were not raining.
The main type of energy represented was: ______
Station 5: Video of decomposing rabbit, an alka seltzer tablet, a candy bar and cooking an egg.
The main type of energy represented was: ______
When an egg is cooked on a hot plate, what other energy is used: ______
Station 6: Video of salt on a speaker, holding the balloon to a speaker, and musical instruments
The main type of energy represented was: ______
Station 7: Using a battery, wires and a light bulb to turn on the light
What 4 types of energy were represented here?
1 ______
2 ______
3 ______
4 ______
Bonus Station 8: Ms. O’Hagan dropped 2 tennis balls from different heights.
What was the type of energy when she was just holding the balls at different heights? ______
What was the type of energy, when they were moving through the air? ______
Warm Up After the Energy Station Lab Rotation
ANSWER KEY!
Last class you completed a 7 Station Lab rotation. For homework, you looked up vocabulary terms to define different types of energy. Your mission is to think back through the lab stations and try to identify what type(s) of energy were represented at each station. Use your vocab sheet to help you with the terminology.
Station 1: Newton’s cradle, video of ping pong balls on mousetraps and a glacier calving
The main type of energy represented was: ______KENETIC ENERGY______
Station 2: Rubber band just sitting, a rubber band stretched out as a slingshot, a ball perched up high and a ball low on the table.
The main type of energy represented was: ______POTENTIAL ENERGY______
Station 3: Lamp shining on a thermometer, a thermometer not in the light and a video of hot spring geyser (some saw volcanoes)
The main type of energy represented was: ______HEAT/THERMAL ENERGY______
The lamp also had a second main type of energy given off: _____LIGHT/RADIANT ENERGY____
The lamp only worked because it was powered by this type of energy __ELECTRICAL ENERGY____
Station 4: Red, green and black lights that shown on different colored paper. There also would have been solar race cars if it were not raining.
The main type of energy represented was: ______LIGHT/RADIANT ENERGY______
Station 5: Video of decomposing rabbit, an alka seltzer tablet, a candy bar and cooking an egg.
The main type of energy represented was: ______CHEMICAL ENERGY______
When an egg is cooked on a hot plate, what other energy is used: ____THERMAL/HEAT_____
Station 6: Video of salt on a speaker, holding the balloon to a speaker, and musical instruments
The main type of energy represented was: _____SOUND ENERGY______
Station 7: Using a battery, wires and a light bulb to turn on the light
What 4 types of energy were represented here?
1 ______CHEMICAL ENERGY IN THE BATTERY______
2 ______ELECTRICAL ENERGY IN THE WIRES______
3 ______RADIANT/LIGHT ENERGY FROM THE BULB______
4 ______THERMAL/HEAT ENERGY FROM THE BULB______
Bonus Station 8: Ms. O’Hagan dropped 2 tennis balls from different heights.
What was the type of energy when she was just holding the balls at different heights? _____POTENTIAL ENERGY______
What was the type of energy, when they were moving through the air? __KINETIC ENERGY______