Blue and Purple Classes: Drag the 'Energy' assignment in the 'Shared with you' folder in your Google Drive into the LEGO folder, and open it.

Teal class, open this document and save it to your personal folder.

Watch the movie of Tim and Moby, who will tell us about different kinds of energy.

Answer Questions 1-3 on the Google Doc, using full sentences and appropriate punctuation.

1a. What is energy?

1b.What is potential energy?

1c. What is kinetic energy?

2. What kind of energy does a ball moving through the air have?

3. What kind of energy does a ball in your hand have?

Watch and listen to this song about Potential and Kinetic energy.

4. Describe two examples of kinetic energy described by the song.

5. Describe two examples of potential energy described by the song.

Go to this roller-coaster web site.

Click on 'Step'. The rollercoaster will stop at point 1. Answer questions 6 and 7 on the Google Doc.

6. How much potential energy is displayed?

7. Explain why this is so.

Click on 'Step' again. The rollercoaster will stop at point 2.

Answer questions 8 and 9 on the Google Doc.

8. How much kinetic energy is displayed?

9. Explain why this is so.

Watch a short clip of Bill Nye explaining potential and kinetic energy.

Answer Question 10 on the Google Doc.

10. Summarize what Bill Nye said.

Watch Wile E. Coyote trying to catch Roadrunner.

Answer Questions 11 and 12 on the Google Doc.

11. Explain how Elastic Potential energy was converted to Kinetic Energy in the video.

12. Explain how Gravitational Potential Energy was converted to Kinetic Energy in the video.

Back to Tim and Moby, as they explain why Kinetic Energy is important.

Answer Question 13 on the Google Doc.

13. What are the two things that kinetic energy depends on?

Tim and Moby explain why Potential Energy is important.

Answer Question 14 on the Google Doc.

14. What are two things that potential energy depends on?

Go through the 4 steps of instructions for 3 Puck Chuck

Answer Questions 15-17 on the Google Doc.

15. Describe what happens in step 1 and why.

16. Describe what happens in step 2 and why.

17. What happens to the yellow puck and the bloue puck in step 3? Why?

18. Play the game.