Audience
Educators
Grade Levels
Grades 5-8, Grades 9-12
Subject
Physical Science, Technology, Energy, Space Station
Type
Lesson Plans / Activities, Videos
Watch NASA astronaut Joe Acaba demonstrate kinetic and potential energy on the International Space Station by showing how an object’s potential energy changes due to its position. How can potential energy be converted into kinetic energy?
Classroom Connection: Kinetic and Potential Energy
Grade Level: 6-12
Time Required: 50 minutes
Next Generation Science Standards:
HS-PS3-1. Construct and interpret graphical displays of data to describe the relationships of kinetic energy to the mass of an object and to the speed of an object.
MS-PS3-1. Create a computational model to calculate the change in the energy of one component in a system when the change in energy of the other component(s) and energy flows in and out of the system are known.
MS-PS3-2. Develop a model to describe that when the arrangement of objects interacting at a distance changes, different amounts of potential energy are stored in the system.