Energy activities

13 STEM lessons and activities to teach about kinetic and potential energy.

Getting ready to teach about forms of energy and looking for a unit plan? Check out this 10-day instructional plan full of hands-on activities, resources, and lessons to make teaching energy fun,

fun wind science experiments for kids to learn wind power, renewable energy, preschool to school age, science class or homeschool in the backyard.

My sons are obsessed with science experiments right now. I figure what better time to do a little experimenting with light than around Groundhog Day, right? Light is one of eight forms of energy. The other forms are heat, sound, chemical energy, magnetic, nuclear, electromagnetic, and mechanical. Light energy activities are fun and easy to do! Here are a few light energy experiments for kids that you will enjoy!

Heat activities let kids experience thermal energy. Set up a few simple experiments and help your students conceptualize heat.

Forms of energy activities can be fun and engaging but difficult to teach. Here is a list of activities and resources to use in your class.

Kids will have a great time discovering heat with these 8 engaging experiments. This is a great way to introduce students to the laws of thermodynamics. Kids can melt an ice cube with conduction. Find a complete recipe for making ice cream in a bag. How does salt affect ice? Great for winter science. Expand to learning about chemical reactions.

Explore the power of the sun's heat by blowing up a balloon on a bottle! Kids paint one soda bottle white and the other black. Once dry, they attach a small balloon to the necks of their bottles. Then, they put the bottles out in the sun for a solar reaction! Kids see that the air in the black bottle will make the balloon expand! The white bottle doesn't heat up as fast. Check out the experiment here!

In this post, I will share simple books, videos, and experiments to help teach about the forms of energy - heat, light, and sound.

Forms of energy activities can be fun and engaging but difficult to teach. Here is a list of activities and resources to use in your class.