It's time for potential and kinetic energy! These activities are low-to-no prep, full of fun, and engaging that will get your students excited about learning how energy has the ability to cause motion or create change.

The fun and engaging worksheets are a great addition to any science unit. Each worksheet transforms your class into an exploratory classroom. Using this material, your students will gain a better understanding of the forms of energy. The informational pages included provides a handy guide for teachers when teaching this unit. The worksheets engage the mind while reinforcing student understanding through activities such as multiple choice questions, investigating activities, writing activities, and more! The answer key is included!

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This Activity aligns with Next Generation Science Standards:

• SC.5.P.10.2 Investigate and explain that energy has the ability to cause motion or create change.

 They can complete the activities on paper or on a computer using Google Classroom. This resource is divided into the following sections, and within each section are ready-to-print resources and engaging activities: 

Introduction to Potential and Kinetic Energy

It has a brief history of the subject, with an overview of all the most important points. It also includes diagrams and illustrations to help illustrate what they're learning and make it more fun.  

Engaging Activities

✍️ Select the energy items that directly cause motion on a kayaker

✍️ Match the definition to its correct term

✍️ Answer the questions based on the reading passage about potential energy

✍️ Multiple choice questions

✍️ Identify if the pictures given are potential or kinetic energy

✍️ Cut and sort the pictures whether it is a potential or kinetic energy

✍️ Put a checkmark if the object in each statement is a potential energy or kinetic energy

✍️ List some examples of potential energy and kinetic energy in your classroom

✍️ Quick quiz on potential and kinetic energy

✍️ Draw the possible kinetic energy for the following pictures

✍️ Draw and describe other things that use wind energy to move

✍️ Fun science experiments: Windmill model, Water wheel model, and Popsicle stick chain reaction

✍️ Basketball maze 

Answer Key to Activities

All Science Activities include an answer key that is available as PDF and Google Slides. The answer key is a valuable resource to use in the classroom, or at home, as they help students learn how to explain their answers, check if their explanations are correct, and improve their scientific knowledge and thinking skills.

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