The purpose of Lesson 2 is to help develop and/or recall student ideas about energy and energy transfer in systems. These ideas are specifically applied to the energy in a classroom system so that students can begin to identify and model the energy inputs, interactions, and outputs in their classroom.

What will we do?

• Define and revise our classroom energy system model that represents the boundary, components, inputs, and outputs.

• Explore the idea of “energy” and how energy is represented in the energy system.

• Revisit the anchor schools and update our ideas of how our classroom compares to green school classroom designs.

  
  

Materials needed 

Advance preparation

• Preview slides and teacher guide.

• Print handouts.

• Test the PhET Simulation on school devices: https://PhET.colorado.edu/sims/html/energy-forms-and-changes/latest/energy-forms-and-changes_all.html 

Lesson student work examples