Forms of Energy Practice: 10 Worksheets & 10 Jamboard Activities w/ Answer Keys

Save valuable time and effortlessly teach forms of energy, energy transformations, and power plants with our dynamic all-in-one resource bundle!

Experience the convenience and effectiveness as you dive into 10 student-friendly interactive Jamboard activities and learn with 10 engaging worksheets, complete with answer keys.

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Worksheet Features - Print & Go!

Perfect for small and whole group instruction - materials can also stand on their own as sub plans or independent work.

• Potential Energy - includes a brief informational passage about potential energy and different types of potential energy, as well as a vocabulary matching review w/word bank.

• Kinetic Energy - includes a brief informational passage about kinetic energy and different types of kinetic energy, as well as a vocabulary matching review w/word bank.

• Potential vs. Kinetic Energy - students sort different forms of energy as either potential or kinetic using a T-chart w/word bank; students describe the energy transformation occurring in water at the top of a dam/waterfall and after it has fallen.

• Forms of Energy (Pictures) - students classify images as different forms of energy.

• Forms of Energy (Vocabulary) - students read definitions for different forms of energy and energy-related terms and identify each term using a word bank.

• Energy Transformations (Cloze) - students complete statements about different energy transformations using a word bank.

• Energy Transformations (Scenario Analysis) - students choose an everyday scenario and summarize the energy transformations taking place, including recording the various forms of energy using a table.

• Energy Transformations (How Coal Was Formed) - students read an infographic about the formation of coal from the US Department of Energy, and identify the forms of energy involved in each step of the process using a table. 

• Energy Sources (Wind & Coal) - students identify energy transformations in wind and coal power plants, and write a paragraph explaining the energy transformations taking place; is scaffolded to include suggested terms to use.

• Energy Sources (Solar & Hydropower) - students identify energy transformations in solar and hydropower plants, and write a paragraph explaining the energy transformations taking place; is scaffolded to include suggested terms to use.

Jamboad Activities - Perfect for Warm Ups!

The sequence of Jamboard activities can be assigned as a whole, broken up into individual frames as warm ups, or broken into bundles as follows:

Kinetic vs. Potential Energy

• Frame 1: General information about kinetic and potential energy.
• Frame 2: Students sort key vocabulary terms as falling under the kinetic side (ex: “in use”) or the potential side (ex: “height”).

Forms of Energy

• Frame 3: Students sort definitions for the 8 forms of energy, while also using a visual that helps them classify each of the 8 forms of energy as either kinetic or potential energy.
• Frame 4: Perfect for your visual learners, students classify images as representative of either kinetic or potential energy.

Energy Transformations

• Frames 5, 6, 7: Students identify multi-step energy transformations taking place in everyday scenarios.

Energy Transformations in Power Plants

• Frames 8 and 9: Students read the energy transformation steps in coal and hydropower plans to classify the forms of energy involved.
• Frames 10 and 11: Students expand on the previous two slides to compare, contrast, and evaluate coal power and hydropower plants.

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