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Kinetic and Potential Energy
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CELL Guide
Kinetic and Potential Energy
LabLearner’s 3-D Approach to Scientific Inquiry
Phase 1 – Defined Understanding
The defined boundaries of this phase provide a framework for engaging parents and identifying students’ current knowledge of the key topic(s) explored in this CELL.
Phase 2 – Dynamic Understanding
Change, activity, and progress characterize the dynamic phase. Its design will enable you to enhance students’ existing skills, interests, and understanding, as well as meaningfully build new ones.
Phase 3 – Deeper Understanding
By this point, students have moved through powerful and purposeful tasks that had them actively and intentionally construct an understanding of concepts. In this final phase, students will consolidate knowledge and make deeper connections among ideas.
Phase 1 – Defined Understanding
►Questions to Investigate in this CELL
- How does the transfer of potential energy to kinetic energy relate to the Law of Conservation of Energy?
- Can one form of energy be converted to another? Support your answer with data from the experiments.
- How does converting energy from one form to another relate to the conservation of energy?
► Parent Newsletter
Encourage parents to connect to their child’s learning by providing them with a framework of the CELL. Use this link to access and share the Parent Newsletter.
► Baseline Assessment
Assess students’ current knowledge of the topic(s) being explored then set instructional and student learning goals. Use this link to schedule then invite students to take the Pre-test for the CELL.
Phase 2 – Dynamic Understanding
► Introduction and Fun Facts
Enhance your conceptual understanding by reading the student-level research on the topic(s) being explored. Use this link to access the research.
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► Links to Investigations
Go directly to the Investigation you are working on by clicking on a link below:
► Investigation 1
► Investigation 2
► Investigation 3
► CELL Vocabulary
- Law of Conservation of Energy: a principle that states that energy is neither created nor destroyed, it simply changes form
- Kinetic Energy: the energy of motion
- Potential Energy: The energy stored in an object or substance.
- Gravitational Potential Energy: the potential energy that exists between two objects that exert a gravitational pull on each other
- Electrical Potential Energy: the potential energy that exists when comparing a region of high electrical charge to one of low electrical charge
- Chemical Potential Energy: the potential energy stored in the chemical bonds of chemical compounds
Digital Equipment Used in this CELL
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Phase 3 – Deeper Understanding
► Deep Analysis Classroom Discussion
These questions can be used to elicit in-depth discussions based on the lab experience. Teachers may use any or all of these discussion points depending on the time available.
► Summative Assessment
Evaluate student learning at the end of the CELL by comparing the Summative Assessment to students’ Baseline Assessments. Use this link to schedule then invite students to take the Post-test for the CELL.