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Energy in Motion - The First Visit

Energy can be transformed

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The first visit to Rufus Payne focused on these topics: Energy can be transferred to one type of energy to another with varying degrees of efficiencies; Energy is defined as the ability to do work;

Different types of energy are heat, light, radiation, chemical, mechanical, and electrical. All of these topics were put into a kid-friendly lesson, which utilized tools possessed by the museum. Tools such as a tesla coil, which emits electricity into the air, demonstrated that energy transfer. A radiometer was used to illustrate mechanical energy.

Did light or heat make it change?Using thionen students were able to see a change in color is caused by a chemical reaction triggered by a light source.

Students also discussed different sources of energy such as solar energy.

Students were asked to create a journal listing different types of energy, the types of energy that were transferred in this lesson, and to draw a picture of one of those types of energy.

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International Public Science Day 2002 is a program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in collaboration with the Franklin Institute Science Museum and Unisys Corporation and in affiliation with the Science Learning Network
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