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🔬 8th Grade · ScienceMS-PS3-2Unit 3: Energy

Potential energy

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🎯 Objective: Students model how distance affects stored energy.

Lesson outline

  1. Rubber bands and heights.
  2. Model.
  3. Discuss.
  4. Exit: example.

Lesson 2 of 4 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

MS-PS3-2

Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), middle school — Physical Science (discipline-specific model)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Relate kinetic energy to mass and speed
  • Describe potential energy
  • Investigate thermal energy transfer

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🦫 Encyclopedia: Science🦫 Kids encyclopedia⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Energy”

  1. Kinetic energy
  2. Potential energy
  3. Thermal energy transfer
  4. Energy transfer and temperature

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