Unit 5 - Energy and fuels

Content

• The forms of energy (kinetic/movement, stored energy (gravitational, elastic, chemical), electrical, sound, thermal/heat, light, nuclear)
• Energy is transferred (place to place) or transformed (form to form)
• Total amount of energy is conserved, but can get less useful.
• Sankey diagrams showing transfers and transformations and useful and wasted.
• Knowledge of energy resources (fossil fuels, hydro, wind, solar, nuclear)
• Renewable and non-renewable energies.

Skills and understanding

• Work safely in a science lab
• Use Sankey diagrams to show the changes and transformation of energy.
• Describe the energy released by a candle and a spirit burner
• Identify the best energy option for a communit