Energy Stores and Transfers KS3

This lesson is designed for the KS3 Year7/8 unit on ‘Energy Stores and Transfers’ (two lessons).

The lesson begins with a starter task; name the ways energy can be stored.
Next, students are introduced to what is energy and lets use money as a model to help us understand energy.

Students are then introduced to the 8 energy stores; Nuclear, Chemical, Magnetic, Gravitational, Kinetic, Thermal, Elastic and Electrostatic and provided with a mnemonic. Students are to then complete a progress check and consolidation task.

Law of conservation is introduced and students are then introduced to energy transfers with a number of different examples provided. Another consolidation task is provided.

The plenary quiz is a nice way to summarise what they have learned in this lesson.