ACSSU155

Energy appears in different forms, including movement (kinetic energy), heat and potential energy, and energy transformations and transfers cause change within systems

Elaborations

• recognising that kinetic energy is the energy possessed by moving bodies (Skills: Critical and Creative Thinking)
• recognising that potential energy is stored energy, such as gravitational, chemical and elastic energy (Skills: Critical and Creative Thinking)
• investigating different forms of energy in terms of the effects they cause, such as gravitational potential causing objects to fall and heat energy transferred between materials that have a different temperature (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
• recognising that heat energy is often produced as a by-product of energy transfer, such as brakes on a car and light globes (Skills: Critical and Creative Thinking)
• using flow diagrams to illustrate changes between different forms of energy (Skills: Literacy, Numeracy, Critical and Creative Thinking)

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