Unit+7+(cont.)+Potential+and+Kinetic+Energy+plus+Simple+Machines

**Guiding Questions**


 * How do force and energy interact?
 * How can we use forces to understand the motion of objects?
 * Why do we use inclined planes and pulleys?

Vocabulary

ENERGY

MECHANICAL ENERGY

POTENTIAL ENERGY

KINETIC ENERGY

SIMPLE MACHINE

INCLINED PLANE

PULLEY

FORCE

FIXED PULLEY

MOVEABLE PULLEY

PULLEY SYSTEM

NEWTON

Potential and Kinetic Energy Lesson Roller Coaster Research and Info Roller Coaster Creator Design A Roller Coaster How Roller Coasters Work Energy Transformation on a Roller Coaster Energy on a Roller Coaster Ride Designing the Roller Coaster

Simple Machines Project Machines Web Quest Inclined Planes Webquest Pulleys Web Quest Ed Heads Simple Machines

FossWeb Pulleys How Simple Machines Work Inclined Plane Gizmo

Interactive Inclined Planes []

Interactive Pulleys @http://www.compassproject.net/sims/pulley.html