7th Graders: How does speed and mass affect the amount of kinetic energy in an object?

 

Last week the 7th graders were challenged to design a set of experiments to figure out how speed and mass affects kinetic energy.  The tricky part about designing these experiments was to figure out how they were going to measure kinetic energy.  With a little persistence and collaboration each group figured out a way to do just that.  Ask them how they measured the kinetic energy and what they learned through their investigations!

 

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