Forms of Energy
📋 What it is
Energy comes in forms (motion, heat, light, sound, electrical) and transforms between them.
🗣️ Coach says
Energy is the power to make things happen, and it wears many outfits: motion, heat, light, sound, electrical, chemical. The trick is it TRANSFORMS — a torch turns electrical into light, your body turns food into motion. It’s never made or destroyed, just changed.
🧠 Memory hook
Energy has many forms and transforms between them — never created or destroyed.
😂 Giggle
What's an electron's favorite kind of dance?
The current move!
😲 Whoa!
The energy powering your muscles right now started as sunlight, was stored by plants as food, and became motion in you.
✅ Quick check: A wind-up toy walks across the floor. What energy transformation happened?
Say your answer out loud first — then reveal.
Stored (spring) energy turned into motion energy — one form transforming into another.
Devices convert energy between forms; the total amount is conserved.
🧪 Try it! (2 minutes)
Clap hard. You just turned motion into sound and a little heat — energy changed form in your hands.