SCISP Teachers’ Guide 3: Energy

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In the Schools Council Integrated Science Project (SCISP) programme, energy in living and non-living systems was always considered in the context of energy transfer. The course generally avoided labelling different 'forms' of energy, but aimed to show that in an energy transfer useful tasks could be done. The teaching introduced the idea that during transfer, although energy is conserved, it tends to become less useful.

Part two of the sample scheme largely dealt with the concept of energy, and how to control its transfer to serve human purposes. The introduction to this teachers’ guide provided an interesting discussion of the issues involved in teaching about energy in courses at this level.

Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. Transferring energy
2. Energy and particle interactions
3. Energy and electricity
4. Sources of energy
5. Using energy efficiently

URL: http://stem.org.uk/rx5m6

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