Grade 12 · Week 11 · U3
Essential question: How does system configuration store energy?
Five detailed lessons, gravity and elastic-energy simulations, two seven-round calculation games, teacher notes, complete energy ledgers, synthetic data and mastery quizzes. Existing Monday–Friday journals continue below.
An object can gain kinetic energy while total system energy remains constant.
Build an initial model and explanation for: How does system configuration store energy?
Record observations, questions, an initial model, and one claim that could be tested. Use these concepts where relevant: gravitational PE; elastic PE; conservation; system boundary.
Study and explain the week's core ideas: gravitational PE; elastic PE; conservation; system boundary
Open text on potential energy.
Revise Monday's model. Add two evidence-backed annotations and explain one limitation or uncertainty.
Energy bar charts and algebraic conservation.
Show units, setup, calculation or graph reasoning, then write what the quantitative evidence can and cannot establish about: How does system configuration store energy?
Pendulum/ramp simulation; light safe objects only.
Use the course safety charter. If supervision, facilities, materials, or conditions are not appropriate, use the supplied-data/simulation alternative rather than improvising hazardous procedures.
Record variables or design constraints, procedure/model, observations/data, and one revision you would make after reviewing the evidence.
Answer the essential question: How does system configuration store energy?
Submit a claim, at least two specific pieces of evidence, reasoning that connects them, one limitation/counterclaim, and a correction note for any essential concept below 80%.
Select one artifact from this week and explain why it is trustworthy evidence of growth.