Energy Vocabulary Activity: Chain Puzzle

This is a BRIEF energy vocabulary activity where students create a domino-like chain from phrases and definitions. Students are given 14 boxes with 2 phrases each, one on each side. Students must match the right side of the box to a matching word or phrase on the left side of another box. They repeat to form a long chain.

Teacher Notes:

• This energy vocabulary activity is not editable.
• Answer key provided.
• This is quick, so it’s great as a station in a bigger review activity or something for early finishers to do!
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Related Standards:

• NGSS MS-PS3-1: Construct and interpret graphical displays of data to describe the relationships of kinetic energy to the mass and speed of an object.
• NGSS MS-PS3-2: Develop a model to describe that when the arrangement of objects interacting at a distance changes, different amounts of potential energy are stored in the system.
• NGSS MS-PS3-5: Construct, use, and present arguments to support the claim that when the kinetic energy of an object changes, energy is transferred to or from the object.