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8th Grade Physical ScienceS8P2.a–d17 rides

Energy Park

Seventeen rides. One law: energy is never lost, only transformed.

Welcome to the park. Your ticket is a question.

Every ride here runs on the same rule the real ones do: energy moves, changes form, and never disappears. Learn it, fix it, push it further, or just play — every right answer earns V-Points you can bank in The Den.

6Learn
2Fix It
5Go Deeper
8Play
500V-Points to bank
Open world

The park map

Ride anything, in any order. Every ride reshuffles when you replay it. Each ride banks V-Points up to its own limit, then it's just for fun — so spread out to reach 500.

LearnNew to it? Start with a Ride Guide and the myth-or-fact gate.
Fix ItMissed it on a quiz? These reteach on the spot and hand you a retry.
Go DeeperAlready got it? Design, predict, and argue like an engineer.
PlayFast, fun, replayable. Great for the last ten minutes.
Lane
Standard
Cash out

Ticket Booth

Your V-Points turn into Den currency. Fill in your ticket, copy your reward code, and redeem it on the Codes tab in The Den. The Den banks up to 500 from Energy Park.

Your ticket

Type your name the way your teacher knows it — it is sealed inside the code so only you can redeem it.

Reward code

  1. Copy the gold code above.
  2. Open The Den → Codes tab.
  3. Paste it. The Den pays only the part it has not paid before, so you can come back for more.
★Certified Park Inspector★Master Mechanic★Park Owner

Switching devices?

This blue save code moves your ride progress to another Chromebook. It is not the code you redeem in The Den.

Save code

Load a save code

Paste a EPR code from another device to pick up where you left off.

Vocabulary

Word Wall

The 16 words of the unit. Tap any card to flip it. Words you collect on the rides get a ✓.

Georgia Standards of Excellence

Standards

Every ride is tagged with the element it builds. Filter the park map by standard to drill one.

S8P2

Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about the law of conservation of energy to develop arguments that energy can transform from one form to another within a system.

S8P2.a

Analyze and interpret data to create graphical displays that illustrate the relationships of kinetic energy to mass and speed, and potential energy to mass and height of an object.

S8P2.b

Plan and carry out an investigation to explain the transformation between kinetic and potential energy within a system (e.g., roller coasters, pendulums, rubber bands, etc.).

S8P2.c

Construct an argument to support a claim about the type of energy transformations within a system [e.g., lighting a match (light to heat), turning on a light (electrical to light)].

S8P2.d

Plan and carry out investigations on the effects of heat transfer on molecular motion as it relates to the collision of atoms (conduction), through space (radiation), or in currents in a liquid or a gas (convection).

Watch

One-minute videos

Quick previews from Simple Science Videos.

Kinetic & Potential Energy

S8P2.a · S8P2.b

Energy Transformations

S8P2.b · S8P2.c

Heat Transfer

S8P2.d
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