Energy and Control: Conservation of Energy

Learn how biomass can be used to generate electricity.

Learn how moving air can be used to generate electricity.

Learn how energy from the Sun can be used to generate electricity.

This week's episodes and hands-on activity explore renewable energy.

Learn about energy in its different forms, in particular kinetic, potential and mechanical energy.

Take a tour of different rooms in your home. Which items in each room use electricity? How do you know they use electricity?

Balls go up and down. But what makes for a good ball? Find out by exploring which materials bounce.

This backgrounder explains what greenhouse gases are and how they contribute to climate change.

Can your body be a source of electricity generation? Maybe, if you understand heat transfer. Explore this concept through a 2013 invention by a Canadian teen.

Make and test a model paddle boat and learn about potential and kinetic energy.

Learn how electricity is generated at a nuclear power generating station.

Try your hand at building a “super coaster” using materials around your home.

Sometimes, power plants make too much electricity. Energy storage technologies can help! They store the extra electricity and release it when demand goes up.