What is Energy? | Types of Energy: Light, Heat, Water, Electrical and Wind | Kids Academy - Free Educational videos for Students in K-12 | Lumos Learning

What is Energy? | Types of Energy: Light, Heat, Water, Electrical and Wind | Kids Academy - Free Educational videos for Students in k-12


What is Energy? | Types of Energy: Light, Heat, Water, Electrical and Wind | Kids Academy - By Lumos Learning



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00:00 Welcome to Kids Academy . Uh huh . Hi ,
00:37 everyone . It looks like our friends Kite needs more
00:40 wind energy to keep it flying . What is energy
00:44 ? Energy is the ability to do work or to
00:48 make something happen . So let's talk about some types
00:51 of energy , light energy , heat , energy ,
00:54 electrical energy , water , energy and wind energy .
01:03 That's a lot of different types of energy . There's
01:05 one particular type of energy I want to talk about
01:07 today , and that's an invisible energy . It's an
01:10 energy you can't see , but it's all around us
01:14 all the time . You might even feel it .
01:15 Right now it's called wind Energy . Wind energy can
01:19 do all kinds of things like blow this flag or
01:24 help these kids keep their kite in the air .
01:28 Yeah , it can also help push this toy boat
01:31 across the pond and something you might have used .
01:34 It harnesses wind energy is one of these . This
01:38 is a pinwheel . If we wanted to move ,
01:40 we have to use energy . I can use an
01:42 invisible type of energy , and we all know what
01:45 I'm gonna do here . Yeah , blow into it
01:51 . That's wind energy . And even though you can't
01:54 see it , it's coming out of my mouth and
01:56 hitting the blades of our pinwheel and spinning it Bali
01:59 . Why don't you give it a shot ? Yeah
02:03 . Wow . Great job . That's all energy .
02:10 This type is wind energy . Let's do some experiments
02:14 with some wind energy now explained earlier how you can't
02:17 see wind energy , you can only see what it
02:19 does . So what we've set up here is a
02:21 little experiment that you can try at home . It's
02:24 basically a wind tunnel . So I have a wind
02:27 machine right here . A simple house fan , and
02:30 then I have a couple of different objects of different
02:32 weights and densities . So we have a hammer .
02:36 Pretty heavy . A dollar bill . Who doesn't like
02:39 a dog go a regular pen , an empty water
02:43 bottle and an Easter egg for the holidays . So
02:46 I'm going to place all of these about the same
02:48 distance from my wind machine . What I'm gonna do
02:51 is I'm gonna plug my wind machine into the wall
02:57 . Now the wind machine is gonna pull electrical energy
03:00 from the wall down this cable into the machine and
03:04 turn the electrical energy by spinning into wind energy .
03:09 Now that wind energy , by definition , should be
03:12 able to do work or move things . We should
03:14 be able to move some of these objects farther away
03:17 from the fan . So let's see if it works
03:19 . Now we're stationed just behind the wind machine and
03:22 I'm gonna fire it up and see if we can
03:24 turn some of that electrical energy into wind energy and
03:27 have it do some work for us . Mhm .
03:30 Which object do you think will move first ? The
03:34 egg , the empty water bottle , the pen ,
03:38 the dollar or the hammer . Let's fire it up
03:44 . Yeah . Mhm . There goes our dollar .
03:52 Now . Our water bottle is definitely moving . We
03:54 can see the energy being transferred into that bottle .
03:57 Depends moving a little bit . And the egg seems
04:00 to be wobbling . I'm gonna turn up the energy
04:02 a little bit , See if we can't move some
04:04 of this stuff . There goes the eggs starting to
04:14 move away . Bottle Looks like it's about to go
04:18 . Now we've got one more level . Let's see
04:19 if we can really get it going . There goes
04:26 the bottle . Dollar bill . Looks like it might
04:29 be stuck under the hammer . There . Hope there
04:34 goes the dollar . What we saw in this experiment
04:38 was that the force from our fan or the amount
04:41 of energy was able to move Some of the lighter
04:43 objects , like the water bottle and the egg and
04:45 the dollar bill really flew away . But other heavier
04:48 objects like our hammer barely moved at all . Let's
04:52 see if we can put some of that wind energy
04:54 to work for us . Okay , So what we've
04:57 designed here is a wind catcher , a wind turbine
05:05 connected to our rod , which is just loosely held
05:08 on by some string . And then down here ,
05:12 we've tied some string onto it . And I use
05:14 these to eggs to try and keep the string in
05:15 place . And you'll see why I need those in
05:17 a minute and attached to that string . Yeah ,
05:21 is another egg . Let's see if we can take
05:23 that wind energy and make it do some work for
05:26 us and pick up that egg . Here we go
05:31 . Look at our spoons are rotating , spinning our
05:34 shaft and it lifted the egg off the floor for
05:39 us . Now you might be wondering , How can
05:41 wind energy like this Help me around the house engineers
05:45 work together with scientists to build large wind turbines like
05:49 this one . It looks very similar to the pinwheel
05:52 that we used earlier today . Both catch that invisible
05:55 energy called wind . As the wind blows , it
05:59 creates force that force or wind energy is able to
06:03 turn the blades of our turbine . And as the
06:06 turbine spins , the generator inside creates electricity . That
06:11 electricity travels down wires across the power lines and into
06:16 your home to light up your house . When you
06:19 go to charge something , you might actually be plugging
06:22 into electricity generated by the wind . Whoa , that's
06:25 a lot of science . Let's go burn off some
06:27 of our own energy . We way too . Subscribe
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