About Energy Forms and Changes
Explore how heating and cooling iron, brick, water, and olive oil adds or removes energy. See how energy is transferred between objects. Build your own system, with energy sources, changers, and users. Track and visualize how energy flows and changes through your system.
How to play Energy Forms and Changes
Everything is hands-on: drag, click and experiment — the simulation reacts instantly. Explore how heating and cooling iron, brick, water, and olive oil adds or removes energy.
Questions & answers
- What is Energy Forms and Changes?
- Energy Forms and Changes is a free interactive simulation from PhET Interactive Simulations (University of Colorado Boulder) that you can play right in your browser on crumble.lol — no downloads and no sign-up. Explore how heating and cooling iron, brick, water, and olive oil adds or removes energy. See how energy is transferred between objects.
- What can kids learn from Energy Forms and Changes?
- It helps kids explore: predict how energy will flow when objects are heated or cooled, or for objects in contact that have different temperatures. describe the different types of energy and give examples from everyday life. describe how energy can change from one form of energy into another. explain conservation of energy in real-life systems. design a system with energy sources, changers, and users and describe how energy flows and changes one form of energy into another. tell the energy story for real-life systems.
- What age is Energy Forms and Changes good for?
- It is designed for elementary school (roughly ages 5–10) up to university, and curious kids outside that range can absolutely enjoy poking around it too.
- Is Energy Forms and Changes free to play?
- Yes — Energy Forms and Changes is completely free on crumble.lol and runs fully in your browser on computers and tablets.