Does the dog in the car have kinetic energy? A multiage case study in the challenges of conceptual change

Authors: R. G. Tobin, Sara J. Lacy, and Sally Crissman
Physical Review Physics Education Research, May, 2023
Available to download as a pdf 

Telling the energy story: Design and results of a new curriculum for energy in upper elementary school 

Authors: Sara J. Lacy, Roger G. Tobin, Sally Crissman, Lezlie DeWater, Kara E. Gray, Nick Haddad, James K. L. Hammerman, and Lane Seeley
Science Education, September, 2021

Drawings of energy: Evidence of the Next Generation Science Standards model of energy in diagrams 

Authors: Kara E. Gray, Michael C. Wittmann, Stamatis Vokos and Rachel E. Scherr
Physical Review Physics Education Research, May, 2019

Looking Through the Energy Lens: A Strategy Helps Students Develop a Fuller View of Energy's Role in a Variety of Phenomena

Authors: Sally Crissman, Sara Lacy, Jeffrey Nordine, and Roger Tobin
Science and Children, February, 2015

Model-based reasoning about energy: A fourth-grade case study

Authors: Roger G. Tobin, Sara Lacy, Sally Crissman, and Nick Haddad
Journal of Research in Science Teaching, February, 2018
Referenced Video: Video Case - Using Energy Cubes to Reason About Forms and Flows

Getting a Grip on Energy 

Authors: Sally Crissman, Sara Lacy, Roger Tobin, and Nick Haddad
TERC HANDS ON!, Fall 2017

Taking teachers' ideas seriously: Exploring the role of physics faculty in preparing teachers in the era of the Next Generation Science Standards

Authors: Amy Robertson, Lane Seeley, Orlala Wentnik, and Stamatis Vokos
American Journal of Physics, December, 2018

Where does energy go when it's "Gone"? Promoting understanding of energy dissipation 

Authors: Roger Tobin, Sara Lacy, Sally Crissman, Nick Haddad, Orlala Wentink and Lane Seeley
American Journal of Physics (Vol.87, Issue 7)
June 18, 2019

How do elementary students encounter and engage with apparent inconsistencies in their model of energy? 

Poster presented at NSF DRK-12 2018 PI Meeting and Gordon Summer 2018 Research Conference

Lane Seeley, Kara E. Gray, Mariah Johnson, Lauren Wozniak and Lezlie DeWater – Department of Physics, Seattle Pacific University; Sally Crissman and Sara Lacy - TERC

Telling the Energy Story: Preliminary Results from Grades 4 and 5 

NARST 2018 Abstract and Paper Proposal

Roger Tobin, Sara J. Lacy, Sally Crissman, and Nick Haddad

NARST Presentation: Learning a System of Practices of Science through Energy: A Fourth-Grade Case Study 

Videos: Slide 10 - Case Study     Slide 11 - Light or Heat      Slide 13 - Energy Cubes
April, 2017

Preparing Elementary Teachers to Meet the NGSS Challenge 

Poster presented at NSF DRK-12 2018 PI Meeting

Sara Lacy, Roger Tobin, Sally Crissman and Nick Haddad

Focus on Energy: Preparing Elementary Teachers to Meet the NGSS Challenge 

Poster presented at NSF DRK-12 2016 PI Meeting

Sara Lacy, Sally Crissman, Nick Haddad, Lisa Miller, Roger Tobin, Nathaniel J. S. Brown, Jim Minstrell, Stamatis Vokos, Lezlie DeWater, Kara Gray, Amy Robertson, Rachel Scherr, and Lane Seeley

MSELA Presentation: Reframing Energy Learning in Elementary School 

Sara Lacy and Sally Crissman
November, 2016

Representing Energy

The site provides resources to support learners in co-constructing a flexible, interdisciplinary, energy model through the process of representing the "energy story" of diverse, real-world, scenarios.