Kinetic and potential energy are the focus of this Grade 6 Science worksheet on Texas Science 6: Forces, Motion and Energy. Students explore how movement, height, elastic deformation, and chemical arrangements relate to energy, using familiar examples to explain where energy is stored and how it changes within a system.

Connect energy concepts to everyday situations

The reading passage introduces kinetic energy as the energy of motion and potential energy as stored energy associated with an object's position, arrangement, or condition. Students consider why a faster-moving ball has more kinetic energy than a slower ball of the same mass, how raising a book changes gravitational potential energy in the book-Earth system, and why a stretched elastic band stores elastic potential energy. Chemical potential energy is also introduced through examples involving food and fuel.

Throughout the resource, students are encouraged to identify the system being described rather than treating energy as a property of an isolated object in every situation. Comparing the same object under different conditions helps them explain energy changes using observations and evidence.

What students practise

• Multiple-choice questions that distinguish kinetic energy from potential energy in familiar examples.
• True-or-false statements about motion, stored energy, height, elastic deformation, and chemical arrangements.
• Short-answer responses explaining energy differences, changes in gravitational potential energy, and ways to investigate energy changes.
• A labeled diagram, a categorizing activity, and a short-note task that reinforce the lesson's key ideas.

Ready-to-use teaching support

The resource includes the printable student worksheet and a separate answer key PDF for checking student responses. Student Notes lines at the bottom of the worksheet provide space for recording important ideas. The answer key PDF also contains a Teacher Guide with Learning Objectives, Teaching Tips, Discussion Questions, and Common Mistakes, giving teachers additional support when introducing or reviewing energy concepts.

Practical ways to use the worksheet

Use this kinetic and potential energy practice during a Grade 6 forces, motion, and energy lesson, as guided classwork, independent practice, a concept review, or a follow-up to simple classroom observations. Students can compare a ball at different speeds or heights, discuss a raised book, or examine what happens when a stretched elastic band is released. These familiar situations provide concrete starting points for explaining energy that cannot always be seen directly.

With its reading passage, varied response tasks, note-taking space, separate answer key, and teacher guidance, this Grade 6 energy worksheet brings core vocabulary and system-based reasoning together in one printable resource. The framework named for the lesson is TEKS; teachers can review the activities against their specific instructional requirements before use.