• Select a partner.  

• In your partners exercise book, write a paragraph about your trip to school this morning.  

• Now swap so you have your own exercise book again.  

• Highlight the parts of the story that you think feature the different forms of energy discussed in class.  

1. What are the types of energy featured in your partners story about their trip to school?
2. Below the story in your exercise book, draw an energy flow diagram for each type of energy you highlighted. 
   

"Battery energy -- What battery provides more?" available at http://www.allaboutbatteries.com/Battery-Energy.html

• Access the website through the above link.  

• Read through the document and stop when you get to the table.  

• Complete the following questions in your exercise book:

1. Sometimes a lot of energy is required quickly from a battery.  What are the two examples given in the document?
2. According to the website, when is a battery useless?
3. What is a joule?
4. What is one watt-second?

• Using the table on the website, carefully follow the instructions below to create a visual representation (column graph) of the information about the different types of batteries.  

1. Open Microsoft Word.
2. Click on the "Insert" tab at the top of the page.  
3. Click on the picture of the columns that says "Chart" underneath it.  
4. A box will appear.  Click the "OK" button. 
   

• Microsoft Word will now open a Microsoft Excell document where you can input the information from the website.  
• Any changes made in Microsoft Excell will effect your column graph in Microsoft Word. 

1. In Microsoft Excell there are 4 categories.  There needs to be 6.  
2. Rename each category with the name of a battery.  
3. In Microsoft Excell there are 3 series.  There needs to be 4.  
4. Name the series according to the table on the website.  For Example: Watt-hours per Kilogram.
5. Input the data from the table accordingly.  
6. In Microsoft Excell drag the lower right corner of the blue box that surrounds some of you data, so that it surrouds ALL of your data.  

• You should now have a graph created in Microsoft Word.  
• Answer the follow questions in your exercise book.  

1. Do you think there are any problems with your visual representation of the battery data? Explain.  
2. How could you alter your graph to make the information more visually appeasing?