Today, we are finishing up Apollo 13. To help you better understand the enormity of the task of landing on a specific site on the moon, we will make a scale model of the Earth and the Moon, using a tennis ball, and/or marbles of various sizes.
Pick one that you think accurately represents the correct size of the earth and moon and place them appropriately to model the distance between them, as well. Be prepared to explain your reasoning.
The tremendous amount of time, money, and human resources that has been invested in the Space Program and made it possible to solve all the problems along the way to the moon and back, has resulted in a variety of technological advances present in our modern day society, from Tang and freeze-dried food, to Velcro and communications technology, the spin-offs from the space program have changed our lives. You may write one-page of research on any of these advances, or find your own instead of doing yet another workbook page (233-234) if you choose.
Thursday, April 16, 2015
Monday, April 13, 2015
Mousetrap Powered Cars Complete!
And the winners are...
Delany for Most Original Mousetrap Powered Car and Clea for Most Elegant Exterior of a Mousetrap Powered Car ! Congratulations!
Delaney will also compete in the Mousetrap Powered Car Race for Super Speed on Wednesday in the Gym!
This week we are finishing our physics notebooks and watching Apollo 13!
Today, we discussed day, night, and the reasons for the seasons. Remember to think about roasting marshmallows! Which hemisphere gets roasted and why?
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Finishing Unit on Physics: Forces and Motion
Notebooks will be due next week. Here's the link to the Table of Contents for this Unit.
The Project-Based Assessment is to build a mousetrap powered car by March 31. Make sure that you have practiced with the materials provided and have read the rules and instructions completely. We studied examples in class.
Acceleration Due to Gravity
We took some notes and did the graph analysis questions on text p.386, Math: Analyzing Data on Free Fall.
Newton's 3rd Law: Lots of discussion and practice problems were completed in class. Please review the sheet titled, Newton's 3rd Law and Which Law? ( both sides)
Momentum
We took some notes from text and did some practices problems. I highly recommend using the online active art for this on text p.398. Go to www.PHschool.com and enter the web code, cgp-3024 to really explore the mathematical patterns and the formula we used to solve our momentum problems.
The study guide was passed out in class today, Wednesday.
Since I won't be here for the rest of the week, please do your best to be kind, courteous, and helpful. The test is on Thursday. I will have the formulas available for you. Friday, make sure your notebook is organized. Bring text and books to class. There will be space videos to watch. Be good!
The Project-Based Assessment is to build a mousetrap powered car by March 31. Make sure that you have practiced with the materials provided and have read the rules and instructions completely. We studied examples in class.
Acceleration Due to Gravity
We took some notes and did the graph analysis questions on text p.386, Math: Analyzing Data on Free Fall.
Newton's 3rd Law: Lots of discussion and practice problems were completed in class. Please review the sheet titled, Newton's 3rd Law and Which Law? ( both sides)
Momentum
We took some notes from text and did some practices problems. I highly recommend using the online active art for this on text p.398. Go to www.PHschool.com and enter the web code, cgp-3024 to really explore the mathematical patterns and the formula we used to solve our momentum problems.
The study guide was passed out in class today, Wednesday.
Since I won't be here for the rest of the week, please do your best to be kind, courteous, and helpful. The test is on Thursday. I will have the formulas available for you. Friday, make sure your notebook is organized. Bring text and books to class. There will be space videos to watch. Be good!
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Newton's 2nd Law
We watched more Eureka Videos, Such as Acceleration part 1 . Together, we used the equation F= m x A to solve some problems on the sheet titled, To the Finish Line. Nezt, we accelerated masses in the Car Crash Lab. Homework tonight is Newton's 2nd Law: Acceleration free body diagrams and practice problems.
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Newton's Law of Inertia
We watched some Eureka videos on You Tube: Inertia, Mass, Acceleration part 1 and 2, and Mass & Weight. After discussing these ideas and making some notes in our notebook, we applied these ideas to some "magic tricks."
Explain the motion of the objects in your "trick" using Newton's First Law.
Explain the motion of the objects in your "trick" using Newton's First Law.
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
Forces
Due Today: Physics Math Homework Sheet
We had review problems on speed and acceleration.
Today's lesson objective was for students to identify the forces that result in the motion of various objects. We took Cornell Style notes and tried some practice problems on free -body diagrams.
Please follow up by reviewing the chapter in the text titled, The Nature of Force. Complete the review sheet handed out in class.
We had review problems on speed and acceleration.
Today's lesson objective was for students to identify the forces that result in the motion of various objects. We took Cornell Style notes and tried some practice problems on free -body diagrams.
Monday, March 2, 2015
Acceleration Review
We reviewed some basic physics math and solved some word problems, using our formulas for speed, average speed, and acceleration. We organized our notebooks a little bit today and watcheda bit of a video from Discovery, The Physics of Rollercoasters. We will finish it up tomorrow and design a lab around the question, "How Do Loops Affect Speed?"
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