Quarter+2+2015-16

>> >> Fri 1/15 >> Radiation >> >> >> Thu 1/14 >> Conduction and Convection >> >> >> Wed 1/13 >> Specific Heat Capacity and intro to Conduction >> >> >> Tue 1/12 >> Heat mixes pt 2 >> >> >> Mon 1/11 >> Heat mixes part 1 >> >> >> **Fri 1/8** >> Video - NOVA: Making things colder >> (Completing the viewing guide serves as a make-up assignment) >> >> **Thu 1/7** >> //__Make-up:__ Get True/False sheet, pick 6 to answer why the statement is true or false.// >> Numbered Heads Together True/False challenge >> >> >> **Wed 1/6** >> //__Make-up:__ CD 21-1 worksheet// >> Eureka video - Heat vs Temperature >> RHR Refresher for Leslie's room >> >> >> **Tue 1/5** >> //Make-up: N/A// >> Thermometer game - where do the number cards go? >> Score last of the marshmallow launchers >> >> >> **Tue 12/22, Mon 1/4, Tue 1/5** >> Marshmallow Launcher Project >> Get a set of equipment and rule sheet from Leslie. Build some sort of mechanism that will launch a mini marshmallow towards a target 2 meters away. >> >> **Mon 12/21** - Base camp, no class >> >> **Fri 12/18** >> Make-up: Use the internet to do the following: 1) Define trebuchet. 2) Define catapult. What kind of potential energy is used for each? >> Eureka 20 - Temperature Scales (review of Thursday) >> Junkyard Wars - let's get ready for marshmallow launchers! >> >> **Thu 12/17** >> Make-up: Use page from file to answer worksheet on Temperature scales >> Temperature scales are arbitrary! >> Kelvin is the only one where zero means "nothing" >> Hands in water demo -- we are lousy thermometers! >> >> **Wed 12/16** >> Make-up: Watch Eureka 19: [] >> and answer the following questions. 1) What will happen to a full balloon left in the sun? 2) Why would this happen? 3) Why is there space left between pieces of concrete on a bridge? >> Temperature and Heat prior knowledge sheet >> Ball and ring demonstration >> Simulator of gas molecules >> Temperature measures average kinetic energy >> >> >> **Tue 12/15** >> Make-up: Schedule a time with Leslie to take the test >> Test on Work, Power, Energy, Momentum, and Impulse >> >> **Mon 12/14** >> Jeopardy Review - Work, Power, Energy, Momentum >> >> **Fri 12/11** >> Make-up work: #1-4b of Momentum and Impulse review (in file) >> Brainstormed safety devices that increase time to stop and so decrease force >> Whiteboard - what are the questions asking for and what do they want? Which equation? >> Practice on worksheet >>  >> >> **Thu 12/10** >> Make-up work: Answer the following questions (also in file) in terms of impulse and momentum. 1) When swinging a baseball bat, why does follow through lead to the baseball leaving the bat with greater velocity? 2) Is a dish less likely to break if it falls onto a tile floor or a carpeted floor? 3) Why are airbags in cars a good idea? >> Catching a baseball barehanded and water balloon catching contests >> Impulse is change in momentum >> Watched ESPN "Relaxing with Impulse" >> >> >> **Wed 12/9** >> Make-up: Schedule time with Leslie to do lab activity >> Marble Madness: Different marbles down ruler ramps into other marbles on rulers >> Does it seem like momentum is conserved? >> Marble Madness >> >> >> **Tue 12/8** >> Make-up work: Use the internet or your brain to answer the following question: What are 3 situations where something big going slower affects something small to make it go much faster? (Slip in file) >> Watched "Blobbing" and related it to conservation of momentum >> OAS - Daisy Cutter also conservation of momentum >> Watched ESPN "Running with Momentum" video and created questions for the Daily 3 >> >> >> **Mon 12/7** >> Make-up work: Do momentum practice problems 1-4b >> Where do we hear momentum in daily life? Sports, being on a roll,... >> Whiteboard practice using momentum equation >> Worksheet practice mom. = m*v >> >> >> **Fri 12/3** >> Make-up: Google "mythbuster results" and summarize how they tested any 3 myths ( [] ) >> Mythbusters: Dumpster Dive and Bubble Wrap >> both about changing momentum over more TIME to create less FORCE >> >> Thu 12/3 - NO SCHOOL >> Staff development day >> >> **Wed 12/2** >> Make-up work: Get CD 8-1 worksheet from file and complete all but #4 >> Stop a cannon ball with your foot? >> Momentum is inertia in motion >> Newton's cradle demos >> Racquetball on basketball demo >> Conservation means total momentum stays that same >> Practice worksheet >> >> >> **Tue 12/1** >> Make-up work: Get CD 9-1 from file and complete 1-5 & 7 >> Reviewing Work, Power, and Energy (CPPs) >> Eureka 9: Kinetic Energy >> Worksheet that reviewed all from this quarter >> >> >> **Mon 11/23 - Tue 11/24 - Mon 11/30** >> Make-up work: Get roller coaster project packet from Leslie and complete. You will need a computer that runs JAVA (a smartphone probably won't work). >> Explore PhET Energy Skate Park simulator >> Design and build a roller coaster >> Draw and label the energy along your ride both without and with friction >> >> **Fri 11/20** >> Make-up work: #1 use the packet in the file (or the internet) to find the calories in one of your favorite fast foods. #2 Convert the calories to Joules (1 Calorie = 4184 Joules). #3 use the packet in the file (or the internet) to find how long it would take you to burn off those calories at an exercise of your choice. >> - Find the power needed for a couple of fitness activities >> - Discuss how work, energy, and power are related to calories and food >> >> >> **Thu 11/19** >> Make-up work: Get fake data and complete lab sheet (in file) >> Defining POWER -- everyday life and in physics >> Power = work / time and is measured in Watts >> Determining our power running up the stairs. >> >> >> **Wed 11/18** >> Make-up work: Get toy popper data and complete lab worksheet (in file) >> Watched Eureka 10: Potential Energy >> Measured height of toy popper and conservation of energy to calculate how fast it was going when it left the ground >> >> >> **Tue 11/17** >> //__ Make-up work: __ Use the internet or notes to answer these questions: 1) If I roll a ball across a flat floor, it eventually stops. Where does the energy go? 2) Once I pick my feet up off the ground on a swing, I can get myself higher and higher. Where does the energy of motion come from? 3) Where do cows get their energy? // >> Watched Sports Figures: Tony Hawk perpetual motion? >> Everything is solar powered??? >> >> >> **Mon 11/16** >> Make-up work: Complete worksheet CD 9-2 front except for challenge problem (in file) >> Reviewed energy changes from Friday >> Conservation means total energy stays the same >> Applied conservation to examples where gravitational potential energy (GPE) turned into kinetic energy (KE) >> GPE depends directly on height >> KE Eureka video >>  >> >> **Fri 11/13** >> Make-up work: Get packet and complete graphic organizer (in file) >> Energy is the ability to do work! (Both measured in Joules) >> Identified 3 kinds of Potential energy and 2 kinds of Kinetic Energy >> Tried 6 demos around the room of how energy changed from one form to another >>  >> >> **Thu 11/12** >> //__Make-up:__ N/A// >> Science Museum Field Trip - Make-up day / Mythbusters >> >> **Wed 11/11** >> Make-up work: Get class data (in file) and then write a summary >> Try pulling a dishwasher (500 g mass) into a truck using ramp at different angles >> What did we find? No free lunches -- all about the same amount of work! >> >> >> **Tue 11/10** >> Make-up work: Complete "work"sheet #1-5 (in file) >> Create examples of work >> Catchy Physics Phrases: force and work >> Eureka 8: work >> Practice using the formula W=F*d >> >> >> **Mon 11/9** >> Make-up work: Use the internet or notes to answer the following questions: 1&2) What are two different everyday meanings of the word work (OTHER THAN having a job)? 3) If I blow up a balloon, am I doing physics work? Why or why not? (Slip in file) >> Brainstormed: What does work mean in everyday life? >> In physics: work is when a force causes a displacement >> 4 demos: Did Leslie do physics work? >>
 * === Quarter #2: Work, Energy, Power, Momentum, Heat ===