| 9/2 |
Write your most positive memories you had in middle school science class. |
| 9/3 |
Lab safety contract questions |
| 9/4 |
Reading from The Last Lecture and write about how you would paint your room. |
| 9/5 |
Read "Galileo and Experimental Science" on p. 9-11 in resource book and answer questions:
-When and where was Galileo born?
-What were two of Galileo's inventions?
-Around which planet did Galileo discover four of its moons? |
| 9/8 |
Complete the activity "How High Does the Ball Bounce?" on p. 140 of the Motion, Forces, and Energy book and answer questions |
| 9/9 |
Draw picture of skateboarder going down ramp and label where the highest and lowest kinetic and potential energy are found. |
| 9/10 |
Write a hypothesis for the following question:
What happens to the speed of your car if you increase the steepness of the ramp? |
| 9/11 |
Read "Batteries--Electricity to Go" on p. 16-17 and answer questions on p. 17 |
| 9/12 |
Write a hypothesis for the following statement: How does the recharge time of a battery affect the time a flashlight is in use? |
| 9/15 |
Read the passage “Wet-Cell and Dry-Cell Batteries” on p. 18-19 and answer the following questions:
1.Why is a wet-cell battery “wet?”
2.What is one of the benefits of a dry-cell battery?
3.How many wet cells will you find in a 12-volt car battery?
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| 9/16 |
Read Last Lecutre section on not complaining and write about last time you whined or complained |
| 9/18 |
Draw a picture of a flashlight and its components and draw arrows to show the path the energy is traveling. |
| 9/22 |
Read "Electric Cars..." on p. 30-31in resource book and answer the questions:
-What type of battery was on an Edison Cell car?
-Why did we go away from electric cars in the 1920's?
-Why are we looking at going back to electric cars? |
| 9/23 |
Motion and speed pre-assessment (turned in on separate sheet of paper) |
| 9/24 |
Situations that deal with motion. Is motion occurring or not? |
| 9/25 |
Do the following speed problems:
-A car goes 100 miles in two hours.
-A person runs 200 m in 25 seconds.
-A dog runs 700 m in 2 minutes
-An ant crawls 50 cm in 50 seconds.
-A train goes 1200 km in 6 hours. |
| 9/26 |
Who is the fastest runner?
100m runner in 9.69 s
200 m runner in 19.39 s
400 m runner in 43.18 s |
| 9/29 |
Calculate the speed:
1. 5200 ft in 6 minutes
2. 420 m in 50 minutes
3. 10 inches in 4 seconds
4. 100 km in 1.2 hours |
| 9/30 |
Read article on the history of helicopters and answer these questions:
1. Who were some of the early thinkers of the helicopter?
2. What invention allowed for full-size models to be built?
3. What purpose does a swashplate have on a helicopter? |
| 10/2 |
Read the passage from The Last Lecture and write what kind of deal you would make with an important adult in your life. |
| 10/3 |
Vocabulary word puzzle |
| 10/6 |
Speed problems:
1. distance of 100 miles in 2 hrs.
2. speed of 80 km/hr and distance of 120 km
3. speed of 10 m/s and time of 20 s |
| 10/7 |
Write a conclusion for the following hypothesis:
If the wings of the helicopter are longer, then the helicopter's speed will decrease because there will be more air lift.
Length of wings (cm): 2, 4, 6
Avg. speed (m/s): 0.9, 1.1, 0.9 |
| 10/8 |
For the following problem list the manipulated, responding, and two controlled variables. Also, write a hypothesis for the following situation:
What happens to the acceleration of a car when you increase the steepness of a ramp? |
| 10/9 |
Calculate the acceleration for the following situations:
-Going 336.15 mph in 4.437 seconds
-Going 333.58 mph in 4.665 seconds |
| 10/13 |
Read Last Lecture article "Friday Night..." and write about what ways you could work harder. |
| 10/14 |
Complete the following problems:
1. You go a distance of 500 m in 40 s. What are you figuring out? Go calculate your answer.
2. You go from 0 to 40 mph in 8 seconds. What are you figuring out? Go calculate your answer. |
| 10/15 |
Finish filling out data table from yesterday's acceleration investigation |
| 10/16 |
Complete the velocity and acceleration problems. |
| 10/23 |
Preassessment over forces |
| 10/24 |
Write a hypothesis for the following question: What happens to the force it takes to stretch a rubber band when distance the rubber band is stretched increases? |
| 10/27 |
Read "Bungee Jumping: The Forces Are With You" on p. 42-44 and answer questions on p. 44 |
| 10/28 |
Read "Hooke and Newton: Geniuses at Work" on p. 45-47 and write out three contributions to science Hooke and Newton made. |
| 10/29 |
Read p. 44-47 of Energy, Machine, and Motion book and answer these questions:
1. What other factor besides strength do they use to measure force?
2. What is a net force?
3. What would be the net force in a balanced force? |
| 10/30 |
Write a conclusion for the following scenario:
Hypothesis: If the gum is chewed longer, then I will be able to blow a bigger bubble becuase the gum becomes more stretched out
Data: Times: 5 min, 10 min, 15 min
Size of bubble: 5 cm, 8 cm, 9 cm |
| 10/31 |
How many pieces of candy does it take to make someone's stomach upset?
1. What is the manipulated variable?
2. What is the responding variable?
3. What are two controlled variables?
4. Write a hypothesis for the investigation? |
| 11/3 |
Write a conclusion for the following situation:
Hypothesis: If the train accelerates more, then more force will be exerted because of Newton's 2nd Law of Motion.
Data: 5 m/s/s: 500 N, 10 m/s/s 620 N, 15 m/s/s 600 N, 20 m/s/s 750 N
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| 11/4 |
Write a procedure for the following question: What happens to the acceleration of an arrow when you increase the force on a bow?" |
| 11/5 |
Reflect on the Forced to Accelerate lab report:
1. What are two areas that you have improved in?
2. What is an area that you would like to improve on by the end of 2008? |
| 11/6 |
From the passage in the Last Lecture, describe a situation where you apologized where you really didn't mean it. Did it come across as insincere? |
| 11/7 |
Read article on Physics of Snowboarding and write how friction, gravity, speed, and acceleration relate to snowboarding. |
| 11/12 |
Fill out reflection sheet |
| 11/13 |
Demonstration on following procedures. |
| 11/14 |
Watch video clip on universal grativation and answer the following questions:
1. What two factors affect gravitational force?
2. Why is it called the Law of Universal Gravitation? |
| 11/17 |
Read the article on Newton's Laws of Motion and seat belts and write out how Newton's 1st two Laws of Motion apply to the use of seat belts and other safety devices in cars. |
| 11/18 |
Copy Newton's 3rd Law of Motion after Newton's 1st Law in composition book:
-For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction |
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