Inside the Mind of an Otter

On Thursday (10/29), we continued to collect data to help our our animals and started to take a closer look at the results.

CLASS ACTIVITIES

1) Quick Vocabulary Review

2) Experiment Data Collection

3) Brief Discussion of Project Requirements

HANDOUTS

1) Research Lab Scoring Rubric

2) Research Lab Exit Survey

3) Unit 4/5 Worksheet 2

HOMEWORK

1) Unit 4/5 Worksheet 2

2) Get Permission Slips signed (one for Exploratorium, one for video in class)

3) Bring $30 for Exploratorium (checks payable to LGHS Science)

4) Rough draft of experiment report postponed until Wednesday (11/4)

Animal House

On Tuesday (10/27), we started to help our research animals solve the mystery of Newton's 2nd Law. Data collection is still in progress and will continue on Thursday.

CLASS ACTIVITIES

1) Review of Worksheet 1

2) One More Inertia Demo

3) Research Animal experiment

HANDOUTS

none today

HOMEWORK

1) Get Permission Slips signed (one for Exploratorium, one for video in class)

2) Bring $30 for Exploratorium (checks payable to LGHS Science)

3) Rough draft of experiment report postponed until Monday (11/2)

Picking Up Speed

On Friday (10/23), we experimented with inertia and started to design an experiment to help our animals friends figure out Newton's 2nd Law.

CLASS ACTIVITIES

1) Review of Inertia Stations

2) One More Inertia Demo

3) Notes on Force Diagrams

4) Experiment Design

HANDOUTS

1) Research Lab Worksheet

2) Unit 4/5 Worksheet 1

HOMEWORK

1) Unit 4/5 Worksheet 1

2) Get Permission Slips signed (one for Exploratorium, one for video in class)

2) Bring $30 for Exploratorium (checks payable to LGHS Science)

Overcoming Inertia

On Wednesday (10/21), we experimented with inertia and started to design an experiment to help our animals friends figure out Newton's 2nd Law.

CLASS ACTIVITIES

1) Inertia Stations

2) Begin to design animal experiment

HANDOUTS

1) Newton station notes

2) Research Lab assignment

HOMEWORK

1) Brainstorm ideas for experiment

2) Get Permission Slips signed (one for Exploratorium, one for video in class)

2) Bring $30 for Exploratorium (checks payable to LGHS Science)

Falling for You

On Monday (10/19), we tested gravity by throwing things off of the science building.

CLASS ACTIVITIES

1) Complete mindfreak "transposition" with Criss Angel

2) Lab: Acceleration due to Gravity

3) Introduction to Inertia

HANDOUTS

1) Acceleration due to Gravity lab sheet

2) Newton and Fitness article

HOMEWORK

1) Read Newton and Fitness article and answer questions

2) Get Permission Slips signed (one for Exploratorium, one for video in class)

2) Bring $30 for Exploratorium (checks payable to LGHS Science)

A Festering Test

On Thursday (10/15), we ended our hot-and-cold relationship with changing velocity as we took a test on Unit 3.

CLASS ACTIVITIES

1) Unit 3 Review in song

2) Unit 3 Test

HANDOUTS

1) Permission Slip

HOMEWORK

1) Get Permission Slips signed (one for Exploratorium, one for video in class)

2) Bring $30 for Exploratorium (checks payable to LGHS Science)

In View of the Goal

On Tuesday (10/13), we measured our reaction time and experienced the beginnings of a mindfreak.

CLASS ACTIVITIES

1) Terminal velocity mindfreak

2) Reaction Time Lab

3) Create-A-Quiz

HANDOUTS

1) Reaction Time Lab

2) Create-A-Quiz

3) Unit 3 Packet Cover

HOMEWORK

1) Unit 3 Review

2) Assemble HW Packet

Unit 3 Homework

Unit 3 Worksheet 1

Unit 3 Worksheet 2

Unit 3 Worksheet 3

Unit 3 Worksheet 4

Unit 3 Review

Calm Before the (Gentle) Storm

On Friday (10/9), we calculated the acceleration of cars on a drag racing strip and took a few moments to breathe.

CLASS ACTIVITIES

1) R Racing Evolution

2) Review of Adaptive Rolling curves

3) NASA LCROSS Animation

HANDOUTS

1) R Racing Evolution worksheet

2) Unit 3 Review

3) Practice Quiz

HOMEWORK

1) Unit 3 Worksheet 4

2) Practice Quiz (optional)

What Goes Around...

On Wednesday (10/7), we focused on the use of equations, rather than graphs, to solve our motion problems.

CLASS ACTIVITIES

1) Review of Quiz

2) Kinematic Karma

3) Group Review of WS 2 and WS 3

HANDOUTS

1) Unit 3 Worksheet 4

HOMEWORK

1) Unit 3 Worksheet 4

Defining the Equation

On Monday (10/5), we embraced negative acceleration as it both slowed us down (in the positive direction) and sped us up (in the negative direction).

CLASS ACTIVITIES

1) Review of Kinematic Curves

2) Quiz

3) Worksheet 2

4) Introduce Kinematic Equations

HANDOUTS

1) Unit 3 Worksheet 2

2) Unit 2 Worksheet 3

HOMEWORK

1) Unit 3 Worksheet 2

2) Unit 3 Worksheet 3

Putting the Cart Before the Horse

On Thursday (10/1), we tried to wrap out minds around negative acceleration with some difficulty. We will clarify on Monday.

CLASS ACTIVITIES

1) Lab: Adaptable Curves

2) Review Unit 3 Worksheet 1

HANDOUTS

1) Adaptable curves lab packet

HOMEWORK

1) Dynamic Cart Lab Report

Keeping Up with the Dynamos

On Tuesday (9/29), we further analyzed the motion of our dynamic carts to find the acceleration.

CLASS ACTIVITIES

1) Lab Calculations

2) Introduction to kinematic curves

HANDOUTS

1) Average Velocity and Kinematic Curves

2) Dynamic Cart Lab Requirements

3) Unit 3 Worksheet 1

HOMEWORK

1) Dynamic Cart Rough Draft

2) Unit 3 Worksheet 1