Quarter+1+Notes+2010

=2010 Quarter 1 CLASS NOTES:= Newton's Laws

Thursday 11/11 -Force and Motion Simulation -All three of Newton's Laws

Wednesday 11/10 -Punching Paper -Story time: The puppy and the bus -Problems from the book -A Dramatic Reading

Tuesday 11/9 -Hand back tests -Pulling while on carts - 2 scales demo -Newton's 3rd Law worksheet

Monday 11/8 -Mythbusters: Helium Football / Catch a bullet

Friday 11/05 -Test!

Thursday 11/04 -Physics Jeopardy

Wednesday 11/03 -Grade Update -Questions for test -Worksheet on Friction, Air resistance, Terminal Speed, Net Forces -Catchy Physics Phrases: Wall of Fame

Tuesday 11/02 -Review Games

Monday 11/01 -Worksheet on F=ma & W=mg -Catchy Physics Phrases: Wall of Fame

Friday 10/29 -Reading Jigsaw: Friction, Pressure, Terminal Speed

Thursday 10/28 -Mythbusters: Crimes and Mythdemeanors

Wednesday 10/27 -Projects due -Graphs of our Experiments -F=ma practice

Tuesday 10/26 -Experiment with different pulls on the cart -Graphs of Monday's experiment -Project work time

Monday 10/25 -Project draft handback -Catchy Physics Phrases -Experiment: Same pull, different mass

Thursday & Friday 10/21-22 NO SCHOOL

Wednesday 10/20 -Rate practice problems -How do they do it

Tuesday 10/19 -Work on project -Catchy Physics Phrases -Practice from the book

Monday 10/18 -Project Work Day

Thursday-Friday 10/14-15/10 --NO SCHOOL-- conferences

Wednesday 10/13/10 - Position, Velocity, and Acceleration - Moving Man computer simulation

Tuesday 10/12/10 - Gravity causes acceleration - Worksheet on falling and speeding up (CD 4-1)

Monday 10/11/10 - Defining acceleration - Intro to Project #2 - Books and feathers can fall the same if no air!

Friday 10/08/10 - Defining velocity - Worksheet comparing speed and velocity - Dropping spread-out washers on a string

Thursday 10/07/10 - Mythbusters: Jet decompression

Wednesday 10/06/10 - Calculating and graphing the runner's motion

Tuesday 10/05/10 - Mr. Guch's rules for good graphing - Graphing bowling ball motion - Measuring a runner's motion

Monday 10/04/10 - A look at test scores - Defining motion and speed - Measuring motion of a bowling ball

Friday 10/01/10 - Class test on Chapter 2: Equilibrium and Chapter 3: Inertia

Thursday 9/30/10 - Jeopardy: Review for test

Wednesday 9/29/10

- Challenge Day!!! Work in teams to get the most challenging questiosn figured out

Tuesday 9/28/10 - Inertia - and "No net force" - Review of Mass vs. Weight - Inertia worksheet (CD 3-1, 3-2)

Monday 9/27/10 - Define Inertia - Mass, Weight, Volume whiteboard practice - Practice problems from book: 21, 32, 37-40, 55

Friday 9/24/10 - Jigsaw reading activity: Different scientists ideas about motion

Thursday 9/23/10 - Discovering Inertia Activities: - Flick card out from under penny - Yank cloth out from under dishes - Ken learns to wear his seatbelt

Wednesday 9/22/10 - Review Equilibirum - Revisit "Apple on a Desk" worksheet - Dynamic Equilibrium - 1-D Forces simulation in lab

Tuesday 9/21/10 - Mythbusters: Sinking Titanic

Monday 9/20/10 - Demo with chunk of metal and newtonmeters - Nellie Newton worksheet (CD 2-1)

Friday 9/17/10 - Preview: Apple on the desk question - What is a "Net Force"?

Thursday 9/16/10 - What is science? - Sort words and phrases into "is" and "is not" - Watch youtube guy to understand and move things around

Wednesday 9/15/10 - Mythbusters - Fix up Vee Charts

Tuesday 9/14/10 - Class syllabus - Get acquainted with the textbook - Textbook Scavanger Hunt