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Corona Virus update
Osmosis Jones video assignment

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Turn in wave graphing and and xtra credit lab
 
Intro to light and Vision, optical illusions 
 

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Wave LAB/ Graphing
 

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bonus buck quiz
Turn in study guide part 1
Study guide part 2
 

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1. open sesame 
2. Flash Card wars
3. part 1 Study guide chapter 19 Due 3/4
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Complete study Guide part 1
 

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Lect: Introduction to waves
reading chapter 19.1 & 19.2
Vocab flash cards
 
 

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Capture the Flag- Projectile target Lab  $$ to the winners
 

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Projectile Launching Lab 
 
* need to complete to be eligible for Capture the Flag*

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Projectile launch practice problem
Q&A for study guide.  turn in study guide at the end of period.
 
last chance for General Store #2

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Cohen at Mock College Application
Projectile motion practice problems ---Due 2/21
Complete Study Guide chapter 10
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HW: Complete study guide
 

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Test retakes
Turn in Study guide 
* A and B testers read chapter 19

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seating Chart
Q&A chapter 10
Study Guide chapter 10 need to be completed by Thursday for Bonus Bucks

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Need student volunteer to pass to papers
Reading 10.1
Study Guide chapter 10 need to be completed by Thursday for Bonus Bucks
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HW: Study Guide
 

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Holiday- President's weekend

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Holiday- President's weekend

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Video Conclusion: Interstellar
 Video quiz

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Return papers
Video: Interstellar
Video Guide Questions
 
What was the problem on planet earth that spark the voyage?
Why was Cooper chosen to particpate in the mission?
What was the Lazerus mission?
What was plan A?
What was plan B?
What did the Wormhole allow them to do?
What was the problem flying too close to Gargantuan?
What effect did the gravitational pull from the worm hole have on the space ship speed?
What was the cause of the tidal waves on the first planet?
Why did professor Brann lie about the feasibility of plan A?
Why did they spin the endeavor space station?
Who or what is Murphy Cooper's ghost?
How did Murphy Cooper receive her quantum data to fix the equation on how to utilize gravity?

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Video: Interstellar
 
Video Guide

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Video: Interstellar
Video Guide
Test retake answer sheet given

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Turn in Study Guide for bonus bucks
Video ( 25 min): Secrets of the Universe

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Bonus Buck Q&A Chapter 9
 
 
 

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Seating Chart
Make up Quizzes
Gravity Unit
1. Reading
2. Study guide- no credit until quiz is passed.
* General store items delivery this week
 

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Seating Chart
Make up Quizzes
Gravity Unit
1. Reading
2. Study guide- no credit until quiz is passed.
* General store items delivery this week
 

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1.Turn in Homework practice problems
2. turn in Torque equilibrium lab
3. Read & TN 8.4 Center of gravity
4. Lect: demo Center of gravity
period 3 Torque Equilibrium lab
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HW: prepare for Quiz 
 
 
 

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Deposits into checking accounts
Bonus buck quiz
1. Balancing Torque Activity 
2. Read & TN 8.4 Center of gravity
3. lecture: center of gravity, stability and equilibrium
4.  Guided practice worksheet " CG"
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1. Complete Spinning football RPM lab 
2. Bonus buck Questions $10 possible
3. reading Torque
4. Lect: application of torque
lever arm distance* force
 
 
 

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1. Read and take notes, vocabulary list for Chapter 8.1& 8.2
2. Lect: Rotational Inertia and rotational Speed, video demo 
3.  Spinning football lab
4. Retakes for simple machine test at lunch
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Homework: Complete lab for turn in Tuesday
 

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test Simple Machines

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1. Bonus Buck Quiz
2. Project assignment: Simple machines
Due 1/24

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Lab assignment: Simple machines

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Demos
levers, pulleys, inclined planes, block and tackle, wedge, screw
Project assignment: Simple machines
 
 

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Seating Chart
Bonus Buck Program
 
1. read and take notes 7.6
2. Q&A on review
3. Watch video on Pulleys
3.  picture vocabulary skill set (from whiteboard)
 
work input/output with a hydraulic jack, fulcrum, lever, pulley, block and tackle, inclined plane, wedge, screw
 

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"Work" Review sheet
5-6-7

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"Work" Review sheet
Chapters 2-3-4

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Finals Period 3

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Finals Period 2

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Finals period 1
 

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Review Activities chapter 5, 6, 7
 

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TBD
* IPad Carts

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Analyzing graphs and Writing LAB Conclusions

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Quiz chapter 7.1-7.5

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Demo Car ramp to predict: work, power, Potential and Kinetic Energy
Q&A: Work, Power, Energy

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Quiz
Practice Problems: Work, Power, Energy
 

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Kinetic Energy Lab (Outside, weather permitting)
 

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Demo Car ramp to predict: work, power, Potential and Kinetic Energy
 

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1. Extra Credit Board ? Randomly selected.
Group grade HW and turn in (10 pts)
2. Reading & lecture  7.2- Potential and Kinetic Energy
3. practice problems
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HW: Complete practice problems  (10 pts)

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Seating Chart
Reading 7.1- Work and Power
Lect: Work and Power
7.1 Check your reading questions 1-6
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THANKSGIVING BREAK !!!!

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Retest- open note chapter 5-6

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1. Momentum and impulse word problems.
 
 

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1. Time to P lab
 
Hw: Complete LAB write up

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1. Pass back papers
2. Intro Time to P lab
3. start time to P lab * will finish on Wed*

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1. Open note Test chapter 5.4-6.2

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Questions of the day
11. Which has more momentum, 2000 Kg vehicle moving at 100Km/hr or 1000 Kg vehicle moving at 75 Km/hr?  Show your work
 
12. Which would provide a bigger impulse a short barrel or long barrel ?  Explain
 
13. A boxer with thick boxing gloves punches with an increased impact period double the time.  Would the force increase or decrease and by how much?  Explain.
 
Momentum practice problems
Video: momentum. 
Lab Books due tomorrow

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1. Reading 6.1-6.3
2. Lect: Momentum and impulse
3. Momentum practice problems
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Lect: Vector Diagrams, Normal force, gravity
Vector practice
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1. Quiz chapter 5
* turn in vector drawing homework.
* turn in reading graphs

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"Newton's 3rd Law- interactions workshee"
How to do Vector diagrams...
review vocab for quiz Friday

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1. Lect/Demo: Newton's third law- Action reaction
 

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Seating Chart
Turn in late Labs 10% per day
1. Reading Graphs
* graphing on excel
2. Debrief Lab for Fluid friction
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HW: R&TN 5.1
 

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Read and take notes chapter 5.1-5.2
Create New Vocabulary Sheet  for new concepts
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HW: section questions 5.2

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Racing for Distance

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1. Racing brackets double elimination
 

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1. painting, timing/graphing, prototypes
 

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1. painting, timing/graphing, prototypes
2. make up and re quizzing

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1. Reading and taking notes chapter 4 for failures.  Table groups to review test.  
2. Competency Quiz  chapter 4.  Must get a B or better to pass. 
3. Make up tests for absences on Tuesday.
4. Racing and adjusting prototypes... keep journal notes in lab book.  
 

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1. Quiz chapter 4
2. Racing prototypes 10 pts
 

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Make up Quizzes
1. Need for Speed - construction  30 minutes * first prototype testing on Friday
2. Chapter 4: Study Guide due Friday
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HW: Project construction materials

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Vocab quiz #2
1. Need for Speed - construction  30 minutes * first prototype testing on Friday
2. Chapter 4: Volume and fluid friction, streamlining
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HW: Project construction materials

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Quiz on chapter 4 vocabulary
1. Need for Speed - construction  30 minutes * first prototype testing on Friday.
2. Chapter 4: Difference between mass and weight.  Weight as a force.
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HW: Vocab list: Newton's second law, Free fall, non free fall, Terminal speed.  Bring Project construction materials

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GO GO GO Lab due
 
1. Project Brain Storming Day- construction started
2. Chapter 4 vocabulary list to be completed by partners
Net Force, mass, weight, acceleration, static friction, sliding friction,  fluid friction,  air resistance, Newton's 2nd Law-- Due 10/22
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HW: Project construction materials

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GO GO GO Lab
 

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1. I Feel The Need, The Need For Speed Project Introduction
2. The Great Shake Out
3. Incredibles conclusion

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College Psat Day

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1. In Class Reading 4.1-4.3 
2. Lect: Force causing Acceleration, Friction
3. Begin Go Go Go lab postponed
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HW: complete checkpoint 4.1 and checkpoint 4.2

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Quiz chapter 3
 
 
 

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Solving Word problems
Complete Study Guide for HW this weekend .
 

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1. Word problems: speed, velocity, acceleration and force.
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Video: Incredibles
Turn in project into ADT.

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1. Project Write up- Due Wednesday
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Project competition!!!  20 points
A = 6.5-7 seconds or better
B 5-6.4
C 3.1-4.4
D < 3.1
F= no try
 
extra credit for any above 8 seconds 
 

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Quiz chapter 4
racing of prototypes.

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QOD#12: a Rocket goes from 10km/s to 70 km/s in 5 seconds.  What is its acceleration? 
2. Project write up Hypothesis, calculating average force at impact.
3. Complete timing repetitions.
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HW Read and take notes 3.4-3.5  acceleration and free fall

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QOD#11 :What is the difference between speed vs velocity?
1. Lect: speed, velocity and acceleration
2. guided practice problems Due 10/3
 
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HW: complete practice problems
 

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1. grading and testing Project prototypes
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HW: R&TN ch 3.1-3.4 . motion speed and velocity

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1. Seating chart
2. Reviewing chapter test.
3. How to figure force at impact
4. Testing Prototypes 30 min postponed until Wed
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HW: R&TN 3.1-3.3 define formulas for Speed, Velocity, and acceleration
 

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Test Chapter 2
Project work time
 
* Cohen gone

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1.Project Construction time.
2.Test Study guide ( group) due EOP.
3. Turn in QOD #6-10 by table group
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HW: prepare notecard for Monday test
 
 
 
 

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1. Project Brainstorming
- develop prototype
Table sketch to scale with dimensions
-make materials list
* bring materials for project construction on Friday 
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HW:project and study for Monday test

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1. Penny/Cup Inertia Lab. Demo
2. Lect: Force balancing, Equilibrium, Tension, Support Force
3. Project brain storming
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HW: Project and study for Test on Friday

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1. Introduction of negative acceleration project
2. Timing of free fall.
3. Q&A  2.3-2.5 reading
4. computing the resultant force on 90 degree angle.
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HW: read and take notes 2.6 

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1. Read and take notes section 2.3-2.5
2. Complete review study guide
3. complete any unfinished lab assignments
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HW: complete reading chapter 2 

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QOD#10 What effect does density have on the interia of objects. Use complete sentences
Turn in Grid problems
Enrolling in Mastering Physics Online
* use Ipads
Quiz chapter 2- postponed

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QOD#9: A .15 kg coconut falls out of tree and hits a Freshman ( fill in the name) in the head.  The acceleration due to gravity is 9.8 m/s2.  How much force did the coconut hit the freshman?
 
1. Complete RubberBand Newtons Lab in Lab book
2. Grid problems.  
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HW: Read and take notes pages 28-30

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1. Rubber band Newtons Lab
2. . Discussion: Grid diagrams
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* Organizing Lab Book*
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QOD#8: define force and how is it measured?
1. Discussion: Newton's Laws, units of force
2. Rubber Band Newtons Lab Set up
3. Getting TextBooks
 
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QOD#7: If you were given a chance to be a part of a space exploration mission, whether it be to Mars or to the Moon, would you take the offer Why or why not? explain in complete sentences?
* using the website *
Make up work to be completed by today
1. Newton's Laws.  Reading chapter 2.3 in class
2. Discussion: Newton's Laws, units of force, Force diagrams
HW: define Inertia and how the density of an object is related to inertia
Extra Credit: Download and complete the practice problem from the website

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The Martian: 
HW: define following vocabulary words
Force, Inertia, Sir Isaac Newton, Newtons, Vector.
 

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The Martian: 
HW: define following vocabulary words
Force, Inertia, Sir Isaac Newton, Newtons, Vector.
 

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Last day for retake : science reasoning and measurement
The Martian: 
 
Turn in Test tube Rainbow Lab assessment 50 points

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1. Density Rainbow Lab intro. This is a standards based lab pass/Fail
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1. Density Rainbow Lab intro. This is a standards based lab pass/Fail
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1. Density Rainbow Lab intro. This is a standards based lab pass/Fail
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1. Seating Chart
2. QOD #6: How do you measure density and when solutions of different densities come into contact what happens?
3. Grading QOD#1-#5
4. Make up measurement labs.  Redo on own paper 4 density measurements.
 
6. Density Rainbow Lab intro. This is a standards based lab pass/Fail
* clean glassware
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Quiz- Science Lab Skills
 QOD grading 2pts/?

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QOD#5: What is the accuracy expectation in regards to distance, area, volume, and mass?
Peer review Measurements Lab:
turn in labs 
Science Skills Review crossword.
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HW: Complete Lab write up  and turn in.  Be able to answer: What is density and how is it used?

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QOD#4: What is the proper unit to measure: mass, volume, distance in class?
Measurements Lab:
Measure and calculate: distance, area, volume, mass, Density
 

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Measurements Lab: tools description, lab set up.  Partners * each partner is required to do their own
Measure and calculate: distance, area, volume, mass, Density
 
Measurement LAB
 

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1. Complete Lab write up of strange creatures lab.
Problem: which of these strange creatures are closer in relation to the others?
Hypothesis: Using the observation of physical characteristics, Those with more characteristics in common should be closer related.
Procedure: * answer which characteristics you observed and which you considered were the deciding factor in your grouping decisions
 
put in Lab book
 
2.  look at the science reasoning test answers to study for retakes by this friday.
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HW: look up how to do the following
1. use a metric ruler
2. calculate area
3. calculate volume of a rectangular solid
4. measure volume in graduated cylinder
5. measure mass using a digital scale
6. The formula for Density 
 
 

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2.  Complete Strange Creatures Observation lab
 

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Gathering Evidence . Observation and Measurement
Observation Lab- Strange Creatures
1. create Individual characteristic list, combine with group for master list and then 
2. Who is related to whom?  Group project
 
QOD# 3: what is the key to making good observations?
1. How to do solve word problems.  
2. Drawing Rules hand out- how to do a  scientific Sketch.
3. Brain it on competition ( app store)
Make sketch of possible answer an explain why it should work.  This goes into lab book under Brain it on section. 
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Causation vs correlation work time (15 min)
Turn in 
QOD #2: What is the difference between correlation and causation?
Gathering Evidence . Observation and Measurement
Observation Lab- Strange Creatures
Who is related to whom?  Group project
 
write down observations and conclusions from your lab
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HW" R&TN pages 13-15 . 

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seating chart
Setting up Lab Books
Review Scientific method
Turn in Scientific method packet
QOD#1
What are the five steps of the Scientific method in order and what is written in each section? Answers go in lab book
Scientific Reasoning?
correlation vs causation worksheet
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1. Guided Practice: Scientific Method . Due Tuesday
2. Retake and make up safety tests 
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Turn in Paper Tower Lab
Lab Safety Tests
 
** need composition books
All students should have received their textbooks by today**
 
1. Questions about Lab, complete analysis write up in complete sentences
 what was your idea? why did you choose that idea?    Did it work?  How do you know?  if you could do it again, what would you change and why... if you say nothing then explain why not.
 
3. Lect: Scientific Method   * start spring Project ideas*
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Day 3
Review Lab Rules
Paper Tower right ups
Turn in safety Contracts
* get Lab Composition Books
 
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HW: review Scientific Method
 

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1. Question of the day- None
2. Sign up for Remind 101 .   @cphysics19
3. reminder: lab composition books by Friday
4. Paper Tower Lab
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Day 1
Boring Rules, set up remind
"Thinking Like A Scientist"
Lab Safety Contract
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HW: Lab safety rules studied and contracts signed