Week of October 5

OCTOBER LESSON PLANS

Date: Monday, October 05, 2009

OBJECTIVE:

Transition Day between Units

Introduce new unit – all about motion

BELLWORK ASSIGNMENT:

1. What is the title of Chapter 8?

2. What are the key terms from Chapter 8, section 1?

3. Go back and make sure your heading is completely filled in for across the top.

What did we do/study in class today?

Transition Day – went over the scantron portion of the test

Cleaned out folders, turned in unit work for last unit

Assigned new seats for the new unit

Began our unit on motion with a roller coaster video

What handouts or materials were passed out?

White WS – Standards and vocabulary for new unit, Video questions

VOCAB BINGO BOARD

What assignments were collected today?

None (finish test & clean out folder if absent last week)

Date: Tuesday, October 6, 2009

OBJECTIVE:

Definition and practice problems about speed

BELLWORK ASSIGNMENT:

1. What is the fastest speed you have ever traveled?

2. Is your answer in metric units?

3. How long would it take you to run 100 meters?

What did we do/study in class today?

Notes and discussion on new topic – MOTION

Defined speed and velocity and tried sample problems

Learn the formula v =d/t and the units for speed

Define constant speed and the parts of a distance/time graph

What handouts or materials were passed out?

2 sided white worksheet – notes to go along with Power Point on Motion

* Assigned the rest of it as homework due Wednesday!

What assignments were collected today?

None

Date: Wednesday, October 7, 2009

OBJECTIVE:

Practice velocity problems

BELLWORK ASSIGNMENT:

1. What is the formula for velocity?

2. How is velocity different from speed?

What did we do/study in class today?

Finished up the worksheet from Tuesday and chapter 8

Did practice problems from page 255 – do all of them

Reviewed the different formulas for find v or d or t and units

Worked on a related graphing assignment rest of the hour and turned it in

What handouts or materials were passed out?

White WS – Interpreting a graph

What assignments were collected today?

Practice velocity problems – from the book Page 255

White WS from Tuesday (homework/notes – Ch. 8)

Date: Thursday, October 08, 2009

OBJECTIVE:

Review for a QUIZ over VELOCITY and Graphs

BELLWORK ASSIGNMENT:

1. What is the difference between instantaneous speed and average speed?

2. Where is instantaneous speed found on distance time graph?

3. How would you get your average speed for an entire trip?

What did we do/study in class today?

Went over the last 3 days assignments in review

Practiced more V = d/t calculation and necessary units

Went over the answer to yesterday’s practice problems and the answers to the Interpret the Graph assignment

Announced a quiz over all this stuff for Friday

What handouts or materials were passed out?

Everything passed back – nothing new passed out

What assignments were collected today?

White WS (Ch. 8 Notes from Tuesday)

White WS (Interpret a Graph from yesterday)

Date: Friday, October 9, 2009

OBJECTIVE:

Quiz followed by the PHYSICS 500 LAB

BELLWORK ASSIGNMENT:

Number your paper 1 – 7

Answer the questions from the ½ sheet on your bell work.

Do not write on the ½ sheet of paper.

What did we do/study in class today?

Short review of key terms (bellwork questions) then a quiz

Graded the quiz in class – no make up for absent students

Physics 500 Lab Started – Students took their times running a variety of races, Monday we will calculate our speeds

What handouts or materials were passed out?

Pop Quiz on velocity basics

Physics 500 Lab Data Sheet (See Below)

What assignments were collected today?

QUIZ

3^rd hour – also collected 2 worksheet from week

4^th and 5^th hour – Bellwork collected for the week

Date: Tuesday, October 13, 2009

OBJECTIVE:

Calculate speed from Friday’s lab

BELLWORK ASSIGNMENT:

GET A NEW BELLWORK SHEET FOR THE WEEK

FROM FRIDAY:

1. What distance did you “race” with your partner?

2. What is formula for finding speed?

3. What would be our units for this lab?

What did we do/study in class today?

Finished our Physics 500 Lab from Friday and turned it in

LOTS OF TIME NEEDED to do this lab.

Teacher went to each pair to see how their numbers were working out and tried to show each group where their errors were.

** ABSENT PEOPLE **

You will have to stay after to do this lab!!

What handouts or materials were passed out?

Labs passed back (they were collected Friday)

What assignments were collected today?

THE FINISHED LAB “The Physics 500”

Do absent students need to stay after to make up today’s work? YES

Date: Wednesday, October 14, 2009

OBJECTIVE:

Additional day for review, reading, independent catch up

BELLWORK ASSIGNMENT:

1. What chapter should you be reading to review motion?

2. Why is 50 not a good answer for, “What is the speed of the car?”

3. Give a sample velocity. AGAIN.

What did we do/study in class today?

ALL HOUR GOING OVER GRADES, OLD TEST ANSWERS

Passed back progress reports, got caught up on missing work

Did TEST CORRECTIONS for extra credit

What handouts or materials were passed out?

All the graded tests & papers were passed back

Progress Reports

What assignments were collected today?

4^th and 5^th hour – turned in their test corrections done so far

Date: Thursday, October 15, 2009

OBJECTIVE:

Ch. 8 Section 1 QUIZ REVIEW and then we’re moving on

BELLWORK ASSIGNMENT:

1. What is your average speed walking between your last class to this class?

You can estimate and figure it out. Don’t wimp out on me. Try to picture a meter stick and how long it takes you to walk that many.

2. Now go back and make your speed a velocity.

What did we do/study in class today?

Read a packet and worked with partners on more velocity, distance and time problems

Passed back graded work, discussed Ch. 8.1 quiz coming up

Read parts of Chapter 8, Section 1 for review

What handouts or materials were passed out?

Yellow Packet on Motion – read it and do the problems at the end

Date: Friday, October 16, 2009

OBJECTIVE:

Quiz on Velocity and then notes on acceleration

BELLWORK ASSIGNMENT:

Page 258 – Section Review Questions 1 – 9, except #6

What did we do/study in class today?

Went over the bellwork as a final review of Ch. 8 Section 1

Took a quiz with equations and graphs – graded it in class

Passed out homework for for Chapter 8 section 2

REQUIRES READING THE BOOK!! Due Tuesday

Started an assignment on acceleration and roller coasters

What handouts or materials were passed out?

QUIZ GREEN WS – Questions on Ch. 8 - homework to use with the book

Blue Packet – Measuring Acceleration

What assignments were collected today?

QUIZ – all classes 3^rd hour – Test Corrections

4^th hour – BELLWORK 5^th hour - NOTHING

Date: Monday, October 19, 2009

OBJECTIVE:

Calculate acceleration and graph it

BELLWORK ASSIGNMENT:

Number your paper 1 – 5 and wait for movie.

Then take 5 notes on the movie as our warm-up

What did we do/study in class today?

Short video on velocity & acceleration as a warm-up/review

Highlighted some of the reading selections in Chapter 8 REMINDED students about green WS (homework) on Ch. 8

Worked on acceleration problems using a roller coaster drawing and discussion on velocity and acceleration

ASSIGNED GRAPHS OF THIS PAPER LAB FOR HW

What handouts or materials were passed out?

Nothing new – blue roller coaster packet and green hw worksheets were passed out last week – BOTH DUE TUES.

What assignments were collected today?

NONE

Date: Tuesday, October 20, 2009

OBJECTIVE:

Compare velocity-time graphs to distance-time graphs

BELLWORK ASSIGNMENT:

WAIT FOR MOVIE – Then take 5 notes

What did we do/study in class today?

Watched a roller coaster clip and took notes about it

Corrected our graphs from last night, finished questions in the roller coaster packet – worked in pairs, lots of help given

Analyzed Velocity-Time graphs and Distance-time graphs and answered a series of questions about them

What handouts or materials were passed out?

2 worksheets of graphs and questions – students worked in pairs to complete them - GOOD ASSIGNMENT TO DO WITH A TUTOR

What assignments were collected today?

Roller coaster lab – showed Ms. Pettit graph (Monday’s HW)

And Turned in Green WS (homework passed out last Friday)

Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2009

OBJECTIVE:

Define gravity and what things affect it

BELLWORK ASSIGNMENT:

MOVIE NOTES ABOUT GRAVITY

What did we do/study in class today?

Finished the velocity-time & distance-time graph questions

Did a group quiz (using whiteboards) on interpreting graphs

Completed some practice problems using v=d/t and a=Vf-Vi/t

Started a discussion on gravity – what is it, what causes it

NOTES to KNOW: GRAVITY IS AN ACCELERATION, when combined with your mass it creates a FORCE on the Earth.

What handouts or materials were passed out?

White worksheet – velocity and acceleration story problems

What assignments were collected today?

NOTHING – keep all finished work in your folder for now

Date: Thursday, October 22, 2009

OBJECTIVE:

Gravity notes and practice problems

BELLWORK ASSIGNMENT:

Write down 2 different places where you observe acceleration in the video?

What are some of the effects of gravity shown in this video?

What did we do/study in class today?

Notes on gravity, read parts of Chapter 8 section 2 together

Took notes off the board and answered questions on a ws

Lots of class discussion, visual aids and examples of gravity

Pop QUIZ over today’s notes – end of the hour then graded it

What handouts or materials were passed out?

Yellow Worksheet about Gravity – took extra notes on back - only first page of this .pdf file

POP QUIZ – at the end of the hour

What assignments were collected today?

POP QUIZ and still collecting last week’s homework

Date: Friday, October 23, 2009

OBJECTIVE:

Compare examples of net force and balanced forces

BELLWORK ASSIGNMENT:

One final movie – what have you learned about motion, velocity and acceleration from all these video clips

What did we do/study in class today?

Lots of fun and hands-on demonstrations today

Tug of war to show balanced and unbalanced forces

Notes and reading – pages 263-265 (completed a page of notes while reading and discussing forces and friction)

Skateboard, chairs with wheels demonstrations

Penny, note card and a cup lab to show inertia

What handouts or materials were passed out?

One yellow worksheet about forces and about today’s demos

Green worksheet with directions for today’s inertia lab

What assignments were collected today?

NONE – Keep everything in your folder

WEEK OF OCTOBER 26th

Date: Monday, October 26, 2009

OBJECTIVE:

Introduce Newton’s 3 Laws (define net force)

BELLWORK ASSIGNMENT:

READ the SCHEDULE at your desk. (Copy of the schedule below)

What is due tomorrow? 8.3 Homework

What is happening on Friday?

What did we do/study in class today?

Went over past homework assignments - make sure students knew the right answers

Passed out grades, discussed test coming up Friday

Lots of class discussion and examples of net forces and balanced forces and their impact on motion

Practice assignment on forces – did together

What handouts or materials were passed out?

Yellow worksheet – Describing forces

White worksheet – Ch.8 Section 3 Newton’s Laws– homework

Graded work and progress reports

Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2009

OBJECTIVE:

Describe different kinds of motion (projectiles, periodic)

BELLWORK ASSIGNMENT:

Open Books To Chapter 8 Section 3 –

Memorize Newton’s 3 Laws – Be ready for quiz

What did we do/study in class today?

Pop quiz -Ch. 8 – to remind students to study for test Friday

Power Point about Forces and Newton’s Laws with multiple visual aids, demonstrations and examples of how motion is affected by different forces

Students took notes and participated in class discussion of these various demonstrations

Click on the title to view the Power Point

What handouts or materials were passed out?

Yellow worksheet – to guide our discussion of demonstrations

Pink ½ sheet – pop quiz – students kept this to study

What assignments were collected today?

Chapter 8, Section 3 HOMEWORK (white WS from Monday)

Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2009

OBJECTIVE:

Discuss types of motion and continue with demos

BELLWORK ASSIGNMENT:

Read the sheet at your desk. Try to mentally describe the 4 different kinds of motion described. When you are finished reading, answer questions 1 -10

What did we do/study in class today?

More demonstrations, notes, discussion and questions related to motion, acceleration and forces

Lots and Lots of examples of motion discussed, drawn on the board and demonstrated –

students took notes by answering questions on a variety of related assignments

Watched a short video clip about car crashes & inertia

What handouts or materials were passed out?

4 Page Packet for notes – about the movie, demonstrations

Homework: Gold Worksheet “Mixed Review”

Date: Thursday, October 29, 2009

OBJECTIVE:

INTENSE REVIEW – TEST TOMORROW

BELLWORK ASSIGNMENT:

Discuss the following pictures and questions

What did we do/study in class today?

Multiple review assignments together in class – like short brief quizzes to show what would be tested

Went over bellwork, week’s homework answers

What handouts or materials were passed out?

Practice Assignments for Reinforcement and review

What assignments were collected today?

Wednesday’s homework – gold worksheet “Mixed Review”

Date: Friday, October 30, 2009

OBJECTIVE:

TEST TODAY

BELLWORK ASSIGNMENT:

What did we do/study in class today?

Reviewed these formulas and the definition of WEIGHT

F= ma D=TV A = Vf-Vi/t

TEST OVER CHAPTER 8 – Motion and Forces

What handouts or materials were passed out?

The TEST

What assignments were collected today?

ALL LATE WORK COLLECTED – no longer accepted after the test