WEEK OF NOVEMBER 2nd
Date: Monday, November 2, 2009
OBJECTIVE:
Finish tests, clean out folders, do test corrections
BELLWORK ASSIGNMENT:
Look at the comments on the previous test
corrections and write out 4 different comments I wrote on your papers.
Absent Friday?
You will take the test today.
What did we do/study in class today?
Turned in a work for the unit – cleaned out folders and organized papers in 4th
and 5th hours only
What handouts or materials were passed out
NOTHING NEW
What assignments were
collected today?
A
bunch of work from your folder – see Ms. Pettit
Date: Tuesday, November 03, 2009
OBJECTIVE:
Read and define key words related to work and energy
BELLWORK ASSIGNMENT:
OPEN YOUR BOOKS – Yes you need your book today!!!
To page 282 – What is the title of this Chapter?
How many sections are in this chapter?
What are some of the subheadings for each section?
What did we do/study in class today?
Got
new seats, finished car crash video & notes about it
Started taking notes in Chapter 9 about work and machines
Looked at the benchmarks & standards for the new unit
Gave some students time in class to finish their essays
Collected packet of work, cleaned out folders – 3rd hour only
What handouts or materials were passed out?
Just notebook paper for taking notes
What assignments were
collected today?
See Ms. Pettit to see what packet was collected - 3rd hour
Date: Wednesday, November 04, 2009
OBJECTIVE:
Define work, observe it in lab, and then calculate it
BELLWORK ASSIGNMENT:
1. Where are you doing work (science definition)
when you work out at a gym?
2. How can you do MORE work than someone else?
Notes/discussion over Chapter 9- Defined work, did practice problems
Page 285 and added them to our notes to turn in
(Weight = mass x gravity)
It weighed 10 Newtons
Reminded class that WEIGHT is a FORCE and so to lift a weight means you are
using a force over a distance (WORK)
Did
a lab to compare Force x Distance using ramps & cars
What handouts or materials were passed out?
Blue Packet “Energy, Work, Power, & Machines” – 3rd hour only
What assignments were
collected today?
Date: Thursday, November 05, 2009
OBJECTIVE:
Calculate work and why how machines make work easier
BELLWORK ASSIGNMENT:
SOLVE THESE STORY PROBLEMS:
WRITE OUT THE FORMULAS FIRST, THEN
SUBSTITUTE
1. You exert a force of 715 N on stalled car in order to move it. By the time you reach a gas station, you have done 30,000 J of work.
How far have you pushed the
car?
2. A large bird has a mass of 1.3 kg and it flies up 50 meters into the
air. How much work did the bird
do?
3. The world’s most powerful
tugboats can do 980,000 J of work through a distance of 35 m. What is the
force exerted by the tugboat?
What did we do/study in class today?
Lots of time on bellwork and the lab from yesterday about work, force and distance
(lab included a review of the effects of an inclined plane on work done)
Went over tests in classes that it was passed back
3rd
& 5th – Passed back short answer part of test
What assignments were
collected today?
4th
hour – Ch. 9 Notes and story problems page 285
Date:
Friday, November
06, 2009
OBJECTIVE:
Describe the relationship between work, energy and
power
BELLWORK ASSIGNMENT:
1. What are the metric units for force?
2. What
are the standard metric units for distance?
3. What
is the formula to find work?
4. What
are 2 different possible units for work?
(Use questions 1-3 to help you figure out one of the
units)
What did we do/study in class today?
Passed back all graded work and progress reports
Went over grades, collected any last minutes bellworks & test corrections
Reminded students about their homework – Due next week
PROGRESS REPORTS – marking period grades given