Physics with Finch

Bridge Project Day 2

2012-05-16T08:53:00.000-07:00

Background Research

Objective:

What: SWBAT design and create a bridge that will hold up the greatest amount of weight-for-mass.

How: Students will use up to 500 toothpicks and Elmer’s glue to construct a bridge that spans an 18-inch gap.

Why: To be life long learners, we need to apply the physical concepts learned in class to real life situations. Also, 3 winning teams from all the classes will get extra credit.

Agenda
1. Do Now
2. Building Big: Bridges
3. Blueprint
4. BEGIN CONSTRUCTION

Bridge Project- Day 1

2012-05-14T06:30:00.000-07:00

Physics Bridge Project:

Background Research

Objective:

What: SWBAT identify and analyze pro's and cons of different types of building methods for their bridge project.

How: Students will use what they learn from class today to create a rough draft bridge design with their group.

Why: To be life long learners we need to use the physical concepts we learn in class and apply them to real life situations.

Agenda

1. Do Now

2. Brainpop

3. Bill Nye

4. Bridge basics reading

5. Rough draft sketchs and brainstorming!

CST Review Day 10

2012-05-07T07:00:00.000-07:00

Magnetism

Objective:

What: SWBAT apply the properties that make objects magnetic or not.

How: Students will correctly complete a comic strip on magnetism that demonstrates 2 different ways to turn something into a magnet and one situation where an object cannot turn into a magnet.

Why: To be academic achievers, we need to decimate the CST and the Physics final!

Agenda
1. Do Now
2. Brainpop - Magnetism, Electromagnets, and Electromagnetic Induction
3. Bill Nye - Magnetism
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
4. Magnetism Cornell Notes

5. Magnetism comic strip
Your comic strip must explain the following four things:
a. What makes things magnetic.
b. How to create a magnet with another magnet, and why it turns into a magnet.
c. How to use electricity to make something a magnet, and why this makes it turn into a magnet.
d. An object that cannot become magnetic.

Post your completed comic strip as a comment on today's blog post.
(There's a video explaining how to do this if you forgot how at the bottom of today's blog post!)

6. NEED EXTRA HELP?!?!

Magnetism review
(This site is awesome. Definitely check it out if you're done early!)

Minibook!

2012-05-04T16:39:00.003-07:00

Here is a link to the Minibook assignment, in case you lost any of the pages!

Handle your business!

CST Review Day 9

2012-05-04T07:30:00.000-07:00

Waves

Objective

What: SWBAT use vocabulary and the equation for wavelength to solve word problems.

How: Through excellent notes, students will use what they already know and what they learn in class to complete the last pages in their minibook!

Why: To be academic achievers, we must murdalize the CST and the physics final!

(definition of murdalize via Urbandictionary.com)

Murdalize:
To kill in a highly entertaining fashion

"Mouse was so mad he murdalized Ruwe by ripping out his lungs."

Agenda
1. Brainpop- Waves
2. Calculating wave velocity
3. Bill Nye Waves

CST Review Day 8

2012-05-01T17:57:00.000-07:00

Electromagnetism

Objective:

What: SWBAT use principals of Electromagnetism to solve problems in their minibook.

How: Students will use Ohm's Law, and the equation for electrical power to solve problems on pages 34-41 in their minibook.

Why: To be academic achievers we need to annihilate the CST and physics final!

Agenda
1. Do Now
2. Brainpop Electricity
3. Ohm's Law
4. Power
5. Bill Nye - Electricity
6. HW: Electricity Reading

CST Review Day 7

2012-04-30T08:38:00.002-07:00

Thermodynamics

Objective:

What: SWBAT use the Zereoth, First and Second laws of Thermodynamics to solve Physics problems.

How: Students will solve problems involving Heat Engines, and the Laws of Thermodynamics in their minibook

Why: To be academic achievers we need to demolish the CST and Physics Final!

Agenda
1. Do Now - Heat in a gas
2. Eureka - Temperature vs. Heat
3. Brainpop - Temperature
4. Thermodynamics Notes
5. Heat Engine problems practice
6. Bill Nye- Fluids
7. Questioning Entropy...?

CST Review Day 6

2012-04-26T21:09:00.002-07:00

Thermodynamics and Heat Engines

Objective:

What: SWBAT explain how work, heat, and pressure are related.

How: Students will use the equation for Work done by a Heat Engine and The Laws of Thermodynamics to complete pages 25-29 in their minibooks.

Why: To be academic achievers, we need to OBLITERATE the CST and final!

Agenda
1. Brainpop- Heat
2. Bill Nye- Heat
3. Heat and pressure- How Autos work
4. Fire syringe
4. First Law of Thermodynamics Practice

Extra Learning

2012-04-25T08:45:00.001-07:00

Conservation of Momentum in Collisions and Calculating Impulse

Objective:
What: SWBAT solve problems involving elastic and inelastic collisions, and impulse.
How: Students will use the equation for conservation of momentum, and impulse to solve word problems in their minibook and classwork.
Why: To be academic achievers, we need to review and ace the CST and final!

Agenda
1. Conservation of momentum video
2. Calculating Impulse
3. Conservation of momentum
4. HW and minibook!

CST Prep Day 4

2012-04-23T08:32:00.001-07:00

Conservation of Energy, Conservation of Momentum, and Calculating Momentum

Objective:

What: SWBAT solve problems involving the application of conservation of energy, conservation of momentum, and the equation for momentum.

How: Students will apply what they learned about the above three topics to complete pages 17-20 in their minibook.

Why: To be academic Achievers we need to ace the CST and final!

Agenda:

1. Calculating Momentum

2. Bill Nye- Momentum

3. Momentum comic strip

4. Minibook pages 17-20

CST Prep Day 3

2012-04-20T07:00:00.000-07:00

Kinetic Energy, Potential Energy, and Conservation of Energy

Objective

What: SWBAT solve problems involving kinetic energy and potential energy.How: Students will use the skills they practice in class to complete pages 10-16 in their minibook.Why: To be academic achievers, we need to be able to be successful on the CST and the final!

Agenda
1. Kinetic Energy Review
2. Potential Energy
3. Conservation of Energy

ppt

CST Prep Day 2

2012-04-18T08:32:00.003-07:00

Newton's Laws Review and Calculating Centripetal Force

Objective: What: SWBAT answer conceptual questions for Newton's 3 Laws and calculate both Newton's 2nd Law and Centripetal Force.

How: Students will complete the classwork, and use them to complete pages 5-9 in their minibook.

Why: To be academic achievers, we need to prepare ourselves for the CST and the final!

Agenda
1. Newton's First Law
2. First Law examples and cartoons
3. Newton's Second Law
4. Second Law examples and math!
5. Newton's Third Law
6. Third Law examples cartoons
7. Calculating Centripetal Force
8. HW - minibook pages 5-9

CST Prep Day 1

2012-04-16T08:34:00.000-07:00

Average Velocity and Average Acceleration

Objective:

What: SWBAT solve review problems for average speed and create rough draft pages for their minibook.

How: Students will use the skills they learn today in class to complete the first 4 pages on velocity and acceleration in their culminating minibook

Why: To be academic achievers, we need to prepare ourselves for the CST and the final!

Agenda:
1. Do Now
2. Minibook guidelines
3. Average Speed notes and practice problems
4. Acceleration notes and practice problems
5. Rough draft Minibook pages 1-3
HW: Buy Minibook and Minibook pages 1-3

Waves Day 7

2012-03-26T11:18:00.001-07:00

Wave Velocity

Objective:

What: SWBAT calculate the velocity of a wave, given its wavelength and frequency.
How: Students will use the equation for wave velocity to solve released CST problems with 80% accuracy on an exit slip.
Why: To be academic achievers we need to be able to use our knowledge of waves and their properties to solve problems on the CST.

Agenda
1. Do Now
2. Notes
3. Wave velocity practice
4. Exit Slip

Waves Day 6

2012-03-22T18:51:00.002-07:00

Polarization, Diffraction, and Refraction

When light waves change direction, we get really cool colors

What: SWBAT describe the behavior of an wave that is being polarized, diffracted, or refracted.

How: Students will create a comic strip to show at least 2 of the different ways that light waves change direction.

Why: To be critical thinkers, we need to extend our knowledge of waves to the ways they interact with their environment.

Agenda

1. Do Now
2. Brainpop and quiz
3. Bill Nye - Light optics
4. Light optics vocab notes
5. Exit Slip

Waves Day 5

2012-03-21T07:00:00.001-07:00

Light

Objective
What: Students will recognize that light is broken up into many different types of electromagnetic radiation
How: Students will answer benchmark questions correctly about the different types of waves in the electromagnetic spectrum
Why: To be life long learners, we need to be able to understand all the different forms that light takes, and all the ways we see, feel or hear it in the world.

Agenda
1. Do Now
2. Brainpop
3. Bill Nye - Light and Color
4. Light reading
5. Exit Slip

Waves Day 4

2012-03-19T07:20:00.007-07:00

Seismic Waves

comic credit: www.wired.com

Objective

What: SWBAT synthesize examples of the two types of Seismic Waves.
How: Students will synthesize a comic strip demonstrating how the two types of waves transfer energy, using the terms transverse, longitudinal, wave and transfer of energy.
Why: To be critical thinkers about waves, we need to examine the different ways that waves transfer energy.

I. Do Now
(A quick review on the two types of waves: Transverse Waves, Longitudinal Waves)

II. Earthquakes video. Complete this worksheet while you watch.

III. Watch this video clip, and this one, and this one. After viewing, answer these Q's.

IV. Brainpop on earthquakes

V. Read over this Review on types of seismic waves. Take notes on what you read.

VI. Make your own earthquake with this simulator
Answer these questions after the simulation

VII. Complete the Bitesize seismic waves activity

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VIII. Exit Slip
Use Stripgenerator and the 4 vocab terms transverse, longitudinal, wave and transfer of energy to create a comic to show:
1. How P-waves and S-waves transfer energy through earth's crust. Show how they both start and the differences in how they travel.

Sound Waves Quiz

2012-03-16T09:06:00.013-07:00

1. Do Now:
- 10 minutes to study for the quiz using your notecards
- leave your 2 homework/classwork assignments out on your desk from this week, and your notecards. I will check them during the quiz

2. Login to schoology and take the Sound Waves Quiz.

3. Take Mr. Gonzalez's survey.

4. Create your own comic strip to show how sound waves travel through particles!
- Click on create new strip (red button on the right side of the page)

5. Read about the Colossal Squid (yes that's it's real name).

Waves Day 3

2012-03-14T07:07:00.003-07:00

Sound Waves

A photo of an F/A-18 Hornet fighter jet breaking the sound barrier

Sound waves from a stationary object

Sound waves stack together when a jet goes supersonic, causing the characteristic sonic boom

Objective:

What: SWBAT describe longitudinal waves in the form of a sound wave.

How: Students will complete a comic strip demonstrating how a longitudinal wave moves through particles in the form of a sound wave.

Why: To be critical thinkers, we need to connect our knowledge of waves to the ways that they move through the world we see.

Agenda

1. Do Now

2. Breaking the speed of sound

3. Bill Nye Sound

4. Sound Notes

5. Sound Reading

6. Comic Strip

7. HW Vocab Note Cards DUE FRIDAY

Waves Day 2

2012-03-12T07:25:00.006-07:00

Electromagnetic vs. Mechanical Waves

both transfer energy in their own way

Objective:

What: SWBAT describe differences between Electromagnetic and Mechanical waves.

How: Students will complete an exit slip where they list examples of mechanical waves and electromagnetic waves and characteristics of each.

Why: To be critical thinkers we need to understand these two types of waves and the ways that they transfer energy.

Agenda

1. Do Now

2. Waves video here

3. Bitesize intro to Waves

4. Bitesize on Electromagnetic Waves

5. How microwaves work

6. Bitesize intro to waves reading

7. Brainpop Waves
8. Bitesize Test
9. Exit Slip

Waves Day 1

2012-03-09T08:30:00.045-08:00

Intro to Waves

Waves are totally pushy...

Objective

What: SWBAT describe and analyze examples of how waves transfer energy.
How: SWBAT correctly answer CST questions about energy transfer through waves and synthesize a situation in which waves are used to transfer energy with 80% accuracy.
Why: To be critical thinkers, we need to understand how are created and how waves affect us in our everyday life.

I. Brainpop

Still not sure what a medium is? Click here for the definition.

II. Energy in Waves (stop watching at 4:30, we'll get to that later...)

III. Examples of waves.

Electromagnetism Day 8

2012-02-23T07:26:00.002-08:00

Magnets

Objective

What: SWBAT determine the direction of a magnetic field

How: On an exit slip of released CST questions, students will use the right hand rule to determine the direction of a magnetic field.

Why: To be critical thinkers, we need to understand how magnets work, and the role that they played in history and the modern world.

Agenda:
1. Do Now
2. Brainpop
3. Bill Nye
4. Magnets Reading
5. .ppt Notes
6. Fields practice
7. Exit Slip

http://www.brainpop.com/science/motionsforcesandtime/magnetism

https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dfh23k67_3476gcb7frd8

http://www.thefutureschannel.com/dockets/science_technology/maglev_trains/

Electromagnetism Day 6

2012-02-21T08:40:00.000-08:00

Calculating Current

What: SWBAT use the equation for current: I = q/t

How: SWBAT solve released benchmark questions by calculating current with 80% accuracy on an exit slip.

Why: To be critical thinkers, we need to use our knowledge of Ohm's Law and electricity to understand the role that a charge plays in the amount of current in a circuit.

Agenda
1. Do Now
2. Current Notes
3. Current independent practice
4. Current Exit Slip
5. Bill Nye- Computers

http://ux.brookdalecc.edu/fac/engtech/andy/elec106/powerpoint/resistors.pdf

http://www.challengehs.org/docs/Ramkissoon/Section_Reviews_ALL_Chapters_HOLT.pdf

Electrical Power Quiz

2012-02-17T09:11:00.001-08:00

Electromagnetism Day 5

2012-02-15T08:51:00.006-08:00

Coloumb's Law and Transistors

What: Students will be able to describe the function and significance of transistors.

How: Students will draw a comic to show the two functions of transistors.

Why: To be a critical thinker, we need to connect our knowledge of electricity to the inventions that have changed the world.

Agenda
1. Do Now
2. Brainpop- computer history
3. Old school commercial
4. MAKE presents
5. Transistorized
6. Comic Strip Exit Slip

http://vega.org.uk/video/programme/222