Next week we will continue our lessons with electric circuits. Students saw today that adding resistors in parallel will decrease resistance. We will examine the implications of this discovery and what it means for electricity in our home (it means too many items in one plug is dangerous, among other things).
It is a shortened week and I will be absent on Tuesday, the 12th. That means we will play some catch up this week as we prepare for the end of our electricity unit during the week of Feb. 19-22. Progress reports are to be given out on Thursday the 14th as students and teachers are off on the 15th.
NOTICE: A quiz retake will be given after school on Monday for the Motors/Generators quiz. Check your grade on the parent portal and study if you want to retake the quiz for a better grade.
Showing posts with label weekly update. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weekly update. Show all posts
Friday, February 1, 2008
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Weekly Update Dec. 17th-20th
It's midterm week. On Monday and Tuesday we will be reviewing material from the entire semester, from dimensional analysis to energy conversions. Students will have a review packet due on Tuesday. Also due on Tuesday will be the roller coaster project Technical Report packet.
The midterm schedule is different for Freshman Experience students as compared to the rest of the school. On Wednesday, students will take their D block midterm followed by their C block midterm, both in the regular 65 minute class time. That will be followed by a 115 minute final in their 4th block/elective class. On Thursday, they will have the same schedule in the morning, B block midterm followed by A block, and then we will be showing a movie for the last period of the day.
I will be holding tutorial every night this week after school until 4:30 or later as needed. It is recommended that any and all students see me after school who need help completing their review and/or roller coaster project. Have a good week and a safe holiday season.
The midterm schedule is different for Freshman Experience students as compared to the rest of the school. On Wednesday, students will take their D block midterm followed by their C block midterm, both in the regular 65 minute class time. That will be followed by a 115 minute final in their 4th block/elective class. On Thursday, they will have the same schedule in the morning, B block midterm followed by A block, and then we will be showing a movie for the last period of the day.
I will be holding tutorial every night this week after school until 4:30 or later as needed. It is recommended that any and all students see me after school who need help completing their review and/or roller coaster project. Have a good week and a safe holiday season.
Monday, November 26, 2007
Weekly Update Nov. 26th - 30th
This week students will be working on the second part of their energy conservation lab. They will be using equations for kinetic and potential energy to analyze the motion of a marble on a "roller coaster". This will be an important topic as they complete their semester project that will ask them to work in a group to create a 2 meter long marble roller coaster.
The quiz we took week before last will be handed back this week and most students will make corrections on Wednesday. They will be able to retake this quiz to replace their previous grade. Some students still have to make some retakes from the last test, so make sure students have scheduled a time to review with me and are ready for the retake when it is time.
The quiz we took week before last will be handed back this week and most students will make corrections on Wednesday. They will be able to retake this quiz to replace their previous grade. Some students still have to make some retakes from the last test, so make sure students have scheduled a time to review with me and are ready for the retake when it is time.
Friday, November 16, 2007
Weekly Update Friday, Nov. 16th
The recent on-line assignment has increased traffic and awareness of the class blog. I would like to establish a habit of giving a weekly update on Fridays for the rest of the year. This is a tall order for me, but I know students will benefit from having consistent reminders and updates that may have been overlooked during class.
The purpose of the weekly reminder is to highlight the key aspects of the past week of class and to look ahead to the activities or challenges the next week may provide.
From the past week, students had the treat of traveling to the Carter Center with Mr. Billingsley and Miss Shepherd. This gave us one less day to review the pulley lab and analyze the data, but we worked in class to make sense of how the pulley works. The end of the week was a reality check for us all as we tried to explain how the pulley provides a mechanical advantage and how it does work by taking a quiz.
This next week will take us into a new topic of study as we move toward calculating potential and kinetic energy. We have two days, over which we will be reading the textbook to gain key information about types of energy, and we will be using a new piece of lab equipment that demonstrate the physics involved in a roller coaster.
The purpose of the weekly reminder is to highlight the key aspects of the past week of class and to look ahead to the activities or challenges the next week may provide.
From the past week, students had the treat of traveling to the Carter Center with Mr. Billingsley and Miss Shepherd. This gave us one less day to review the pulley lab and analyze the data, but we worked in class to make sense of how the pulley works. The end of the week was a reality check for us all as we tried to explain how the pulley provides a mechanical advantage and how it does work by taking a quiz.
This next week will take us into a new topic of study as we move toward calculating potential and kinetic energy. We have two days, over which we will be reading the textbook to gain key information about types of energy, and we will be using a new piece of lab equipment that demonstrate the physics involved in a roller coaster.
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