Weeks of 8/14 - 8/29
Thursday & Friday, 8/14 & 8/15: Welcome, Seating Chart, Accept Google Classroom Invite, Use Instructions on Home Page of Website for subscription to Ultimate Review Packet (URP), Watch the Welcome Video for URP, Watch the first 5:45 on the Unit 1: Kinematics video on URP--No need to take notes, Check out notes on this page, Get Handout for PhET Simulation titled "Moving Man", Turn in handout, Fill out & turn in Student Questionnaire, Pick up Unit 1 packet, Start looking at pages 2 & 3
HW: There is no Homework!
Monday & Tuesday (8/18 & 8/19): Welcome Back/Introductions, Check Seating Chart, Phone Pouches, Discuss Google Classroom/Class Website (Bookmark it!)/Course Syllabus, Discuss Ultimate Review Packet (URP)--Any ? with the videos/notes?, Turn in PhET Simulation "Moving Man", Any more Student Questionnaires left to turn in?, Hand out Unit 1 Packets if that didn't happen last week, Discuss Kinematics & 4 Kinematic Equations,
HW: There is no homework due next time, but the first WebAssign is set up and due next Monday (complete this in your WebAssign Journal--Composition Notebook)
Wednesday & Thursday (8/20 & 8/21): Discuss WebAssign (Open assignment through the Calendar on the top bar of the screen), Hand out Learning Targets/Safety Rules/Safety Signature Form, Revisit 4 Kinematics Equations of constant acceleration, review problem, Discuss free-fall & how to use these equations for Free-Fall, Discuss Sign Conventions for Free-Fall , Go back and revisit worksheet on pages 5-7 of packet, Introduce Reaction Time Lab, Do Reaction Time Lab (with 1 or 2 partners), Check in Reaction Time Lab, Work on Constant Acceleration Problems on pages 7-9 in your packet, Discuss Safety--Get Signature Form Signed!
HW: Work on first WebAssign, get safety form signed & be ready to turn in next class
Friday & Monday (8/22 & 8/25): Turn in Signed Safety Form, Discuss WebAssign, Any questions on Free-Fall, Do Cliff worksheet, More problem-solving on kinematics/free-fall, We did Reaction Time Lab yesterday--Now let's do the Jump Around Lab, Check in both Labs with Mr. Downing, Intro Free-Fall Lab with Vernier Photogate Timing Sensor, Do Lab,
HW: Finish Free-Fall Lab, Finish intro WebAssign, Start Kinematics WebAssign
Tuesday & Wednesday (8/26 & 8/27): Turn in Safety Rules Signature Form, Turn in Free-Fall Lab, AP Classroom Codes, AP Total Registration, Practice Using 4 Kinematics Formulas for Constant Acceleration Problems--Along the road or Free-Fall, Work on Pages 7-9 in packet, Discuss Motion Graphing, Position, Velocity, and Acceleration Graphs, Need to understand for each graph: How to pull numbers of the graph, How to Calculate the slope of a graph and determine what it means, How to Calculate the Area under the curve of a graph and determine in what it means,
HW: Complete pages 13-15 in packet and Continue with Kinematics WebAssign
Thursday & Friday (8/28 & 8/29): Any ? before quiz, take quiz, check in HW (13-15 in packet, Go over HW, Introduce Lab,
HW: Pages 17 & 18 from Packet, Consider applying for Science National Honor Society (Science NHS)
Tuesday & Wednesday (9/2 & 9/3): Check HW (Pages 17 & 18) & go over it, Discuss up & down problems, try a few more (use the quadratic or avoid the quadratic--your choice!), Simple video to explain WebAssign hot-air balloon problem, Intro Lab, Start Lab (poisiton-time graphs), Hand back quizzes
HW: Finish Graphing & Free-Fall WebAssign--Due Wednesday AM
Thursday & Friday (9/4 & 9/5): Marker board review, Discuss second part of the lab, Do the velocity time graphs, Work on Kinematic stacks in packet,
HW: WebAssign was extended (Due on Monday!), Also do pages 10-12 in the packet (Practice on kinematics and graphing)