DAY 120

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Essential Question: How can energy be transferred?

GOALS: SWBAT...

1. list the requirements for the Rube Goldberg project

2. Assess their current knowledge of simple machines

3. Define "machine", and the six types of simple machines

4. Compare and Contrast the three classes of levers

5. Describe three energy transfers

WARM-UP

Think about Kinetic Energy, Gravitational Potential Energy, and Elastic Potential Energy.

1. In a string of Dominoes, how does one falling domino transfer energy to another?

2. What type of energy would a rolling ball transfer to a stationary block if the ball rolled into the block?

CLASSWORK

Notes:

• • In order to 1) build your Rube Goldberg Machine, and 2) test it, you'll need to go through the knowledge building process, and the design process. Knowledge building is what you did on Friday, and will continue today. Depending on where you are progress-wise, you may start your design today, or Tuesday. 

  • There are some samples of materials on the demo table in the front of the class. Feel free to come up and take a look at what I have. Also, you can bring materials from home, either just for your group, or to share (or both). 

1. 119A-119B: Complete Monday's Work (if necessary)

https://sites.google.com/site/mralexandersscienceweb/physics/daily-agenda-classwork/day-119

2. 120A: Venn Diagram - Three Classes of Levers (10 minutes)

In case you're wondering what "class" means, a synonym for class is "type", or "kind of". So, "Three Types of Levers".

Use the resource linked below to read about levers, and in your notebook create a three-ring Venn Diagram comparing and contrasting the three classes of levers. 

To fill in your diagram, think about definitions, examples of each lever class, and functions of each class. 

LINK: https://www.explainthatstuff.com/toolsmachines.html (the notes on lever classes are titled: "Types of lever", and are approximately 1/4 of the way down the page) 

3. 120B: Types of Energy Exchange

• list the three types of energy (Kinetic, etc). 

• Example: Imagine a system of a martial artist and a water bottle. The artist executes a back-roundhouse kick, and some of the kinetic energy in his moving foot is transferred to the bottle cap. That kinetic energy causes the cap to spin and come off the bottle. Need help visualizing? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJn6hUtnvMc

• Now you consider a few systems of two objects. In your notebook, draw three examples of how energy can be exchanged, and explain how energy transfers from one object to the other.

4. 120C: Project Idea

• Choose, or come up with a project idea, and a backup. Send the idea and backup to me today via email at josh.alexander@lausd.net or via Remind App, or via Schoology. 

• A list of project ideas are in link3 of the project guidelines and rubric: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NbvMBgjdU3HvjqoQVbV1dkhuEKZ3p5VnwZiVpAGwsKo/edit?usp=sharing

LEARNING AT HOME

1. Quiz on 6 simple machines this Friday

2. Complete any portions of Day 119 or 120 that are unfinished. Those steps are your checklist to begin building