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Marc Reif
Instruction begins on Monday, 14 August 2017. Our school is on A/B block. Each class meets five 90-minute sessions every two weeks. We have 80 blocks before the AP Exam. that is 7200 minutes or 120 hours or 5 complete days.
There are 40 blocks in the first semester and 40 blocks in the second semester before the AP 1 and 2 Exams. Some units, as noted, do not include tests.
I estimate 75 days (allowing a few days for interruptions due to state testing) of instruction before the AP 1 Exam on Tuesday, 8 May 2018.
~~~~~1111111~~~~Begin Semester 1~~~~~~1111111~~~~~~~
Unit 01 - Tools (no test for this unit)
[4 blocks (no test) - 36 remaining in the 1st semester]
No text reference
Index of Springiness Lab
Pendulum Lab
Unit 02 - Constant Velocity Model for Motion (no test for this unit)
[3 blocks (no test) - 33 remaining in the 1st semester]
Etkina Chapter 1
Blinky Buggy Lab
Unit 03 - Constant Acceleration Model for Motion
[5 blocks (incl. test date) - 28 remaining in the 1st semester - test on 9/13 or 9/14]
Etkina Chapter 1
Cart on a Ramp Lab
Cart on a Ramp Lab Extension
Unit 04 - Interactions 1 (The Force Concept and Balanced Forces)
[6 blocks (incl. test date) - 22 remaining in the 1st semester - test on 10/3 or 10/4]
Etkina Chapter 2 and Chapter 3, Section 1
Analysis of a Jump
Static Forces Practicum
Newton's Second Law Activity
Unit 05 - Interactions 2 (Applying Newton's Second Law)
[5 blocks (incl. test date) - 17 remaining in the 1st semester - test on 10/18 or 10/19]
Etkina Chapter 3, excluding Section 3.5
Modified Atwood's Machine Lab
Friction Lab
Unit 06 - Impulse and Momentum Transfer
[6 blocks (incl. test date) - 11 remaining in the 1st semester - test on 11/6 or 11/7]
Etkina Chapter 5
Cart Collisions Lab
Impulse Lab
Unit 07 - Energy Transfer Model
[8 blocks (incl. test date) - 3 remaining in the 1st semester - test on 12/5 or 12/6]
Etkina Chapter 6
Hooke's Law and Energy Lab
Energy Transfer Lab
Unit 08 - Models for 2d Motion (Projectile motion as a review before semester exam)
Etkina Section 3.5
[3 blocks (no test other than semester exam) - 0 remaining in the 1st semester]
Projectile Video Analysis Lab
Projectile Practicum
22222~~~~Begin Semester 2~~~~22222~~~~~~~~
Unit 09 - Circular Motion (and Gravitation)
[5 blocks (incl. test date) - 35 remaining before AP Exam - test on 1/22 or 1/23]
Etkina Chapter 5
Dynamics of UCM Lab
Flying Pig Lab
Unit 10 - Oscillation
[6 blocks (incl. test date) - 29 remaining before AP Exam - test on 2/7 or 2/8]
Etkina Chapter 19
Period of a Mass-Spring Oscillator Lab
Equations of Simple Harmonic Motion Lab
Unit 11 - Wave Pulses and Traveling Waves
[5 blocks (incl. test date) - 24 remaining before AP Exam - test on 2/22 or 2/23]
Etkina Sections 20.1 through 20.6
Wave Race Lab
Behavior of Wave Pulses observations
Unit 12 - Standing Waves and Sound
[6 blocks (incl. test date) - 18 remaining before AP Exam - test on 3/12 or 3/13]
Etkina Sections 20.7 through 20.11
Standing Waves on a String Lab
Resonance of a Tube Lab
Unit 13 - Charge and Electric Force (no separate test for this unit)
[2 blocks - 16 remaining before AP Exam]
Etkina Sections 14.1 through 14.4 (selected topics)
Sticky Tape Lab
Coulomb's Law Lab
Unit 14 - DC Circuits
[5 blocks (incl. test date) - 11 remaining before AP Exam - test on 4/9 or 4/10]
Etkina Chapter 16
Understanding PD Activity
Ohm's Law Lab
Unit 15 - Rotation (and a parallel review of mechanics)
[7 blocks - 4 remaining before AP Exam - Mock Exam on 5/1 or 5/2]
Etkina Chapter 8
Various Lab Activities without a Lab Report
AP 1 Exam on Tuesday, 8 May 2018
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