Monday/ Tuesday  -  Fall Break  --  NO SCHOOL

Wednesday -  PSAT Testing  -  No Class

Thursday (B) - 100 minutes

• Objective:  Learn about what mechanics is and how we design and use machines to help us control the transfer of energy.

• Classwork:

  • Daily Drawing: Draw this Stirling Engine ~ 5 min

  • Q2 Intro Design Challenge

    • Demos with big lever, big wheel and axle, block and tackle, trebuchet, mousetrap car, etc.

  • Intro to Simple Machines

    • Lever Lab Balancing Act Game

• Homework:

• • Finish Lever Lab Balancing Act Game Assignment (see classroom - due next class)

Tuesday (B) - 100 minutes

• Objective:  Be able to analyze simple machines to calculate their mechanical advantage.  Describe what mechanical advantage is.

• Classwork:

  • Daily Drawing: Draw this wheelbarrow ~4min

  • Intro notes on Mechanics - Energy, Work, and Power

    • Simple Machines Notes

    • Mark Rober Video - Mousetrap Cars

    • Simple Machines Scavenger Hunt (if time)

• Homework:

  • TBA

Thursday (B) - 100 minutes

• Objective:  Apply your understanding of simple machines to make calculations and solve problems.

• Classwork:

  • Daily Drawing: Draw this trebuchet ~5 min

  • Simple Machines Lab Stations

  • Simple Machines Practice Problems 

• Homework:

  • Finish Simple Machines Practice Problems (due next Tuesday)

  • Quiz on Simple Machines Next Week (Thursday)

Friday (B) - 70 minutes

• Objective:  Practice solving problems involving simple machines - design solutions using simple machines.

• Classwork:

  • Daily Drawing: Draw a human powered machine that would allow you to lift a car completely off the ground ~ 5 min

  • Finish Simple Machines Lab Stations

  • Simple Machines Practice Problems 

• Homework:

  • Finish Simple Machines Practice Problems (due next Tuesday)

  • Quiz on Simple Machines Next Week (Thursday)

Tuesday (B) - 100 minutes

• Objective:  Understand how we can use different types of joints, linkages, and members to get specific motion from our machines.

• Classwork:

  • Daily Drawing: Draw this mechanism (Scotch yoke) ~ 5 min  video of it in action

  • Check Simple Machines Practice Problems and Simple Machines Lab Stations

  • Compound Machines and More Simple Machines Practice Problems

  • More Simple Machines Resources

    • Physics Classroom Practice Problems

    • Reading and practice with simple machines

    • Worksheet 9.2 - Additional Practice Problems  //  KEY

• Homework:

  • Quiz on Simple Machines next class

Thursday (B) - 100 minutes

• Objective:  Assess your understanding of Simple Machines

• Classwork:

  • Daily Drawing: Sketch out a compound machine of your own design that has a mechanical advantage of exactly 20.  ~5min

  • Quiz on Simple Machines!

  • Notes on Linkages and Joints for Machines

    • Five Hundred Seven Mechanical Movements

    • Veritasium - Why Machines that bend are Better

• Homework:

• • TBA

Wednesday (B) (because of Election Day on Tuesday)  - 100 minutes

• Objective:  Learn about gear ratios - what they are, what they mean, and how they're calculated.

• Classwork:

  • Daily Drawing: Draw a bicycle in as much detail as you can ~ 5 min

  • Return Simple Machines Quiz (retakes next week)

  • Lego Mechanisms Video

  • Gear Ratio Notes

    • Play with CPO gears

  • Gear Ratio Practice Problems

• Homework:

  • Finish Gear Ratio Practice Problems (to be checked in class next Tuesday)

Friday (B) - 70 minutes  - SMITH GONE AT SCIENCE TEACHER CONFERENCE

• Objective:  Apply your understanding of gears and gear ratios.

• Classwork:

  • Daily Drawing: None today due to Smith being out.

  • Gear Train Calculations Basics - Video

  • Go over Gear Practice Problems (KEY in class notes)

  • Quizziz on Gear Ratios

  • "Spinning Levers - How a Manual Transmission Works" - Video

  • Common Types of Gears Image

  • Great Gear Ratio Video with Legos

  • Maximum Motor Power Notes

• Homework:

• • Finish Assignment in Google Classroom (due by the end of class)

Tuesday (B) - 100 minutes

• Objective:  Learn about how to maximize motor efficiency using gear ratios and motor power calculations

• Classwork:

  • Daily Drawing: Draw this electric motor and gear box ~5 min

  • Vex motor dissection

  • Maximum Motor Power Notes

  • Maximum Motor Power Practice Problems (Batman Problem)

    • Hacksmith Videos  Winch Build Video  //  Final Test Video 

• Homework:

  • TBA

Thursday (B) - 100 minutes

• Objective:  Learn about how to maximize motor efficiency using gear ratios and motor power calculations

• Classwork:

  • Daily Drawing: Draw this worm gear system.  Annotate your drawing so it communicates the motion of the gears. ~4 min

  • Finish Maximum Motor Power Practice Problems (Batman Problem)

    • Hacksmith Videos  Winch Build Video  //  Final Test Video

  • More Gear Ratio practice problems  //  KEY

  • Review for quiz on Gears next Thursday

• Homework:

• • Finish "More Gear Ratio Practice Problems" (to be checked at the start of next class)

  • Study for Quiz on Gears next Thursday

Tuesday (B)  - 100 minutes

• Objective: Review Gear Trains and Maximizing Motor Power

• Classwork:

  • Daily Drawing: Sketch out a gear train that you could use to turn an hour, minute, and second hand all from the same motor (if that motor spins at 60 rpm. ~10min

  • Example Watch Gears

  • Go Over/ Check More Gear Ratio practice problems  //  KEY

  • Additional in-class problems

• Homework:

  • Study for Quiz on Gears next Class!

Thursday (B) - 100 minutes

• Objective:  Assess your understanding of Gear 

• Classwork:

  • Daily Drawing: No daily drawing - study for the quiz ~5min.

  • Quiz on Gear Ratios and Maximizing Motor Power

  • Introduce On-Shape for CAD

• Homework:

  • TBA

Friday (B) (Smith Gone, be good to the sub!) - 70 minutes

• Objective:  Learn how to model gear systems in OnShape.

• Classwork:

  • Daily Drawing: No daily drawing today - smith gone

  • On-Shape - How to Gears

• Homework:

  • Finish Gear Design Tutorial Assignment on Classroom (due by the end of the day)