-Short introduction
-Hand out books, go over rules and safety
-Fill out Student information sheet
-Take class pictures
-Demo penny lab
-explain how to use the computer interfacing equipment
-collect data- Students copy data from overhead screen.

-Plot data on graph paper, mass (g) on the vertical axis and the number of pennies on the horizontal axis

-Find an equation for the line of best fit

- JR homework
-Ask the students to answer the following questions about their graph as you sign the homework

• did you connect the dots on your graph?
• What is the meaning of the slope of your line?
• What is the meaning of your Y intercept?

- Students start collecting data for the M&M lab (due Thursday)
-Answer questions on lab sheet
- Prepare a whiteboard for the M&M experiment
-Answer the following questions for the lab:
1) How much would 100 m&m’s weigh?
2) Given the weight of the bag, how many m&m’s are in the bag?
3) Given the cost of one bag, what would 1 kg of m&m’s cost?

-JR M&M Lab
-Students start presenting their whiteboards for the M&M lab

• Introduce yourself
• Each person must participate in the presentation
• Students not presenting take notes and summarize information presented

-On the big whiteboard introduce the concept of Math models
-Have each group write the math model for their data on the big whiteboard.

-Plot data on graph paper, mass (g) on the vertical axis and the number of pennies on the horizontal axis

-Find an equation for the line of best fit

- JR homework
-Ask the students to answer the following questions about their graph as you sign the homework

• did you connect the dots on your graph?
• What is the meaning of the slope of your line?
• What is the meaning of your Y intercept?

- Students start collecting data for the M&M lab (due Thursday)
-Answer questions on lab sheet
- Prepare a whiteboard for the M&M experiment
-Answer the following questions for the lab:
1) How much would 100 m&m’s weigh?
2) Given the weight of the bag, how many m&m’s are in the bag?
3) Given the cost of one bag, what would 1 kg of m&m’s cost?

-JR M&M Lab
-Students start presenting their whiteboards for the M&M lab

• Introduce yourself
• Each person must participate in the presentation
• Students not presenting take notes and summarize information presented

-On the big whiteboard introduce the concept of Math models
-Have each group write the math model for their data on the big whiteboard.

-9th grade orientation
-Pick up LPS safety handout

• Bring home and fill out the back page
• Have parent sign back page
• Bring it back by Wednesday

- Short introduction
-Take class picture
-Class rules and safety rules
-Temperature activity

• procedure
• collect temp data every ½ minute for 5 minutes
• graph data for homework (temp on the vertical and time on the horizontal) Due Wednesday
• What can you tell from the graph?
• Do the data points form a straight line?

-Hand in temp graph
-Hand in safety contract
- Go over web site, how to access: http://isite.lhs.lps.org/jrynear/
-Science research project
-Observation activity

• Burning candle
• Black light
• Two can demo
• Why does Tony sink?

-Hand in student information sheet
-Talk about the scientific method and the roll observation plays in it
-Computer interfacing

• Logger Pro
• Collecting mass data
• Displaying data
• Making sense of your results

-Finding the average mass of a rock

• Collect data
• Graph data
• Put whiteboard together
• Present your results to the class