weekly lesson plan

Lesson Plans for the Week of: August 20 -22

Differentiated Physics
Day	Topic	Assignments
Monday	No School
Tuesday	No School
Wednesday	9th grade report to class, all other students report to class on Thursday.
Thursday	-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 Students copy data from overhead screen.	-Homework (due Friday) -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
Friday	- 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	-M&M lab due Monday: -Answer questions on lab sheet 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?

Physics
Day	Topic	Assignments
Monday	No School
Tuesday	No School
Wednesday	9th grade report to class, all other students report to class on Thursday.
Thursday	-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 Students copy data from overhead screen.	-Homework (due Friday) -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
Friday	- 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	-M&M lab due Monday: -Answer questions on lab sheet 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?

Pre IB-Physical / GeoScience
Day	Topic	Assignments
Monday	No School
Tuesday	No School
Wednesday	-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 Friday	-Information sheet due Friday
Thursday	- Short introduction -Take class picture -Class rules and safety rules -Measurement activity	-Information sheet due Friday
Friday	-Hand in safety contract -Hand in student information sheet - Go over web site, how to access: http://isite.lps.org/jrynear/web/ -Temperature activity procedure collect temp data every ½ minute for 5 minute	-Graph data for homework (temp on the vertical and time on the horizontal) Due Monday -What can you tell from the graph? -Do the data points form a straight line?