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Lesson Plans for the Week of: September 8 - October 3

Differentiated Physics
Day
Topic
Assignments
Monday

- List factors on the board and design an experiment.
-Show students how to use logger Pro to collect data

-As a class figure out how you are going to collect the data the same (only changing the one variable you picked as a class)

 
Tuesday

-Start Ramp lab

  • Collect data
  • Enter data into Logger Pro and develop a math model
  • Prepare whiteboard
  • Put a copy of your graph on the computer in front of the room
  
Wednesday

-GED exam shorten periods (32 minutes)

-Start presenting the ramp lab

-Formal lab report due Wednesday October 8
Thursday -Finish Presenting ramp lab whiteboards
-Post lab talk
-Example problem that will help students complete the Opus worksheet (#1)

-Worksheet #1 due Friday

-Formal lab report due Wednesday October 8

Friday

-JR worksheet #1
-Teacher demo

  • Collect picket fence data
  • Develop quadratic equation from graph of Vf vs t
-Example problem going from x vs t --> v vs t --> a vs t 		-Worksheet #2 due Monday

 

Physics
Day
Topic
Assignments
Monday

- List factors on the board and design an experiment.
-Show students how to use logger Pro to collect data

-As a class figure out how you are going to collect the data the same (only changing the one variable you picked as a class)

 
Tuesday

-Start Ramp lab

  • Collect data
  • Enter data into Logger Pro and develop a math model
  • Prepare whiteboard
  • Put a copy of your graph on the computer in front of the room
  
Wednesday

-GED exam shorten periods (32 minutes)

-Start presenting the ramp lab

-Formal lab report due Wednesday October 8
Thursday -Finish Presenting ramp lab whiteboards
-Post lab talk
-Example problem that will help students complete the Opus worksheet (#1)

-Worksheet #1 due Friday

-Formal lab report due Wednesday October 8

Friday

-JR worksheet #1
-Teacher demo

  • Collect picket fence data
  • Develop quadratic equation from graph of Vf vs t
-Example problem going from x vs t --> v vs t --> a vs t 		-Worksheet #2 due Monday

 

Pre IB-Physical / GeoScience
Day
Topic
Assignments
Monday

-Go over the drop ball lab (I was gone Thursday and Friday and their was some confusion)

-present graphs of 8 different balls.  Compare their accelerations.

-Show the graph of Mass vs Acceleration to answer the question "does mass effect the acceleration of a ball that is dropped?"

-drop ball lab report due Tuesday
Tuesday

-Hand in drop ball lab report

-Go over quiz

- Present results from the air resistance lab.

 Air resistance lab report due Wednesday
Wednesday

GED exam shorten periods (32 minutes)

-Talk about the temperature challenge (handed in 2 weeks ago).  How do you do it?

-Show the students how you calibrate a temperature probe.

-Students will do calibrate a temperature probe and do the challenge using their probe on Friday.

 
Thursday

-Go to the media center to work on your research project.

-Phase 2 "reading and talking" is due Thursday October 23

 
Friday -Students will do the temperature challenge using a temperature probe they callabrated.Go to