Physics+Daily+Summary

Elementary Physics Daily Summary Activity summaries appear in black, homework appears in red. SEPTEMBER

8/30 First Day of school whole school activity aimed at school building introduction and team building. 8/31 First Day of class. Classroom rules and procedures, laboratory safety and textbook assignment 9/1 What is science and what is physics discussion. Students were asked to described a question they would like to answer. 9/2 Reviewed questions in class and designed experiments to address. Students were asked to reformulate experiments using as many vocabulary words as possible. 9/7-9 Continue design of experiments, do vocabulary for chapter 1, collect designed experiments. 9/10 Quiz section1, begin measurement exercise. 9/13-14 Complete measurement and area/volume exercise. 9/15-16 Graphing activity 9/20 Review Graphing, Graphing using Excel. Study Guide 9/21-3 Temperature Lab and graphing 9/24 Unit Conversions, Unit Conversions Worksheet 9/27 Density Lab 9/28 VPS Lab-Density Study for Exam 9/29 Exam

OCTOBER

9/30, 10/1 Begin discussion of motion 10/4 Discussion of Distance and Displacement 10/5-6 Discussion of Speed Speed Worksheet 10/7 Discussion of Velocity Velocity Worksheet 10/8 Acceleration Discovery Video 10/12 Review worksheets p62-3; 1,2,3,10,16,17,19,28 10/13 Acceleration, definition of vectors, BrainPop on acceleration; p64-65 1,2,3,4,5,14,15,16 10/14 Review Questions, Maze Game 10/15 Quiz Section 2-Speed, Velocity and Acceleration-Forces balanced and un-balanced 10/18 Constant Velocity Cars Lab, 2 different speeds Questions page 65 10/19-20 Vector addition/subtraction, Flying in a cross wind 10/21-22 Air cars, Newtons 2nd law

NOVEMBER

11/1 VPS lab 28 Friction and velocity 11/2 VPS lab 29 Friction and acceleration 11/3 VPS lab 30 Newtons 3rd law 11/4-5 Hover craft and Newton's law review 11/8 Review VPS worksheets Assign Question from page 118 11/9 Introduce Momentum, BrainPop, VPS Conservation of Momentum 11/10 Review Questions from page 118- Test on Wednesday Chapter 7 11/11-12 NSTA-Mythbusters- Come up with a Myth you would like to test, describe the test. 11/15 Chapter 8, Impulse Questions p138:# 2,5,6,7,9,20,22 11/16-17 Reducing Momentum/Impulse, Egg Drop Questions 23 to 29 11/18-19 Bounce-Bowling ball demo using rolling chair or hover craft, Questions 35-41 11/22-23 Elastic and In-elastic collisions, Questions 56-63 11/24 Quiz Chapter 8 11/30 Work, Questions p164-169 # 1-4,33-35,43

DECEMBER

12/1 Power, Questions p164-169 #5, 36,37 12/2 Mechanical Energy Questions p164-169 #6,7,27,38,39 12/2 Video