I am pushing back the quiz to Thursday of this week in order to give us more time to work with force vector calculations. Today we worked on learned how to quantify the magnitude and direction of a single force. Tomorrow we will look at adding force vectors and quantifying the magnitude and direction of the resultant.
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Today we finished up a lab and started the difficult subject of force vectors. We will continue working with force vectors next week and work up to a lab on them. As this is a difficult subject, I am providing the link we will use next week now so that students who would like to start practicing the subject can.
Name That Vector Interactive
Today students finished up the PhET virtual lab from Friday and moved on to learning about all of the different forces (contact and non-contact) that we will be covering. If you did not finish your notes in class, the link for the forces has been provided below.
Types of Forces Today in class students used a virtual lab to help them explore how forces can change motion. By using the PhET simulation (linked below), students designed scenarios to test which way a candy cart would travel based on the forces that were placed on each side. We will continue with forces and motion next week!
PhET Forces and Motion Virtual Lab Today we used the iPads to find out where our houses were losing thermal energy. Students were then tasked with insulating their houses using plastic bags and cotton balls. We will retest their houses tomorrow to see if they created a more energy efficient home!
Today we took our unit test on energy. We did not have time to work on our project so we will continue with that on Monday and in to next week. Test grades will be posted over the weekend!
Due to internet difficulties, we changed our plans today and started the thermal house project with the rest of the students. We will continue this project tomorrow, but we are still planning for a test on Friday! Today in class we worked on calculating work and power. Students learned about the amount of force required to move their weight against gravity up a set of stairs. This information in addition to all of the recent outlines and experiments will be part of the upcoming unit test THIS FRIDAY! Please see me 4th period if you need extra help!
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