How to put your portfolio together for first year:
First, Find the labs on the list, and place them in that order. Don’t freak out if you are missing
one or two labs. The important labs are in bold.
Second, Take out all the staples.
Third, Three hole punch the whole thing, and place it in a binder with your name on the
binding edge
Finally, be sure to give me your IB portfolio before you leave for the
summer.
I will try to assess these over the summer, or early next year so you know
where you are with internal assessment at the beginning of the year.
List of labs:
First Semester:
 Speed Trap - clocking cars on Boones Ferry road (CE - optional)
 Moving Plots - graphs of motion of a rolling car using a tape timer (CE –opt.)
 Measuring the initial velocity of an air rocket - from hang time (CE)
 Where Am I - vector exploration
 Vernier trajectories - computer simulation of trajectory motion
 Equilibrant Lab – Calculating the equilibrant on a force table
 Force – Student designed investigation (Des, CE opt.)
 Orbit Lab - computer simulation of.
 Spring Constant Graph
Second Semester:
 Energy Lab – Determining the spring constant (DCP, CE opt.)
 Physics Cannon – momentum calculation based on recoil velocity
 Conservation of momentum Lab – momentum analysis of an air track collision.
(CE)
 Vector Momentum Lab – Simulation of a 2 dimensional collision
 Determination of absolute zero – Using the pressure at different temperatures.
(CE)
 Newton's Law of Cooling – Computer graph of a cooling object. Students
construct a computer model of data (CE)
 Speed of sound – Students design their own experiment to measure the speed of
sound. (CE opt.) OR Waves Lab – student designed (Des)