Kempner High School
1st Nine Weeks
2014-2015 School Year
MONDAY
AUGUST
25 Safety, Scientific
Process, Expectations
Topic: Physics?
Tower Competition
TUESDAY
26
Safety, Scientific Process,
Expectations
WEDNESDAY
27
Safety, Scientific Process,
Expectations
THURSDAY
28
Safety Quiz (DG #1)
FRIDAY
29
Scientific Process
Lab 1- Scientific Process
Inquiry (DG #2)
SEPTEMBER 1
Labor Day - No School
2
Unit #1 – Kinematics/Motion
3
Unit Conversions
4
5
Speed vs. Velocity (Vector)
Lab 2: Measurement Lab
(DG #3)
8
9
Graphing –
independent/dependent/
plotting, etc.
Lab 3 – Inquiry Velocity lab
start
Velocity Lab
15
Unit Conversion and
equations
16
Scientific notation
11
12
Line of best fit/slope – Work
on Velocity Lab.
V=d/t
Acceleration & a = v/t
Velocity Graph Due (MG #1)
GUESS
Introduce “4” physics
equations
17
Practice Math Problems in
physics
18
Packet & problems
19
Progress Report #1
Powers of 10
22
Review for Motion Test 1
29
Lab #4 - Reaction Time lab
(DG)
23
Test #1 - Motion Test (MG
#2)
Motion Warm-ups due (DG
#5**)
**Physics teachers may have
1-2 extra daily grades to
cover extra HW or
participation grades.
30
Pop fly problems
Motion HW Packet Due (DG
#4)
24
25
Unit #3 – Projectile
Motion/Gravity
Gravity problems
26
County Fair Day – No School
Gravity demos
OCTOBER 1
2
Projectile Motion demos
3
Progress Report #2
Lab #5 - Pop Fly Lab
Projectile Motion problems
6
7
8
9
Lab #6 – Dart Lab
10
Test #2 – Projectile Motion –
Gravity, 2 D, (test 2)
Circular?? Gravitation
equation?
13
Unit #4 – Newton’s Laws
14
15
BB contest
16
17
End of 1st 9 Weeks
Half Day
2ND Nine Weeks
Kempner High School
MONDAY
OCTOBER 20
Unit# 4 – Dynamics
(Newton’s Law, Forces,
Friction, Gravity, and
Circular Motion)
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
22
Campus Professional
Development - Early
Dismissal
21
27
28
NOVEMBER 3
4
10
11
2014-2015 School Year
Test#3 – Newton’s
Laws (Gravity, and
Circular Motion)
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
23
24
29
Friction Lab
5
Centripetal Force Lab??
30
31
6
7
Progress Report #3
12 Unit#4 – Work, Energy
and Power
13
14
17
18
19
20
21
24
25
26
27
28
2
3
4
5
Progress Report #4
THANKSGIVING BREAK
DECEMBER 1
Roller Coaster Lab
People Power Lab
8
9
Test#4 – Work, Energy, and
Power
10
Semester Review
11
Semester Review
12
Semester Review
15
Semester Review
16
Semester Review
17
18
19
2nd & 4th Final Exams
3rd & 5th Final Exams
1st & 7th Final Exams
6th Final Exam
End of semester
22
WINTER BREAK
23
WINTER BREAK
24
WINTER BREAK
25
WINTER BREAK
26
WINTER BREAK
29
WINTER BREAK
30
WINTER BREAK
JANUARY 1
WINTER BREAK
2
WINTER BREAK
3
WINTER BREAK
3rd Nine Weeks
Kempner High School
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
2014-2015 School Year
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
JANUARY 5
Campus Staff Development
6
2nd Semester Begins
Unit#5 - Momentum
7
8
9
12
13
14
15
Egg Drop Competition
16
Egg Drop Competition
19 MLK Day – No School
20
21
Test#5 – Momentum &
rotation
22
Unit#6 – Electrostatics/basic
Electricity
23
26
Progress Report #5
27
28
29
30
FEBRUARY 2
3
4
5
6
9
10
Test#6 –
Electrostatics/Electricity
11
Unit#7 – Electricity/Circuits
12
13
Campus Professional
Development - Early
Dismissal
Progress Report #6
16
President’s Day
District Professional
Development
17
18
19
20
23
24
25
26
27
MARCH 2
3
4
5
6
9 SPRING BREAK
16
10
17
11
18
Test#7 – Electricity/Electric
Current
12
19
Unit #8 - Electromagnetism
13
20
End of 3RD Nine Weeks
4th Nine Weeks
Kempner High School
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
2014-2015 School Year
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
23
24
25
26
27
30
31
APRIL 1
Unit # 8 – Electromagnetism
Test
2
Unit #9 – Waves and Sound
3
Good Friday – No School
6
7
8
9
10
Progress Report #7
13
14
15
16
17
20
21
22
23
24
Test#9 Waves and Sound
27
Unit #10 – Light and Optics
28
29
30
May 1
Progress Report #8
4
5
6
7
8
11
12
Optics Lab – Lens
13
14
15
Test #10 – Light and Optics
18
Unit#11 – Special Topics
(Including brief overviews of
Fluids, Thermodynamics,
Optics, and Modern Physics)
19
Poster Presentation
20
Poster Presentation
21
Poster Presentation
22
Poster Presentation
25
Memorial Day
26
27
28
Final Review
29
Final Review
JUNE 1
1st-5th Review
6th Final Exams
2
2nd/ 4th Final Exams
5th/7th Review
3
3rd / 5th Final Exams
4
1st / 7th Final Exams
June 5
Graduation