15
Faculty Meeting
16
Freshman Orientation
17
First day of school
5 min
Introduce Mr
Hedden and Mrs.
Williams
Music:
5 min
Info cards: name,
#, address,
interests, grade
Music:
instrumental
5 min
about the teacher,
About Physics: use
Einstein Poster.
20 min ice
breaker:<20, name
game, > 20 2 truths
& a lie
18
10 min
What is Science?
What is physics?
What is
pseudoscience?
19
15 min
pass out books
Bring them to class
every day!
Pre-Test
10
Dousing Demo
5
Assign Science vs
Pseudoscience
paper
5min HW:
CH 1 Vocab and
key concepts
(handwritten!)
10
Examples
5 Make sure
everyone has a
topic
5 min
Rules discussion
10 min
read syllabus, give
Parent letter due
tomorrow!
22
5
Collect
Pseudoscience
rough drafts
5
Seating Chart time!
23
BR: 10
Sam has a brand-new
meterstick with no
markings on it that is
perfectly the length of
one meter. He also has
a old meterstick that
15
has markings down to
Precision vs.
the mim, but is warped.
Accuracy.
Which is more
overhead
accurate? Which is
10
more precise?
Together in class
[Show models]
Pg. 14: 18, 19, 22ab 5
Accuracy vs. precision
15
20
Scientific Notation Sig fig rules.
rules
5
24
Metric Units
m, L, g, sec, etc.
Ladder method.
Metric review
HW:
Metric Conversions
25
26
Pg. 26: # 70
5 min
Organization check
pg. 26: 68, 69, 72
29
17
First Day of School
Freshman
Orientation
30
31
1
2
18
5 min
Introduce Mr Hedden
and Mrs. Mitchell
Music: Harder,B,F,S
19
5 min
What did you do
this summer?
Music: h,b,f,s
20
10WorkKeys
5 min
Info cards: name, #,
address, interests,
grade
Music: instrumental
10 min
What is Science?
What is physics?
What is
pseudoscience?
21
5
Collect CH. 1
vocab and Key
concepts
5
Seating Chart time!
5 min
about the teacher,
About Physics: use
Einstein Poster.
10
Dousing Demo
15 min
pass out books
Bring them to class
every day!
Word of the Day
5min HW:
CH 1 Vocab and
key concepts
(handwritten!)
5
Assign Science vs
Pseudoscience
paper
15
Scientific Notation
rules
20 min ice
breaker:<20, name
game, > 20 2 truths & a
lie
10
Examples
5 min
Rules discussion
5 Make sure
everyone has a
10 min
topic
read syllabus, give
Parent letter due
tomorrow!
24
Physics Pre Test
Music: She Blinded me
with Science! /Bill Nye
25
BR: 10
Sam has a brand-new
meterstick with no
markings on it that is
perfectly the length of
one meter. He also has
a old meterstick that
has markings down to
the mim, but is warped.
Which is more
26
Survey Day
HW:
Math skills sheet,
last 4 are EC.
Next year, do Math
skills sheet at the
end.
BRING IN A
15
Precision vs.
Accuracy.
overhead
10
Together in class
Pg. 14: 18, 19, 22ab
5 min
Organization check
pg. 26: 68, 69, 72
27
BR: What are the
sig fig rules?
2 sci. not
conversions
Marble Lab(has
confusing
directions)
28
5WorkKeys
Collect math skills
sheet
15
Read pg. 15-18
Linear, quadratic,
inverse graphs.
20 Honors
31
Role Model Recap,
Hedden Example
Metric Units
m, L, g, sec, etc.
Ladder method.
Metric review
HW:
Metric Conversions
Honors: Collect
Challenge, Room
Volume, HW CH 2
Vocab & KC
7 Labor Day?
accurate? Which is
more precise?
[Show models]
5
Accuracy vs. precision
20
Sig fig rules.
5
Pg. 26: # 70
CALCULATOR
1
Mini Book Day!
2 Late Start
30Role model
project
presentations
Collect HW:
Conversion
Go over graded work,
pass out grade sheets
Reminder: Role Model
Posters due tomorrow!
Honors: Circles
Lab (Circles lab is
better, easier to
understand)
20
Metric review
Quest
Honors:
CH 1 Test
10 min
Read
Motion Diagrams and
particle model
10 min Diagram in
front of class
20 min
in class
PG. 33: 1-4
3
30
Role Model
Presentations
Ch 1 Test (Scan
Tron it!)
9
10
ACT prep
40
Dimensional
Analysis
Honors: Car Lab
[Webassign]
[PLATO]
4
5WorkKeys
20
Room Volume Lab
Check Notebook,
vocab & KC
HW CH 2 Vocab &
KC
Honors:
10 min
Read
Motion Diagrams
and particle model
20 min
in class
PG. 33: 1-4
Collect pg. 33
Finish Presentations
5
Collect HW
5 min
Role model Poster
project.
5 min what is your
idea for role model
project? If Oked
with us, stand by
door.
Honors: Go over
graded work,
Quest Metric
8\
Work Keys
CH 1 quiz (with
graphing)
10
25
- Introduce
Distance
Definition? Units?
EX: run mile track
- Introduce Time
Definition? Units?
EX: Some count
how many seconds
until the end of
class.
- Introduce
Displacement, Def,
Units, EX: run in a
circular track
-What is the
difference between
a scalar and vector?
Honors:
Distance vs.
Displacement,
Speed vs. Velocity
Rise/Run, Slope,
Velocity
Due next: pg. 42:
19-23
11 ISBE
Collect reading
guide
Finish or start dist.
Vs. Displacement
lab, finish
webassign
H: Lab, Web
Average Velocity
WS
12th TR Football vs
Thornwood.
5 min oral quiz
Distance vs
Displacement
Honors:
PSAE Auditorium
Dimensional Analysis
(in class) Average
Velocity Trainer
14
Interim
Assessments all
Day
15
Intro v=d/t
Examples
Average velocity
Trainer WS
Honors:
Car Motion Lab
22 BR: difference
between Distance
and Displacement?
What does a vector
have that a scalar
does not?
Position Time
graphs.
Examples (3):
Walking positive,
Walking negative,
Moonwalk positive
Starting not at 0.
Turned in graphs:
Graph Mr Hedden
5x, if they’re doing
well, students walk
it out (possible
EC).
Participation 30 pts.
Honors:
Intro Displacement
with Acceleration
Introduce G,
HW: Pg. 69: 4
problems (careful,
these are tough,
require braking
distance, and the
last one needs
quadform!)
28
23
PSAE day
Mini books,
corrections, test
tomorrow
Honors:
Go over hw, go
through quad form and
setting formulas equal
to each other to solve a
“two unknown”
problem
29
16 Late Start
All School Testing
Corrections,
review.
Honors:
Review Day,
Corrections, Test
24
Corrections day,
HW:
READ pg. 34-36
Fill out 5 question
reading guide.
Honors:
Lab, Webassign,
Dimensional
Analysis
HW graphing
17
Car Motion Lab
All day
Honors:
Test CH 2
HW: CH 3 Vocab
& KC
25
Parent teacher
conferences
18
Super ISBE
Go over graphing
Graphing Motion
WS.
Notebook Check.
Honors:
Introduce Accel.
Acceleration WS 1
26
Parent teacher
conferences
Pass back work
Made corrections
on car lab, pg 42,
and avg velocity
Honors:
Velocity Time
Graph
P-t, v-t graphing in
class exercise.
30
CH 2 Test
HW: CH 3 Vocab
& KC
Honors:
Acceleration Quiz,
grade in class
HW: Webassign
(massive)
Acceleration
1
2
Mind Map
Acceleration [20]
Honors:
Mind Map ReCap
Graphing with V-t
graphs, & Slope
Activity: walk it out p-t
AND v-t
In class:
Pg. 81&82: #82, 87
HW: reading guide 3.2
Book questions
HW
HW pg. 71:
34, 35, 37, 38, 39
(34-39, except for
36)
Honors: introduce g,
gravity drop lab @
bleachers
or
Introduce Gravity
Use LabPro equipment.
5
Speed freaks lab
6
Introduce Accel.
A = v/t
Acceleration WS 1
Introduce
displacement with
acceleration
(monster equation)
Intro Displacement
with Acceleration
Introduce Gravity,
Assign
Acceleration WS 2
10 PSAE & go over
Quiz:
Honors: Super
Acceleration Quiz
In class together:
v-t graphs together
as a class
Pg. 64: 6-11
Honors: Super
review packet
7
All School Testing
PLATO LAB All day
Honors:
Either LoggerPro
Lab or
Mini Quiz graded
in class
Honors:
Review for test
Corrections day
8
Intro Poster project
Intro Breaking
Distance
HW pg. 71:
34, 35, 37, 38, 39
(34-39, except for
36)
Help 39 with
Monster equation
9
introduce g, gravity
Reaction Time Lab
Honors:
Gravity Drop Lab
(CPO timer and
stands)
Honors & regular:
Grade review
Review, collect (or
hand back… can
that work?)
12
No School
19
HANGTIME! Lab
Honors:
Waiter demo (with
follow along sheet)
Why does the rock
go faster than the
feather? More
13
ISBE
Poster help
14
Posters due!
Begin Super review
Problem reading trainer Front side due
tomorrow
Honors: Review for
Honors:
test, Hangtime! Lab?
Test CH 3
20
21 Late Start
Review Day,
Test CH 3
Mini Books
Honors:
Honors:
How to find weight
Copernicus, Galileo
in newtons.
story.
Mini review for
Investigating Inertia
Newtons 1st
15 Super review
packet together
16
Acceleration Quiz
Honors: Mind map
of Force:
Inertia-penny
pushers, waiter
demo
22
Honors:
Quiz Newtons 1
Intro Forces,
Newton’s 2nd
Forces 1 HW
23
Investigating inertia
story notes.
Book questions: pg.
Honors:
Groceries Break
Intro Newton’s 2nd
Friction
FBD
HW Forces 2
Honors:
Example friction
problem
Netwons 2nd
Practice sheet
weight, Cut through
air resistance, more
net Force, faster a!
Intro Net Force
Introduce newton’s
2nd law. F = ma
HW: Forces WS 1
26
27
PSAE prep?
Hammer Head’n
Waiter demo (with
follow along sheet)
How to find weight in
newtons.
Introduce inertia
What has lots of it,
not much of it?
Mass ~ inertia
Copernicus, Galileo
story.
Investigating Inertia
BR: Swing a tennis
ball around on a
string. When I
release, how will it
travel?
HW:
Forces WS 1
Honors:
Collect Newton’s
2nd practice
Correct in class / go
over Newton’s 2nd
Practice
Big Jerk Lab Get
Data
Why does the rock go
faster than the feather?
More weight, Cut
through air resistance,
more net Force, faster
a!
Honors:
Big Jerk lab Collect
2
Example friction
problem
3
Collect Newton’s 2nd
Law
Netwons 2nd
Practice sheet
Big Jerk Lab Data
Honors: Newton's 2nd
HW: Poster Project
Newton’s 1st Law
Quiz
HW:
Reading Guide CH
4
28
DEMO: Book and
string demo. [20]
BR: Swing a tennis
ball around on a
string. When I
release, how will it
travel?
“Why is it that
when you pick up a
bag of groceries, it
breaks as you lift?”
Mini review for
Newtons 1st
Newton’s 1st Law
Quiz
Go over Test CH 3
Those who finish
begin Forces WS 2
Honors:
DEMO:
Go over Test CH 3
Those who finish
Newton’s 2nd Law
quiz
4
Webassign in
Library
HW: Poster Project
29
Demo: penny
pushers (15 stack)
ACT/ PSAE prep
(10)
30
Groceries Break
Intro Newton’s 2nd
Friction
FBD
HW Forces 2
How to find weight
in newtons.
Honors:
Forces review
packet due mon
Mini review for
Newtons 1st
Newton’s 1st Law
Quiz
HW:
Reading Guide CH
4
Honors:
Newton’s 3rd law
Tug of war (borrow
Sievers’/Athletics
Rope)
Book questions (3)
5
Webassign in
Library
6
Example friction
problem
Newton's 2nd
Practice problems
in class and
HW: practice sheet
ISBE
Go over remaining
Newton’s 2nd
Concepts
Honors:
Final review of
Newton's 3rd
HW: Newton’s 2nd
review sheet
Newton's 3rd Quiz
Assignment: Poster.
Honors: Review
Newton's 2nd
9
Throw an egg at a
sheet.
10
Library All day
Corrections
11
No school veterans
day
12
WESTWOOD
COLLEGE
13
Newton’s 2nd Law
Quiz
all day
Super Conceptual
guided packet
review.
HW: Conceptual
packet
Honors: Intro
Vectors, Vectors
review sheet HW
16
ALL DAY
Interim Assessment
HW:
Newtons Law
Review
Honors:
Go over corrections
in class.
23
Collect packet
Essay question quiz
Honors:Opener:
where does friction
come from?
A- Microscopic
bumps that
get in the
way of
surfaces
trying to
slide.
Does the amount of
surface area matter
when determining
friction?
A- No. Less
Honors: same
17ISBE
Intro Newton's 3rd
Rockets, tug of war,
walking. Many guided
notes.
Book questions in
class.
HW:
Assignment: poster
Honors:
CH 4 Test
CH 5 Vocab and Key
Concepts
24
Corrections all day, go
over quizzes
INESH MOORE
773-710-8881
18
Late Start
Go over toughest
Newtons review
questions, collect
Make corrections,
go over quizzes,
review for test.
19
Review Newtons’
3rd
Quiz Newtons 3rd
Mini Quiz:
Last 3 test
questions, oddballs
Honors:
corrections, go over
quizzes, review for
test.
20
Conceptual Review
packet
All day
Atwood’s?
Honors:
Atwood’s?
Intro Sliding
problem, HW 3-5
Honors: ISBE
Honors: Vector
practice 1 in class
Intro Lawn mower
problem,
Example in class
HW:WS 1.2
25
CH 4 Test
CH 5 Vocab and
Key Concepts
Corrections
Vectors practice 2
in class
26
27
surface area with
the same normal
force means more
pressure on that
surface. Same Ff.
Then, do lab.
Lab: Friction
fiction: kinetic
30
Re-Introduce
Vectors: addition,
resultant
Pythagorean Thm
SohCahToa
Examples, HW
Honors:
Start 5 problem
team round robin
quiz
7
Atwood’s Lab
Honors:
Atwood’s Lab
1
2 Late start?
Intro Lawn mower
Honors:
problem,
Friction Fiction 1
Example in class
HW:WS 1.2
Quiz Tomorrow!
Honors:
Finish round robin quiz
Go over quiz
Pg. 141: 90, 99, 101
3
Quiz: Soh Cah Toa
Collect HW
Intro Sliding
problem
8
BR Sliding problem
Go over
HW: WS 3&5
10
Review fir Mid
term
11
Review for Mid
term
16
Plato Lab all day
17
Library PLATO?
Movie Day:
Violations of
newton’s 3rd:
Spider man webs,
shotgun recoil,
18
No school
6
Bell ringer:
Sliding problem
H: Dart problem
Bridge
construction started
Break bridges in
one week!
Keep a journal of
what was done by
you, what partner
did, each day.
13
Start bridge break
tests.
Turn in Journal for
½ pts, max weight
7
Post up 4 questions
around the room:
Round robin
rotating groups quiz
all day.
(hints on board)
8
Finish quiz?
Collect quiz by end.
9 Bellringer review
Collect WS
4
HW: book
questions:
Friction Fiction 2
Honors:
Test CH 5
Honors:
14
Finish Review
Start mid term
4
Icebreaker: HMOY
-traveled for fam?
-more than 1 xmas
-got your wish
discuss
Intro bridge contest
rules. Make
groups. Distribute
materials, organize
storage, explain
points, journal.
11
What does this
contest have to do
with physics?
-forces, simple
Honors:
Review test.
15
Finish Mid term
5
Bell ringer:
Lawn mower problem
Review: CH 5
Worksheets
Go over answers
Group quiz tomorrow
Honors: Intro Dart
problem
12
Pass back quizzes,
bonus points for work
and answer put on
board.
14
Laptops Webassign
CH 5,
Finish breaking
bridges.
Principles of
engineering:
triangles, support,
bending, placement
of weight.
Construction time!
5 minute Journal
entry!
15
Laptops Webassign
CH 5
LAST DAY TO
BREAK BRIDGES
machines, torque.
Construction time
all day! [Journals!]
18[get Laptops]
Mini review, go
over questions on
test. Pass back
work.
Alternate: intro
static equilibrium.
25
1
What does this
contest have to do
with physics?
-forces, simple
machines, torque.
Construction time
all day! [Journals!]
8[get Laptops]
Refresh Friction.
Finish Webassign.
Those that are
done:
Start BHM poster
project.
15
No school
22
BHM projects due
Mini review, go
over questions on
test. Pass back
work.
Alternate: intro
static equilibrium.
Honors: PMPP in
groups.
1 Lincoln 1 wk!
BHM poster project
presentations.
HW: After school,
EC for putting up
posters
Notes: Projectile
Motion x eq, y eq
Honors:
Construction Time!
[5 min Journal entry!]
19
CH 5 test.
HW: CH 6 Vocab &
KC
Alternate: review &
return work today.
26
2
Pass back quizzes,
bonus points for work
and answer put on
board.
Construction Time!
[5 min Journal entry!]
9
Construction time
Bridge Breaking
Collect Journals
16
Video or review:
Hedden gone to
Dirksen
23
CH 5 Inclined planes
trainer
Honors:
Dart Gun Lab
is other ½ of
project. 400 pts.
20
Intro Dart like
problem.
During class:
Projectile Motion
Quiz 1 in class.
Alt: Test CH 5
27
21
Shoot for your
grade Lab
3
Start bridge break
tests.
Turn in Journal for
½ pts, max weight
is other ½ of
project. 400 pts.
4
Laptops Webassign
CH 5,
Finish breaking
bridges.
5
CH 5
LAST DAY TO
BREAK BRIDGES
10 LATE START
Last Day for
Bridges
Do Peer
Evaluations
11
Intro Black History
Month Poster
project.
12
No school parent
conf.
17
Library
18
Library
24 LATE START
25
Finish tests
19
CH 5 Cart problem
trainer
Honors: intro CH 6
26
Begin CH 6:
Intro Dart like
problem.
Do Problem in class
Honors:
LIB / LAPTOPS?
Assign webassign
for two weekends
from now.
Projectiles above
the ground
5 Shoot the
monkey
Dart Motion Quiz
CH 5 test.
HW: CH 6 Vocab
& KC
Honors:
Go through the lab for
the PASCO mini
CH 5 & 6
BHM presentations
Honors: Dart
motion quiz
Collect Red Book
2 Lincoln 1 wk!
Split into Groups,
PMPP. 20 min to
work, 20 min to
present.
28
3
Projectile Motion
Exercise 1
Honors: Intro
projectiles at angles
Collect Red Book
4
Dart Gun Lab
Collect PMPP, Proj Period 7/8 PLATO
Mot
Lab
LAST TIME IN
Honors:
PLATO LAB!!!
PASCO mini
22
Collect Labs
Go over tricky
concepts: bullet
falls same time as
dropped: demo
HW: Proj Mot Ex 1
29
Period 7/8: Quiz
HW: Dart Gun Lab
during class.
Honors: POSTER
Shoot for UR grade
Alt: projectiles
above the ground
launcher lab
HW: Proj Mot
Worksheet
launcher lab
“Test Tomorrow”
Honors:
CH 6 mock test
Collect RedBook
8
Intro projectiles at
angles: football
kick
Problem on the
board
Honors: review CH
6
15
Go over interim
assessment
questions all day:
+3 EC for each one
they get right past
10.
Honors: Centripetal
Force
Lincoln forms due
22
Lincoln Field trip?
Video: Momentum,
car crashes, energy.
Alt: Interim
Assessments all
Day
9
Laptops WEBASSIGN
29
Interim
Assessments all
Day
30
31
Honors:
Momentum start
Change in p
Do trainer problem
Elastic vs. Inelastic
collisions intro
equations
HW: Blue Bk pg.
Spring Break
Honors:
Conservation of
Momentum
Finish blue book
questions
13
BR a=v2/r
Spring Break
12
-Collect Centripetal
Worksheet 1
-Review
Centripetal
acceleration a=v2/r
-Example problem
-Centripetal v
Honors: CH 6 Test
Distribute BlueBk
16
Projectile Motion
Worksheet 1
Honors: bob and mass
equilibrium lab =
constant speed
centripetal lab
23
Go over Ch 6 mocktest
Honors:
Open a door
Torque Intro R x F
Trainer Worksheet
10 LATE START
Grade check,
papers returned
(including CH 7
tests) BlueBk!
Intro Projectiles
above 0 EC
Honors: Centripetal
17
Shoot for your
grade lab
11
Laptops webassign
Honors:
Centripetal
Webassign
Honors:
Centripetal
acceleration and
“pulling Gs”
Assignment out of
Blue Book
24LATE START
Grade check, late
assignments check
“Test Tomorrow”
Honors: Review for
Centripetal Test
18
Projectile at angle
quiz
PROJECT
Interim
Assessments +3 EC
for each one they
get right past 10.
12
Library Webassign
Honors: Centripetal
Web
19
Mock CH 6 test
HW: Pg.
Honors: Centripetal
test
25
26
CH 6 Test
Honors: review for
CH 8 Quest
Torque Lab: levers,
see Whitman,
Fryrear
1
No school
Honors: review for
CH 8 Quest
CH 8 Quest
Spring Break
Spring Break
Spring Break
14
BR a=4pir/t2
with Fc
15
Webassign library
16
Webassign laptops,
Honors: Blue Book
questions
Intro a=4pir/t2 problem
Example problem
Intro Friction on a
turn, show how
Begin book questions
mass cancels out.
(5 questions, due at end
2 No school
Collect book work.
Centrifugal
-Exit problem
a=v2/r with Fc
Bring books
tomorrow! Bonus
points! Pass work
Honors Intro Work
Work changes
NRG
Intro KE PE
concepts
of week)
Distribute grade sheets
Honors BR work
Push up a wedge
equivalence [Example]
Intro Power
Progress reports
BlueBk pg 188: C1,5,
7 P3,4
19
Review
Mini books
20
Test
HW Ch 10 V & KC
Honors: Work and
Power Quiz
Honors: Big Roller
coaster discussion,
Bellringer
HW: Measuring work
sheet
26
Interim Assessment
#2 Redo
27
Mr. Hart’s
7 question Science
ACT
3
Power Lab
4
Laptops for Short
Energy Webassign
Honors:
BR how many
nukes in a big
asteroid?
Conservation of
energy
Review for energy
Test
Review sheet
10
Inelastic Collision
Ex
Elastic Collision
ex
borrow the
Honors
BR work, power,
up a ramp.
Consider: did the
energy change?
21
Intro work,
Units, energy
Work while lifting,
carrying
Work worksheet
before you leave
Honors:
Power Lab
Parent signatures
due next week for 6
flags!
28ACT
5
LATE START
22
Br Work
Intro Power
23
Work Changes
sheet
Assign Weekend
HW Pg.
Honors: begin
groups for massive
roller coaster
project
People for Physics
day
29PSAE
Honors: work on
roller coaster
6
Laptops again
Webassign
Hedden out all day
for PLATO
30
LAST DAY FOR 6
FLAGS $
Movie day
Elegant universe
Have a DVD player
7
Work and Power
Test
Honors:
All Energy test
Reg: Work and
Power Quiz
Honors: Blue book
pg.
11
Momentum LAB
Quiz tomorrow
Honors: Conservation
of angular momentum
12
Review sheet 2
Review
Momentum
13
Test Review all day
14
Honors:
Momentum TEST
Begin Final Project
newton’s cradle
Which kind of
collision?
HW Momentum
Trainer Worksheet
w/ Torque, Case study
of Billiards
Momentum Quiz
17
Example Movie
and poster
Roller Coaster Lab
24
Finals Review 1
18
Example Movie and
poster
Roller Coaster Lab
25
Finals Review 2
19
Presentations Day
1
20
Presentations Day 2
21
Presentations Day 3
26
Finals Day 1
27
Finals Day 2
28
Finals Day 3
19
20
5 min
Introduce Mr
Hedden and Mr.
Cox-Bey
21
10 min
Rules discussion
22
15 min
read syllabus, give
Parent letter due
tomorrow!
15 min
Info cards: name,
#, address,
interests, grade
20 min ice breaker
10 min
about the teacher
5 min rules
presentation
5 min
What do all these
have in common?
Respect. What is
respect?
25 min
Go over rules
contract
15 min
pass out books
Bring them to class
every day!
5 min
What is Science?
What is physics?
What is
pseudoscience?
10
Dousing Demo
25
5
Collect CH. 1
vocab and Key
concepts
5
Seating Chart time!
15
Precision vs.
Accuracy.
26
BR: 10
Sam has a brand-new
meterstick with no
markings on it that is
perfectly the length of
one meter. He also has
a old meterstick that
has markings down to
the mim, but is warped.
Which is more
27
BR: What are the
sig fig rules?
2 sci. not
conversions
In pairs, Math
Review sheet
Due at end of class.
?
28
5
Collect math
review sheet
45 min
Pre Test:
Use questions from
final multiple
choice
5min HW:
CH 1 Vocab and
key concepts
(handwritten!)
29
Collect math skills
sheet
15
Read pg. 15-18
Liner, quadratic,
inverse graphs.
20
CH 1 quiz
overhead
10
Together in class
Pg. 14: 18, 19, 22ab
15
Scientific Notation
rules
accurate? Which is
more precise?
[Show models]
5
Accuracy vs. precision
20
Sig fig rules.
5
Pg. 26: # 70
Alt:
Marble Lab
2
3
4
5
30
Role model project
presentations
5
Collect HW:
Conversion
5
Collect Metric
Estimations
5 collect HW
15
ACT& PSAE prep
15
Metric Units
m, L, g, sec, etc.
Ladder method.
30
Role Model
Presentations
20
Finish Role Model
Presentations
30
Density Lab
HW:
Math skills sheet,
last 4 are EC.
BRING IN A
CALCULATOR
5 min
Organization check
pg. 26: 68, 69, 72
Labor Day
5
HW:
Metric Conversions
15
Metric Estimations
20
PSAE/ACT day:
Test prep.
10 min
Role model Poster
project.
5 min what is your
idea for role model
project? If Oked
with us, stand by
door.
(Need full 50 next
time!)
5 Collect
Worksheet In-Class
8
9
30
Room volume lab
ACT and PSAE
Handout metric
worksheet
10
Half –day
11
12
Mini book sall day
CH 1 Test
Pass back work, look at Corrections & late
grades.
work all day
HW:
Vocabulary & Key
Concepts CH 2 (30
terms) 150 pts.
Corrections day!
Mini review of
metric conversions.
Room Volume Lab
15
CH 1 Review
16
5
Collect HW
Collect pg. 33
10
17
18
25
- Introduce
Distance
5 collect
20
19
Collect reading
guide
BR: difference
between Distance
10 min
Read
Motion Diagrams
and particle model
ACT prep
40
Dimensional Analysis
10 min Diagram in
front of class
20 min
in class
PG. 33: 1-4
5 min oral quiz
Distance vs
Displacement
Definition? Units?
EX: run mile track
- Introduce Time
Definition? Units?
EX: Some count
how many seconds
until the end of
class.
- Introduce
Displacement, Def,
Units, EX: run in a
circular track
-What is the
difference between
a scalar and vector?
PSAE prep
Catch-up.
Alt: 25
Vocab Quiz bowl:
10 min make cards,
teams, 15 min play
22
Graphing Motion
WS.
23
Car Motion Lab
24
All School Testing
25
Circles Lab
29
In class quiz
Grade in class
30
10 PSAE & go over
1
Review for test
Speed freaks lab
Review packet
semi-guided
10 ACT& go over
2
Grade review
Review, collect (or
hand back… can
that work?)
6
What does a vector
have that a scalar
does not?
Position Time
graphs.
Examples (3):
Walking positive,
Walking negative,
Moonwalk positive
Starting not at 0.
Turned in graphs:
Graph Mr Hedden
5x, if they’re doing
well, students walk
it out (possible EC).
Participation 30 pts.
HW:
READ pg. 34-36
Fill out 5 question
reading guide.
Book questions
HW
and Displacement?
Closer: Notes:
Slope of line on p-t
graph = velocity!
(5 min)
EP: [Continue]
26
Average velocity
Lab day
3
Mini books
10
2 example
questions
7
Test CH 2
Vocab & Key concepts
CH 3 HW
30
Average Velocity
trainer in pairs
8
Late Start
Pass back work
9
Intro to Velocity
Time graphs,
Average
acceleration
HW: Average
acceleration WS 1
10
WESTWOOD
COLLEGE day
HW: Reading
Guide, 3.1
13
NO SCHOOL
14
Collect Reading guide
15
Collect Velocity
graphing WS
Velocity Graphing WS
done together as a class Lincoln College!
16
Bell ringer: average
acceleration
17
Bellringer:
Grade
Example problem
In class quiz:
Accel WS 2
In class: problem
stations (5) 30 min
1.Avg v, 2: find t, 3
p-t graph, 4: v-t
graph, 5: find
acceleration.
20 Gary Observe
Collect book
problems
Bellringer
Eq 1
Eq 2
Intro equations 3
21
Bellringer
Falling object Lab
NEVER DO THIS
LAB AGAIN. EVER.
Introduce G
In class: pg. 69: 2629
HW pg. 71:
34, 35, 37, 38, 39
(34-39, except for
36)
Introduce last kind
of equation
Example problem
HW: Webassign
problems!
27
28
Collect posters
Collect labs.
Poster presentations ACT prep 10
for EC 5-15
Pass back reading quiz,
Reaction time lab
grade
Read directions 5
Dollar demo 5
Corrections day:
Do lab 25
Fryrear quiz
NO HW!
23
Library Day
22
Pass back work, do
corrections
Cox-Bey activity?
Go to Library, do
Webassign
problems
HW Acceleration
Review sheet
Grade in class
HW Book
problems.
24
Bellringer problem:
Or Finish Lab?
Problem reading
quiz
Webassign due!
today @ midnight
Poster Project!
29
Computers
reserved:
30
PSAE prep (or
Mars discussion?)
10
Web Assign day!
15 problems.
Due Sunday!
Sr. Assembly 11
period.
Juniors 3rd
Soph 2nd.
th
Review packet in
groups, divide
groups into teams,
assign teams to
pages.
(either CH 3 Study
Guide or Motion
review packet)
This year: Motion
review packet
Guided problem 5
(the back page)
Work 10
31
Collect Motion
review packet
What is free fall?
Discuss: stop at the
top
Shortcut: “Fall time
formula” (what they
derived from the
reaction time lab)
Hang time lab
Notes: jumping and
the fall-time
equation.
3
Hang time lab
Juniors A-M meets
balfour, Talley.
10
PSAE prep?
Demo: penny
pushers (15 stack)
4 (late Start) Vote!
HW: CH 4 Vocab &
Key concepts
11 (No school?)
Introduce inertia
What has lots of it,
not much of it?
Mass ~ inertia
Hammer Head’n
5
Tyran Mini books
Review for CH 3
test
12
TR Co-Teaching
Day, get sub plans
in order.
Go over test
Investigating
inertia story notes.
Book questions: pg.
17
ACT PSAE prep
(10)
Investigating inertia
story notes.
(Collect at end)
18
Waiter demo (with
follow along sheet)
Pass back work
Copernicus, Galileo
story.
Why does the rock go
faster than the feather?
More weight, Cut
through air resistance,
more net Force, faster
a!
Intro Net Force
Introduce newton’s 2nd
law.
F = ma
Exit Slip: Who was the
first to say that We
revolved around the
sun? Who said that
19
Penny Demo
Newton’s 2nd Law
-The harder you
push, the more
Acceleration
-The more massive
it is, the harder it is
to accelerate.
How to find weight
in newtons.
In Class:
Forces WS 1
Guided 5
Work 10
Guided 10
6
Review sheet:
Mixed review 2
(Conceptual back
side)
Say it’s due at end
of class, actually
finish for
tomorrow.
13
Waiter demo (with
follow along sheet)
Copernicus, Galileo
story.
Why does the rock
go faster than the
feather? More
weight, Cut through
air resistance, more
net Force, faster a!
Intro Net Force
Introduce newton’s
2nd law.
F = ma
20
DEMO: Book and
string demo. [20]
BR: Swing a tennis
ball around on a
string. When I
release, how will it
travel?
“Why is it that
when you pick up a
bag of groceries, it
breaks as you lift?”
Newton’s 1st Law
quiz
Those who finish
begin Forces WS 2
7
Ch. 3 test
14.
How to find weight
in newtons.
Mini review for
Newtons 1st
Newton’s 1st Law
Quiz
HW:
Forces WS 1
21
ACT/ PSAE prep
(10)
Take Data on Big
Jerk Lab
Reading Guide pg.
24
Check for
completion, put in
attendance
Finish CH 4
Example Problems
packet together
things all try to fall at
the same rate?
25
Big Jerk Lab all day
Get data
26
Half day
27
Thanksgiving
28
X
4
Newton’s 2nd Law
Review pack all
day
5
BR: Fat sneakers,
little stilettos
F – ma question
Hedden go over, do
not collect. (no
more than 5 min on
whole bit)
Finish Big Jerk
LAb
Finish tomorrow
Another ex problem
HW: Reading guide
Parachutes due,
wait for a good
drop day.
Announcement:
Make paper or
plastic parachute
due Wednesday
Winter
Break
1
BR: 800kg car
pushed at const. v.,
mu= 0.15. Fa?
(5 write 10 do w/
hints,10 grade)
2
PSAE prep questions
(5 do 10 go over)
Notes: Friction,
where does it come
from? (5)
Newton’s 2nd law
questions in groups,
pairs, due at end of
class.
3
Laptops?
Parachutes due,
wait for a good
drop day.
Clear desks
Newton’s 2nd Law
quiz.
Pressure =
Force/area (p.s.i.)
Fat man in
snearkers
(hey,hey,hey) vs
the shorty in
stilettos (upgrade!).
(5)
EX. Test question 1
(15)
Announcement:
Make paper or
plastic parachute
due Wednesday
8
Learning to walk
9
Go over newton’s 2nd
10
Newton’s 3rd Law
11
Review day, mini
12
CH 4 big test. All
again
Tug of war with the
wall.
law quiz
Horse and cart
dilemma
quiz
Go over in class
books.
period.
SHORTEN IT.
Random: A does
evens, B does odds?
HW review packet
for EC?
Headbutt fist
15
Review for mid
term
5 late start
bridge building
design
Bridge Building?
Basics, triangle
tips,
Contest rules,
relations to physics,
Relation to careers
HW; bring in your
blue prints!
12
Collect vocab& KC
Intro Lawnmower
problem
Bring a shoe to test
tomorrow!
Really finish bridge
breaking.
16
Review for mid term
17 mid term
18
Mid term
19
6
First half: review of
vectors, Pythagorean
thm and trig.
In class WS 1 (without
trig)
7
First half:
Trig review
SOH CAH TOA
Using your
calculator
In class WS 2
8
Bridge Building
(Guest speaker?)
Dartanion Green’s
dad?
9
ACT PSAE prep
Complete bridges,
test strength
HW: CH 5 Vocab
& KC
What is Force &
Newton’s laws
(Newton’s 3rd law and
compression, tension,
shear, torsion strength)
w/
Bridge Building?
“Everything is a
spring”
2nd half:
Begin build
turn in/ approve
blueprints on paper.
13
Opener: where does
friction come from?
B- Microscopic
bumps that get
in the way of
surfaces trying
to slide.
Does the amount of
surface area matter
when determining
friction?
A- No. Less surface
area with the same
normal force means
more pressure on that
surface. Same Ff.
Then, do lab.
Lab: Friction fiction:
kinetic
Complete bridges,
test strength
Build bridges!
Build bridges!
14 LATE Start?
15
ACT prep
Snow day
Opener: what does
Fn come from?
A- Newton’s 3rd.
Weight push on
surface, surface
push back.
Then what if the
surface is at an
angle?
Example problem:
Brick on a board.
Brick mass 2kg.
Find Fg, Fn, Fslidy.
If frictionless, what
is a?
Problem boards
out, one student
solves, other
16
Snow day
19 Off
MLK Jr. Day
20
Physics Interim
Assessment
Most of the period.
Book assignment
3 problems
26
HW: pg. 140: 6669, 75
27
Review board stations
assists.
Do another
problem with
Friction on board,
then student boards
21
Opener: is it easier
to kick/push a
block into and
across the ground,
or drag the block
upwards across the
ground?
Collect opener
Discuss[10]
Example
lawnmower[15]
Do #1[5]
Example Drag prob
[15]Do #2[5]
Collect.
Pass out grade
sheet.
28
Review
22
Static equilibrium
problems
Example
Book questions:
Pg. 125: 5-9
go over #6, 5
together as a class
Worksheet 4-5
(as a quiz? In class
Only! Leave BR on
board.)
HW: Pg. 135: 38,
39, 40
29
Library BHM day
HW:
Check status:
BHM poster: black
physicists
DUE TUESDAY!
2
Mini Books
3
Review boards
9
Friction Fiction 2
Static lab
10
BR: free fall problems
Demo: drop& shoot
machine.
Notes:
X velocities stay
constant. Usually a = 0
Y velocities change. A
usually = -9.8.
16
oFF
Quiz
17
Example problem
One in class, 3 part.
Due before you leave,
HEDDEN
23
BR:
How much weight
here?
How much normal
force?
How much Fslidy?
How fast to
accelerate?
30
Library day for
research paper?
Laptops used this
day.
4
Library Day for
BHM project
11
Late start
5
CH 5 test
6
Parent Conferences
12
Dart gun Lab
13
BHM inventor
presentations
CH 6 Vocab & KC
18
Projectile motion
practice problems,
5 groups.
19
Library day:
Webassign?
20
Notes, assist with
HW
Book assignment:
Pg.
CHECKLIST
23
Review
Quiz on Dart like
motion
24
Day of primary Earth
Science and Astro
material
25
Interim assessment
#2 all day
26
Intro projectiles at
angles again
Example problem
Intro projectiles at
angles
Poster project
question due
Friday.
Projectile motion
worksheet
2
3
Get back poster
problems, due on
Monday
Projectiles at angles
problem set
4
Shoot for your
grade Lab
5
Mini Books
Laptops??
Book HW and web
due Monday
27
MSI field trip
Alternate
assignment for
those who stay
behind:
Poster project
question due, Trig
practice, and BHM
/inventor worksheet
6
Fake CH 6 Practice
test together
HW: 3 book
questions.
Review
Sievers Quiz 2
9
10
POSTERS DUE!
Board problems day 2
Board problems day 1
11
CH 6 Test
12
Intro Centripetal
acceleration
In class quiz
16
Turntable lab
Or
Spinner lab
(Shortened)
19
Library Day
Webassign
Assign book
questions (3-5) Due
Mon
25
26
Board Problems 1
Board Problems 2
1
2
Hedden was sick:
Hedden was sick:
HW Vocab & KC
Reading guide CH 9
CH 9 [Due in class] due in class.
17
18
EARTH & ASTRO
Interim Assessment
science primer, previous #3 all day
test walk through
23
24
Other Lab
Mini Books
30
31
Review:
Test Centripetal
Teams (3 rows) do 6- [1st page of book test,
2, 6-3 quiz. 1212,
front and back, CH 6]
3ab, 3ab.
Just right time.
15+ min complete, 20 HW Vocab & KC CH 9
min present.
6
7
Collect HW
Collect HW
Quiz: How much
Quiz: How fast after
momentum? P=mv stick?
Intro: Law of
Intro: elastic collision
conservation of
EX problem
momentum
HW: pg. 240: 19, 20, 21
8
Quiz: how fast after
the bounce?
Quandry: Ball falls
on earth and stops.
Violation of Law?
9
Quiz: Multi-part
Impulse.
Angular momentum
with the bike tire!
13
Review
Book questions
5 due mon, time in
class
20
Finish webassign
(Laptops?)
Assign book
questions (3-5) Due
Mon
27
3
quiz of terms:
Momentum, impulse.
[10]
Go over example
problem [15]
HW: pg. 233: 1,2,4
10
Good Friday
Intro: Inelastic
collision
EX problem
HW: pg. 238: 13, 14,
15, 16ec
13
Spring Break
20
-Collect Centripetal
Worksheet 1
-Review Centripetal
acceleration a=v2/r
-Example problem
-Centripetal v
Centrifugal
-Exit problem a=v2/r
with Fc Bring books
tomorrow! Bonus
points! Pass work
Demo: Egg thrown at Study Guide Review
sheet.
for test.
14
Spring Break
21
BR a=v2/r
Intro a=4pir/t2 problem
Example problem
Begin book questions
(5 questions, due at end
of week)
Distribute grade sheets
Honors BR work
Push up a wedge
Honors Intro Work equivalence [Example]
Work changes NRG Intro Power
Intro KE PE concepts Progress reports
BlueBk pg 188: C1,5, 7
P3,4
27
28
Review
Test
Study guide
(Or test Today)
15
Spring Break
22Testing
16
Spring Break
23Testing
17
Spring Break
24
BR a=4pir/t2
with Fc