8/20: Pyramid Tower and Guidelines
8/21: SLO Pre-assessment  FRQ’s and information sheet
8/22: SLO Pre-assessment MC
8/25: 1-D Motion – 2 questions, Speed, Velocity, and Displacement, Start Car Lab I
8/26: Finish Car Lab I (collect data outside)
8/27, 8/28: Domino Lab Hippie Physics problems
8/29: Go over Hippie Physics problems, students work on Mo Motion Wks
9/1: Labor Day
9/2: Go over Mo Motion wks, Discuss Acceleration, Car Lab 2 Prelab
9/2, 9/3: Car Lab 2 Data Collecting, Finish up Car Lab 2, Mo Mo Motion wks
9/4: Go over Mo Mo Motion wks, Discuss Free Fall, Started Look Out Below Lab
9/9: Finish Look Out Below Lab and discuss 4 equations
9/10: Students work on Acceleration Problems
9/11, 9/12: Reaction Rate Lab, Go over acceleration wks, students start to work on Fair
Dinkum wks
9/13: Go over Fair Dinkum wks, Graphing Match Lab, and go over graphing velocity
and acceleration
9/16: Review for 1-D Motion Quiz - Go over review sheet
9/17: 1-D MOTION QUIZ
9/18, 9/19: Go over Quiz, Reviewed Trig, and gave students Mo Mo Mo Motion Wks
9/20: Went over Mo Mo Mo Motion wks, Started 2-D Motion (bullet vs fired video,
demo, question) and Mo^4 wks
9/23: 2-D Motion Lab and 2-D Motion Intro Wks
9/24: Finished up 2-D motion Lab
9/25, 9/26: 2-D Motion Relay Race, went over 2-D motion wks, review sheets for hw
9/27: Reviewed 2-D motion for Quiz
9/30: QUIZ ON 2-D MOTION
10/1: Reviewed 2-D motion AGAIN (tests Bad)
10/2, 10/3: 2-D MOTION QUIZ II, Start Equilibrium Forces, Force Calculations wks
10/4: Went over the force calculations wks, handed back quizzes, and started Forces in
Equilibrium wks.
10/7: Went over Forces in Equilibrium wks, started Equitable wks
10/8: Newton Video
10/9, 10/10: Went over Equitable wks, Equilibrium Quiz, Friction Lab
10/11: Finished Friction Lab, went over types of friction, and did the 5 problems on
equilibrium
10/14: Went over the 5 problems of equilibrium, went over force of a spring, started
spring lab
10/15: Finished spring lab, started Fric Frac wks
10/16: Test Day: finished up Fric Frac wks
10/17: Went over fric frac wks, gave review for quiz
10/18: NOEA DAY (no School)
10/21: Went over review sheet and gave MOCK quiz for homework
10/22: Reviewed for Quiz on Equilibrium (went over mock quiz and other important
concepts)
10/23, 10/24: QUIZ ON EQUILIBRIUM
10/24: No School (Records Day) - END OF FIRST QUARTER
10/27: Went over equilibrium quiz, handed out Weight/Mass Intervention wks and
discussed it one more time.
10/28: Notes on Unbalanced forces: Went over the same problems on the last quiz but
added an acceleration to them to show students the similarities between the two
concepts. Gave them Dynamics warm-up for h/w
10/29, 10/30: Went over the Dynamics warm-up wks, students completed Dynamic Car
Crash lab, started working on Dynamics Fracus wks (h/w)
10/31: Go over Dynamics fracus wks, discuss inertial/non-inertial observer, Bass in the
elevator problems, and give them Batman/Robin wks (h/w)
11/3: Went over Batman and robin wks, completed a Problem Solving Strategy
11/4: Students worked on Dynamic Dyversion wks in class and I started to go over it
11/5, 11/6: QUIZ ON UNBALANCED FORCES
11/7: Went over Quiz
11/10: Bugatti Video
11/11: Dream Car Project
11/12, 11/13: Dream Car Project
11/14: No School
11/17: Reading Strategy- Circular Motion (10.3-10.5 in Conceptual Physics book).
Played Newlywed Game.
11/18: Going over Circular Motion and students work on free-body diagrams and
questions on Centripetal Motion wks
11/21: Circular Motion Lab and students were given Centrip'n worksheet
11/24: Went over Centrip'n worksheet and went over the Coriolis Effect
11/25: Start Universal Gravitation and do the Simulation Lab
12/1: Go over Simulation Lab and started Universal Gravitation Problems
12/2: Went over Universal Gravitation problems and watched Satellite video
12/4: Black Hole Video
12/5: Students worked on Gravitational problems (multiple choice questions)
12/8: Went over Gravitational Problems and handed out the review sheets
12/9: Went over Review sheets
12/11: CENTRIPEDAL FORCE AND GRAVITATION FORCE TEST
12/12: Went over test and started Torque (teeter totter lab)
LAST YEARS SCHEDULE
12/18, 12/19: Finished up Teeter Totter Lab, Students worked on Torque wks
12/20: Carol around the school
1/5: Snow Day
1/6: Snow Day
1/7, 1/8: Weighted beams and started to review
1/9: Reviewed for midterm
1/12: Reviewed for Midterm
1/13-1/15: Midterms
1/16: Records Day