Another way to review for your Q1 Quarterly Assessment is to take your old tests and quizzes. The retakes will not count as a new grade, but will help give you extra practice!
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We will interrupt our regularly scheduled unit on work and energy to prepare and take the Q1 Quarterly Assessment for science on 10/31. Students will take it online through SchoolNet on NC EdCloud. They will not be allowed to retake this test, so we need to stay focused and study hard! I will prepare review materials that we will work on in class and at home on Tuesday and Wednesday before the test. The QA will cover Forces, Motion, and Energy. The grade will count on Q2. Table of Contents: Work and Energy - These papers should currently be organized in your binder! Resources and online textbook: Work and Energy HW = Homework WU = Warm Ups Lost your Warm Up Sheet? No problem. Print one here. Warm Up Sheet Next Quiz or Test: Q1 QUARTERLY ASSESSMENT (QA/Benchmark) (No re-takes), Thursday, 10/31. Monday, 10/28 HW: Review any old materials in your binder for the upcoming QA. WU: 1. How are potential and kinetic energy related to mechanical energy? 2. What happens to the total amount of energy when energy is transformed from one form to another? Is it lost? Does it disappear? 3. Think of a skateboarder on a halfpipe. Where is the Potential Energy and Kinetic Energy of the skateboarder the highest and lowest? Tuesday, 10/29 HW: Review the questions on your Q1 QA Review sheets that we completed today in class. WU: Chapter D1 – Relative Motion! 1.What information do you need to know in order to tell whether an object has moved or not? 2.If you are in a moving vehicle, what objects appear to be moving and not moving? 3.If you are in a moving vehicle, describe what the speed of a vehicle moving in the opposite direction might look like. Wednesday, 10/30 HW: HW: Review the questions on your Q1 QA Review sheets that we completed today in class. WU: 1.How much work is done when a heavy box is pushed using a 20 N force across a room a distance of 5 meters? Use w=fd 2.Briefly sketch a graph that shows an object gradually increasing its speed over time. 3.Briefly sketch a graph that shows an object that travels away from home very quickly, pauses for a while, then travels back home very, very slowly. Thursday, 10/31 HW: None! WU: 1.Label one box kinetic energy. 2.Label the middle box potential energy. 3.Classify the following terms as one of the above: thermal, light, mechanical, chemical, sound, gravitational, nuclear, electrical. Friday, 11/1 - No school, teacher work day and parent conferences. Class this week:
We have started our Work and Energy unit by learning about different types of energy. We will also calculate work, mechanical energy, and learn about electrical circuits. Ask you student about the scientific definition of work compared to our everyday definition of work. New vocab sheet came out on Friday. Vocab quiz on Friday, 10/25, on the new work and energy words. Table of Contents: Work and Energy - These papers should currently be organized in your binder! Resources and online textbook: Work and Energy HW = Homework WU = Warm Ups Lost your Warm Up Sheet? No problem. Print one here. Warm Up Sheet Next Quiz or Test: Work and Energy Vocabulary Quiz, Friday, 10/25, Words #1 - 9. UPDATE: FULL QUIZ will be on Friday with a surprise! Monday, 10/21 HW: Work on the Work and Energy Vocabulary Sheet. Quiz Friday, 10/25. WU: 1. Write your everyday, common language definition for the word work. 2. Write the textbook, scientific definition for the word work. 3. How are these meanings similar and different. Explain! Tuesday, 10/22 HW: Work on the Work and Energy Vocabulary Sheet. Quiz Friday, 10/25. WU: #1, 2, and 3. Write down the name and definition of any 3 different kinds of energy from your vocabulary sheet. Wednesday, 10/23 HW: Work on the Work and Energy Vocabulary Sheet. Quiz Friday, 10/25. WU: 1.Energy is the ability…. 2.When you do work on an object, some of your energy… 3.In fact, both work and energy are measured in … Thursday, 10/24 HW: Work on the Work and Energy Vocabulary Sheet. Quiz Friday, 10/25. WU: 1.What type of energy depends on an object’s position? 2.A rotating turbine is which type of energy? 3.Atoms fusing or splitting is which type of energy? Friday, 10/25 HW: Work and Energy Vocabulary Sheet due today! WU: Write the term and definition for any 3 vocabulary words that you think are difficult or want clarification on. Click this link to go to the Forces and Motion PhET simulation.
Follow the directions on the paper to complete the activity. Class this week:
We are working on our unit on forces and Newton's Laws. We will use a computer simulation to manipulate forces, mass, and friction to calculate net force. We will do a lab using spring scales, blocks, weights, and sand paper. Test on forces and Newton's laws will be on Friday, 10/18. Table of Contents: FORCES - These papers should currently be organized in your binder! Resources and online textbook: FORCES HW = Homework WU = Warm Ups Lost your Warm Up Sheet? No problem. Print one here. Warm Up Sheet Next Quiz or Test: Friday, 10/18, Forces Test. Monday, 10/14 - We did a lab today! Static and Dynamic Friction Lab with Spring Scales HW: Study for test on Friday, 10/18. WU: 1.If two people push a heavy box in the same direction, each with a force of 20 N, and friction from the floor is a force of 10 N, then what is the net force on the box? DRAW it out! 2.What happens when you push a chair across the room with a medium force and then a stronger force? 3.What instrument could we use to measure Newtons of force? Tuesday, 10/15 HW: Study for test on Friday, 10/18. WU: 1.What is centripetal force? Give an example. 2.Give examples of real situations with balanced and unbalanced forces. 3.If you push a 20 kg box with an acceleration of 2 m/s2, what is the force you used? F=ma Wednesday, 10/16 HW: Study for test on Friday, 10/18. WU: 1.You shove a shopping cart down the aisle of the store. It has a mass of 18 kg and an acceleration of 3 m/s2. What force did you use? (F = ma) 2.If a car makes a sudden stop, what happens to a passenger in the back seat who is wearing a seatbelt? What law is this? 3.List the following objects in order from least to most inertia: large rock, feather, pencil, textbook. Thursday, 10/17 HW: Study for test on Friday, 10/18. WU: Page D71 can be found at this link: Chapter 2 Forces Review 1.Review: What is the average speed of a runner who runs 5 km in 0.25 hours? Write the formula. SHOW Your WORK! 2.Page D71, #1 – 5. 3.Page D71, #6 – 9. Friday, 10/18 HW: Retake test if needed. WU: Page D71 can be found at this link: Chapter 2 Forces Review 1.Page D71, #11 – 15. 2.Page D71, #19 3.Page D71, #20 Class this week:
We are working on our unit on forces and Newton's Laws. Students took a vocabulary quiz last week on our vocabulary unit. This week, we will continue our study by watching some video clips, reading a few articles, and doing a hands on activity with forces. Last week, students updated or started their digital portfolios. Many teachers will have students post selected assignments to their digital portfolios for a grade this year. Table of Contents: FORCES - These papers should currently be organized in your binder! Resources and online textbook: FORCES HW = Homework WU = Warm Ups Lost your Warm Up Sheet? No problem. Print one here. Warm Up Sheet Next Quiz or Test: Friday, 10/18, Forces Test. Monday, 10/7 HW: Finish reading the Friction Blister article. WU: No written warm up today. Tuesday, 10/8 Classwork: Use this interactive PHET Simulation to discover the relationship between force, mass, net force, and friction. HW: None WU: Use the Friction Blister article to answer these questions. 1. What are the two types of friction? 2. Explain what causes blisters according to the scientific explanation in the article. 3. Look at the table of surfaces and numbers: Which materials have the highest and lowest numbers? Wednesday, 10/9 - No Warm Up, Teacher Work Day HW: WU: Thursday, 10/10 HW: Finish the graphic organizer on Newton's laws of motion. Next test is on Friday, 10/18, Forces. WU: Watch this Brain Pop Video on forces. (You can also access Brain Pop through the Wake ID Portal) 1. Give an example of a contact force and a non-contact force. 2. What are all the forces on a book sitting on a table? 3. What is the net force of a book sitting on a table? Friday, 10/11 HW: Have a great weekend. Next test is on Friday, 10/18, Forces. WU: 1.What is the relationship between force and motion described by Newton’s first law? (D44) 2.What is inertia? How is the inertia of an object related to its mass? (D46) 3.INFER: Once a baseball has been hit into the air, what forces are acting upon it? How can you tell that any forces are acting upon the ball? (D42) Follow this link to answer a few questions about a Digital Portfolio.
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