The Experiment

Learning Target: 

• I can set up a controlled experiment

HOWLs Target:

• I cooperate with others.

Agenda

• Warm-up: VARIABLES (2min)
• I like to snowtube by sitting down in the tube then slowly lifting my legs and starting to slide and singing Biz Markie "Just a Friend." Sometimes I wonder, is there a way to go faster?
• control vs. variable
• choose an independent variable
• write a hypothesis
• Parts of an experiment
• constants
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• dependent variable
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• online free-body diagram practice
• interactive
• friction

Relevant reading:

• CK-12 What is Force
• CK-12 Friction
• CK-12 Gravity
• CK-12 Elastic Force

Homework:

• return snow tubing permission

Getting It Back

Learning Target: 

• I can remember what was happening before break

HOWLs Target:

• I am prepared for learning.

Agenda

• Warm-up: ANYTHING (2min)
• Write or draw something from before break about forces or motion.
• quizzes back
• kahoot
• online free-body diagram practice
• interactive
• friction

Relevant reading:

• CK-12 What is Force
• CK-12 Friction
• CK-12 Gravity
• CK-12 Elastic Force

Homework:

• return snow tubing permission

More Free-Body Diagrams

Learning Target: 

• I can draw and label forces using a free-body diagram

HOWLs Target:

• I ask questions to understand.

Agenda

• Warm-up: PRETTY PICTURE FRIDAY (2min)
• Draw a free-body diagram of a person hanging from a parachute.
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• Russian paratroopers jump as a rainbow appears in the sky during the joint Russian, Belarusian, and Serbian military exercise "The Slavic Brotherhood" at the Kovin military grounds, near Belgrade, Serbia, on November 7, 2016. #
  AFP / Getty
• Mythbusters free-body diagram practice
• online free-body diagram practice
• interactive
• friction

Relevant reading:

• CK-12 What is Force
• CK-12 Friction
• CK-12 Gravity
• CK-12 Elastic Force

Homework:

• return snow tubing permission

Free-Body Diagrams

Learning Target: 

• I can draw and label forces using a free-body diagram

HOWLs Target:

• I ask questions to understand.

Agenda

• Warm-up: SLIP SLIDING AWAY (2min)
• There is a small child sliding across a frozen lake. List and describe the forces acting on the small child if the child is slowing down.  Describe the net force on the child.
• free-body diagrams
• box on table
• box pushed on table
• box sliding on table
• box falling off table
• net forces on free body diagrams
• online free-body diagram practice
• interactive
• friction

Relevant reading:

• CK-12 What is Force
• CK-12 Friction
• CK-12 Gravity
• CK-12 Elastic Force

Homework:

• return snow tubing permission

I Don't Know What Today Is

Learning Target: 

• I can demonstrate understanding of forces

HOWLs Target:

• I can self-assess my understanding

Agenda

• Warm-up: QUIZ QUESTION (2min)
• Write and answer a possible quiz question. look at notes, past warm-ups, or worksheets
• quiz
• description of snow tubing trip
• free-body diagrams
• box on table
• box pushed on table
• box sliding on table
• box falling off table
• net forces on free body diagrams
• online free-body diagram practice
• interactive
• factors that affect amount of gravity
• space
• Acceleration due to gravity
• misconceptions
• Apollo 15
• vacuum chamber

Relevant reading:

• CK-12 What is Force
• CK-12 Friction
• CK-12 Gravity
• CK-12 Elastic Force

Homework:

• return snow tubing permission

Practice

Learning Target: 

• I can identify and draw the forces acting on an object

HOWLs Target:

• I keep working even if the work is difficult

Agenda

• Warm-up: PRETTY PICTURE FRIDAY (2min)
• Draw an elephant on a table and a mouse next to it.
• Use vectors to draw the forces acting on the elephant and the mouse.
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• An elephant plays with a Christmas tree at the Zoologischer Garten Zoo in Berlin on January 3, 2017. #

  Tobias Schwarz / AFP / Getty
• card quiz
• kahoot
• free-body diagrams
• box on table
• box pushed on table
• box sliding on table
• box falling off table
• net forces on free body diagrams
• online free-body diagram practice
• interactive
• factors that affect amount of gravity
• space
• Acceleration due to gravity
• misconceptions
• Apollo 15
• vacuum chamber

Relevant reading:

• CK-12 What is Force
• CK-12 Friction
• CK-12 Gravity
• CK-12 Elastic Force

Homework:

• Forces quiz, Friday 2/10 on friction, gravity, normal force, free-body diagrams

Freeeeeeeee Free-body

Learning Target: 

• I can identify and draw the forces acting on an object

HOWLs Target:

• I keep working even if the work is difficult

Agenda

• Warm-up: CHAIR (2min)
• Draw a ball in the air.
• Use vectors to draw the forces acting on the ball in the air.
• practice check-in
• interactive
• free-body diagrams
• box on table
• box pushed on table
• box sliding on table
• box falling off table
• net forces on free body diagrams
• online free-body diagram practice
• interactive
• factors that affect amount of gravity
• space
• Acceleration due to gravity
• misconceptions
• Apollo 15
• vacuum chamber

Relevant reading:

• CK-12 What is Force
• CK-12 Friction
• CK-12 Gravity
• CK-12 Elastic Force

Homework:

• Forces quiz, Friday 2/10 on friction, gravity, normal force, free-body diagrams

Free-Body Diagrams

Learning Target: 

• I can identify the net force acting on an object

HOWLs Target:

• I keep working even if the work is difficult

Agenda

• Warm-up: CHAIR (2min)
• Draw a chair with a person in it.
• Use vectors to draw the forces acting on the person in the chair.
• What is Force? review
• practice
• factors that affect amount of gravity
• space
• Acceleration due to gravity
• misconceptions
• Apollo 15
• vacuum chamber

Relevant reading:

• CK-12 Distance and Direction
• CK-12 Speed and Velocity
• CK-12 Acceleration

Homework:

• Forces quiz, Friday 2/10 on friction, gravity, normal force, free-body diagrams

Nets

Learning Target: 

• I can identify and analyze the forces acting on an object

HOWLs Target:

• I participate by sharing ideas and asking questions

Agenda

• Warm-up: NETS? (2min)
• Draw a net.
• What does a net do?
• What is Force?
• Force as a Vector
• Combining Forces
• Forces Acting in Opposite Directions
• Forces Acting in the Same Direction
• practice
• factors that affect amount of gravity
• space
• Acceleration due to gravity
• misconceptions
• Apollo 15
• vacuum chamber

Relevant reading:

• CK-12 Distance and Direction
• CK-12 Speed and Velocity
• CK-12 Acceleration

Homework:

• None

The Quicker You Catch It

Learning Target: 

• I can compare how two objects accelerate due to gravity

HOWLs Target:

• I take initiative by writing notes when I gain new information

Agenda

• Warm-up: PRETY PICTURE FRIDAY (2min)
• Saturns rings are made from countless ice particles with a few rocky particles. Why do the particles form rings around the massive planet?
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• list three observations
• space
• planet prison
• Based on class, the title, and the cover image, what will the video be about?
• What is the main idea about the first section?
• What are supporting ideas?
• Acceleration due to gravity
• misconceptions
• Apollo 15
• vacuum chamber

Relevant reading:

• CK-12 Distance and Direction
• CK-12 Speed and Velocity
• CK-12 Acceleration

Homework:

• None

What?

Learning Target: 

• I can compare how two objects accelerate due to gravity

HOWLs Target:

• I am prepared by having a pencil and my notebook and writing the LT and HT

Agenda

• Warm-up: GRAVITY (2min)
• When do you experience the most pull from gravity?
• in the Learning Commons
• the gym
• science class
• Explain your choice
• list three observations
• space
• planet prison
• Acceleration due to gravity
• misconceptions
• Apollo 15
• vacuum chamber

Relevant reading:

• CK-12 Distance and Direction
• CK-12 Speed and Velocity
• CK-12 Acceleration

Homework:

• None

Normal?

Learning Target: 

• I can define gravity and identify the factors that affect it

HOWLs Target:

• I am prepared by having a pencil and my notebook and writing the LT and HT

Agenda

• Warm-up: FRICTION #2 and #3 (2min)
• Why does a bumpy surface have greater friction than a smooth surface? think small
• Why does mass affect the amount of friction?
• friction round-up
• Why does the Moon have less gravity than the Earth?
• What is gravity?
• factors that affect amount of gravity
• space
• Acceleration due to gravity
• misconceptions
• Apollo 15
• vacuum chamber

Relevant reading:

• CK-12 Distance and Direction
• CK-12 Speed and Velocity
• CK-12 Acceleration

Homework:

• None