Building

Learning Target: 

• I can design a blade using lift, drag, and weight distribution.

HOWLs Target:

• I cooperate with others.
• I treat all property with care.

Agenda

• Warm-up: SAFETY CONCERNS
• How are the hot glue guns going to be a problem?
• Design blades that use the ideas from your research
• Choosing and building your blades
• Before getting materials, you need to have a completed drawing with explanation.

Homework:

• none

Blades for Blade Assemblies

Learning Target: 

• I can describe lift, drag, and weight distribution in wings/blades.

HOWLs Target:

• I keep working until the task is complete.

Agenda

• Warm-up: 3 NOT 4 NOT 2
•  Why 3 blades for the big turbines.
• Use the worksheet to capture information about the following:
• lift
• high and low pressure
• Newton's 3rd law
• drag
• weight distribution
• Design blades that use the ideas from your research
• Choosing and building

Homework:

• none

Lift, Drag, and Weight Distribution

Learning Target: 

• I can describe lift, drag, and weight distribution in wings/blades.

HOWLs Target:

• I keep working until the task is complete.

Agenda

• Warm-up: PRETTY PICTURE FRIDAY (2min)
•  Why doesn't this fly?
•  
• Kevin Nicks from Oxfordshire, drives the world's fastest shed during the Straightliners annual, UK, European and World land speed event at Pendine Sands, Wales, on May 13, 2017. # Rebecca Naden / Reuters
• Use the worksheet to capture information about the following:
• lift
• high and low pressure
• Newton's 3rd law
• drag
• weight distribution
• Design blades that use the ideas from your research

Homework:

• none

Lots of Paper

Learning Target: 

• I can describe lift and drag in wings/blades.

HOWLs Target:

• I ask questions to understand what we are doing has to do with wind turbines and whirligigs.

Agenda

• Warm-up: PAPER STRAW (2min)
• Take half a piece of paper and roll it up to make a tube (about large straw size).
• Tape ~7inches of newspaper to the end.
• See example in the front of the room.
• Bernoulli’s Principle and lift
• wings
• moving dots
• but what about drag?

Homework:

• none

Compare and Contrast

Learning Target: 

• I can compare and contrast Wind Turbines and Whirligigs.

HOWLs Target:

• I participate in my classroom and community.

Agenda

• Warm-up: WIND (2min)
•  What is wind? Where does it come from?
• Why Does the Wind Blow?
• high and low pressure
• compare and contrast
• Wind Turbine and Whirligig worksheet
• • use the following links to research wind turbines and whirligigs
  • Wind Turbines
  1. https://energy.gov/eere/wind/how-do-wind-turbines-work
  2. http://www.explainthatstuff.com/windturbines.html
  • Whirligigs
  1. http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-whirligig.htm
  2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnm_16KUF0M
• other links

• electricity overview
• electromagnetic induction

Homework:

• none

Turbines and Whirligigs

Learning Target: 

• I can describe a wind turbine.
• I can describe a whirligig

HOWLs Target:

• I keep working until the task is complete.

Agenda

Wind Turbine and Whirligig worksheet

• use the following links to research wind turbines and whirligigs
• Wind Turbines
1. https://energy.gov/eere/wind/how-do-wind-turbines-work
2. http://www.explainthatstuff.com/windturbines.html
• Whirligigs
1. http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-whirligig.htm
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnm_16KUF0M

Other Links

• electricity overview
• electromagnetic induction

Homework:

• none

Magnets and Coils

Learning Target: 

• I can describe a motor/generator.

HOWLs Target:

• I take initiative for my learning.

Agenda

• Warm-up: OUTSIDE (2min)
•  What does an electrical generator do? How?
• 
• The electrical machine builder Oleg Glebov works at the stator windings of a generator in the Erfurt Generator Plant of the German Siemens AG in Erfurt, Germany, on April 12, 2016. # Jens Meyer / AP
• copper tubes and magnets: veritasium
• retake and extension
• simple motor
• video

Homework:

• none

Retake and Extension

Learning Target: 

• I can demonstrate understanding of electricity and magnetism.

HOWLs Target:

• I participate in my classroom (wherever it might be).

Agenda

• Warm-up: OUTSIDE (2min)
•  Make a list of expectations for taking a test outside.
• retake and extension
• More about magnetism
• crash course: magnetism (the 1st ~4:00 minutes)
• Minutephysics

Homework:

• retake/extension Thursday 5/18

Fields

Learning Target: 

• I can draw the magnetic fields of different magnets.

HOWLs Target:

• I ask questions to deepen my understanding.

Agenda

• Warm-up: FIELDS (2min)
•  What is a magnetic field?
• field lines
• different magnet combinations
• copper tubes and magnets: veritasium
• building a motor
• More about magnetism
• crash course: magnetism (the 1st ~4:00 minutes)
• Minutephysics

Homework:

• retake/extension Thursday 5/18

Get It Together, People

Learning Target: 

• I can deepen my understanding of magnetism and electricity.

HOWLs Target:

• I can self-assess to improve.

Agenda

• Warm-up: MOTION #2 (2min)
•  How can motion cause electricity?
• The Electric Boy
• field lines
• revising the test
• electromagnet
• one
• two
• More about magnetism
• crash course: magnetism (the 1st ~4:00 minutes)
• Minutephysics

Homework:

• retake/extension Thursday 5/18

Cosmos

Learning Target: 

• I can describe how electricity can cause motion.

HOWLs Target:

• I ask questions to deepen my understanding.

Agenda

• Warm-up: MOTION (2min)
•  How can electricity cause motion?
• field lines
• The Electric Boy
• More about magnetism
• crash course: magnetism (the 1st ~4:00 minutes)
• Minutephysics

Homework:

• retake/extension Thursday 5/18

Forces, Circuits, and Domains

Learning Target: 

• I can communicate my understanding of electricity and magnetism.

HOWLs Target:

• I demonstrate positive and kind behavior.

Agenda

• Warm-up: PRETTY PICTURE FRIDAY (2min)
•  Why does Earth have a North and South pole?
• 
• Earthrise taken on December 24, 1968 by  astronaut William Anders
• test
• More about magnetism
• crash course: magnetism (the 1st ~4:00 minutes)
• Minutephysics

Homework:

• none

Fields and Eletromagnets

Learning Target: 

• I can describe how an electric field can produce a magnet.

HOWLs Target:

• I cooperate with others.

Agenda

• Warm-up: FIELD DAY (2min)
•  What is a field?
• magnetic fields compared to electric fields
• test overview
• attractive force and repulsive force
• circuit (positive and negative charges)
• magnetic domains
• electromagnet experiment
• 
• 

Homework:

• Electricity and Magnetism test 5/12

Magnetic Fields

Learning Target: 

• I can compare magnetic material to non-magnetic material.
• I can draw magnetic fields.

HOWLs Target:

• I treat all property with care.

Agenda

• Warm-up: DOMAINS (2min)
•  What are magnetic domains? 
• magnet vs. non-magnet
• What happens to a magnet when it is broken in half? 
• Magnetic field diagrams
• compass
• metal fillings

Homework:

• Electricity and Magnetism test 5/12

Reading for Understanding

Learning Target: 

• I can compare magnetic material to non-magnetic material.

HOWLs Target:

• I keep working until the task is complete.

Agenda

• Ck-12 Magnets and Magnetism
• read and take notes

• When you have completed the reading
• crash course: magnetism (the 1st ~4:00 minutes)
• Minutephysics

Homework:

• Complete Reading and notes for homework
• Electricity and Magnetism test 5/12

Magnets

Learning Target: 

• I can investigate and record interactions between magnets and different materials.

HOWLs Target:

• I can self-assess to improve.

Agenda

• Warm-up: CIRCUITS
•  Use the papers I am handing back and the notes on the board to evaluate and supplement your understanding of circuits.
• If you have a check next to your diagram it meets expectations. If not compare your diagram to the one on the board and copy the correct diagram into your notebook.
• Except for 2 students, everyone needs to copy one or both of the statements about circuits.
• circuit clarification
• magnet KWL
• 
• repel and attract
• magnetic or not chart
• floating paperclip

Homework:

• Electricity and Magnetism test 5/12

Bigger, Better

Learning Target: 

• I can build a circuit using other materials.

HOWLs Target:

• I participate in my classroom and community.

Agenda

• Warm-up: MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE PICTURE FRIDAY (2min)
•  Draw a circuit and write 2 statements about how the circuit works.
• 
• Alvin Kabwama, one of the designers of a prototype robot that can detect and disarm Improvised Explosive Devices attempts to switch it on at Makerere University's College of Engineering, Design Art and Telecommunication in Kampala, Uganda, on June 6, 2012. The robot is remotely controlled by a computer and can navigate a flat surface of up to a 20m radius. The development comes in the wake of continuous terrorist threats as a result of the country's contribution of forces to the African Union peace keeping mission in Somalia. #
  Reuters/Edward Echwalu
• makey makey
• getting started

Homework:

• none

Now, Will That Work?

Learning Target: 

• I can build a circuit using other materials.

HOWLs Target:

• I participate in my classroom and community.

Agenda

• Warm-up: IT'S THE ELECTRONS (2min)
•  What is the difference between insulators and conductors?
• makey makey
• getting started

Homework:

• none

Solar and Play-Doh

Learning Target: 

• I can build a circuit using other materials.

HOWLs Target:

• I participate in my classroom and community.

Agenda

• Warm-up: SOLAR (2min)
•  What type of energy do we get from the sun? What can that energy do?
• Squishy circuits
• Solar cells

Homework:

• get some sleep

MEAs

Learning Target: 

• I have an idea of what to expect on the Science MEAs.

HOWLs Target:

• I ask questions to deepen my understanding about topics that I have studied in the past.

Agenda

• Warm-up: MEA (2min)
•  
• Review of 6th and 7th
• Science reasoning
• MEA Kahoot

Homework:

• get some sleep

Bezot

Learning Target: 

• I can define electric charge and explain lightning.

HOWLs Target:

• I keep working until the task is complete.

Agenda

• Warm-up: CHARGE!!!!!! (2min)
• What is electric charge?
• CK-12 Electric Charge
• notes
• questions 5 and 6

Homework:

• none