Learning Target:
- I can use my understanding of PE and KE to write a reasoning paragraph for the car/ramp lab
HOWLs Target:
- I keep working until the task is complete.
Agenda
- Warm-up: WET PAPER (2min)
- Which situation has more potential energy? Why?
- 1. A cup of water sitting on the edge of a table
- 2. A piece of paper on the edge of the same table
- Now what happens to the potential energy when my cat, Jazz, comes over and knocks one of the objects off the table?
- diagram the ramps
- potential and kinetic energy labels
- reasoning paragraph: compare and contrast
- all together now
Homework:
Learning Target:
- I can demonstrate my understanding of Potential and Kinetic Energy
HOWLs Target:
- I am prepared for learning.
Agenda
- Warm-up: PRETTY PICTURE FRIDAY (2min)
- These two boys are sitting on the roof of their house. They are both the same weight except one of them has collected many rocks in his pockets.
- This is an example of two different amounts of ___________________ energy. Explain your thinking: _____________________________.
- Boys sit on the edge of the roof of their house in the mountains, in the Jafariya district of the western province of Raymah, Yemen, on May 31, 2016. #
- Abduljabbar Zeyad / Reuters
- potential and kinetic energy stations
- quiz
- posters
Homework:
Learning Target:
- I can identify and describe the Potential or Kinetic Energy in an example
HOWLs Target:
- I participate in my classroom and community.
Agenda
- Warm-up: PE VS KE EXAMPLE (1.5min)
- Peter likes to wake Paul up holding objects over his head. Sometimes he holds a small stuffed bear, sometimes he holds a heavy book. This is an example of two different amounts of ___________________ energy. Explain your thinking: _____________________________.
- quiz prep
- potential and kinetic energy stations
- HOWLs
Homework:
- Quiz on energy, Friday 9/23
Learning Target:
- I can provide evidence for my claim using cause and effect sentence structure
HOWLs Target:
- I keep working until the task is complete.
Agenda
- Warm-up: (2min)
- What is cause and effect? Give an example of a cause and effect relationship.
- claim
- When _____________ increases, _____________ also increases.
- evidence
- cause and effect with evidence
- reasoning
Homework:
- Quiz on energy, Friday 9/23
Learning Target:
- I can make a statement (claim) about the data I have collected using a scatterplot
HOWLs Target:
- I keep working until the task is complete.
Agenda
- Warm-up: PRETTY PICTURE FRIDAY (2min)
- Penny was dropping a bouncy ball off the stairs. She wanted to see how high the ball would bounce off the floor. She had five trials and recorded heights of:
- 5 inches
- 4 inches
- 5 inches
- 6 inches
- 10 inches
- Find the mean, median, and mode for this data set. Which height does not fit well with the others?
- run the tests
- What do the numbers mean?
- mean, median, mode
- scatterplot
- When _____________ increases, _____________ also increases.
- claim, evidence, reasoning
Homework:
Learning Target:
- I can run a controlled experiment
- I can collect and organize data
HOWLs Target:
- I can self-assess to improve.
Agenda
- Warm-up: PRETTY PICTURE FRIDAY (2min)
- Why do you need to run an experiment more than once?
- A Humboldt penguin steps off the scale during the annual weigh-in at the London Zoo on August 24, 2016. # Neil Hall / Reuters
- experiment design
- cars and ramps
- How can you increase the energy in the system?
- materials
- procedures
- data table
- run the tests
Homework:
Learning Target:
- I can design a controlled experiment using specific vocabulary
HOWLs Target:
- I can self-assess to improve.
Agenda
- Warm-up: ENERGY (2min)
- Which of the following has more energy and explain how you know.
- a car not moving OR the same car moving
- a big truck moving OR a bicycle moving at the same speed
- a rock on the ground OR a rock on a shelf
- a pot of cold water OR a pot of boiling water
- a soccer ball falling from a plane OR a bowling ball falling off a house
- experiment design
- cars and ramps
- How can you increase the energy in the system?
Homework:
