It's the Little Things (Particles)

Learning Target: 

• I can define solid, liquid, and gas using shape and volume

HOWLs Target: 

• I treat all property with care.

Agenda

• Warm-up: NOT A SOQUID (2min)
• Is oobleck a liquid or a solid? Describe the characteristics that you observed yesterday to support your reasoning.
• solid
• liquid
• gas
• What is the difference between hot water and cold water?
• How do you know?
• But why?
• questions about quiz

Homework:

• Quiz Thursday 9/6 on Law of Conservation of Energy, Mass, Volume

Why the Custodians Are Annoyed With Me

Learning Target: 

• I can define solid, liquid, and gas using shape and volume

HOWLs Target: 

• I treat all property with care.

Agenda

• Warm-up: MASS OR VOLUME (2min)
• Does mass or volume change when you blow up a balloon? Explain your thinking.
• Measurement review
• What's the difference between a solid and a liquid?
• make some oobleck
• HOWL
• cornstarch - 1.5-2
• water - 1
• Is it solid or liquid?
• collect evidence
• solid
• liquid
• gas

Homework:

• Quiz Thursday 9/6 on Law of Conservation of Energy, Mass, Volume

Measure Stuff

Learning Target: 

• I can measure mass and volume

HOWLs Target: 

• I keep working until the task is complete.

Agenda

• Warm-up: IT'S NOT THE Gs (2min)
• Why would your mass not change if you went into space?
• festival of measurement
• data table
• mass of everything
• volume of regular solids
• volume of liquids
• volume of irregular solids
• scale of the universe
• What's the prefix for the largest distance?
• ____________meter
• What's the prefix for the smallest distance?
• ____________meter

Homework:

• Quiz Thursday 9/6 on Law of Conservation of Energy, Mass, Volume

Measure That

Learning Target: 

• I can define and measure mass and volume

HOWLs Target: 

• I keep working until the task is complete.

Agenda

• Warm-up: PRETTY PICTURE FRIDAY (2min)
• What is the difference between mass and volume?

• Hmong ethnic hilltribe women thrash bunches of paddy against a wooden box as they harvest rice on a terrace rice field in Mu Cang Chai district, on October 1, 2013. #
• mass and volume notes
• festival of measurement
• worksheet with a ruler
• data table
• mass of everything
• volume of regular solids
• volume of liquids
• volume of irregular solids

Homework:

• complete final copy of car/ramp lab claim, evidence, reasoning paragraph - end of the day Friday 9/30

Conservation and Measuring

Learning Target: 

• I can identify and label potential and kinetic energy changes in a system
• I can define mass and volume

HOWLs Target: 

• I can self-assess to improve.

Agenda

• Warm-up: THIS TO THAT (2min)
• As the car is moving down the ramp, where is the most KE and where is the most PE?
• What happens to the car's energy when the car hits the book?
• quiz back/grading system
• bookmark this science blog: samesscience.blogspot.com
• energy skatepark
• law of conservation of energy
• demo
• exit ticket
• mass and volume

Homework:

• complete final copy of car/ramp lab claim, evidence, reasoning paragraph - end of the day Friday 9/30

One of the Two

Learning Target: 

• I can identify and label potential and kinetic energy changes in a system

HOWLs Target: 

• I can self-assess to improve.

Agenda

• Warm-up: STARTING IT OFF RIGHT (2min)
• Why is the first hill on a rollercoaster the tallest?
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• diagramming a roller coaster
• potential and kinetic energy labels
• most potential energy
• most kinetic energy
• least potential energy
• least kinetic energy
• increasing potential energy
• increasing kinetic energy
• decreasing potential energy
• decreasing kinetic energy
• law of conservation of energy
• notes
• demo
• exit ticket

Homework:

• complete final copy of car/ramp lab claim, evidence, reasoning paragraph - end of the day Friday 9/30

What Goes Up Sometimes ...

Learning Target: 

• I can identify and label potential and kinetic energy changes in a system

HOWLs Target: 

• I demonstrate positive and kind behavior.

Agenda

• Warm-up: STUDENTS ON THE RISE (2min)
• Which students have more potential energy: students on the ground floor or students on the 3rd floor. Why? What can students do to change the amount of energy they have?
• diagramming water rockets and punted objects
• potential and kinetic energy labels
• most potential energy
• most kinetic energy
• least potential energy
• least kinetic energy
• increasing potential energy
• increasing kinetic energy
• decreasing potential energy
• decreasing kinetic energy
• exit ticket

Homework:

• complete final copy of car/ramp lab claim, evidence, reasoning paragraph - end of the day Friday 9/30