Search This Blog

Thursday, February 9, 2017

Practice

Learning Target: 
  • I can identify and draw the forces acting on an object
HOWLs Target:
  • 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.
    • 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
  • factors that affect amount of gravity
  • Acceleration due to gravity
Relevant reading:
Homework:
  • Forces quiz, Friday 2/10 on friction, gravity, normal force, free-body diagrams

Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Freeeeeeeee Free-body

Learning Target: 
  • I can identify and draw the forces acting on an object
HOWLs Target:
  • 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
  • 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
  • factors that affect amount of gravity
  • Acceleration due to gravity
Relevant reading:
Homework:
  • Forces quiz, Friday 2/10 on friction, gravity, normal force, free-body diagrams

Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Free-Body Diagrams

Learning Target: 
  • I can identify the net force acting on an object
HOWLs Target:
  • keep working even if the work is difficult
Agenda
Relevant reading:
Homework:
  • Forces quiz, Friday 2/10 on friction, gravity, normal force, free-body diagrams

Monday, February 6, 2017

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
Relevant reading:
Homework:
  • None

Friday, February 3, 2017

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?
  • list three observations
  • 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
Relevant reading:
Homework:
  • None

Thursday, February 2, 2017

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
Relevant reading:
Homework:
  • None

Wednesday, February 1, 2017

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
  • Acceleration due to gravity
Relevant reading:
Homework:
  • None