Week of Feb 15, 2010

 Period 1: Buoyancy, Military Inventions and D Day: Student Handout 
Please use the following links to complete this assignment.

1.  Click HERE to learn about the background regarding Hitler's defenses and Allied strategies on D-Day during WWII.
2. Explore Hitler's defenses. 
3. Watch these videos and answer the questions on your handout. Choose the "Large" video viewer.
4. Learn more about Archimedes Principal and buoyancy.  Read the Buoyancy Basics and answer the questions . 
5. Here are some additional examples of wartime inventions that we used today. 

Periods 3-9: Newton's Laws of Motion Comic Strip

Please use your notes on Force and Motion, your concept maps and your book to help you create a comic strip displaying Newton's Three Laws.
Here is the rubric and criteria for the comic strip.


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Week of Feb 8, 2010
Windmill meeting for Monday 2/8 CANCELLED. We're still on for Friday. Bring your blade design! What is an ideal pitch? Ideal shape? Ideal blade number? Do your research!!

HOMEWORK: If you are absent, please make up the work!!
Monday night - Unbalanced forces worksheet

Sir Isaac Newton's Biography Video: Download Handout Here






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