Week of 3/8

HOMEWORK:
Monday 3/8: Honors: Work/Power worksheet Periods 3-9: Quiz corrections, use the proper format.
Tuesday 3/10: Periods 3-9: Work, Power, Simple Machines handout
Wednesday: Simple Machines and types of Levers
Thursday: Catch up on any backwork you owe me!!
Friday: All classes - Compete the simple machines lab part I and II - graph and analysis questions.

Week of 3/2/10

OMEWORK for week of 3/2/2010
Monday: Buoyancy and Fluid Forces Homework Sheet
QUIZ ON WEDNESDAY  - study the vocabulary from forces in fluids notes. Also, know the highlighted and important concepts from the notes. Make sure you understand the questions in the boxes. Know how to use the pressure formula.
Wednesday: Go with the flow worksheet
Pressure lab DUE FRIDAY!
Thursday: Concept map. Define the term work use pp 188-191 and your notes.
Friday: Catch up on back work:)

SIMPLE MACHINES - Rube Goldberg Machines
http://pbskids.org/zoom/games/goldburgertogo/index.html

Windmill Project - coming along thanks to Mr. Paul Pytel

Mr. Paul Pytel, a retired engineer and grandfather to eighth grade student Hailey Pytel, has stepped in and really turned our windmill project around!! His expertise, professional equipment and attention to detail have really helped students Hailey Pytel, Claire Beck, Moriah Teed, Mackenzie Harris, Jimmy Kline and Jay Polhamus come up with a sophisticated method to test blade design, count and pitch. Mr. Pytel says he is happy to help because it is very important to him to get students interested in science and engineering. We are so thankful for all of his hard work and input.

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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Week of 2/1/10

QUIZ on Wednesday: Study motion, velocity, momentum and acceleration. Be prepared to graph, interpret graphs, know definitions and do calculations!!
January's full moon coincides with its perigee so it appears larger than most full moons (it is closer ot the earth)!
http://blogs.news.sky.com/theweathergirls/Post:24e97d99-95af-47a7-baef-78b0fc540663

Laws of Motion

 Cornell is coming to Newark Valley - Tuesdays after school from 1/19-2/16 in my room, 143 at the high school. We'll be planning our own electrical gadgets and inventions, so please come by and join us!



EXTRA CREDIT!!!

Use your books, notes or internet to familiarize yourself with Newton's three laws of motion. Your job is to create an entertaining comic strip that somehow displays one or more of Newton's Laws. Your notes have an example of a cartoon. Your cartoon must have at least three slides and must be ORIGINAL!!!
Please do not copy from ANY other source. Be creative! You can earn UP TO 10 points extra credit, but I will be very picky! The more original, creative and insightful your cartoon is, the more points you will be awarded.
Your cartoon can be drawn by hand, animated by computer or it can be a collage from magazines. You will not be graded on artistic ability.


Bill Nye Motion Worksheet
We will watch this in class on Thursday - the worksheet is for a grade. So if you were absent - please complete!!

Week of 1/11/10

Unit test on Wednesday 1/13/2010

Topics to study
1) Electricity notes and circuitry
2) Atmoic structure and subatomic particles notes
3) Energy projects/notes
4) Magnetism lab
5) Evidence of a chemical reaction and factors which affect the rate of chemical reactions (potato catalyst lab)

Please complete the practice exam to help you study for the exam.