Friday, December 20, 2019

Rotation 6 - Day 1

Today's Goal: Work on project.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What type of wave interference makes a wave larger?
- Work on Project

Wednesday, December 18, 2019

Rotation 5 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To start waves wrap up

Agenda:

- Daily Journal: What is the reflection of sound called?
- Finish notes
- Start project

Rotation 5 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To start waves wrap up

Agenda:

- Daily Journal: If you add red, green, and blue light, what color do you have?
- Finish notes
- Start project 


ICE DAY

Rotation 5 - Day 2

ICE DAY (write that on your daily journal)

Monday, December 16, 2019

Rotation 5 - Day 1

Today's Goal: To look at color in a Gizmo.

Agenda: 
- Daily Journal: What does RGB stand for in color?
- Gizmo: Additive Colors

Thursday, December 12, 2019

Rotation 4 - Day 3

Today's Goal: Look at some light activities.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is the smallest unit of visible light?
- Light activities
- Notes: Color

Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Rotation 4 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To look into light.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What type of wave is light?
- Notes - did we finish light?
- Gizmo

Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Rotation 4 - Day 1

Today's Goal: to get caught up on work.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is the distance from the midpoint to the crest of the wave?
- study hall to get work done

Friday, December 6, 2019

Rotation 3 - day 3

Today's Goal: To discuss sound.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What type of wave is sound?
- Notes: sound

Thursday, December 5, 2019

Snow Day Return

Today's Goal: To discuss sound.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: No Daily Journal... we will finish Rotation 3 tomorrow.
- How was your mini-vacation?
- Finish Worksheet
- slinky lab

Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Rotation 3 - Day 2

Today's Goal: Start waves.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is the measurement for gravity?
- Wave Notes
- Worksheet

Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Rotation 3 - Day 1

Today's Goal: Finish up electricity.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is the term for the opposition of current flow in electricity?
- Energy Quiz 
- Electricity activities

Friday, November 22, 2019

Rotation 2 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To work with electricity.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is the term for the force or pressure that causes current to flow?
- Finish Snap Circuits
- Finish any review sheets or Vocab from yesterday
- Outline notes - make sure they are complete
- Electricity Activities

Thursday, November 21, 2019

Rotation 2 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To review unit.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What type of circuit has multiple paths for electrons?
- Review Sheet - use your notes to complete the handout and hand in
- Vocab: Waves - Use glossary in Google Classroom to complete

Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Rotation 2 - Day 1

Today's Goal: To work with circuits.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What side a battery produces the electrons in a circuit?
- Snap Circuits in partners

Monday, November 18, 2019

Rotation 1 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To look into electricity.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is electricity? You can use your own words.
- Finish Gizmos
- Notes: Electricity
- Start Circuits

Friday, November 15, 2019

Rotation 1 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To finish gizmos.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?
- Notes: Electricity
- Finish Gizmos

Thursday, November 14, 2019

Rotation 1 - Day 1

Today's Goal: To look at simple machines

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is the equation for kinetic energy?
- Google Classroom - Simple Machines
- Start Gizmos

Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Rotation 11 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To look at Rube Goldberg machines.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What force pulls a projectile down to Earth?
- Any late work
- Groups build a machine to do a job
- Google Classroom - Simple Machines

Monday, November 11, 2019

Rotation 11 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To look at simple machines.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What are three of the six simple machines?
- Simple Machines activity
- Intro Rube Goldberg
- Any late work

Wednesday, November 6, 2019

Rotation 11 - Day 1

Today's Goal: To watch a video that looks at projectiles.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is the path of a projectile called?
- Movie
- Hand in questions

Monday, November 4, 2019

Rotation 10 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To introduce a movie.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is the unit that energy is measured in?
- Notes: simple machines and projectiles - fast
- October Sky

Friday, November 1, 2019

Rotation 10 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To look at roller coasters.

Agenda:

- Daily Journal: What is the equation for work?
- Finish Roller coaster project
- Notes

Thursday, October 31, 2019

Rotation 10 - Day 1

Today's Goal: To look at roller coasters.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What type of energy is related to gravity?
- Continue Roller coaster project

Tuesday, October 29, 2019

Rotation 9 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To look into energy.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is work?
- Notes: Work, energy, power, KE & PE
- Start Rollercoaster Project

Monday, October 28, 2019

Rotation 9 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To wrap up unit on Motion and Force.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: Free fall can only occur if there is no ____________________.
- Car testing
- If all done, Energy Vocab - glossary on Google Classroom

Friday, October 25, 2019

Rotation 9 - Day 1

Today's Goal: To build a crashworthy car.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What two things do you need to calculate speed?
- 5 min to look at review sheet
- Take Quiz 
- In teams of two or three, build a car

Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Rotation 8 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To build a crashworthy car.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is the term for a quantity defined as the product of an object’s mass and its velocity?
- In teams of two or three, build a car
- Review activity - Quizlet - link on Google Classroom 
- Assessment on Friday

Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Rotation 8 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To look at forces in everyday life.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: When looking to buy a car, what features are you going to consider?
- Short Video
- Start project

Monday, October 21, 2019

Rotation 8 - Day 1

Today's Goal: To finish motion and force notes.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is inertia?
- Notes
- Review Sheet
- What do you owe? 2 1/2 weeks

Thursday, October 17, 2019

Rotation 7 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To experiment with pendulums.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is the term for the motion of a falling object without air resistance?
- Gravity and a Pendulum

Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Rotation 7 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To experiment with pendulums.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is the amount of gravity here on Earth?

- Notes

Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Rotation 7 - Day 1

Today's Goal: To look into gravity and free fall.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: According to Newton, force equals ___________ times acceleration.
- Video

Thursday, October 10, 2019

Rotation 6 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To look at Newton's laws

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is the force found between two objects based on the masses and distance?
- Finish notes
- Google Classroom Assignment
- Grade Sheets and late work

Wednesday, October 9, 2019

Rotation 6 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To start talking about forces.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: How does an increase in an incline affect speed?
- Finish up calculations/questions for Inclined to Roll
- Notes: Forces

Tuesday, October 8, 2019

Rotation 6 - Day 1

Today's Goal: To play with cars.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What does negative acceleration mean?
- Inclined to Roll

Friday, October 4, 2019

Rotation 5 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To continue with graphing and speed.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: Today is midmarking period. Can I help you with anything school related?
- Finish Distance/Time Gizmo at ExploreLearning
- Inclined to Roll

Thursday, October 3, 2019

Rotation 5 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To measure speed.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What type of motion produces a graph that looks like a slithering snake?
- Worksheet - Speed
- Gizmo: Distance/Time

Wednesday, October 2, 2019

Rotation 5 - Day 1

Today's Goal: To work with speed.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: If a man runs 100 meters in 20 seconds, what was his speed?
- Determining Speed Lab

Monday, September 30, 2019

Rotation 4 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To finish a graphing activity.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What two pieces of information do you need to determine speed?
- Finish Graphing Gizmo
- Determining Speed Lab - Start

Friday, September 27, 2019

Rotation 4 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To finish the movie and continue Graphing.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What are three topics in physics that relate to the movie?
- Driven
- Graphing

Thursday, September 26, 2019

Rotation 4 - Day 1

Today's Goal: Continue graphing and watching a movie.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: The _____________ of a line on these graphs indicate how fast something is going
- Graphing Activity #1
- Driven

Tuesday, September 24, 2019

Rotation 3 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To look at graphing speed.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: Sketch a graph of an object that is not moving? (You must label the axis.)
- Notes - Graphing speed and acceleration
- DRIVEN

Monday, September 23, 2019

Rotation 3 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To look at literacy.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What does acceleration mean? 
- Do you need time for Friday's article?
- Graphing Notes

Friday, September 20, 2019

Rotation 3 - Day 1

Today's Goal: To look into graphing

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What are three things that should be included on a graph?
- Graphing SGO - remember, this is not going on your grades, just try. It is okay if you don't know it
- Article (you will have time for this next week if needed)

  • Choose one of the articles and read
  • Take the quiz on the last page
  • Go onto Google Classroom and answer questions about your article






Wednesday, September 18, 2019

Rotation 2 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To talk about bias in science.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: (Based on notes) Velocity is speed plus _________________.
- How to Spot Bad Science
Battling Bad Science

- Graphing Activity - Independent

Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Rotation 2 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To look at science today.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What does the word "bias" mean to you?

- Safety Quiz Retakes - Google Classroom
- Notes: Motion and Speed
Bias

Monday, September 16, 2019

Rotation 2 - Day 1

Today's Goal: To talk about motion.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What does speed measure?
- Lab Safety quizzes
- Vocab
- Cups Challenge

Thursday, September 12, 2019

Rotation 1 - Day 3

Today's Goal: To assess abilities and look at lab safety.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What areas of science would be of interest to you to learn? (animals, space, plants, earth science, chemistry, speed and acceleration)
- Basic Skills Assessment
- Finish lab safety review
- Cups challenge
- Safety quiz if time

Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Rotation 1 - Day 2

Today's Goal: To discuss lab safety.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is one rule that should be followed in a lab environment?
- Random Group Activity - Lab equipment
- Lab Safety Rules
- Cup challenge - another random group activity - if time
Double Headed Snake in NJ

Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Rotation 1 - Day 1

Today's Goal: To create a visual representation of your personality.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: (in complete sentences) Who lives in your house/appartment? (list all)
- Binders
- Personality Pinterest Board - Google Classroom