Day 96

We watched the second half of the movie, "Gravity", today in class.

News article #18 is due on Monday, and the Work & Power quiz will be on Friday, February 6th.

Day 95

Students had their chapter 6 notebooks checked today for 60 points.  During that time, we watched the first half of the movie, "Gravity".

No homework was assigned, and the Work & Power quiz will be on Friday, February 6th.

Day 94

Students took the Chapter 6 test today using Moodle.

The notebook check will be tomorrow, and the next quiz (on Work & Power) will be on Friday, February 6th.

Day 93

School was cancelled for snow yesterday.  Students turned in their 18th science news article today, and then we played Jeopardy to review for tomorrow's test.

No homework was assigned, and the Chapter 6 test will be tomorrow.

Day 92

Students were assigned worksheets 6-11, 12 and 13, which were all review pages.  They had the entire period to complete this assignment, along with any other pages they may have missed from previous absences.

News article #18 is due on Monday, and the Chapter 6 test will be on Wednesday.

Day 91

We discussed section 6-4 notes on Gravity & Projectiles.  We completed worksheet 6-7 together in determining the speed of a free-falling snowball.  We watched a www.brainpop.com video on Gravity and took the quiz.  We ended class by students working in their groups towards completing worksheet 6-9.

No homework was assigned, and the Chapter 6 test will be on Tuesday, January 27th.

Day 90

We went over the answers to worksheet 6-8 from yesterday's class.  Students worked in their groups to complete a 4-square activity in 10 minutes.  Each group was assigned one of Newton's Laws, and they had to define the law, explain it to a kindergartner, apply it to real life and illustrate the law with a sketch.  We ended class by completing worksheet 6-10 together.

No homework was assigned, and the Chapter 6 test will be on Tuesday, January 27th.

Day 89

Students turned in their last news article (#17 overall) of the second marking period.  We discussed section 6-5 notes on gravity, and found out our metric weight on other planets (worksheet 6-5).  We ended class with students being assigned worksheet 6-8 to be completed within their groups.  We will go over those answers at the beginning of tomorrow's class.

No homework was assigned, and the Chapter 6 test will be on Tuesday, January 27th.

Day 88

Students got their Force quizzes back and we went over each of the problems.  We discussed section 6-3 notes on Newton's 3 Laws of Motion and took the www.brainpop.com movie and quiz on that topic.  We ended class by finishing our review of worksheet 6-6.

News article #17 is due on Tuesday, and the Chapter 6 test will be on Tuesday, January 27th.

Day 87

Students took the Force Quiz today and did EXTREMELY well.  Once everyone finished, we watched a Bill Nye video on Balanced Forces.

No homework was assigned, and the Chapter 6 test will be on Tuesday, January 27th.

Day 86

We discussed section 6-2 notes on Friction using a PowerPoint and flipchart.  We went over any remaining problems from worksheet 6-4 that we didn't get to yesterday.  Students were assigned worksheet 6-6 to be worked on during the last 20 minutes of class.

No homework was assigned, and the Force quiz will be tomorrow.

Day 85

We discussed section 6-1 notes on balanced vs unbalanced forces and completed worksheet 6-1 together.  We reviewed worksheets 6-2 (from Friday) and 6-3 & 6-4 from yesterday.

No homework was assigned, and the Force quiz will be on Thursday.

Day 84

Students handed in their 16 week of science news article summaries.  Afterwards, they had more practice with Newton's 2nd law (F=ma) by completing worksheet 6-3 and 6-4.

No homework was assigned, and the Force Quiz will be on Wednesday.

Day 83

We began Chapter 6 today and discussed section 6-3 notes on Newton's 2nd law of motion.  We watched a www.brainpop.com video on Force.  Following that quiz, students were assigned worksheet 6-2 to be worked on in their groups.

News article #16 is due on Monday, and the Force quiz will either be next Wednesday or Thursday.

Day 82

My plan today was for students to begin an online lab about force and motion.  However, for some reason a "Java error" prevented us from doing that.  Instead, students completed a STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) survey.  They had the remaining 10-15 minutes of class to work on other assignments.

No homework was assigned, and the next test will be on Tuesday, January 27th.

Day 81

Students had their chapter 5 notebook checked today for 100 points.  Pages 1-17, + 25 & 26 were checked.  Pages 18-24 were not checked, as they will be completed in class starting tomorrow when we begin our next online lab.  During the notebook checked, students watched Mythbusters "No Pain, No Gain".

No homework was assigned, and the next quiz will be on Thursday, January 15th.

Day 80

Students took their chapter 5 test on Moodle today.

The notebook check is tomorrow, and the next quiz will be on Thursday, January 17th.

Day 79

We reviewed for the chapter 5 test by playing Jeopardy.  I stressed to students that 11 of the 25 questions will be on analyzing speed vs time and distance vs time graphs.

No homework was assigned, and the Chapter 5 test will be on Tuesday, January 6th.