Waves on a Spring

Yesterday, you wrote several terms on the whiteboards (they are in the front of the room.) Today, write each of those terms in your blue book.


Use the website found at http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/wave-on-a-string and make three observations about how these terms change as you manipulate the slide. If the lab will not allow you to do something for the terms, just write n/a in your book.

For example:

standing waves: As I change the frequency, ________________________ As I change the damping (how fast the wave dies out, ___________________

Energy and Springs

Play with the simulation found at http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/mass-spring-lab and gather data to explain to me how PE changes to KE, or do the worksheet found HERE.


Put the answers in your blue book.

Energy Everywhere

The word ENERGY has lots of contexts. That means there are many things we can talk about--like renewable energy, or energy in our home, or mechanical and chemical energy.

Take a look at the following, and write a summary paragraph about how energy is used in each one


Simple Machines (look at two different rooms, identify the 10 machines in each in your blue book, and then write a summary paragraph.

Crash Scene Complete as much as you can of Activities 1-4, and then write a summary paragraph. If you want to print a worksheet, you may.

Compound Machines Complete what you can but don't write anything but a summary in your book.


Today we focused on MECHANICAL ENERGY, divided into Potential and Kinetic energy. Write a definition for all three terms in you experienced after reading this

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Toondoo assignment

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You may work in pairs of TWO or by yourself for this assignment.

Using your concept maps, you have tried to come up with connections to the following ideas. I have left these concept maps on the side table, and you may use them as long as you RETURN them at the end of the hour.

A GOOD cartoon combines humor with knowledge. Some people have the gift of humor; others have the gift of sharing information. The best cartoons for education have some of both.

Create a series of 6-10 cartoons that cover the topics assigned to you.

Day 1: Define all the words
Heat transfer

Conduction

Convection

Radiation

Weather patterns

Prevailing winds

Plate tectonics

earthquakes

volcanoes

fossils

GPS

radioactive substances

climate change

rock cycle

carbon cycle

nitrogen cycle

water cycle


Start sketching cartoons. If you get one or two done, make a ToonDoo account and start creating.

Day 2: Toondoo Workday

These will not be due on Monday, but this is the ONLY class time I can guarantee you. Use it well.

Questions? Txt me at five-six-three six-oh-eight nineteen-hundred

Climate Change and Persuasive Reasoning

Day 1:

Pick the five most persuasive arguments you see from your own sheets or the arguments of someone else.  You may use science, political, religious, or economic arguments.  Then, create a persuasive product (poster, power point, paper, ppt, video, song, etc.) that details your position and your argument.  This is due at the beginning of the class tomorrow.

 Day 2:

An argument is only persuasive if you can find evidence for it.  Throughout your arguments, look for specific EVIDENCE, listing the URL source and why you believe it is effective support for your argument. 

URL values:  a national organization focused on science, like TED, NASA, NAP, or AAAS (10 points)
A political or economic think tank's data (5 points)
A national religious organization viewpoint (5 points)
A private organization that supports a viewpoint (e.g., Pheasant's Forever) (4 points)
A blog (2 points)

VIDEO Watch:  We'll be watching the following, and writing a 1 page review of the ideas presented here, and whether or not you agree with them.

 

Cape Wind--or Not?