Physics Classes (Semester 1):
Almost all of the below are links:
PPP= PowerPoint Presentation, HW= Homework, WS= Worksheet, Lab= Lab worksheets
Week 1 (August 25th-29th)
Physics Expectations
PPP- Physics Classroom Rules
Physics Safety Contract
PPP- Science of Physics
Lab- Measuring, Modeling, and Mapping: Directions
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Week 2 (September 3th-5th)
Lab- Accuracy and Precision
WS- SI conversions
Resource- SI conversion table
WS- Dimensional Analysis
WS- Physics Buffet
Running Vocabulary List
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Week 3 (September 8th-12th)
WS- Calculating speed problems with graphs
PPP- Relationships within graphs
WS- Speed Machines
Lab- Speed Challenge
Review- 1
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Week 4 (September 15th-19th)
PPP- Displacement
WS- 1D Motion- Constant Velocity
WS- Position-Time Graph
WS- Reading Velocity-Time Graph
PPP- Acceleration
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Week 5 (September 22nd-26th)
Lab- Acceleration
PPP- Acceleration
WS- Acceleration
WS- ANSWER KEY for Acceleration
PPP- Free fall
WS- Free fall
WS- ANSWER KEY to Freefall
WS- Review for Unit 1 test
WS- ANSWER KEY to Unit 1 review
Notebook- Xeroxed teacher's notebook
Test- Unit 1
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Week 6 (September 29th-October 3rd)
WS- Remediation from Unit 1 test
PPP- Projectile Motion
Notebook- Xeroxed teacher's notebook
Lab- pHET Projectile Motion
Lab- pHET Projectile Motion #2
Notes- Projectile Motion
WS- Practice (simple) Projectile Motion (PS1)
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Week 7 (October 6th-10th)
Lab- Projectile Motion (simple)
PPP- Projectile Motion with angles
WS- Projectile Motion angles (PS2)
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Week 8 (October 13th-17th)
Lab- Projectile Motion with angles
WS- Review for Unit 2 (projectile motion)
WS- Review #2 (displacement & velocity)
Test- Unit 2 (projectile motion)
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Week 9 (October 20th-24th)
Calendar- Newton's Laws
PPP- General and Free-body diagrams
WS- Free-body diagrams
Lab- Newton's first law (aka- inertia)
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Week 10 (October 27th-October 31st)
PPP- First Law of Motion
Lab- phET Newton's first and second laws
PPP- Second Law of Motion
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Week 11 (November 3rd-7th)
WS- Resolving Forces
WS- Forces with Acceleration
Quiz- Newton's three laws of motion
PPP- Newton's third law of motion and friction
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Week 12 (November 10th-14th)
Lab- Newton's third law of motion
WS- Friction calculations
Video WS- Motion
Review WS- 1 of 2
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Week 13 (November 17th-21st)
Review WS- 2 of 2
Test- Unit 3 (Newton's Laws & Friction)
Project- Introduction to Energy Unit (jigsaw)
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Week 14 (November 24th-28th)
Continue working on Introduction to Energy Project
WS- Gravitational and Kinetic Energy
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Week 15 (December 1st-5th)
WS- Work and Power calculations
PhET WS- Energy Skate Park
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Week 16 (December 8th-12th)
Notes- momentum
WS- momentum calculations
Quiz- Energy
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Week 17 (December 15th-19th)
Review WS- Energy Calculations
Review WS- Energy Graphs and Diagrams
Test- Energy
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Week 18 (December 22nd-26th)
Holiday Break (no school)
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Week 19 (December 29th- January 2nd)
Holiday Break (no school)
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Week 20 (January 5th-9th)
Project- Roller coaster (part 1 of 2 preconstruction)
Project- Roller coaster (part 2 of 2 calculations)
Review WS- Semester Exam
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Week 21 (January 12th-16th)
PPP- Review for Semester Exam
scope and sequence from Chicago
....End of First Semester...