Energy and Heat Quest
Monthly Archives: February 2011
Thursday, February 24 F
All Classes:
-review for Energy Quest
Wednesday, February 23 E
Period 1:
-Spend first half of class going over study guide for the Energy test
-Word Sort vocab activity (from Deb)
-demo balloon filled w/ water over the candle http://www.abc.net.au/science/surfingscientist/pdf/teachdemos_7.pdf
Periods 2-4:
-Open class with a review of States of Matter, Thermal Energy sheets (posted yesterday)
-demo balloon w/ water
-Review some of the ??s from study guide
-streaming video of Electricity and Magnetism- Current Electricity from Discovery Education.
Period 7:
-Review some ??s from the study guide and give out the Nature of Energy w/s
-demo balloon w/ water (heat energy)
Tuesday, February 22 D
Period 1:
-Go over the penny problems (PE and KE) from yesterday
-Hand out review sheet for Friday’s test (due thursday)
-Talk to kids who still have to finish Heat transfer lab conclusion
-do problems with KE and PE and energy transformations
Periods 2 and 4:
-Review questions from the Heat Transfer lab (show questions and review)
-Review yesterday’s penny problems
-Heat Transfer PPT (supposed to have been covered Fri 2/11)
-w/s on States of Matter, Transferring Thermal energy, etc.(save for Wed)
Period 7:
-same w/s as 2 and 4, also Nature of Energy Study Guide (save for Thurs)
Monday, February 21 C
2 Hr Delay
Give review sheet for Friday’s test to periods 2-7 (due Wed)
Periods 1- 7 Watch Mythbusters Penny Drop (Season 1 Episode 4) and calculate KE and PE of the penny using this info:
mass of penny = 2.5g
height of Empire State Bldg = 390m
terminal velocity of the penny = 29m/sec
gravity constant = 10m/sec2
PE = mgh
KE = .5mv2
Friday, February 11 B
Period 1:
-Complete Solar Cooker lab questions (in the lab handout)
-Complete lab report conclusion and graphs
Periods 2-4 (LAB 3)
-Heat Transfer PPT
-Complete Solar Cooker lab questions
-Complete lab report
Period 7:
-Complete Solar Cooker lab questions
-Complete lab report
Thursday, February 10 A
Periods 1-4:
-Work on graphing Solar Cooker data in Excel
-Use lab report checklist to write up lab report
Period 7 only:
-Heat Transfer and Thermal energy PPT
-work on lab writeup
Wednesday, February 9 F
Period 1-7:
-Collect Thermal energy reading and questions
-Review 3 methods of heat transfer. Draw diagram of the solar cooker lab and point out the 3 methods
-Begin solar cooker lab
-grade students "on the spot" w/ lab performance rubric
Period 6/7 LAB:
-design and conduct solar cooker lab and begin write-up
Tuesday, February 8 E
Period 1:
-Read Thermal Energy handout and make a foldable of conduction, convection and radiation. Complete questions throughout the h/o for HW
Periods 2-7:
-Discuss 3 methods of heat transfer and the Solar Cooker lab (to be done tomorrow)
-Read Thermal Energy h/o and complete the questions
Monday, February 7 D
*Remind kids about Study Island, Moodle vocab quiz, and energy reading/questions due tomorrow.
ALL CLASSES:
-Give 2 word problems (one w/ KE, one w/ PE)
-Give a practice CAPT open-ended question (All That Energy from the 2004 CAPT test) and review strong/weak sample responses. Kids will score their own.
-Watch Bill Nye Heat or Energy Transformations video