speed, velocity, and acceleration

We had a great time calulating speed on Friday!! Much to the chigrin of many students who don't have a fondness for math:( I hope this stretched your mind and challenged you to use the left-side of your brain-we don't want anything to get rusty up there:)

We set up a rocket balloon experiment to calculate the speed of a balloon going across a string. (Sorry I forgot the camera so I don't have any picts for this week) Imagine 7 strings going across the room with straws and balloons attached to each one. Besides the occasional knocking down of someone else's string we survived. The plan is to finish the computations and questions this Friday.

Now on to the best part-HOMEWORK!!!

Monday: worksheet pages 16 & 18
Tuesday: worksheet page 19
MAKE SURE YOU INCLUDE UNITS ON ALL ANSWERS

Wednesday/Thursday: Final Draft for the Isaac Newton papers

I received alot of positive feedback from students concerning the information they learned about the incredible things Newton accomplished. This will be a great jump start as we discuss his laws of motion.

Have a great week,
Mrs. Tyler

P.S.-Happy Birthday Megan-enjoy your day!!

What did Newton do?

Hey Guys!!
Hope your week is going well and you are learning alot about the great scientist Isaac Newton. Tomorrow we are going to talk about the first of his three laws of motion. Bring your math brains:) For all of you less enthused about math (you can use a calculator-please bring one if you have one).

A quick note to parents concerning the paper. I would like to explain the purpose of the student's writing a paper. On Friday we start discussing Newton's laws of motion. Throughout the rest of the semester we will discuss men and women who have done great things for science (most scientific laws are named for them). My goal is for students to understand a little about where these people have come from and to see that for the most part they did not have much. I hope that this would encourage them to do great things!! I am not a writing teacher and I will not be marking for grammatical errors (thankfully they have a writing class for this). I would hope that they get a brief understanding of these famous scientific people.

Please keep me posted if you have questions or comments they are greatly appreciated!!

See you tomorrow!
Mrs. Tyler

homework:)

Hey Class,



I will plan on posting the pictures later tonight but I wanted to get your homework out to you!!

Make a bar graph about the type of floors in your house.

example from my house:

wood floors = 4

carpet = 6

tile=1

linoleum=1

cement=2

I would then take this information and make a bar graph (include your garage).

Also due on Friday is your rough draft for your Isaac Newton paper. 2 pages typed double-spaced. Please call if you have any questions. Look back soon for the pictures and synopsis of class. Mrs. Tyler

Class on Friday focused on the parts of an experiment using microwave popcorn. As a class we identified the indepedent/dependent variable, the constant, and the control. We then formed our hypothesis and broke up into groups to complete our experiment.

We also were able to gain some experience using a thermometer. Students filled up a cup of hot water and then recorded the temperature every 30 seconds for 6 minutes. We will graph the results this coming Friday.

We spent the last 10 minutes grading homework, cleaning up, and discussing homework for the week. This was very rushed and became quite noisy because of our location. Please keep me informed if you have questions or concerns.

Mrs. Tyler

calculators and rulers

In class tomorrow we will be focusing on measuring and graphing. Please bring a calculator and a ruler if you have one. There will be a class set available (I would like you to use your own if you are more familiar with it). Don't forget about the quiz!!! Steps of the scientific method would be great to know:)

See you tomorrow!
Mrs. Tyler

day one - M&Ms and the scientific method

What a privilege I have to teach this great group of kids this school year!

We had a profitable first day. There was a lot of "paperwork" to accomplish before we were able to dive into the lesson.

Notes covered introduction to Physical Science - "What are we going to study this year?". We also discussed the scientific method and the different parts of an experiment. The class day ended with our scientific minds analyzing a bag of M&Ms. This experiment focused on the six steps of the scientific method with a yummy reward at the end!

Each student was sent home with homework for the week. Parents, please let me know your thoughts on the amount of homework I would appreciate your input.

Homework assignment:

Monday - research Isaac Newton's 1st half of life (birth, home life, family, beginning education)

Tuesday - complete pages 1, 3, 4 of the worksheets sent home

Wednesday - complete pages 5, 6, 7 of the worksheets sent home

Thursday - research Isaac Newton's 2nd half of life (education, scientific work) and study for the quiz

Information researched should be written down on notebook paper. Student is simply required to gather information for the paper due in a couple of weeks. The quiz will come from the notes.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Thank you!

Mrs. Tyler

one week till class starts!

My desire is for parents and students to utilize this blog to get a first hand look at what we are doing in the class room as well as help answer the notorious question of "What did you do in school today?". My goal is to post a blog on Wed./Thurs. before class and on Sat. after class. I will list homework expectations and content needed for quizzes.

The typical science class will commence with a short quiz, reviewing content from the week before. I will then introduce the new subject area (20-30 min.) and we will wrap up the day with a labratory experiment.

Throughout the first semester we will be studying three scientists: Isaac Newton, Lord Kelvin, and Marie Curry. Each four week segment we will focus on one scientist culminating in a 3 page paper on that scientist. More detail will come.

I was asked to make this a comprehensive course in science. I will be assigning homework, quizzes, tests and labwork. I would appreciate if you would let me know if you are only looking for a supplemental program, I realize some of you might follow another curriculum and would not want extra work. We are venturing into a new area at Friday Addition with comprehensive classes. Communication will help this go smoothly.

We have an amazing year of physical science ahead of us! I am looking forward to putting a face with each of your names.