10-1 Thursday  No School- Teacher Inservice Day

10-2 Friday  No School-Teacher Inservice Day

10-5 Monday

Objective:  Explain what you know about the properties of fluids ( gases & liquids)

Activity:   1) Finish notes on fluids           

HW:  Quiz  (Wednesday) on the 4 properties of gases & fluids

 Science Journal : Why does a hot air balloon float?

10-6 Tuesday

Objective:  Explain what you know about the properties of fluids (gases & liquids)

Activity:   1) Review the 4 main properties of fluids

HW:  Quiz  (Wednesday) on the 4 properties of gases & fluids

 Science Journal : What is a hydraulic device?

10-7 Wednesday

Objective:  Explain what you know about the properties of fluids (gases & liquids)

Activity:   1) Quiz- Properties of Fluids

                 2) Measuring Motion Handout-text reading pg 118-120

HW:  NONE

 Science Journal : Draw and describe how the card stays on the jar.

10-8 Thursday

Objective:  Describe what motion is and how it can be measured

Activity:  1)  Walking Demo

                2) measuring and graphing velocity

HW:  NONE

 Science Journal :  How do you know if something is moving?

10-9 Friday

Objective:  Team Day

Activity:   

HW:  NONE

 Science Journal :

10-12 Monday

Objective:  Measure and calculate velocity and acceleration

Activity:   1) Basketball Lab- data collection and calculation               

HW:  NONE

 Science Journal : none

10-13 Tuesday

Objective:  Measure and Graph Velocity & acceleration

Activity:  1) Finish Basketball Lab & turn in

                2) Finish Measuring Motion packet (blue)

                        and turn it in.                 

HW:  Absent? Finish lab & blue packet for tomorrow

 Science Journal :Describe the motion of the object drawn on the side board

10-14 Wednesday

Objective: Graph and calculate acceleration

Activity:   1) Correct Measuring Motion packet

                2)Notes and demos on acceleration -velocity of bowling balls

                        acceleration practice problems

HW:  NONE

 Science Journal : Draw and label the axes of a distance time graph- then wait for Ms. Ellis to tell you what line to draw.

10-15 Thursday

Objective:  Compare Distance/Time graphs to Velocity/Time Graphs

Activity:   1) Finish Acceleration notes & graphs from Wednesday

                2) Fairy Tale Graphing

HW:  finish acceleration packet (green)

 Science Journal :  What is the formula for calculating acceleration?

10-16 Friday

Objective:  Compare Distance/Time graphs to Velocity/Time Graphs

Activity:   1) Moving Man simulation

                2) Finish Fairy Tale graph

HW:  Velocity & acceleration quiz Tuesday

 Science Journal :  Draw a velocity time graph that shows deceleration (slowing down)

10-19-Monday

Objective:  Review and compare velocity & acceleration

Activity:   1) analyze Fairy Tale graphs

                 2) Review sheet for quiz

HW:  Velocity & acceleration quiz on TOMORROW

Mystery Question Due Friday:

What would your weight be at the center of the earth? ( assume you could go there and survive :)

 Science Journal : A maserati sports car has an acceleration of

 -120 miles/hour/second.  Is it increasing or decreasing in speed? How do you know?

10-20 Tuesday

Objective:  Show what you know about velocity and acceleration

Activity:   1) Turn in Review Packet

                2)Velocity and Acceleration Quiz

                 3) complete Gravity Pre-Test

HW:  Mystery Question Due Friday:

What would your weight be at the center of the earth? ( assume you could go there and survive :)

 Science Journal : none

10-21 Wednesday

Objective:  Describe how Earth's gravity affects falling objects

Activity:   1) Gravity Reading pg 134-137 in text; take 1/2 page notes in science journal ( will be graded :)

                2) Gravity Lab Part 1                         

HW:  Mystery Question Due Friday:

What would your weight be at the center of the earth? ( assume you could go there and survive :)

 Science Journal : What strategies do you use to take notes from a textbook?

10-22 Thursday

Objective:  Describe how gravity and air resistance affect falling objects

Activity:   1) Finish gravity lab Part 2

                 2) Turn in Lab

HW:  Mystery Question Due Friday:

What would your weight be at the center of the earth? ( assume you could go there and survive :)

 Science Journal : None

10-23 Friday

Objective:  Describe how gravity and air resistance affect falling objects

Activity:   1) Turn in and discuss Mystery Question

                2)   Observe and record Bill Nye's experiments with gravity

HW:  NONE

 Science Journal : none

10-26 Monday

Objective:  Describe how gravity and air resistance affect falling objects

Activity:   1) Notes on Terminal Velocity and Balanced Forces

                2)   Correct Gravity Pre-tests

HW:  NONE

 Science Journal : What 2 factors does gravitational "pull" depend on?

10-27 Tuesday

Objective:  Measure and graph Terminal Velocity

Activity:   1) Lab: Terminal Velocity of Coffee filters

HW:  NONE

 Science Journal : Draw a velocity/time graph to show the velocity of a BASE jumper who 1.jumps off a bridge,  2.reaches terminal velocity, and then 3.abruptly lands on the ground

10-28 Wednesday

Objective:  Measure and graph Terminal Velocity

Activity:   1) Finish Lab: Terminal Velocity of Coffee filters

                 2) What is the terminal velocity of a penny when it falls off the Empire State building? ( mythbusters) 

HW:  NONE

 Science Journal : 1)Trade your science journal with someone else.

                                2)Count the entries in that person's journal,

                                starting with September 16th  ( 9/16)

                                3) Write  the number of entries on the inside

                                cover of the science journal with YOUR name

10-29 Thursday

Objective:  Describe how gravity is a force that affects all objects equally

Activity:   1) Explain both demos of the effects of gravity on moving objects

                2) Notes on Newton's First Law  pg 158-160

HW:  NONE

 Science Journal : How fast will a penny be moving if it's been falling for 2 seconds in a chamber without air ?

10-30 Friday

Objective:  Describe Newton's 1st law of Motion

Activity:   1) Demonstrations of Newton's 1st Law

                  2) notes on Newton's 2nd Law

HW:  Be Safe and Scary

 Science Journal :  What will fall faster, a marble that is dropped or a marble that is shot horizontal to the ground?