CST Prep Day 3

Kinetic Energy, Potential Energy, and Conservation of Energy

Objective

What: SWBAT solve problems involving kinetic energy and potential energy.How: Students will use the skills they practice in class to complete pages 10-16 in their minibook.Why: To be academic achievers, we need to be able to be successful on the CST and the final!

Agenda
1. Kinetic Energy Review
2. Potential Energy
3. Conservation of Energy


 
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CST Prep Day 2

Newton's Laws Review and Calculating Centripetal Force

Objective: What: SWBAT answer conceptual questions for Newton's 3 Laws and calculate both Newton's 2nd Law and Centripetal Force.

How: Students will complete the classwork, and use them to complete pages 5-9 in their minibook. 

Why: To be academic achievers, we need to prepare ourselves for the CST and the final!

Agenda
1. Newton's First Law
2. First Law examples and cartoons
3. Newton's Second Law
4. Second Law examples and math!
5. Newton's Third Law
6. Third Law examples cartoons
7. Calculating Centripetal Force
8. HW - minibook pages 5-9

CST Prep Day 1

Average Velocity and Average Acceleration

Objective: 

What: SWBAT solve review problems for average speed and create rough draft pages for their minibook.

How: Students will use the skills they learn today in class to complete the first 4 pages on velocity and acceleration in their culminating minibook

Why: To be academic achievers, we need to prepare ourselves for the CST and the final!

Agenda:
1. Do Now
2. Minibook guidelines
3. Average Speed notes and practice problems
4. Acceleration notes and practice problems
5. Rough draft Minibook pages 1-3
HW: Buy Minibook and Minibook pages 1-3

Waves Day 7

Wave Velocity

Objective:

What: SWBAT calculate the velocity of a wave, given its wavelength and frequency.
How: Students will use the equation for wave velocity to solve released CST problems with 80% accuracy on an exit slip.
Why: To be academic achievers we need to be able to use our knowledge of waves and their properties to solve problems on the CST.  

Agenda
1. Do Now
2. Notes
3. Wave velocity practice
4. Exit Slip

Waves Day 6

Polarization, Diffraction, and Refraction

When light waves change direction, we get really cool colors

What: SWBAT describe the behavior of an wave that is being polarized, diffracted, or refracted. 

How: Students will create a comic strip to show at least 2 of the different ways that light waves change direction.  

Why: To be critical thinkers, we need to extend our knowledge of waves to the ways they interact with their environment.  

Agenda

1. Do Now
2. Brainpop and quiz
3. Bill Nye - Light optics
4. Light optics vocab notes
5. Exit Slip

Waves Day 5

Light

Objective
What: Students will recognize that light is broken up into many different types of electromagnetic radiation
How: Students will answer benchmark questions correctly about the different types of waves in the electromagnetic spectrum
Why: To be life long learners, we need to be able to understand all the different forms that light takes, and all the ways we see, feel or hear it in the world.  

Agenda
1. Do Now
2. Brainpop
3. Bill Nye - Light and Color
4. Light reading
5. Exit Slip

Waves Day 4

Seismic Waves

comic credit: www.wired.com

Objective

What: SWBAT synthesize examples of the two types of Seismic Waves.
How: Students will synthesize a comic strip demonstrating how the two types of waves transfer energy, using the terms transverse, longitudinal, wave and transfer of energy.
Why: To be critical thinkers about waves, we need to examine the different ways that waves transfer energy. 


I. Do Now
(A quick review on the two types of waves: Transverse Waves, Longitudinal Waves)

II. Earthquakes video.  Complete this worksheet while you watch.

III. Watch this video clip, and this one, and this one.  After viewing, answer these Q's.

IV. Brainpop on earthquakes

V.  Read over this Review on types of seismic waves. Take notes on what you read. 

VI. Make your own earthquake with this simulator
Answer these questions after the simulation

VII. Complete the Bitesize seismic waves activity



VIII. Exit Slip
Use Stripgenerator and the 4 vocab terms transverse, longitudinal, wave and transfer of energy to create a comic to show:
1. How P-waves and S-waves transfer energy through earth's crust. Show how they both start and the differences in how they travel.