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Updated 9.1.2008

Chapter 1 Outline

Wednesday, August 27

  • 5th
  • First day of school
  • Hand out books & fill out receipts
  • Hand outs: syllabus, parent letter, Chapter IV notification
  • Hand out True or False? and read as much as you can by Friday
  • Can you switch to 7th period?
  • 6th/7th (6th probably won't show up)
  • First day of school
  • Hand out books & fill out receipts
  • Hand outs: syllabus, parent letter, Chapter IV notification
  • Go over syllabus
  • Hand out True or False? and read as much as you can by Friday

Thursday, August 28 – Classes disrupted by house assemblies

  • 5th/6th
  • Continue on syllabus - answer questions
  • Look at MrFlint.com
  • Hand out A Very Brief History of Science and the Universe (44k .pdf)
  • Pass out Algebra review
  • Current science news articles - how do scientists know what they know?
  • *Red assembly
  • News articles
  • Work on True or False?questions
  • 7th
  • Until red assembly is finished: Current science news articles - how do scientists know what they know?
  • Continue on syllabus - answer questions
  • Look at MrFlint.com
  • Hand out A Very Brief History of Science and the Universe (44k .pdf)
  • Pass out Algebra review
  • What is truth? How should we go about life? Don't believe everything you hear or read!!!
  • True or false? To test something scientifically (experimentation) requires that you have a hypothesis to prove something true and another hypothesis to prove it false.

    Friday, August 29

    Monday, September 1 – No school (Labor Day)

    Tuesday, September 2

    • 5th
    • Parent Letter Slip due today
    • Algebra Review due
    • Science vs. technology
    • Intro. to Height Lab
    • BES vs. SI – A cage match
    • Intro. to sig. digs - the distance home problem
    • All about the SI system of measurement | more
    • 6th/7th
    • Parent Letter Slip due today
    • Algebra Review due
    • Science vs. technology
    • Did I pass out A Brief History of Science and the Universe?
    • Intro. to Height Lab
    • BES vs. SI – A cage match
    • Scientific notation, metric conversion
    • All about the SI system of measurement | more
    • * A little about True or False?
    • Infinity clip
    • Accuracy/precision
    • Significant digits (measure distance from home to school, Niagara falls is 150 000 gal/s and 1 gal.=3.7854 L)

    Wednesday, September 3

    • 5th
    • Accuracy/precision, parallax
    • Spaces in numbers, accuracy and precision
    • Significant digits (Niagara falls is 150 000 gal/s and 1 gal.=3.7854 L) ixnay on the actionsfray and plus/minus notation
    • practice calculations w/sig. digs.
    • 6th/7th
    • Height Lab
    • * Parallax
    • practice calculations w/sig. digs.

    Thursday, September 4

    • 5th/6th
    • Pass out Chapter 1 Review
    • Height Lab
    • *Rules for sig. dig calculations
    • More significant digit examples
    • Underline and decimal after zero notation
    • 7th
    • Pass out Chapter 1 Review
    • Sig. digs with underline and decimal after zero notation.
    • Fundamental & Derived units and their connection to dimensional analysis
    • Conversion factor examples

    Friday, September 5

    • 5th/6th
    • P. 19; 7, 9–14 due Go over in class
    • Fundamental & Derived units and their connection to dimensional analysis
    • Hand out review
    • Conversion factor examples
    • More conversion factor practice
    • * Graphing scientific data & interpreting graphs - hand out "how to graph scientific data"
    • Slope-intercept line forms; slope units
    • Always fill the page, use lines of best fit, and good labels
    • Answer questions on homework, work on Height Lab and Interpreting Graphs W.S.
    • 7th
    • P. 19; 7, 9–14 due Go over in class
    • Graphing scientific data & interpreting graphs
    • Slope-intercept line forms; slope units
    • Always fill the page, use lines of best fit, and good labels
    • Answer questions on homework, work on Height Lab and Interpreting Graphs W.S.

    Monday, September 8

    • 5th
    • P. 20, 15 to 21 due
    • Height Lab due
    • Reaction Time Lab
    • 7th
    • P. 20, 15 to 21 due
    • Height Lab due
    • Reaction Time Lab

    Tuesday, September 9

    • 5th
    • Interpreting Graphs due
    • Go over Interpreting Graphs
    • Work on review
    • 6th/7th
    • Interpreting Graphs due
    • Go over Interpreting Graphs
    • Work on review
    • *Kinematics vs. dynamics
    • Our place in the universe
    • Vectors vs. scalars (displacement vs. distance and velocity vs. speed)

    Wednesday, September 10

    • 5th
    • Chapter 1 Review due
    • Go over Review
    • 6th/7th
    • Chapter 1 Review due
    • Go over review
    • *Relative Motion
    • What change means.
    • Actual formula for v
    • Constant velocity vs. instantaneous velocity vs. average velocity

    Thursday, September 11

    • 5th/6th
    • Chapter 1 Test
    • *Kinematics vs. dynamics
    • Our place in the universe
    • Vectors vs. scalars (displacement vs. distance and velocity vs. speed)
    • 7th
    • Chapter 1 Test

    Friday, September 12

    • 5th/6th
    • Reaction Time Lab due
    • *See chapter 2 page for more about what we're doing today.
    • 7th
    • Reaction Time Lab due
    • *See chapter 2 page for more about what we're doing today.