I can't believe it's November already, and that first quarter is coming to a close.
Physics: We are going to slow things down a little while finishing up our accelerating particle unit. We took questions on last weeks assignment, and talked about the different ways to solve problems. In fact, over the weekend I attended the Wisconsin Association of Physics Teachers Annual Meeting at UW-River Falls, where this was a topic of discussion. Professionals at the high school and university level agree that in order for a student to truly understand a phenomenon, they must be able to analyze or articulate it in 4-5 different ways. We are pursuing that level of knowledge in this class.
Though students in this class are very talented in a variety of areas, they need to be able to approach problems in the forms of graphs, diagrams, equations, and verbal explanations. We are going to make sure that we dedicate enough time in these areas to ensure that we are achieving the depth of knowledge to truly understand classical Newtonian mechanics.
For tomorrow, I assigned WS 3. It is due at the beginning of class.
AP Chemistry: We have finished up Chapter 4, and are moving on to Chapter 6, Thermochemistry. This is the last of the carry over material from last year. Homework and chapter quiz will be due next Tuesday, November 9. The Analysis of Silver in an Alloy lab is due tomorrow. This lab will be the last grade for 1st quarter, as last weeks homework and quiz will be the start of 2nd quarter.
Chemistry: We started off going over some questions from last weeks Gas Pressure assignment. then we went over the review for Wednesday's Unit 2 Exam. The review assignment is due tomorrow at the beginning of the hour.
Physical Science: We rearranged lab groups, and then began unit 3 with an activity. In this lab, students gathered the temperature of two different beakers every minute for 20 minutes. for homework, they need to plot both sets of data on one graph. to do this, they should set time as the independent variable, and temperature as the dependent variable. Then they should plot one set of temperature-time data and a time. Each resulting line should be connected by its own line.
Data must be plotted on the same graph. It is necessary for accurate comparisons. The graph is due at the beginning of class tomorrow.
