Room number 106
Voice Mail (407) 623-1462 ext.415
Welcome to 2007 - 2008
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This link parentaccess.ocps.net should take you to Progressbook
WHETHER YOU REALIZE IT OR
NOT, WHETHER YOU ACCEPT IT
OR NOT, YOU ARE COMPLETELY
RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CHOICES
YOU MAKE.
IF YOU MAKE BAD CHOICES, BAD
THINGS WILL HAPPEN -- MAYBE
NOT RIGHT AWAY, BUT
EVENTUALLY.
IF YOU MAKE GOOD CHOICES, IT
IS CONSIDERABLY LESS LIKELY
THAT BAD THINGS WILL HAPPEN.
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We will be using a program called Interactions in Physical Science http://cpucips.sdsu.edu/assets/ics_course_overview.pdf
The InterActions program is not a typical textbook program. In parts of this program, students learn as they would in a traditional science course, from reading and from listening to the teacher. However, in InterActions, students do much more than that. They will also conduct experiments, collect evidence, and be guided in figuring out many science ideas just as real scientists do. Students will record their science ideas in a workbook or record book.
Periodically, the teacher will hand out Scientists' Consensus Ideas sheets. Students will be able to see that the ideas they developed in class are the same as the formal science ideas! In addition to learning science, this process will give them valuable life skills such as the ability to think critically, to analyze situations, to explain their ideas, to collaborate with others, and to evaluate explanations.
The best way for your student to get the most from this program is to attend every class and to participate. You can help by asking questions about science class several times a week. In addition to class participation, the best way for your student to prepare for the quizzes and exams is to review the activity and practice record sheets, and to compare the ideas recorded there to the ideas on the Scientists' Consensus Ideas sheets.
I hope you have a wonderful and meaningful learning experience this Year.
CHECK OUT THE Student Page FOR INTERACTIONS IN PHYSICAL SCIENCE
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PLANNER SUGGESTIONS
Or comebacks for all the excuses your child
may try if the planner isn't signed.
- It's the student's responsibility to write down what was done in class and any homework assignment and take the planner to the teacher at the end of the period to be initialed.
- If there is no homework, the student must write "none" or "no HW" and it still must be signed.
- If the student says the homework is finished, ask to see it.
- If a student is afraid of being late to the next class, the teacher can put the time on the planner that it was initialed and that will be the pass to the next class.
- A substitute can sign the planner.
As a check on how the week went, write in bold, colored lettering, "Please give weekly progress," at the top of each Friday's column. That way you won't need to wait until progress reports to learn if assignments weren't turned in, about poor test scores, etc. Email or leave voicemail on Thursday reminding the teachers that you are requesting weekly progress report on Friday. It is still the student’s responsibility to ask for this report.
This system usually works very well, if a few things occur:
- The parent consistently checks and signs the planner each night.
- A contract is written, signed by both of student and parent(s), put on the refrigerator (or another prominent location), that states exactly what classes you expect to be initialed by the teachers (all six classes, only the academic classes, only math?) and what occurs if the planner is not signed. For that night only, the student loses a privilege or earns back something that was taken away, if the planner is not properly completed and initialed. Choose something that "pushes your child's buttons": 30 minutes of television, telephone, basketball, Nintendo, or whatever you know will motivate the desired actions.
- If the consequences need to be enforced, follow through. Calmly tell your child that you are sorry that he/she did not choose to follow through as spelled out in the contract, but because of breach of contract, then there's no (television… phone… insert designated consequence here) that night.
Other Helpful Tips:
Expect at least one hour spent on school work each night. The following order is suggested:
Complete all homework.
Review what was covered in class that day and the day before and for upcoming tests. This helps to put it into long-term memory.
Work on any assigned projects.
If there is nothing else that needs to be done, read, read, read.
If your child needs help with homework, especially in math, there is assistance available through our After School Zone program, run at Maitland MS through the YMCA. Registration forms and weekly schedule available in the front office. Bus transportation also provided. To be sure that your child is going to the Homework Help or Math Help class and not to Spectacular Sports (a common situation), in the planner on the heading on the far left side for the last elective block, write in “Homework Help” or “Math Help” and require that the teacher initial it each day your child stays.
Some Hints to Help Your Child Have the Most Successful Year Possible
- Help your child set up a weekly calendar that shows the hours of each day, writing in all activities, chores, church, scouts, etc. and blocking out time for school and homework.
- Set up a schedule for homework, preferably in an area without distractions, but where you can monitor progress. Whether it should be right after school or after time to relax is up to the parent; different schedules work best for different students.
- Have materials needed for school work at hand, such as extra paper, pens, pencils, erasers, dictionary, pencil sharpener, white out, colored pencils, markers, scissors, etc.
- Check through the backpack and notebooks to help with organization.
- The first time, dump everything out of backpack onto floor or table.
- Help sort papers into separate piles for each subject.
- Put all papers for each subject into proper notebook for that subject, in chronological order. [Insist that your child dates every paper so you can tell what is current.]
- Check through the notebooks to be sure that only science is in the science notebook, etc.
- Check that the homework is put in the front of the notebook for that class, so it won't be lost before it's turned in.
- No papers should be stuffed, loose, into the “black hole”, a.k.a. the backpack.
- Look over the work being done, offer suggestions to improve it and to orally quiz on the material.
- Find out when progress reports and report cards are scheduled to go out and put those dates on your calendar. If one doesn't’t come home when expected, no matter the excuse given, contact the grade level counselor. If you have access to email, it is wonderful, because you don't have to play phone tag. If you do not have access to email, phone the counselor or teacher for assistance or clarification.
- Help your child learn how to break down a large project into small pieces easy to deal with.
- On a month-at-a-glance calendar, divide the project up into smaller parcels and write them on the calendar on chosen “mini” due dates along the way to prevent the night before due date panic.
- Copy those dates into the weekly portion of the calendar on the corresponding dates.
- Copy those same dates on the family calendar, so a parent can see what’s due that week and encourage the child to not get behind.
- Always make projects due to you two days before it's actually due to the teacher. That allows some time to solve last minute emergencies: printer ran out of ink, need poster board, etc.
- No 10 p.m. runs to WalMart! Tell you child that if materials must be bought for anything for school, they must notify you at least 24 hours in advance. . This teaches them to learn to plan ahead.
- If at any time, you are concerned that you may not be getting all the information you need from you child, please contact the teacher or grade level counselor by phone or email ASAP.
- A list of tutors is available through the Guidance Department.
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START 4th 9 WEEKS (322 or close to it)
No more current science
Start Test 10
1. check VP
M4/7 Day 1 Daily Questions
1. How can you avoid being marked
tardy to class?
2. What is the only way you can
come late to class and not be
recorded as tardy?
3. What are you expected to bring to
class every day?
4. What must you have before you
are allowed to leave the room
during class time?
5. What heading is required on your
papers?
6. If your assignment is longer than
one page, what must you do
before turning it in?
7. Where do you put late papers?
8. How late can you turn in work?
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1. New vocab words
T4/8 Day 2 Daily Questions
V4-1
decrees, transfer, momentum, force, low friction, force arrow,balanced force,
unbalanced force, direction of motion, kinetic energy, potential energy
1. What kind of motion does
an object have if there are
no interactions affecting the
objects motion?
2. In the ball and hairdryer
demonstration, what
causes the ball to slow
when the hair dryer is
turned on? Draw an energy
diagram
_______________ interaction
source receiver
3. When a backward force
interacts with an object in
motion , explain what
happens using a drawing
with force arrows. Which of
Newton's laws is being
applied.
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W4/9 Day 3 Daily Questions
1.How is the backward force
of the sand paper and the
sticky notes similar?
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VP force 12 min
R4/10 Day 4 Daily Questions
1.What is a backward force?
2. What is the bump model?
VP about FORCE
1. What is the change in an object’s position over time?
2. Speed is a _________ quantity, meaning no matter which direction an objects moves,
its speed will remain the same.
3. Velocity depends on direction, so it is a ________ quantity.
4. Speed can be expressed in equation form as: _________.
5. Some common units for speed are miles per hour in the English system and _________ per hour in the metric system.
6. When something speeds up, this is know as __________.
7. Acceleration, like velocity, is a vector quantity, so when discussing acceleration, we need to specify a _________.
8. One person who was instrumental in increasing our outstanding of acceleration was a 16th Century scientist named _______________.
9. The acceleration due to gravity on earth is _______ meters per second squared.
10. Newton’s Second Law of Motion states that the force is equal to ________ times acceleration.
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VP Teachers Video Company: MOTION
F4/11 Day 5 Daily Questions
Sub.
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1. Check roll
2.work on A 5
M4/14Day 6 Daily Questions
1. When the low friction car is pushed into a rubber band and bounces back, where did the force going the other direction come from?
2. If two fans facing opposite directions are placed on the car, what will happen when they are turned on? Why?
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Work on A6
1. V4-1
T4/15Day 7 Daily Questions
1. On the simulator, what do
the different length red
arrow represent?
2. When the car hits the
rubber band and reverses
direction, is it moving faster
then when you first pushed
it? Why?
3. What happens when two
fans in of different
strengths are run in
opposite directions? Why?
V4-1
1. Decrease 1. to make or become less or smaller
2. Transfer 2. giving energy to something ells
3. Momentum 3. the force or speed with which
something moves
4. Force 4. a push or pull
5. Low Friction 5. not having much friction, being able to
move easily
6. Force Arrow 6. representing pushes and pulls
7. Balanced Force 7. a push or pull that is equal to another
force
8. Unbalanced Force 8. a push or pull that is not equal or
balanced
9. Direction of Motion 9. the way the motion is going
10. Kinetic Energy 10. the energy of an object possesses
because of its motion
11. Potential Energy 11. the energy of an object that is
dependent on its position
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1. Watch Physical Science In Action: FORCES
W4/16 Day 8 Daily Questions
Physical Science In Action
FORCES AV 531 FOR
1. What is needed for you to stack all of the parts for a burger?
2. What are all forces?
3. What causes a force to be balanced?
4. When is there friction?
5. give an example of a force mentioned in the video
6. What force keeps us from drifting away from the earth
7. What force is holding us together?
8. What is the most powerful force we know?
9. Which of Newton’s Laws states; an object at rest will stay at rest and an object
in motion will stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
10. What is the property of matter that resists motion?
11. What is, any change in an objects motion called?
12. Are force and acceleration in the same direction?
13. What law of motion does the Newton’s Cradle demonstrate?
14. What law is; for every action there is an opposite and equal reaction?
15. What causes water pressure?
16. What type of pressure crushes the can?
17. Was the can crushed by balanced or unbalanced forces?
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1. Watch force and motion, Newton’s three laws
R4/17Day 9 Daily Questions
Force and Motion
Newton’s Three Laws
AV 531 For
1. What is the subject of this video?
2. Who came up with the three laws of force and motion?
3. What will happen if a constant force is not applied to an object?
4. What law,(1,2 or 3) helps stop a car?
5. What happened to the cart with a constant force?
6. What is the equation for acceleration?
7. What does doubling the pulling force do to the acceleration of an
object?
8. The greater the mass the greater the_________ to accelerate the
object?
9. What is the equation for force?
10. From Newton’s third law; do all forces have interaction?
Force and Motion
Newton’s Three Laws
AV 531 For
1. What is the subject of this video?
Forces for building Newton’s Laws of Motion
2. Who came up with the three laws of force and motion?
Galileo Aristotle Newton
3. What will happen if a constant force is not applied to an object?
It will not move it will move it will decrees in motion energy
4. What law,(1,2 or 3) helps stop a car?
5. What happened to the cart with a constant force?
Increase constant decrease
6. What is the equation for acceleration?
F= M*A A=F/M
8. The greater the mass the greater the_________ to accelerate the
object?
9. What is the equation for force?
F= M*A A=F/M
10. From Newton’s third law; do all forces have interaction?
Yes No
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rollercoaster
F4/18 Day 10 Daily Questions
NOVA: Roller Coaster
1. How much did it cost to build Magnum?
2. What did Mr. Tumer do before he started designing coasters?
3. How does Mr. Tumer design his roller coasters?
4. Does Mr. Tumer like to ride his coasters?
5. What is used to design coasters with the steepest drops and the sharpest corners?
6. Why is measurement so important in building a coaster?
7. How many people can ride Dragon Fire in one hour?
8. What force keeps people from falling out of the coaster when it goes through a loop?
9. What makes a wood coaster exciting?
10. What was the first “almost a roller coaster”?
11. Where was the first modern roller coaster built?
12. What happened in July of 1955 to revive carnival parks?
13. How did Mark Davis start his designs for Pirates of the Caribbean?
14. What is the fractional size of Main Street?
15. How many times does an earth quake hit Bur Bank each day?
16. What was the first big simulator ride?
17. Why is it called riding the movies?
18. How much did, Back To The Future, cost universal?
NOVA: Roller Coaster
1. How much did it cost to build Magnum?
3. How does Mr. Tumer design his roller coasters?
4. Does Mr. Tumer like to ride his coasters?
6. Why is measurement so important in building a coaster?
8. What force keeps people from falling out of the coaster when it goes through a loop?
11. Where was the first modern roller coaster built?
12. What happened in July of 1955 to revive carnival parks?
14. What is the fractional size of Main Street?
16. What was the first big simulator ride?
18. How much did, Back to the Future, cost universal?
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1. Grade VP
2 build rolercoaster
M4/21 Day 11 Daily Questions
1. Can a rollercoaster coast higher than the hill it started on? WHY?
2. Why will a rollercoaster filled with very heavy people work about the same as empty cars going around?
3. you will build a rollercoaster and:
a. make a scale drawing.
b. calculate the average speed of the marble.
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1. Grade VP
2 build rolercoaster
M4/21 Day 11 Daily Questions
1. Can a rollercoaster coast higher than the hill it started on? WHY?
2. Why will a rollercoaster filled with very heavy people work about the same as empty cars going around?
3. you will build a rollercoaster and:
a. make a scale drawing.
b. calculate the average speed of the marble.
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1. work on activites 7 – 10 this week
T4/22 Day 12 Daily Questions
1. How can you change the motion
energy of an object?
2. Complete the e energy diagram for
the low-friction car while it is being
pushed.
_______________ interaction
source receiver
3. Suppose a person is coasting
forward on roller blades when a big
wind blows against her back, how
will the wind affect her motion?
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1. new vocab
W4/23 Day 13 Daily Questions
V4-2
Centrifugal force acceleration
Perpendicular F=MxA
V2 -V1 = velocity
T2 –T1
Centripetal force path
Verbalize inerita
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1.continue activitys
R4/24 Day 14 Daily Questions
1. In the story Otis slid
across the ice rink and
came to a stop in the
middle of the rink. As Otis
slid across the ice, was he
speeding up, slowing down, or staying constant?
1. Finish U3C1A2
F4/25 Day 15 Daily Questions
1. What force will hold
people in the “Whirl
Around” when the floor is
lowered?
1 activity 9 & 10
2. pass out SCI #9
m/4/28 Day 16 Daily Questions
1. Draw a force arrow that represents a sail boat moving forward(to the left) and the force exerted by water on the sailboat.
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1. NBT #10
2. demo with air puck
START TEST # 11
t/4/29 Day 17 Daily Questions
1.When a force is not exerted on an object what is the object’s path?
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1. start activity 11
w/4/30 Day 18 Daily Questions
1. IF we have two fan cars of the same mass and one fan is half the strength of the other what will happen when they are started?
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1.activity 11 .
2. class demonstrations
3. notes on lever problems as we find various balancing points
r/5/1 Day 19 Daily Questions
1.list the 6 types of simple
machines, bring an
example or drawing of
one of the 6 simple
machines to class
tomorrow.
2. Define input force,
output force
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1. Lift truck with first class lever .
2. present simple machine Daily Question from yesterday
3. give #4 as a quiz with open notes
f/5/2Day 20 Daily Questions
1. Define work.
2. If I move a 50lb bale of
hay 3 feet to the back of
my truck, how much
work have I dun?
3. if I slide the bale of hay
up a ramp to my truck
and I have to push with
an force of 25 lb and the
ramp is 6 ft long how
much work have I dun?
4. If I have a 50 kg weight
1m from the fulcrum, on
the other side of the
fulcrum I have a 30 kg
weight, how far from the
fulcrum will it be to
balance the first class
lever?
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1. finish activity 12 and practice .
m/5/5Day 21Daily Questions
1. I f I use a first class
lever to lift a weight of
100kg to a height of
10cm, how long will my
effort arm have to be to
only need a force of
50kg?
2. If I have a mass of
200kg and a pulley set
that has 5 ropes
supporting the weight.
How much force will I
need to lift the weight
(no friction)
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1. VP simple machines .
t/5/6 Day 22 Daily Questions
1.If I roll a log weighing
2,000kg down a hill with
an elevation of 80m, tell
me the type of energy the
log had before it rolled
and during the roll. How
much work was involved
it this event? What force
caused the change in
energy and the work.
Bill Nye The Science Guy
Simple Machines
1. What type of machine is the crane?
2. By what is this show brought to us?
3. What is used to change the size and direction of forces?
4. What brand name of catapult does Bill use?
5. What is another name for the PIVOT in the lever?
6. What is needed to make a lever?