CLASS ROOM ACTIVITIES
LAB SAFETY
CLICK HERE to view the lab safety slideshow presentation. After reviewing and noting the important features of lab safety take the ONLINE QUIZ by the
WORDLE
Click on the image to create a collage of words.
Wee Mee
CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO CREATE YOUR AVATAR
SURVIVE AT HIGH VELOCITY
Racecar teams look to reduce the time it takes their cars to complete a circuit. They focus most of their efforts on improving what's called cornering speed, because it's in the corners, where cars must reduce speed, that precious time is lost. Using a mix of practice lap and actual race footage, this video segment, adapted from NOVA, highlights the forces at work on a racecar as it travels around a track.
VELOCITY AND ACCELERATION
ROLLING BALL INCLINE
This video adapted from the Encyclopedia of Physics Demonstrations explores how constant acceleration affects an object's motion. As a ball rolls down an incline, lights flash at one-second intervals, marking the position of the ball. Observe how the ball's position, velocity, and acceleration change as it rolls down the incline. Investigate its motion by plotting graphs of position versus time, average velocity versus time, and acceleration versus time.
This video adapted from the Encyclopedia of Physics Demonstrations explores how constant acceleration affects an object's motion. As a ball rolls down an incline, lights flash at one-second intervals, marking the position of the ball. Observe how the ball's position, velocity, and acceleration change as it rolls down the incline. Investigate its motion by plotting graphs of position versus time, average velocity versus time, and acceleration versus time.
VIRTUAL LAB CAR MOTION
Click on the image and Complete the lab following the directions. Print your journal answers or copy onto the handout.
THE MOVING MAN
CLICK on the image on the left to Use the simulation to investigate motion and how it appears on a distance and time graph. Complete the investigation and address any misconceptions or misunderstandings you may have. Complete the EXPLAIN & EXPLORE portions of your assignment and turn in for a PROJECT grade!!!
MOTION
INTERACTIVE TABLES.AFTER YOU COMPLETE THE INTERACTIVE TABLE, RIGHT CLICK ON EACH TABLE TO PRINT .
NEWTON'S LAWS OF MOTION
Watch each video and answer the discussion questions.
Mass vs. Weight
Centripetal Force: Roller Coaster Loops
Newton's Third Law of Motion: Astronauts in Outer Space
Mass vs. Weight
Centripetal Force: Roller Coaster Loops
Newton's Third Law of Motion: Astronauts in Outer Space
VIRTUAL CAR
This interactive activity developed for Teachers' Domain demonstrates how vectors are used to represent velocity (speed and direction) and acceleration. In the activity, vectors change in real time as you "drive" a car on a flat plain; as you change speed and direction, vectors originating from the car respond to your actions. A graph depicting speed vs. time also responds to your actions, displaying both the speed and acceleration of the car.
Energy Skate Park
Click on the image to the left to access the virtual skate park.
Either click download or run in order to run the simulation. If you download save into your U drive in a folder labeled Physical Science.
Guiding Question:WHAT FORMS OF ENERGY MAKE UP ENERGY OF MOTION?
With your partner complete the student guide and pre lab activity.
Either click download or run in order to run the simulation. If you download save into your U drive in a folder labeled Physical Science.
Guiding Question:WHAT FORMS OF ENERGY MAKE UP ENERGY OF MOTION?
With your partner complete the student guide and pre lab activity.
THERMAL ENERGY AND MATTER. HEAT AND THERMODYNAMICS
Using the information from 16.1 Thermal Energy and Matter and from 16.2 Heat and Thermodynamics Guided Reading Handouts. Your group will create a website that contains information, visuals, examples and links that explain the topics of Thermal Energy & Matter and Heat & Thermodynamics. Click here and log in to create your weebly website. Once your website is complete save the web address in your U Drive Folder and inform your teacher so that it may be uploaded to this site!
PHYSICS WEB SEARCH
VIRTUAL ELECTRICITY & MAGNETISM LAB
ATOMIC THEORY TIMELINE
You will create a timeline of the Atomic Theory using Microsoft Word.
Dates
Events in the correct sequence
Pictures/Diagrams/Illustrations that depict models and experiments
Creativity
Atomic Theory Links
Click here to access suggested links for research.
DUE DATE: MONDAY APRIL 16 2012
- Watch the video to learn how to create your timeline using Microsoft Word.
- Research the following contributors and contribuitions to the Atomic Theory.
- Democritus Gold Foil Experiment
- JJ Thomson Plum Pudding Model
- Aristotle Cathode Ray Experiment
- John Dalton Current (modern) Model
- Ernest Rutherford Electron Cloud Model
- James Chadwick Bohr Model
- Neils Bohr
- Your timeline should include:
Dates
Events in the correct sequence
Pictures/Diagrams/Illustrations that depict models and experiments
Creativity
Atomic Theory Links
Click here to access suggested links for research.
DUE DATE: MONDAY APRIL 16 2012
ATOM BUILDER
ISOTOPES AND IONS
Saving data
Reviewing student work
- Click on the image to the right to access the project website.
- Sign up for access by locating 1st time here section and click on student
- Complete the registration using the password
2nd Block: Mother Earth
3rd Block: Sweet - Sign in using the username and password provided
- Under SAM Physics Activities Atomic Structure click on RUN.
- Choose to open the file.
Saving data
- Your data is saved when a you close an activity. You do not need to click any special button!
Reviewing student work
- I have access to viewing student progress for the whole class or for an individual student. I will check your progress and return a lab grade to you.
ATOMIC STRUCTURE
- Click on the link above. Username: 1sstokesstudent
- Go to Atomic Structure V-Lab.
- Complete tabs 1 & 2.
ACTIVITY 1: CHEMICAL BONDS
Learn about chemical bonding. Click on the tabs to see animations of how pairs of elements in the periodic table bond together. Learn about the role of valence shell electrons and attractive forces in three types of chemical bonds: covalent, ionic, and metallic.
ACTIVITY 2: IONIC BONDING
This interactive activity from ChemThink discusses ionic bonding—a type of chemical bond formed between two ions with opposite charges. Investigate how the transfer of electrons between atoms creates ions and how the mutual attraction of these charged particles forms ionic bonds. Also learn about trends in the periodic table of elements, and explore how the structure of an ionic compound relates to its formula.
ACTIVITY 3: COVALENT BONDING
This interactive activity from ChemThink describes covalent bonding—a type of chemical bond that involves the sharing of electrons. Investigate the attractive and repulsive forces that act on atomic particles and how the sharing of electrons can keep atoms together. See how two hydrogen atoms interact with each other to create a covalent bond. Learn about trends in the periodic table and how electrostatic potential energy determines the bond length. Also, learn about naming conventions for covalent compounds.
Follow the instructions closely as you move through this activity! There are some screens where you have to do something before you can move onto the following screen.
Follow the instructions closely as you move through this activity! There are some screens where you have to do something before you can move onto the following screen.
ACTIVTY 4: STRUCTURES OF METALS
This interactive activity from the NOVA Web site describes the crystalline structure of metal and uses animations to illustrate the molecular changes that occur when a metallic substance is bent, heated, or otherwise changed by external forces.