RUBE GOLDBERG!!!!

Group 001- I am SO SO PROUD of YOU ALL! You really worked as a team and accomplished something great. Outstanding work!

We missed you Josh! Thanks for all your hard work planning.
Thanks to all the filmers and Sophie for letting pennies fly into your face. Thank to all who helped clean up as well.

Have a great break!

~Miss Klein

Test Friday

Okay people Simple Machines is coming to a close. Our test is soon and the following topics will be covered: 

• All 6 Types of simple machines
• Lever, Pulley, Wedge, Inclined Plane, Wheel & Axle, Screw
• The input force and output force of all the simple machines
• What Work means. The force on the object and the motion MUST be in the same direction!
• Work = Force x Distance (we measure work in Joules)
• Mechanical Advantage = Output Force / Input Force
• Mech. Advantage means how many times the force is multiplied by the machine
• Efficiency = (Output Work / Input Work) x 100
• Efficiency is how well the machine is working. It is ALWAYS less than 100% because we always 'lost' some force to friction

CP: You're taking the test on Friday so tomorrow is your last day in class to finish the review and ask me any questions. I will be available at lunch and after school. These links are answer keys to materials we have had in class: 

Input and Output Forces

Efficiency Notes

Mechanical Advantage Notes

How to make a flipchart to study (These were done in class today!)

CP Test Review Homework


Work, Mechanical Advantage, and Efficiency Practice


Honors: 001 You'll be taking the test tomorrow. 002 you'll be taking Friday. I'm sure you're all ready for it. Either way, I've attached your materials as well: 

Input and Output Forces

Efficiency Notes


Mechanical Advantage Notes

Honors Test Review Homework


Work, Mechanical Advantage, and Efficiency Practice


Good luck studying and e-mail with any questions!

Honors simple machine review sheet answer key

Friday's Notebook Check

MANY of you owe me the notebook quiz from Friday 12-13-13.

If you missed the quiz, I need it done by Friday at the latest.
 Do it as a take-home quiz and turn it in to me ASAP!

Thanks!

Simple Machines NB check 2

Initials of who owes the quiz-
001- A.C.    J.V.    M.T.     O.W.

002- J.K.

003- JDV

004- S.N.     A.V.  

What a snowy week!

Hi Everyone!
So the plan for this week is as follows:

Monday- We learned about the efficiency of machines (efficiency notes) and then worked on a group challenge that involved applying all formulas from the simple machines unit (work, MA, and Eff).
Honors took notes on efficiency and did this WS for HW so you could work on your Rube Goldberg machine.

Tuesday- early release and SAT testing
Since I only saw some of you today, we may have to wait to make the complete Rube Goldberg until after Winter break to have time to prepare for Friday's Simple machines test.

Wed- Math SAT testing
Flipbooks
Review Sheet for HW

Thursday-
Test Review
001- Simple Machines test

Friday-
Simple Machines Test
001 only- Rube Goldberg Creation

This weeks handouts- (Every class is in a slightly different spot so you may have to search for what handouts you need, but they should be here somewhere!)

Input and output force notes, MA notes, Efficiency notes

Work, MA, and EFF WS (honors and 003)

Work, Eff, MA CW (004) review sheet for 003

Simple Machines Test Review Sheet

Flipbooks (how to create)


TEST FRIDAY! 


Have a Wonderful Winter Break!

For fun or help with extra credit project

Week update

Notebook quiz tomorrow.

Today in class we did the lever lab and completed the analysis questions.

So far this week:

Scavenger Hunt with simple machine mini posters

Monday's packet- one page as a quiz grade!

Lever Lab

Packet when I was out answer key

Scavenger hunt answer key

Input and output force notes

Input and Output force Mini posters due Tuesday

Today in class we learned the input and output forces of all simple machines. We then worked with our groups on mini posters for your assigned simple machine. Posters are due on Tuesday and be prepared to teach your peers about your specific simple machine. 

I will be out on Monday-- BE GOOD! You will be working on an open notebook quiz. 

We will present mini-posters Tuesday. 

Friday Dec. 13 we will be having a notebook quiz. Make sure your glossary and notebook are organized. 

Grade updates for mid quarters went home today for science and social studies. Make sure you and a parent sign the grade update. Return the form to Mr. DeFilippo on Monday for a homework grade in science and social studies. 

Have a great weekend!

Poster Rubric: 

*Use the blue textbooks
*Working with a partner

• your simple machine
• examples
• how does it make our lives easier (distance, direction, force, or a combination)
• input and output force drawing
• mention the mechanical advantage formula (honors) 

Nifty Lifting Machine Extra Credit

Due any time before January 15th. Can make a Rube Goldberg Machine as well. Groups of two (any class, any team) or you may work alone.

Nifty Lifting Machine


GOOD LUCK, ENGINEERS!

Lab Report Helpful Hints

Labs are due Thursday Dec 5th. Today, introductions were due. If you didn't have it done, I'll see you for lunch tomorrow to work on it.

Tomorrow, you need to have your materials, initial observations, and procedure paragraphs written out.

In class tomorrow, we will be working on writing a conclusion. For homework you will need to write your error section, conclusion, and make the cover page.

How to write a conclusion

Lab Packet Answer Key

Lab Report Due Thursday Dec. 5!

DUE TUESDAY Dec. 3
 INTRO paragraph
(background info, problem, key words, variables, hypothesis)

DUE WEDNESDAY Dec. 4
paragraph 1: Materials in complete sentences

paragraph 2: initial observations

paragraph 3: procedure in complete sentences


DUE THURSDAY Dec. 5- ENTIRE LAB REPORT 
Data Table

paragraph 4: errors


paragraph 5: conclusion 

If you need extra help or need a computer, Miss Klein is available Monday and Tuesday after school and Monday, Tues, and Wed. during lunch. 

email Miss Klein any questions: jklein@ci.stamford.ct.us 

Today in class we started simple machines by taking notes on the six simple machine and giving real life examples. We made our simple machines cover page during class. 

Shipping and Sliding

Due Monday- page 1 of lab packet and written procedure for Miss Klein to sign at the beginning of class on Monday.

Bring all surface materials for lab day Monday!

Shipping and Sliding blank lab packet if you lost yours

group 004 packet page 1 and procedure to copy because of awards ceremony

Review Packet Answer Key

****Answer Key****

Test tomorrow. If you have any questions e-mail me!

Force and Motion test tomorrow!!

if you write out the 3 DTR formulas and 3 FMA formulas on the cover page of your test tomorrow, you will get a bonus point!

GOOD LUCK! STUDY HARD!

Class today! Unit Word webs

Force and Motion Test Review Packet

Entire document due by Thursday Nov. 21st!

Force and Motion Review Sheet

Vocab List for the Unit

Did you miss Friday's Notebook quiz? Take it as a take home quiz and give to Miss Klein ASAP!!

Quarter 2 NB quiz 1

Topic List to begin studying for Thursdays Force and Motion Exam

(73) Car Safety

(74) D T R

(75) Motion Graphs

(76) Speed and Collision Force

(77) Mass and Collision Force

(78) F M A

(79) Inertia

(80) Newton’s 3 Laws of Motion

(81) Balanced and Unbalanced Forces

(82) Braking Distance

(83) Distracted Drivers and Poor Road Conditions impact on Stopping Distance

(84) Deceleration, Brakes, Tires, Friction, Airbags, Seat belts, Crumple Zone, Safety Cage

(85) Crash Test Dummies

(86) Center of Mass

(87) Fatalities, Car accidents, Car types

(88) Safety for All Debate 

Eggsperiment day!!

Activity 87 answer key

Force and Motion update- UNIT TEST THURSDAY!

We've been busy in science class last week!

On Tuesday we completed our activity 85 crash test dummies- noting where sensors should be placed to protect internal organs. All classes completed the notebook check from Friday.

On Wednesday, students made observations on center of mass and how it can affect roll over in our green SEPUP cart. HW was the egg lab pre-lab questions.

Thursday was an EGGcellent day. We combined classes and constructed a cart that would protect an egg during a collision. Your egg packet counts for a lab grade in both science and math classes.

On Friday, we did activity 87, analyzing two data tables on how car type and accident type can cause fatalities.

See documents below.

Today, we did the last activity in our force and motion unit. Activity 88: Safety for All, focused on four people (Hope, Damion, Wilma, and Hugo) and their opinions on whether all cars should be made the same to prevent fatalities in accidents. HW tonight is to make sure the entire activity sheet is complete- (see below) including analysis 1 and 2.

egg prelab questions

Activity 87: Fatal Accidents

Activity 88: Safety for All

Activity 86: Center of Mass

Tomorrow and Wednesday we will be reviewing for Thursday's Force and Motion Exam! Study every night!

Activity 84 Safety Feature Mini Poster Due Tomorrow

Notebook quiz tomorrow- you will only get 20 minutes! Be organized! 

Mini Poster Requirements: 
1. you will work with ONE other person or alone
2. this will count as 10 points
3. pick one safety feature from activity 84
4. Describe how the safety feature works to protect people
5. in your description, use the terms INERTIA, DECELERATION, and FORCE

6. Illustrate your safety feature

LA Meets science

Here is the article and the graphic organizer we used in class today.

Graphic Organizer (You may have to download it to the desktop to see it properly)

Activity 84 Reading (download to read all 4 pages)

Activity 83: Coming to a Stop answer key

Today's key words to enter into glossary

reaction time-

time that passes between when driver realizes danger and hitting brakes (distractions)

braking distance-

distance car travels between brakes applied and when the car stops

stopping distance-

reaction time distance + braking distance

Newton's Laws Answers

Classroom posters

QUICK review of Newton's Laws

Force Diagram Practice

Today was a quick day so here is the worksheet from class.

• Force Diagram Practice Worksheet

Mini poster assignment

Make a mini poster on one (or all!) of Newton's Laws.

You will be graded on the following:

• creativity
• neatness
• color
• the wording of the Law
• examples of the law being applied
• any key vocabulary words from act. 80 reading

QUIZ TOMORROW

STUDENTS:

First of all, everyone did a great job today on learning about Newton's 3 laws of motion and practicing DTR and FMA formulas for tomorrow's quiz. Everyone also did a nice job on the pre-assessment yesterday. We are going to be great with reading science texts by June.

 I'm attaching today's activity 80 scavenger hunt AND the entire reading article from the pre-assessment so you can study for your quiz. 

• Activity 80 Answer Key
• Activity 80 Reading

Second of all, we've got a quiz tomorrow. Make SURE You know: 

• Vocabulary from this unit (GLOSSARY HERE)
• Distance-time-rate equations -- -- --  D=TR, R=D/T, T=D/R
• Force-mass-acceleration equations -- -- -- F=MA, M=F/A, A=F/A

We're about halfway through the force and motion unit and we need to make sure we've got this down. 

PARENTS: We have a Thanksgiving Food Drive going at TOR and all donations would be appreciated. Students will be given extra credit in science class for any donations brought in. 

Flash Cards

Groups 003 and 004:

You completed flash cards today. All the vocab words can all be found on THE GLOSSARY. The front of the card should have the vocabulary word. The back of the card should have:  

• Definition
• Example
• The Units (if available)
• The Formula to solve (if available)

Here is an example.

F = M A in real life!

Science meets sports!

Glossary

There will be a vocab quiz coming up at the end of the week. make SURE your glossaries are complete with definitions and examples to help you. This class has a lot of new words and we need to make sure we aren't being left behind. CLICK HERE for a current list of everything you should have in your glossary section of your binders. 

Force, Mass, and Acceleration

Today we did activity 78 and found the relationship between force, mass, and acceleration. We made a double line graph and answered analysis questions 1-6 on the hand out.

*Remember-
the more mass an object has, the less it will accelerate if force is constant
the less mass an object has, the more it will accelerate if force is constant.

the more force you apply to an object, the more it will accelerate if mass is constant.
the less force you apply to an object, the less it will accelerate if mass is constant.

the more mass an object has, the more force it will take to accelerate it.
the less mass an object has, the less force it will take to accelerate it.

CP HW- finish analysis 1-6
HONORS HW- analysis 1-6 & more FMA practice WS questions 1-6

Weekend

First of all, I hope everyone has a great weekend!

We started some more equations in class that are VERY important moving forward.  The worksheet from class today is available HERE.Make sure you understand how to use D=RT and F=MA and remember the units for everything:

• Distance - meters (m)
• Rate - meters per second (m/s)
• Time - seconds (s)
• Force - Newtons (N)
• Mass - kilograms (kg)
• Acceleration - meters per second squared (m/s²)

Here are some of the challenge questions you saw in class

Update & Worksheets

Okay Folks,

We've covered a lot this week! We've introduced the concept of Force and how both speed and/or mass can impact force in a collision (crash!). Tomorrow we will review these concepts and add a brand new equation for everyone - woohoo for math!

In the meantime, I'm attaching the student worksheets we've been working on this week so everyone can make sure they have everything. If you can't open the .pdf file e-mail me for a .doc version. 

--------- Activity 75 Worksheet

--------- Activity 76 Worksheet

--------- Activity 77 Worksheet

At this point in the quarter everyone should be checking in with me and making sure they have all of their assignments handed in. 

-Miss Klein

Notebook Check and QUIZ

On Friday we will be having a notebook quiz (4) and a force and motion quiz. 

The notebook quiz will cover material from the beginning of school until now. 

The force and motion quiz will be on DTR practice questions. 
Study your homework from the past two nights. 

Acitivity 74: Distance Time and Rate

BIG stuff this week. The D=TR stuff is going to be happening a LOT in this unit so you NEED to make sure you know it. See me if you don't. Here are some of the worksheets from this week:

Activity 74 Worksheet

DTR Practice

Roller Coaster Design

Great day today!

Visit this website to try and design a roller coaster with just enough energy to stop safely at the end.

http://www.brainpop.com/games/coastercreator/

Cover Page - Force & Motion

Well people, we are finished with our first unit since we took the Energy test today. One down, six more to go! In order to split up our notebooks into easy sections, We should have a cover page for the next unit we will start which is Force & Motion. Use some of the words below to create a beautiful cover page. Remember, the best ones get featured on this website. 

• Acceleration 
• Balanced Force
• Unbalanced Force
• Center of Mass
• Distance
• Rate
• Time
• Friction
• Inertia
• Force
• Speed
• Isaac Newton
• Newton's Laws
• Gravity
• Force

Second Review Sheet

CLICK HERE FOR answer key for 2nd review sheet.

If you write "banana" at the top of your test tomorrow you get 1 point extra credit. I REPEAT, WRITE "BANANA" for free points!! Keep this a secret, shhhhh

Things you DEFINITELY need to know: 

• 10 kinds of energy (the blue table)
• Transformation
• Transfer
• Efficiency
• Law of Conservation of Energy
• Insulator
• Conductor

Study hard -- GOOD LUCK

Review Answer Key

This answer key should help you study. Make sure you know the BLUE TABLE

CLICK HERE FOR ANSWER KEY TO REVIEW SHEET 1

Energy Saving Brochure due Monday!

In your brochure:

·       Logo and company name

·       Describe your family’s energy situation and where they live

·       What do you recommend and why (explain annual savings and total cost)

·       Total spending: 4,900$

Letter to School Board Class Brainstorm

Letter to Board of Education Class Brainstorm:

·         make the windows open more- passive design- wouldn't need to buy AC

·         new light bulbs- we recommend fluorescent bulbs

·         solar panels

·         No portables- insulation! they have cardboard walls

·         energy efficient appliances* in the school cafeteria

·         try to make the school energy efficient

·         replace light bulbs to be fluorescent- last a long time, may cost more up front, but save money over time, don't give off as much TE, saves energy

·         solar panels- schools remain open for a very long time, solar panels will create low energy bills and run, most of the appliances in the school on sunlight, which is a renewable resource

·         buy new energy efficient appliances in the school kitchen, prevent TE loss

·         buy frames for windows that are fiberglass or wood, double pane, and open more to get a breeze

·         Duct system for heating/cooling- thermostat!

Letters due tomorrow! 

Letter to the School Board

 

Homework due - you will write a letter to a school board using the scenario below. 

"Your community is building a new school on a tight budget. The town planners do NOT want to buy energy-efficient equipment for the school because it will cost more. Do you think the town should or should not buy energy-efficient equipment? Why or why not?"

Make sure you: 

• Make a claim
• Support with EVIDENCE from today's reading (CLICK HERE for the entire reading!)
• Give examples of trade-offs (give up something to get something good)

Recent Worksheets

Energy Transfer and Transformation Worksheet

Activity 59 & 60 Worksheet

Activity 58 Worksheet

Types of Energy we need to know - STUDY THIS