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

Energy Review From Thursday

Energy Review from Thursday

Everyone needs to make SURE they are comfortable with terms like GPE, KE, transform, transfer, efficiency. If you're not, come and see me for extra help. The test is only about two weeks away. Here are some of the answers to Thursday's questions: 

CLICK HERE FOR Mini Quiz Answers

Energy review day

Homework- bring in insulators for tomorrow's ice preserving lab! 

Activity 57 Worksheet - JIGSAW

Activity 57 The Law of Conservation of Energy

Obj: SWBAT create their own lesson on the Law of Conservation of Energy
Make sure you show Miss Klein your activity 56 analysis questions 1-4 (last nights HW)

Today:
We read our sections of the activity 57 reading
answered our activity 57 questions (3)
made a poster
ready to present tomorrow and teach the class your section

QUIZ at the end of class tomorrow after all groups present!

Activity 56- transforming KE into Thermal Energy!

Today in class:
objective: SWBAT explain how kinetic energy can be transformed into another type of energy.

KW:
Temperature: average energy PER MOLECULE of a substance
Heat: Movement of thermal energy from hot to cold

HW: finish act 56 analysis questions 1-4. (use a separate piece of paper to RAVE your answers!) 

Activity 56 Worksheet

Glossary Update

GLOSSARY:

·         Problem: the question being investigated

·         Hypothesis: an educated guess

·          independent variable: what your change in an experiment

·          dependent variable: what your measure in an experiment

·          Constants: things you keep the same in an experiment

·         Control: no independent variable; used to compare with data to see if variable affects results

·         Observation: describing something using your 5 senses

·          Qualitative: qualities of an object ex: round, blue

·          Quantitative: describing an object using number ex: 5 cm wide

·         Materials: the stuff you use in your experiment

·         Procedure: the steps you follow to test the hypothesis

·         Data: the results collected

·         Errors: mistakes made during the lab that may affect results

·         Conclusion: answer your problem question, back up your analysis with data

·         Energy: causes objects to move, change, or do work

·         trade-off: give up something to get something

·         consumption: to use up

·          potential energy: stored energy that has not yet been used

·          GPE: energy based on gravity and position above the ground

·          kinetic energy: energy of motion

·          Transfer: to move from object to object

·          Transform: to change from one form into another GPE à KE

Friction: when two forms of matter rub against each other in opposite directions; causes thermal energy

Drive a Nail FINISHED Answer Key

CLICK HERE FOR ANSWER KEY

Drive a Nail Lab Report due FRIDAY

Lab Report Set Up

E-mail jklein@ci.stamford.ct.us with questions or concerns. 

Make sure you have the following format for your lab due Friday. 
INTRO- problem, vocabulary defined, variables, hypothesis

PARAGRAPH 2: materials, initial observations (complete sentences)

PARAGRAPH 3: Procedure- in COMPLETE SENTENCES

DATA TABLES 

PARAGRAPH 4: Errors - also how to improve experiment

PARAGRAPH 5: Conclusion and analysis question answers

(recycle the questions, don't type them!)

make a cover page with your name, my name, and a picture. 

Notebook quiz Friday!

Your notebook should have the following: 

-class policies

-SEPUP safety contract

-scientific method and variables (8-28-13) 

-three kinds of variables hw ws

-scientific observations of a pen/pencil

-first NB quiz 

-energy cover page

-activity 53: home energy use

-activity 53 analysis questions 1-5

-activity 54 drive a nail (9-4-13) loose leaf paper with objective and notes on GPE, PE, and KE

-drive a nail lab report graphic organizer

-activity 55: Roller Coaster Energy (talking drawing and analysis questions) 

Drive a Nail answer key :)

Drive a Nail answer key

NEW ONLINE TEXTBOOK

Sorry about the confusion- we have a new username and password for the online textbook. 

http://ebooks.lab-aids.com/student-resources

Username: stamfordps678
Password: student

we are currently using the issues in physical science textbook (click the book to the far right)
unit D- energy

Drive a Nail Lab Report due FRIDAY Sept 13

Make sure pages 1 and 2 are completed in your lab packet by class tomorrow. Tomorrow in class you will be following your procedure and gathering data.

Sample Procedure that group 003 made up:
1. gather materials
2. grab foam block and put nail in a fresh spot 0.5 cm down
3.grab the small plastic tube and put vertically over the nail
4.hold the plastic tube- grab the small steel rod
let it drop count how many times you drop it lift up the plastic tube and continue counting
5. record results in data table

6. repeat steps 1-5 with large plastic tube and other rods.

Energy Unit Cover page requirements

Make a cover page for the energy unit
for your binder.

Must have:
- the unit title: ENERGY
- at least 3 colored pictures
- 3 vocabulary words from the unit
- a picture that represents what you think energy
means

-COLOR

Activity 53 home energy use

Remember- energy cover page due tomorrow with analysis 1-5,