October 26, 2015

Today, we got our tests from Friday back. We started working on our rockets again and started on making fins for them.

9-30-15

Today we did and (some struggled) on a work sheet helping us review tension problems for the test friday.

September 28

Today we learned 2D force problems with blocks on ramps and such...
We also learned that we no longer live in the perfect, frictionless problems
We worked problems the whole class period and Mac worked them through with us
We have to do that worksheet for homework
(BTW- Extra Credit Webassign due Thursday)

September 21

This is for Monday. So we went over the sheet from Friday of the force diagrams and .... we got it. Then mac started teaching......
Newton's Third Law.
We got all these "F"s now
Force of Friction: (how to solve for Ff)
Fs= mu x FN (normal force)

September 14th- We reviewed type 3 kinematics.

September 15th- We reviewed for Thursday's test by working problems and playing trashketball.

September 16th- Test!

Thursday, September 10, 2015

Today we reviewed practice problems from the day before and learned how to work certain type 3 problems on the Webassign homework. The rest of the time was spent working on the Webassign homework due tonight and on practice problems.

September 8,2015

Today we worked two whole problems on 2-D kinematics! Tomorrow we will do a lab.

Friday August 21

Today our class took a quiz over 1D Kinematics. The quiz took the entire class period.

Tuesday Sept 1

Today we learned how to do classic river problems by watching Maj Mac do an example, then we did 4 practice problems to review the concept.

Monday, August 31

Today in class we went over our test from Friday, and worked two more kinematic problems.

Wednesday, August 26

This was supposed to have been for Wednesday. So on Wednesday, we practice what was suppose to be 8 free fall and kinematics problems but if you were like my group, we got to #5. According to Mac, those ranked on a scale of 1 to 5 were a 2 so ya better start praising the Lort, so we can shine bright like...

Thursday August 27th

Today we did a review for the test tomorrow in the lab. Everyone study because you know you need it. #RipT.O.

Tuesday, August 25,2015

Today we learned more about 1D Kinematics and Free Fall. Webassign HW due tomorrow night before midnight.                                                                                                                                                                            

Wednesday 9/19/15

Today in class we did a review for the quiz. We worked 4 problems on velocity and acceleration. After that we went into the lab and finished our position vs. time labs.

Tuesday August 18th: Hot Wheel Lab; Finding Acceleration

Today we began our hot wheels acceleration lab, in which groups chose 5 distances to time as the car raced by. We measured the velocities of each distance and calculated the percent error. Each group graphed a Position V. Time graph and found 3 tangent lines in order to create a Velocity V. Time graph. From there, we found the acceleration of the race car at the various distances. We will finish the lab on Wednesday, Aug. 19th.

Monday August 17th, 2015

Yesterday in class we dealt with the visual representations of acceleration over time, velocity over time, and position over time. I thought it was pretty cool that all 3 graphs could look different at the same time while showing the same information.  For example this shows an object in motion with a non zero constant acceleration.


We also discussed that major mac doesn't know what Awana's is...

August 14th, 2015

We went to the football field to create speed vs time and velocity vs time graphs to show the differences in information you can tell from each type of graph.

I hope our graph looks something like this to show the change in direction that Patrick and Tyler demonstrated.

8/13/15
Today we finished our vector treasure maps. Afterwards we took notes on the difference between speed and velocity.

speed= distance/time                                    velocity= displacement/ time 

Tuesday 8/12/15

We made Vector treasure maps outside and found distance and displacement data so that tomorrow we could see if other group could read our treasure vector map correctly.

Monday 8/10/2015

--We went over distance vs. displacement and worked sample problems in class.

--Maj. Mac also went over BlogSpot and webassign.

Class Blog

As an educator, I am coming to the uneasy realization that the our relationship with information is shifting in profound and unprecedented ways.

Educators are no longer the keepers of knowledge. Google and Wikipedia are. Students no longer need to wait for the teacher to deliver the information; the information is already in their pocket. 

This is the reason for our class blog. I want the blog to be a place where we create content, share ideas, and collaborate with out classmates. My goal for the blog is for it to represent a summary of our class’s activities and a consensus of what we think is important. Individuals will not own individual blog posts. We collectively own the whole body of work. We are all contributors.

Each night, a team of bloggers will be assigned to work on the blog.  They will be responsible for summarizing our class’s activities since the last class. This summary can be entirely text, but feel free to get creative.  It will be the job of the rest of us to serve as editors and fact-checkers.  Non-bloggers won’t be graded, but still have a responsibility to check previous blog posts for errors or omissions. This is a very important job; we don’t want our blog contributing to the abundance of misinformation out there. Anyone should also feel free to spice up any previous post with pictures, links, video, or other online content.  Be creative. 

Grading

Your contributions to the class blog will constitute as a lab grade each quarter. 

 Grades will be out of 10 points and will be based on the following rubric:

Bloggers

9-10 Points	6-8 Points	1-5 Points	0 points
Your post is thorough, accurate, thoughtful, and complete. You clearly summarize the class activities and discuss relevant skills, concepts, terminology, and due dates.  You also effectively utilize multimedia.	Your post contains a basic summary of the class activities without multimedia. It is insufficiently deep and/or contains several errors.	Your post shows very little thought and/or is highly inaccurate.	You did nothing or posted something inappropriate.