CPS Week 1
Monday: Summer Vacation
Tuesday: Summer Vacation
Wednesday: Syllabus rules etc. HW: Word search and definitions due tomorrow
Thursday: Explain how scence and technology are related.
List the major branches of natural science and describe how they overlap.
Describe the main ideas of physical science.
8:05: Review word search and definitions
8:15: Work and grade the chapter pretest
8:30: Notes
HW: Chapter Review 1.1 due tomrrow
Friday: Describe the steps in a scientific method
Compare and contrast facts, scientific theories and scientific laws
Explain the importance of safety in science
Explain the importance of models in science
Ch Review 1.1 Due today
8:05 Notes
8:20: Lab Format/Safety Rules
Lab Outline Due Monday: Write purpose, hypothesis, procedure
CPS Week 2:
Monday (8-25): lab outline due today
8:05: Quick Lab (Due Wed)
8:15:Notes/Introduce GPS Model project
8:25: Computer Activity: Interactive GPS site (see right)
Chapter Review 1.2 (Due Tuesday)
GPS Model due Next Tuesday
Tuesday: (8-26)
8:05 HW Review
8:15 Computer Activity: Interactive GPS site (see right)
Chapter Review 1-2 Due
GPS Model due Monday
Wednesday: ( 8-26)
Why is scientific notation useful? What units do scientists use for their measurements? How does the precision of measurements affect the precision of scientific calculations?
15 mins: precision demo
15 mins: Notes: Sci Not, measurements, precision
15 mins: discuss WS 1-1, 1-2
Thursday: (8-27)
20 mins:Scientific Notation WS, practice
20 mins: Unit Conversion WS, practice
Unit conversion WS, Scientific Notation WS due Friday
Friday (8-28)
More Scientific Notation, unit conversion practice
6-10 Unit conversion due Tuesday
CPS Week 3:
Monday: ( 9-1) No School
Tuesday: (9-2)
GPS Model Due
Review Units and conversions
Notes: Charts and Graphs: Representing Scientific Data
WS 1-3 and 1-4 Due Wed.
Big Quiz: Units and conversions Wed.
Wednesday: Big Quiz, Review Homework
Thursday: Review for Test
Friday: Test Ch 1
CPS Week 4
Monday: Why are elements and compounds classified as pure substances?
8:05 Chapter pretest
8:15-8:45: Inquiry Activity
Tuesday:Notes WS 2-1 Out, Due Tomorrow
Wednesday: Assign element project, Due Monday
Element song,
Memorize first ten elements for Friday
Thursday: 2-2 Give examples of physical properties. how can knowing the physical properties of matter be useful? What processes are used to separate mixtures? When does a physical change occur?
8:05 Demo: Dare to be Dense: -materials: glycerin, alcohol, water and vegetable oil
Spheres of oil:1/2 cup rubbing alcohol, 1/2 cup water, liquid cooking oil, eye dropper
8:15: Notes
Friday: Worksheets=Due at the end of class
CPS Week 5
Monday (9-15): Element Project Due
8:05: Demo: Burning Candle, Burning Gas, Vinegar/Baking Soda,
Tuesday (9-16): Lab P 46 Questions Due at end of class
Wednesday: When can chemical properties be observed? What observations might indicate that a chemical change has occurred? What is the difference between chemical and physical changes?
8:05: Worksheet: Physical/Chemical Changes
8:15:Sulfuric acid, sugar demo
8:30 Baking Soda message demo
8:40: Burning Steel Wool demo
Thursday: CSI Lab Due Monday
Friday: WS 2-3, and review
CPS Week 6
Monday: 9-22: Review For Test Tomorrow!!
Tuesday 9-23: Test Ch 2
Wednesday: 9-24: Finish Ch 2 Test
Pretest Ch 3, Lab-1st pg ch 3, questions due at end of class
Thursday: (9-25) Notes: Describe the five states of matter.
Classify materials as solids, liquids or gases.
Explain the behavior of gases, liquids and solids using kinetic theory
Friday (9-26) Catchup day: Review notes, Review WS 3-1
CPS Week 7
Monday: 9-29: Density worksheets due tomorrow
Tuesday: 9-30: go over density worksheets
Handback Tests
Section 3-1 Math skills +Problem solving workbook: P 10
Wednesday: (10-1) Quiz, Review Homework Problems, Introduce 2-2
Thursday: Define pressure and gas pressure
Identify factors that affect gas pressure
Predict changes in gas pressure due to changes in temperature volume and number of particles.
Explain Charles's law, Boyle's law and the combined gas law.
Apply gas laws to solve problems involving gases
8:05 Notes
8:20 Introduce equations with above laws
8:30: WS Section 2+ Math practice
Friday: WS 3-2, Post Elements
CPS Week 8
Monday: Combined Gas Law Review, Practice
Tuesday: P83: Hot air balloon videos
Wednesday:
Computer work: Answer: Who or what is a Zamboni?" Find out the historical and modern day signifigance of the Zamboni. Computer quest: Find the answers to the following questions (using links at right):
1. Is water always a liquid?
2. How does this relate to the Zamboni?
3. Just what are the three states of matter?
4. What are the molecular properties of the three states of matter?
5. Where are the three states of matter evident on an ice rink?
6. Draw a picture or diagram on paper or the computer which illustrates the three states of matter on an ice rink and the process or cycle that is occurring.
7. What does that Zamboni do? How does it work?
8. What is shaving, collecting, washing, and renewing when referring to a Zamboni?
9. What changes of state are occurring on the rink without the Zamboni? Where? Why?
10. What changes of state are occurring on the rink with the Zamboni? Where? Why? How?
Thursday: CNN Physical Science in the news,
discovery Channel online video, paragraph due at end of class
Friday: No class, Homecoming
CPS Quarter 1 Week 9
Monday:(10-13) No school-Columbus day
Tuesday: (10-14) 8:05: Notes 3-3,
8:20:Review 3-3 WS
8:30 Can crush demo
Wednesday:(10-15) Review for Test Thursday
Thursday: (10-16)Test Ch 3
Friday: (10-17) Lab: Using a glass of COLD water, an ice cube, sewing thread, and salt, complete the following mini-experiment:
1) Place the ice cube in the water. 2) Hold string about 5 cm above water with about 3-5 cm of string on the surface of the ice cube. 3) Count to 10. 4) Lift the string. What happens? 5) Repeat steps 1-2. 6) Sprinkle salt on the ice and string. 7) Count to 10. 8) Lift string. What happens?
CPS Quarter 2 Week 1
Monday: (10-20) Begin Webquest, Data Sheets due on Wednesday
Tuesday: (10-21) Work on Data Sheets
Wednesday: (10-22) Data Sheets Due
Thursday: (10-23) Describe ancient Greek models of matter
List the main points of Dalton's atomic theory and describe his evidence for the existence of the atom
8:05 Chapter Pretest
8:20: Notes: Dalton's atomic Theory
Reading Assignment: Ch 4.1 Due Tuesday
CPS Quarter 2 Week 2
Monday: 10-26 No School-Institute Day
(D)Tuesday: 10-27 Rutherford Gold Foil Lab
Wednesday: 10-28 Identify three subatomic particles and compare their properties
Distunguish the atomic number of an element from the mass number of an isotope and use these numbers to describe the structure of atoms
WS 4-2
Thursday: 10-30: Above Objectives: Yellow Atomic Structure WS
Friday: 10-31: Project workday in computer lab
CPS Quarter 2 Week 3
Monday: (11-3)Describe Bohr's model of the atom and the evidence for energy levels
Explain how the electron cloud model represents the behavior and locations of electrons in atoms
Distinguish the ground state from excited states of an atom based on electron configurations
WS 4-3
Tuesday: (11-4)(D) Work day- Powerpoint Presentations: (Sophomore Plan Test)
Wednesday: (11-5) Bohr Diagram Worksheets Due tomorrow
Thursday: (11-6)Video-Nanotechnology
Friday: (11-7)Project Workday?
CPS Quarter 2 Week 4
Monday: (11-10) Test Review
Tuesday: (11-11) Chapel
Wednesday: (11-12) Powerpoint Projects
Thursday: (11-13) Test Reschedule
Friday: (11-14) Powerpoint Submittal
Physics Week 1
Monday: Summer Vacation
Tuesday: Summer Vacation
Wednesday:Books, Syllabus, Rules etc., In class word search, HW: Define 3 word search terms Due Thur
Thursday: What is physics? Relate the steps of the scientific method.
15 mins: Review word search terms
15 mins: Notes, Galileo's thought expt., scientific method
10 mins: writing assignment:Applying scientific method to real life
HW: Writing assignment, Read P 5-Blue Box
Extension: Crossword-Sceintific method
Friday: Discriminate between the basic SI units and prefixes and what they describe
Convert measurements into scientific notation
In class writing assignment: PB +J construction,
15 Min: Notes Scientific Notation
15 Min: Notes SI Units
5 Min: Units Practice Sheet
5 Min: PB+J Write
HW 1-B: P 27: 2, 3, 8, 12, 14
Physics Week 2
Monday: (8-25) Use Significant figures in measurements and calculations
Distinguish between precision and accuracy
Sig Figs notes
Sig Figs instruction/practice
Physics Talk HW 1-C: P 27: 5, 9, 11, 20, 21,
Tuesday: (8-26) Review / Homework help HW 1C Due
15 mins: PB +J Discuss
15 mins: HW review
15 mins: Practice Problems- Metric Conversion WS 1 Due Wed.
Wednesday: (8-27) More Sig Figs, Units worksheets
Thursday: 8-28) Algebra Review Worksheets
Friday: (8-29) Dimensional Analysis HW 1-B:P 29: 5, 25, 26, 28, 31, 44
Physics Week 3
Monday (9-1) No school
Tuesday (9-2) Review Dimensional Analysis problems in class
Wednesday (9-3) Test Review
Thursday (9-4) Test Ch 1
Friday (9-5) Graphing exercises, printer installation/lab administrative day
Physics Week 4
Monday: Graphing Exercises using graphical analysis Station 1
Tuesday: Graphing Exercises using graphical analysis Station 1,2
Wednesday: Finish Graphing Exercise 2,3
Thursday: wrap up Graphing exercise 3
Friday: Graph review worksheets
Physics Week 5
Monday: (9-15) Review Graph review worksheets (from Friday)
Describe motion in terms of reference frames, distance, time and velocity.
Compare displacement and velocity
Worksheet: Signs of kinematic variables, P 69: 5,6
Tuesday: (9-16)Calculate the displacement of an object traveling at a known velocity for a specific time interval.
construct and interpet graphs of position vs. time
Wednesday: (9-17) Construct and Interpret graphs of distance vs. time and velocity vs. time
Unit II WS 1, 3
Thursday (9-18) Lab: Construct and Interpret graphs of distance vs. time
Labs due Monday
Friday: (9-19) Finish Lab, HW 2-B: 1-4, 7-10
Physics Week 6
Monday: (9-22) Describe motion in terms of changing velocity
Compare graphical representations of accelerated and non-accelerated motions
Apply kinematic equations to calculate distance, time or velocity under conditions of constant acceleration HW 2-B: P 70: 21, 22, 30, Modeling WS
Tuesday: (9-23) Review problems, java internet lab in class Homework: Do gaphs of 21, 22 above
Wednesday: (9-24) More graphing exercises, practice, go over HW
Thursday: (9-25) Internet Virtual Lab
Friday: (9-26) Review for Test Monday
Physics Week 7
Monday: Test Ch 2-1, 2-2
Tuesday: Freefall lab: graphs due tomorrow
Wednesday:Relate the motion of a freely falling body to motion with acceleration
Calculate displacement, velocity, and time at various points in the motion of a freely falling object
Compare the motions of different objects in freefall
Review freefall group lab
HW 2-D: 39, 42, 48, 54
Thursday: Review Homework, Problem Session
Friday: Freefall Worksheet
Physics Week 8
Monday: Review Triangles,
Distinguish between a scalar and a vector
Add and subtract vectors using the graphical method
Multiply and divide vectors by scalars HW 3-A: P 113: 1, 3, 7, 9, 10, 13,
Tuesday: 10-8 Vector Treasure Hunt
Wednesday: Online projectile motion lab
Thursday: Review Triangles, Vector addition Quiz
Friday: Homecoming, No class
Physics Week 9
Monday (10-13) No school- Columbus Day
Tuesday (10-14) Review for Test
Wednesday (10-15) No class-PSAT
Thursday ( 10-16) Test Freefall, Vector Addition
Friday (10-17) Recognize examples of projectile motion
Describe the path of a projectile as a parabola
Resolve vectors into their components and apply the kinematic equations to solve problems involving projectile motion.- Half Arc Problems HW 3-B: P 114: 30-34, 36, 37
Physics Quarter 2 Week 1
Monday (10-20) Full Arc Problems
HW 3-C: P 114: 35, 38, 39
Tuesday: (10-21) WS Projectile Motion
Wednesday: (10-22) Review for Big Quiz
Thursday: (10-23) Review for Big Quiz Tuesday
Friday: No school-Conferences
Physics Quarter 2 Week 2
Monday: (10-27)No School-Institute Day
Tuesday: (10-28)Test-Vectors, Projectile Motion
Wednesday: (10-29) Explain how force affects the motion of an object
Distinguish between contact forces and field forces
Interpret and construct free body diagrams
Classwork: Bookwork 4-6, vector worksheet
HW 4-A: P 151: 7-12
Thursday: (10-30) AM-EC Review Session
Online Vector Addition Lab-Due 5 minutes before the end of class
5 minutes before the end of class, print out the results sheet or let me see it, or you will not get your points
Friday: 10-31 Homework Review
Physics Quarter 2 Week 3
Monday: (11-3) Explain the relationship between the motion of an object and the net external force acting on it
Determine the net external force on an object
Calculate the force required to bring an object into equilibrium
WS-Equilibriants
HW 4-B: 1-6
Tuesday: (11-4) Describe the acceleration of an object in terms of its mass and the net external force acting on it
predict the direction and magnitude of the acceleration caused by a known net force
Identify action/reaction pairs
Explain why action reaction pairs do not result in equilibrium
HW 4-C: 13,15,17,19,20,21,23,25
Wednesday: (11-5) (D) Newton's Laws Inquiry Lab
Thursday: (11-6) Lab: Goal Find the Relationship between Fn and Ff
Friday: Car Crash video, video notes due at the end of class
Physics Quarter 2 Week 4
Monday (11-10) Finish Force of Friction Inquiry Lab
Tuesday: Finish Lab
Wednesday: (11-12) (D) Describe air resistance as a form of friction
Use coefficients of friction to calculate frictional force
In Class: Friction Worksheet
HW 4-D: P 153: 31, 34, 35, 37
Thursday: Crate Problems HW 4-E P 153 39, 41, 42
Friday:(D) (11-12) Review Crate Problems
AP Physics Week 1
Wednesday: 10-1-10-2 Intro to Thermo,
Describe the changes in temperature between two objects reaching thermal equilibrium
Graph to derive equations for temperature measurements
Convert between different units of temperature measurements HW 10-A P 327: 1, 2, 5, 6, 9,
Thursday: 10-3-10-4 Linear and Volumetric Expansion, HW 10-A in, HW 10-B out: 10, 14, 18, 20, 22
Friday: 10:5:State assumptions of the ideal gas model
Solve problems using PVnRT
AP Week 2
Monday (8-25): 10-6:.State assumptions of the KMT model State connection between temp and mean translational KE and apply it to determine the mean speed of gas molecules
Hw 10-B in
HW 10-C: 32, 37, 42
Tuesday (8-26)
Friday: 11.1-11.3Understand the mechanical equivalent of heat
Determine how much heat must be added to a sample of a sbustance to raise its temperature from one specified value to another, or to cause it to melt or vaporize
11.4 Understand heat of fusion, heat of vaporization to determine how much heat must be added to a sample of a substance to raise its temperature from one specified value to another, or to cause it to melt or vaporize.
Identify (using a graph) relating the quantity of heat added to a substance and its temperature, the melting point, and boiling point and determine the heats of fusion and vaporization and the specific heat of each phase
Hw 10-C: P 353: 1, 3, 4, 13, 15, 24, 32
Wednesday: (8-27) Homework Review, Addl Practice Problems
Thursday: (8-28) Lab: Latent heat of fusion
Friday: (8-29) Review for Test
AP Week 3
Monday: No School
Tuesday ( 9-1) Test Ch 10, 11
Wednesday: (9-2) Test Ch 10, 11 Part II
Thursday: Review Test Answers
Friday: 12-1, 12-2 Apply the 1st law of thermodynamics to relate the heat absorbed by a gas, the work performed by the gas, and the internal energy change of the gas for any of the processes above.
:Lab Ch 11 due
AP Week 4
Monday: Understand the 2nd law of thermodynamics, the concept of heat engines
compute the maximum possible effciiency of a heat engine operating between two given temperatures HW 12-B P 385: 23, 24, 27, 28, 33,
Tuesday: Understand the concept of entropy
HW 12-C P 385: 36- 39
Wednesday: 15-1-15-3Understand laws of attraction and repulsion
Identify the source of electric charge in an atom
Differentiate between insulators and conductors
Use coulomb's law to find the force between two point charges
Coulomb's law ctd
HW 15-A: P 491: 4, 7, 8, 10, 12,
Thursday: 15-4: Analyze the electric field due to point charges or a combination of point charges
HW 15-B: 17, 21,
Friday: Review homework, AP/Wyse Test Practice
AP Week 5
Monday: Define the electric field inside and outside of a conductor
Identify Equipotentials in a given situation
Van De Graff generator
Tuesday: Define electric potential
16-2: Determine the electric potential in the vicinity of one or more point charges
16-3: Identify potentials on charged conductors
Wednesday: Review for Test
Thursday:Test Ch 12, 15
Friday: Lab-Equipotentials
AP Week 6
Monday: (9-22) Relate capacitance to charge, area and distance between plates HW 16-B: P 524: 25-27,
Capacitor Demos
Tuesday: (9-23) Test Extension
Wednesday: 9-24 Relate capacitance to charge, area and distance between plates
Thursday: (9-25): Determine how to add capacitors in series and parallel
Calculate the energy stored in a charged capacitor, Compare capacitors with dielectrics to those without dielectrics HW 16-B Due
Friday: (9-26) Capacitor Cooperative learning
AP Week 7
Monday: Capacitor Online Lab
Tuesday: Calculate the energy stored in a charged capacitor, Compare capacitors with dielectrics to those without dielectrics HW 16-B Due
Wednesday: 17-1-17-5
Understand the definition of electric current to relate the magnitude and direction of the current in a wire or ionized medium to the rate of flow of positive and negative charge
Relate current and voltage for a resistor
Describe how the resistance of a resistor depends on the length and cross sectional area Hw 17-A
Thursday- HW Review-, AElectric energy and power HW 17A Due, Hw 17-B:
Friday: Test Review
AP Week 8
Monday: Test Ch 16, 17
Tuesday: Calculate the equivalent resistance of a set of resistors in series and or parallel and find the current through and potential difference across each.
Identify whether resistors are in series or parallel.
HW 18-A
Wednesday: Design a simple series parallel circuit that produces a given current through and the potential difference across one specified component and draw the resulting diagram using conventional symbols
Use ohm’s law and Kirchoff’s rules to determine a single unknown current, voltage or resistance
Interpret and construct circuit diagrams
Thursday: Analyze the use of fuses in a circuit diagram
Friday: No class- Homecoming
AP Physics Quarter 1 Week 9
Monday: No School-Columbus Day
Tuesday: Describe magnetic fields produced by magnets
Calculate the magnetic force on a long, straight wire and determine the direction of the magnetic field, the current, and the magnetic force by using the right hand rule
Wednesday: Determine the magnitude and direction of the force on a wire carrying current in a magnetic field
Thursday: 2 wires producing magnetic field, RHR
AP Physics Quarter 2, Week 1
Monday: ( 10-20) Test
Tuesday: (10-21) We will start notes for chapter 20 tomorrow. Use the link at the right for flux demos. Pan down on that webpage to chapter 21 to find the flux demos and explore those today. Each class member should pick an exclusive applet on which to write a brief report on. Reports due tomorrow for a daily grade.
Wednesday: (10-22) Calculate the flux of a uniform magnetic field through a loop of arbitrary orientation
Recognize situations in which changing flux through a loop will cause an induced emf or current through the loop
Thursday: (10-23)Calculate the magnitude and direction of the induced emf and current in a square loop of wire pulled at constant velocity into or out of a uniform magnetic field
Examine a loop of wire placed in a spatially uniform magnetic foeld whose magnitude is changing at a cosntant rate
Examine a moving loop of wire and a moving conducting bar
AP Physics Quarter 2 Week 2
Monday: (10-27) No School-School Institute
---Tuesday: (10-28) Identify the different frequencies and wavelengths of light
Show on a diagram the directons of reflected and refracted rays
Determine how the speed and wavelength of light change when light passes from one medium into another P 682: 50-54, Wave worksheet and electromagnetic Spectrum Worksheets due tomorrow
---Wednesday: (D) (10-29) Use snells law to relate the directions of the incident ray and the refracted ray and the indices of refraction of the media
Huygens principle,
Thursday: Practice Problems
Friday: Identify conditions under which total internal reflection will occur.
AP Physics Quarter 2 Week 3
Monday: 11-3 Rainbows, dispersion
Relate the focal length of a spherical mirror to its center of curvature
Given a diagram of a mirror with the focal point shown, locate by ray tracing the image of a real object and determine whether the image is real or virtual, upright or inverted enlarged or reduced in size. HW 23-A
Tuesday 11-4 : understand image formation by converging or diverging lenses :
1. Determine whether the focal length of a lens is increased or decreased as a result of a change in the curvature of its surfaces or in the index of refraction of the material of which the lens is made or the medium in which it is immersed.
2. Determine by ray tracing the location of the image of a real object located inside or outside the focal point of the lens, and state whether the resulting image is upright or inverted, real or virtual.
3. Use the thin lens equation to relate the object distance, image distance, and focal length for a lens, and determine the image size in terms of the object size.
4. Analyze simple situations in which the image formed by one lens serves as the object for another lens.
Wednesday: 11-5: Quiz- Lenses, diffraction
Thur: (11-6)Thin Film Interference
Friday: (11-7) Review Sheets- Test Next Tues, Thur
AP Physics Quarter 2 Week 4
Monday: (11-10) Review for Test
Tuesday: Chapel
Wednesday:Analyze and evaluate atomic physics and quantum effects
Photons and the photoelectric effects.
HW 27-A: Ch 27: 4, 5, 13,
Thursday: Test Ch 20-24
Friday: Test Ch 20-24