Monday and Tuesday: We worked on finishing up our movies of the Rube Goldburgs! Students are making great progress, the finished products are due on Thursday by the end of the day. They should also be preparing at home for an Energy Quiz on Thursday.
Wednesday: Today we reviewed some of the math that we’ve been using in our projects and in our understanding of energy. We reiterated the concept of the law of conservation of energy, as this is a piece that the students seem to be forgetting in their problem solving.
Homework:
Monday: None, review as needed.
Tuesday: Quiz Thursday, bring questions tomorrow
Wednesday: Study for quiz…extra practice on blog under Energy Practice in pages. The answers to the energy practice (with ALL of my work) is in a link under pages entitled Energy Practice Complete Work, use this to help you study.
Check out the video of some students working on their projects!
Tuesday: Progress is definitely evident in our rub goldburgs! Students continued to work on their projects, including a lot of testing today, and then troubleshooting how to refine their ideas.
Wednesday: We continued working on our rube goldburgs today, and they are coming along nicely. The students are now experiencing a lot of troubleshooting, which is great for letting them practice real problem solving skills.
Thursday: The rube goldburgs are almost done! Today we began filming to put together our video lab reports where the students will demonstrate their understanding of energy conversions in their machines.
Friday: We are now in full swing working on the movies of the rube goldburgs! There is much talk around the class of this kind of energy changing into that as the students seek to make a movie that proves how much they know about energy.
Homework:
Tuesday:Check your energy worksheet 2 answers (found under pages). Rework any problems that were missed. This will be checked tomorrow, so use a different color to check and rework.
Wednesday: None (practice energy problems available on blog if still having trouble)
Thursday: None (practice energy problems if you need to)
Friday: Graded energy problems (under pages) — to be turned in as a quiz grade. You may use your notes but not people. Download
Students work on construction of their Rube Goldburg machines
Monday: Today we did a lab where we played with different kinds of energy. We got to see all kinds of energy transformations and tried to explain them all using the kinds of energy that we have talked about in class.
Tuesday: Today we went over yesterdays and lab in the beginning of class. We then went through the introduction to our next big experiment, building a Rube Goldburg machine. We watched a couple of examples of some working to turn pages, shoot paint cannons and pull down an advertisement in order to get some inspiration. We then began working on our own designs for some examples, and our groups will begin planning tomorrow.
Wednesday:Today we planned in our groups for our rube goldburg projects. At the end of class we had sketches and materials lists. I will be shopping tonight for all of our materials!
Thursday: Today was our first day of construction on our Rube Goldburgs! We learned the system for keeping up with materials and tools, and the safety rules we have to follow and then we got to work.
Friday: The rube goldburgs are coming along nicely. Students got the entire period today to work on them, see the pictures in this post to experience some of the fun!
Homework:
Monday: Write a paragraph about 3 of the stations that you worked at in the lab. In each tell what kind of energy you started with, how it changed throughout the station and what it ultimately ended up as. Also include an object that uses those kinds of transformations that we didn’t see in the lab.
Tuesday: Complete the mini-rube assignment — can be found under pages.
Wednesday: Bring in stuff for rub goldburg.
Thursday: Work on rube goldburg, and practice energy math if you need it.
Friday: Complete the energy practice problems under pages (titled Energy Worksheet 2)
Note: If you were absent at all during this project, you need to check with your group to see what you can do over the weekend to make your contribution! You may take home materials that you need, or use some from your house.
We are so done with matter!! Nothing more will take up space in science…we are on to energy!
Class Progress:
Tuesday: Today we talked about our exams and what we should do to learn from the experience of taking them for the first time. We then started to talk about energy — brainstorming about what we know that doesn’t take up space and then classifying our types of energy.
Wednesday: Today we completed a webquest about energy. The students learned a lot of new stuff about energy and practiced using this new knowledge by exploring this great website ftexploring.com.
Thursday: Today we began using out new knowledge of energy and the conservation of energy to solve problems! We learned that we can find a lot of information about a situation with just a few facts because of the idea that energy is always conserved!
Friday: Today we reviewed our practice of the energy problems from last night. We talked more about how energy and convert from one form to another and how the law of conservation of energy works in things like swings, rollercoasters and ski jumps.
Homework:
Tuesday: Ch 4 section 1 review
Wednesday: Complete webquest to turn in tomorrow (or if you’re in 6th, work on it, due Friday)
Thursday: Complete “Energy Worksheet” found under pages to practice using your energy equations.
Friday: Read section 4.2 and complete the section review
Students collaborate to learn all that they can from a great energy website.
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