Valentine’s Week!
Happy Valentine’s Week everybody! We are celebrating with an Energy Test on Tuesday (the big day).
Monday: Today in class we discussed questions from the practice test and the reviewing that everyone did over the weekend in preparation for our test tomorrow. In some classes we finished watching the rube goldburg movies.
Tuesday: We took out test! And I gave out chocolate for Valentine’s Day!
Wednesday: Today we talked about how we prepare for tests and what all of us could have done better to prepare for this last one. This included talking about having a second review day and having students come in for more extra help when they need it (and how to know when you need it). Also we started our discussion about electricity with a static electricity demonstration using balloons, the walls and water!
Thursday: Today we talked about how generators produce electricity…how they get those electrons moving. We then introduced our challenge for the Depression simulation, which is to determine the effect of a variety of factors on the efficiency of a hydropower turbine. The students were broken into groups today to begin planning their experiment regarding the water turbines. They were then each assigned to research designs over the weekend in order to come in on Tuesday prepared to offer suggestions to their groups.
Homework:
Monday: Study, test tomorrow
Tuesday: None, enjoy the rest of your Valentine’s Day!
Wednesday: Read 7.1 and complete section review
Thursday: Bring in a turbine design with notes on how to modify it for your factor that you are testing (either size of blades, shape of blades, mass of turbine, or rigidity of blades)
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