Roller Coaster WebQuest!

Make sure that you are working on your roller coaster web quest. Tomorrow will be our last chance to work on it during class. Also, next Tuesday will be our last day that we construct our roller coasters. You should be prepared to present your coasters to the class that Friday, April 16th!!

Don't forget, you cannot draw your design until you get the two thumbs up on the interactive site. Be sure to show me when you get it!!! Here is the website: Click here

Kinetic and Potential Energy

Here's our energy song for you guys to practice at home!!! Also,here is a link to the interesting energy website that we were dicussing in class!! CLICK HERE!!

Welcome Back!

Hope that everyone enjoyed the snow, and our time off from school! Below you can find a link to the "Science of the Olympic Games" website. This NBC website is in partnership with the National Science Foundation. Together they unravel the physics, biology, chemistry, and other science and math behind the Olympic Winter Games.

You can find videos explaining the science behind many of the olympic games including skiing, ice skating, speed skating, curling, hockey, snowboarding, and much more!

Enjoy! http://www.nbclearn.com/olympics

Quiz this Friday!!!!

Our introduction to physics quiz will be this Friday, February 5! The study guide will be posted in our classroom shortly, but I would definitely start studying everything we have learned up until this point. This would include motion,distance, displacement, speed, velocity, acceleration, and forces!!!

Mrs. Giordano and I will be at homework clinic Tuesday from 3:25 to 4:20 (as always)! Hope to see you there for some extra practice!

Bubble Gum and Shampoo?

Overall, our lab was very successful! Hopefully, by doing the marble and shampoo experiment, you were able to understand acceleration a little better, and by "chomping" on our gum in the second activity, you were able to understand how to calculate speed a little better! Were you a fast chomper or a slow chomper???

After looking at your results you seemed to really understand the purpose of both activities! Who would have thought shampoo and bubble gum could teach us all about speed and acceleration???!!!

Speed and Velocity!!!

Here's our song that we heard in class!!!! Remember, as the song says, speed is "how fast you are moving", and velocity is your "speed and direction."

QUIZ RESULTS!

Overall, I was not very impressed with the quiz scores. I'm hoping that more time and effort will go into studying for the next one! (For those of you who did study and got a good grade, Good Job! Keep up the good work!) Remember, take your time and read the question!!! I know that you know the material, but most of the problems were due to careless mistakes.

For those of you who want the extra help and study time, I'm available to stay after school for homework clinic on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:25-4:20. Also, as you all know already, Mrs. Giordano is here every Tuesday as well.

Acids and Bases Song!

Acids and Bases Have Two Different Faces
“Song Lyrics”

Acids and bases have two different faces,
Two different personalities,
And you gotta find out what they’re all about,
If you want to learn chemistry.

Now the first thing you gotta get straight in your head,
Acids turn blue litmus paper red.
They react with metals with awesome power,
They neutralize bases and taste very sour.

Bases are different from acids, it’s true,
Bases turn red litmus paper blue.
They neutralize acids, feel slippery on skin
They taste sorta bitter, and are called alkaline.

Acids and bases have two different faces,
Two different personalities,
And you gotta find out what they’re all about,
If you want to learn chemistry!

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