Mrs. Carroll

Heat Transfer and Energy Forms

Student teams wrapped up the creation of their news presentations today and designed their insulated conatiners for the engineering challenge. If your team needs a little more time, I will come in early to meet with you on Friday.  See you around 8:15 A.M.

Tomorrow we will test the containers to see which one is best at preventing the transfer of heat. 

Several teams will also do their shows for the class.  We will finish the shows for our review on Monday.  Remember the Unit test is on Tuesday.  

Study!  Use the study guide to make sure that you have mastered everything.  Remember to do the three USA TestPrep assignments before the test on Tuesday. 

Thermal Energy review activities

Students in 4th period turned in the foldable notes on the three methods of heat transfer for a grade today.  If you were absent, make an organizer to compare conduction, radiation, and convection.  Be sure to include a definition, illustrations, and examples. 

Please study and make sure that you know your unit vocabulary!

All classes began work on a review team  project today.  Everyone will have Wednesday and Thursday to work in class.  You may need to work some at home too.  Teams will test their "Keep It Hot" design on Friday and we will also begin the presentations...at least that is the plan.  The test is next Tuesday.  

Download Unit 3 Performance Assessments

AC classes have homework tonight.  Do the CRCT practice questions on pages 304-305.   

 

Methods of Heat Transfer

Today in class students finished watching the video about heat and worked on the video questions. 

AC students need to finish this assignment for homework and turn in the notes and questions on Monday.  4th period will finish the questions on Monday during class.

AC classes completed an organizer and summary about temperature and heat.  If you were absent, please do this assignment for make up work.  Download Temperature and Heat comparison

pdf version:  Download Temperature and Heat comparison

All students:  Please finish reading chapter 10 and learn your unit vocabulary.  Remember that I posted a quizlett earlier this month to help you review your vocab. 

Three USA TestPrep assignments have been posted and should be completed before the test on Jan. 31.  That is a week from Tuesday.  My two new students have been registered and should have these assignments posted too.  Go to the assignments tab after you log in to the site; they should be there.  If anyone is having trouble with the assignment or the site, please see me asap.

Some of my 4th period students were interested in doing the  lab that AC classess are doing on Monday.  To do this you need to do the following assignment at home and show it to me at the beginning of class on Monday.   Create a foldable (like the one I showed you in class or a similar visual organizer) that compares the three methods of heat transfer.  You should include the definition, examples, and an illustration as you compare radiation, conduction, and convection.  The more details the better. 

 

Temperature and Heat Energy

Students in 4th period finished checking and correcting the directed reading assignment for C9, Sec. 1 during class today.  The directed reading assignment on sections 2 and 3 needs to be completed by Friday.  During class, we reviewed the states of matter and particle motion and then watched part of a video. 

AC classes finished presenting their energy flow charts to the class.  Next we watched a video, Heat Energy, and took notes.  Please work on the first half of the video questions tonight.  We will finish watching the video and discuss the questions tomorrow.

Download Heat Temperature and Energy Video Questions

For homework, everyone should be learning the vocabulary for this unit, reading chapter 10, and working on the USA TestPrep assignments that were posted on Tuesday.  They (3 test prep assignments) are due on 1/31, the day of the unit test.  

 

TestPrep Assignments---Homework due on 1/31

I just posted three new USA TestPrep assignments.  They are due in two weeks---Jan. 31.

USA TestPrep

Remember mabrymiddlega,  lunch number, lunch number. 

 

Energy Transformations

4th period students identified the energy transformations associated with the picture cards on the back of their energy forms organizers.  We started checking the Directed reading assignment that was submitted on Friday. 

For Homework, finish reading chapter 9 and complete the directed reading.  This assignment is due on Thursday, 1/19. 

Download Chapter 9 - Section 2 Directed Reading     

Download Chapter 9 Sec 3 Directed Reading

AC classes finished their energy transformation posters and did the CRCT practice on pages 268-269.  This grade will be posted in the FYI category on Pinnacle.  We will move on to the other topics in this unit beginning on Thursday.  Please take time to study and learn your vocabulary. 

For homework, read pages 274-286. 

Energy Lab

4th period students completed and submitted their lab for evaluation today.  For homework please do the directed reading assignment for pages 240-246.  This section 1 (What is Energy?) in chapter 9. 

Download Chapter 9 pages 240-246 Directed reading

 

Homework:   AC classes should take notes on the different forms of energy in the notes organizer. Pages are given on the handout. 

Download Forms of Energy Organizer

Energy Conservation Lab today

Download Energy Lab

4th period will finish the analysis during class tomorrow.   For homework, you should be reading chapter 9.  Use the quizlett to learn your vocab.!

Here is the link for the sim that we used to explore the relationship between KE and PE earlier in the year.  You can create a roller coaster similar to the ones that we made in class today using the double well (roller coaster) setting.  Change to the  ball  for the skater and show the bar graphs. 

Energy Skate Park

AC classes should finish the data analysis for homework tonight.  Please come early tomorrow (8:20 A.M.) if you need help. Remember that you should be showing  bars to represent the total energy, kinetic energy, and potential energy for each of the four measured track positions. 

Total energy = KE + PE  (1st period please check your math ...again.  Did you divide by 1000 to change g to kg?  Did you divide by 100 to change cm to m?  To get the weight in N, did you multiply the mass in kg by 9.8 m/s/s??  As an example:  the ball bearings should have a mass of about 28.2 g.  This is .0282 kg.  weight = .0282  x  9.8  =  .27636 N   Round to .28 N 

Unit 3 - energy Forms and Transformations

Here are the study guides for this unit.  The test is scheduled for Jan. 31, 2012.  Have you tried the Quizlett on the earlier post to help learn your vocabulary?

Download Unit 3 Study guide (Forms and Transformations of Energy)

AC study guide is a little different:    Download Unit 3 AC Study guide (Forms and Transformations of Energy)

Unit 3 vocabulary Quizlett

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