Agenda:
- Update Insulator Schedule
- Design/Build Insulators

HW:
- Complete front side of Planning Sheet
- Insulator Lab - DUE Tuesday

Journal #47

Draw a quick sketch of your idea for your insulator design.

Explain why you think this insulator will work and how it will reduce the amount of heat energy lost.

Agenda:
- Pass Back Papers
- Intro Insulator Lab

HW:
- Ideas for Insulator Lab - DUE Tomorrow
- Insulator Lab - DUE Friday

Journal #46

What is an insulator?

What makes a good insulator? Why?

What makes a bad insulator? Why?

Agenda:
- Pass Back Papers
- Intro Insulator Lab

HW:
- Ideas for Insulator Lab - DUE Tomorrow

Journal #46

What is an insulator?

What makes a good insulator? Why?

What makes a bad insulator? Why?

Agenda:
- Collect 10.1 - 10.3
- Heat Video

HW:
Have a great Thanksgiving!

No Journal Today

Agenda:
- Finish Energy Transfer Observations
- Ch. 10.1 - 10.3

HW:
- 10 Questions w/ answers from Ch. 10.1-10.3 - DUE Tomorrow

Journal #45

What is conduction?

How does conduction help explain why the aluminum block melted the ice faster than the plastic block?

Agenda:
- Grade Energy Transfer Lab
- Grade S&A 9.1-9.5
- Energy Transfer Observations

HW:
None

Journal #44

What are one difference and one similarity between the 3 types of energy transfer you saw in the lab last week?

When you touch and object that feels cold, what is happening on a molecular level?

Agenda:
- Correct KMT Reader Q's
- Finish Energy Transfer Lab

HW:
- Energy Transfer Lab - DUE Monday
- S (with answers) & A from SCAN & RUN for Ch. 9.1-9.5 - DUE Monday

Journal #43

What is Kinetic Molecular Theory?

What is the difference between heat and temperature?

Agenda:
- KMT Demo (journal)
- KMT and Heat Reader
- Begin Energy Transfer Lab

HW:
- KMT Reader Questions - DUE Tomorrow

Journal #42 (with demo)

1. Write down at least 3 observations of the demo with food coloring and liquid.

2. What additional information/data do you need to know to better understand the demo?

3. What are some possible reasons the food coloring spreads out differently in one container than the other?

Agenda:
- Grade Roller Coaster Lab
- Discuss Conservation of Energy ws

HW:
None

Journal #41

Draw a picture of a roller coaster hill. Label the top of the roller coaster with 200 J of GPE. Using that info, write how much KE and GPE the roller coaster has at the top, bottom, and halfway down the hill.

Agenda:
- Assignemnt Sheet
- Pass Back Papers
- RC Lab Work Day

HW:
- Roller Coaster Lab - DUE Wednesday

Journal #39

How can you find Kinetic Energy without knowing the velocity?

What do you like best about the roller coaster you designed? Why?

Agenda:
- Journal Quiz
- Roller Coaster Lab

HW:
None

No Journal Today

Agenda:
- Roller Coaster Lab

HW:
- Journal Quiz - Tomorrow

Journal #38

Make a hypothesis about why the first hill of a roller coaster is always the highest.

What is one feature you know you want in your roller coaster?

Agenda:
- KE/PE ws (field trippers)
- Roller Coaster Pre-Lab

HW:
- Journal Quiz - Thursday
- Roller Coaster Pre-Lab - DUE Tomorrow

Journal #36

The top of the first hill of a roller coaster is 150 m. If the mass of the car is 1000 kg, what is the GPE of the car?

If the lowest point of the roller coaster is 1 m above the ground, what is the maximum KE the roller coaster can have?

Agenda:
- Grade KE/PE ws
- Tests & Papers Back
- Bowling Ball Demo

HW:
- Journal Quiz - Thursday

Journal #36

King Kong has 1400 J of GPE at the top of the Empire State Building. How much KE does he have?

If Kong jumps, how much GPE and KE does he have halfway between the top and the ground?

Agenda:
- Collect any Late/Abs. Work
- Finish Energy Notes
- KE/PE ws.

HW:
- KE/PE ws. - DUE Monday

Journal #35

List 5 “real life” items that have Kinetic Energy.

What do you think Potential Energy is? What would be an example of something with Potential Energy?

Agenda:
- Work/Power Problems
- Energy Notes

HW:
- All Late/Abs. Work - DUE Tomorrow

Journal #34

How much work does it take for a weightlifter to exert 500 N of force on a barbell to lift it 2 meters?

Generate a list of at least 5 different types of energy.

Agenda:
- Grade How Powerful Are You? and Ch. 6 Q's
- Work & Power Problems

HW:
- All Late/Abs. Work - DUE Friday

Journal #33

Based on the scientific definition of work, answer the question from yesterday:

What takes more work: lifting a 10 Newton ball 10 cm or holding a 100 Newton ball for 10 minutes? Why?