My Science Homework

All lab groups should have data recorded from the loop plane experiment. By today, each individual should have a graph completed demonstrating a relationship between two variables in their experiment, be it speed and distance, distance and time, speed and trials, etc…
Today was the first of three days we will spend working with the […]

Students started today by brainstorming how they could represent their experimental data in graphical form. Students were encouraged to come up with the graph that would best describe their data - be it a bar graph, line graph, or pie chart. We then discussed which would best suit the different possible experiment scenarios […]

Continuing with the theme from Friday, students worked today to complete their experimental design proposals.  These proposals included a problem statement, hypothesis, description of the variables involved, and a detailed procedure they planned to follow.  Upon completion, the experimental design was approved and students then moved on to Step Two:  Conducting the Experiment.  After constructing […]

Today was the first of six days spent designing an experiment.  Taking into account all we’ve done thus far through the year, students will work in groups of three to design, conduct, and properly document an experiment centered around a small paper loop plane.
Our starting point for today was to construct the “standard” loop plane, […]

The last several days of science have been filled with math - from scientific notation to significant figures to today’s quiz over the two topics. Today we finally wrapped up that portion of this unit and moved on to defining accuracy and precision. By tying these terms in with the use and importance […]

For the second day, we discussed the importance of significant figures in science. We started today by reviewing the definition and how to determine when a value is significant or not. We then covered two new rules: how many significant figures is our answer allowed to have when we 1) Add or […]

After briefly discussing the information we learned Friday regarding scientific notation (this will be on a quiz on Thursday!) we then began working with an entirely new idea: Significant Figures. Whenever scientists are conveying measurements or other quantities, they want to be sure they are reporting the appropriate level of certainty in their […]

Today’s objectives included defining “scientific notation”, analyzing the importance and usefulness of this system, and learning the rules to convert large and small numbers into and out of scientific notation.  We started the class by taking some guided notes on the properties of Scientific Notation.  To see all of today’s slides, download the Scientific Notation […]

Today students completed their first test of the semester. The test covered the first half of our experimental design unit: the scientific method, observations versus inferences, the metric system, conversions, graphing, and variables.
Unfortunately, I’m not swift enough to grade 145 of these tests overnight, thus the grades will not show up on PowerSchool […]

Today was all about test preparation. With this being the first test of the new year, we have taken a conservative approach to the study by walking through all of the steps for proper prepration. We started today’s class by passing back some graded papers and labs. We then organized these resources […]