My Science Homework

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 […]

Students continued working on the Measurement Lab from yesterday in class today. Groups were given ~25 minutes to complete the lab and then begin working on the Post Lab. The lab itself is due at the start of tomorrow’s class and no late coupons can be used. Students may complete work on […]

After a nice long Labor Day weekend, students continued work on the metric system today by beginning the Metric Measurement Lab. This lab will take 2-3 days. We will follow up on Thursday with a post-lab on the topic. The completed lab will be due in class on Thursday. Students are […]

Class started with a quick review of metric conversion principles as we swapped papers and corrected the “metric conversions” homework problem set that was assigned on Thursday. We then took a brief quiz on the content from this past week: variables, experimental design, and the metric system.
Following the quiz, students worked on a […]

This morning’s lunar eclipse was a spectacular one. Several dozen students took the time to step outside (or at least peel back a curtain) and peek out at the moon in the early morning hours (4-6am) to view the total lunar eclipse this morning. All were greeted to spectacular copper-red hues covering the […]

After briefly discussing the definition and importance of Peer Review in science in class today, we took some time to discuss tomorrow morning’s lunar eclipse that is set to occur. All students were encouraged to take the time to check out the moon early tomorrow morning on the western horizon as it will be […]