Eyler IBMYP 6th-8th Science

kick off: answer the following and describe why your answer is correct-

1. Review:

• Without looking at your notes, recall Newton's 3 Laws of Motion.
  
• What is the purpose of a simple machine? (change amount or direction of force, or, increase work?)

2. Interactive online activity 1: Clever Levers – http://www.enchantedlearning.com/physics/machines/Levers.shtml 

3. Interactive online activity 2: Pulleys and Levers -edheads.org/activities/simple-machines/”>

4. Tug-o-war outside: how does one use the 2nd law of motion to determine who wins a game of tug-o-war? (understanding of balanced/unbalanced forces, mass, acceleration, friction, net force)

kick off:

• Graph paper airplane data. 
• grade ch.5 worksheet
  
  

1. answer questions

2. begin Motion, Force, and Simple Machines ppt / notes

(don't forget your essays are due tomorrow)

kick off: Unit 5 Guiding Question-

How are change in position, speed, and direction recognized?

View Mr. Eyler's Helicopter Demo, then come up with examples from your own experience.

1. answer the following questions based on the toy helicopter demo:

• What evidence do you have that motion is occuring?
• Did you see a change in speed?
• How was change in speed recognized?
• What forces were acting on the objects in motion?
• Did the motion change direction?

2. Work on Marble Falls lab

3. begin Motion and Forces ppt – take notes, perform demos

kick off: grade ch.5 worksheet

1.  cont. Motion, Force, and Simple Machines ppt / notes

Note:

Don’t forget about this Friday’s Rockin C Ranch Ropes Course trip.  Have permission slips turned in asap.  Also, you can wear jeans and your IB tshirt and tennis shoes (close-toed shoes).

kick off:

1. Motion, Force, and Simple Machines ppt / notes

HW:

- Read ch.5