Thursday, May 2, 2024. Day 5

Homeroom

Sign in when entering homeroom this morning!

  • Always check with me before leaving to go elsewhere.

  • Sign out with the time and destination.

Community Service Due This Week!

  • Bring me completed sheets.

  • Total up your service.

  • If you need signatures - get them.

CLASSWORK DUE:

  • SPANISH:

  • SCIENCE: 

  • ELA:

  • CIVICS: Quiz Friday, Mock Trial

  • SCITECH:

  • MATH: Topic goals due Sunday

  • Algebra: Performance Task due tomorrow

Do Now:

Review Do Now?

Homework:

None

Today’s Agenda:

Finish Forces and Structures - Slide Presentation

  • Students to annotate note-taking packet.

  • Class identification of examples

BrainPOP SkyScrapers

Watch Video

Complete Challenge Activites

Building Big

Explore the website. focus of these topics

  • bridges

  • skyscrapers

  • dams

  • tunnels

For each:

  1. Click on the “Basics” link (e.g. Bridges Basics, Skyscraper Basics, etc.)

  2. Read the short history of each.

  3. Click the link in the text to “See the Forces…”

  4. Sketch the diagram and forces acting on each topic in color.

    • sketch on paper

Be sure you finished this:

BrainPOP Building Basics:

Bridge Types and Forces

Wednesday, May 1, 2024. Day 4

Homeroom

Sign in when entering homeroom this morning!

  • Always check with me before leaving to go elsewhere.

  • Sign out with the time and destination.

Community Service Due This Week!

  • Bring me completed sheets.

  • Total up your service.

  • If you need signatures - get them.

CLASSWORK DUE:

  • SPANISH: Selfie Project

  • SCIENCE: Bridge Sketches due!

  • ELA:

  • CIVICS: Quiz Friday, Mock Trial

  • SCITECH: Graph and Questions. Ed Puzzle

  • MATH: Topic goals due Sunday

  • Algebra: Performance Task due Friday

Do Now:

Get out your sketches.

complete the questions passed out at the dooor.

Homework:

None

Today’s Agenda:

Forces and Structures - Slide Presentation

  • Students to annotate note-taking packet.

Building Big

Explore the website. focus of these topics

  • bridges

  • skyscrapers

  • dams

  • tunnels

For each:

  1. Click on the “Basics” link (e.g. Bridges Basics, Skyscraper Basics, etc.)

  2. Read the short history of each.

  3. Click the link in the text to “See the Forces…”

  4. Sketch the diagram and forces acting on each topic in color.

    • sketch on paper

Be sure you finished this:

BrainPOP Building Basics:

Bridge Types and Forces

Tuesday, April 30, 2024. Day 3

Homeroom

Sign in when entering homeroom this morning!

  • Always check with me before leaving to go elsewhere.

  • Sign out with the time and destination.

Community Service Due This Week!

  • Bring me completed sheets.

  • Total up your service.

  • If you need signatures - get them.

CLASSWORK DUE:

  • SPANISH:

  • SCIENCE: BrainPOP Overdue

  • ELA:

  • CIVICS: GC Assignment due this AM Mock Trial

  • SCITECH:

  • MATH: .

Do Now:

Sketch and label diagrams of these five forces:

  • tension

  • compression

  • flexure

  • torsion

  • shear

Draw a vector representing a force of 250N to the right.

Homework:

Building Big due tomorrow as HW

Today’s Agenda:

Notes Check

  • Drawing Forces - Vectors

    • magnitude

    • scaling

    • direction

    • practice

  • Balanced and Unbalanced forced.

    • analyzing a diagram.

    • finding net force

    • stability

BrainPOP Building Basics:

Building Big

Explore the website. focus of these topics

  • bridges

  • skyscrapers

  • dams

  • tunnels

For each:

  1. Click on the “Basics” link (e.g. Bridges Basics, Skyscraper Basics, etc.)

  2. Read the short history of each.

  3. Click the link in the text to “See the Forces…”

  4. Sketch the diagram and forces acting on each topic in color.

    • sketch on paper

Bridge Types and Forces

Monday, April 29, 2024. Day 2

Homeroom

Community Service Due This Week!

Bring me completed sheets.

Total up your service.

If you need signatures - get them.

CLASSWORK DUE:

  • SPANISH:

  • SCIENCE: All Notes of Forces and Structures due before class.

  • ELA:

  • CIVICS:

  • SCITECH:

  • MATH: .

Do Now:

Homework:

BrainPOP Building Basics - due NLT Midnight as HW

Today’s Agenda:

Pass back quiz today, Review.

Review forces and Structures notetaking

Slides 12 - 15

use the Forces and Structures Slides

Please use paper in your notebook

  1. Diagrams of forces - sketching forces

    • tension

    • compression

    • torsion

    • flexure

    • shear

  2. force measurement Units

    • English

    • SI Syatem (metric)

  3. Drawing Forces - Vectors

    • magnitude

    • scaling

    • direction

    • practice

  4. Balanced and Unbalanced forced.

    • analyzing a diagram.

    • finding net force

    • stability

BrainPOP Building Basics - due NLT Midnight as HW

Bridge Types and Forces

Friday, April 26, 2024. Day 1

Homeroom

CLASSWORK DUE:

  • SPANISH:

  • SCIENCE: Structures Worksheet due today

  • ELA: Memorial Day Poem due Wednesday

  • CIVICS:

  • SCITECH: Paper due tomorrow. Partner work approved.

  • MATH: Topics and Goals Dynamic Practice due Sunday.

Do Now:

Homework:

Finish the forces and Structures notetaking assignment

Today’s Agenda:

Quiz Today:

  • Waves: Properties, Behavior, and communications

    • 2 parts

      • In GC - complete the Google Form

      • On Paper - complete the handout in class.

After finishing - complete the Forces and Structures Slides and Notes

  • Presentation view the slides on your own.

  • complete the notes assigned in GC

Thursday, April 25, 2024. Day 6

Homeroom

CLASSWORK DUE:

  • SPANISH:

  • SCIENCE: Structures Worksheet due today

  • ELA: Memorial Day Poem due Wednesday

  • CIVICS:

  • SCITECH: Paper due tomorrow. Partner work approved.

  • MATH: Topics and Goals Dynamic Practice due Sunday.

Do Now:

Homework:

Wave Properties, Behavior, and Communication Quiz

Today’s Agenda:

Review: Types of Structures & Strengthening Structures

Forces and Structures Slides and Notes

  • Presentation of New content

time remaining

  • Practice Quiz on GC

Wednesday, April 24, 2024. Day 5

Homeroom


CLASSWORK DUE:

  • SPANISH:

  • SCIENCE: Structures Worksheet due today

  • ELA: Memorial Day Poem due Wednesday

  • CIVICS:

  • SCITECH: Paper due tomorrow. Partner work approved.

  • MATH: Topics and Goals Dynamic Practice due Sunday.

Do Now:

Complete this Do Now problem.

Determine the wavelength, and amplitude of the wave in the “Do Now” handout.

Also calculate the frequency in FDSS format.

Assume 3 waves pass Point X in 0.15 seconds.


Homework:

Wave Properties, Behavior, and Communication Quiz


Today’s Agenda:

Review Structures: Concepts and Notes

  • pages 1 and 2 In GC

Review Practice Worksheet

  • Excercises 1 and 2

Types of Structures & Strengthening Structures

time remaining?

  • Practice Quiz on GC


Tuesday, April 23, 2024. Day 4

Homeroom

CLASSWORK DUE:

  • SPANISH:

  • SCIENCE: Simple Structure: Your Home due tomorrow

  • ELA: Webquest due tomorrow and Memorial Day Poem due Wednesday

  • CIVICS:

  • SCITECH:

  • MATH:

Do Now:


Homework:

April Break Structure Assignment due Tuesday, April 23, 2024.

Wave Properties, Behavior, and Communication Quiz

Today’s Agenda:

Wave Behavior - demonstrations - check notes

  • Reflection - laser, mirror, white paper

  • Refraction - visible light, prism

  • Absorption - laser, black paper

  • Transmission - laser, plate glass

Review Final Waves Properties, Behavior, and Communications Quiz Study Guide

Time Remaining:

Review Structure Presentations

  • Simple Structure: Your Home

    • Project in GC

Structures: Concepts and Notes

Read pages 1 and 2 In GC

complete Practice Worksheet

Excercises 1 and 2

Monday, April 22, 2024. Day 3

Homeroom

CLASSWORK DUE:

  • SPANISH:

  • SCIENCE: Simple Structure: Your Home due tomorrow

  • ELA: Webquest due tomorrow and Memorial Day Poem due Wednesday

  • CIVICS:

  • SCITECH:

  • MATH:

Do Now:


Homework:

April Break Structure Assignment due Tuesday, April 23, 2024.

Wave Properties, Behavior,a nd Communication Quiz

  • Friday, April 26.

Today’s Agenda:

Waves and Communications

How a wave transmits Digital Information.

  • Amplitude Modulation (AM) - Frequency Modulation (FM)

Wave Behavior - demonstrations

  • Reflection - laser, mirror, white paper

  • Refraction - visible light, prism

  • Absorption - laser, black paper

  • Transmission - laser, plate glass

Final Waves Properties, Behavior, and Communications Quiz Study Guide

Time Remaining Questions and Finish:

  • Simple Structure: Your Home

    • Project in GC

Friday, April 12, 2024. Day 2

Homeroom

CLASSWORK DUE:

Per other MS teachers.

  • SPANISH: Quiz today

  • SCIENCE: 

  • ELA: Extra Credit Poem

  • CIVICS:

  • SCITECH:

  • MATH:

Do Now:


Homework:

April Break Structure Assignment due Tuesday, April 23, 2024.

Today’s Agenda:

Pass back and review quiz

Rewatch: BrainPOP Analog to Digital Recording

Mapping a Digital communication system

A couple of new parents uses a technological device to make a recording while singing “Happy Birthday” to their one year old and sends it to the child’s grandparents in another state.

  • Complete the activity in GC

  • Discuss

Time Remaining - Introduce April Project in GC

After Break - Reflection, absorption, transmission of waves