No, I haven't fallen off the face of Earth.

Hey folks. I apologize deeply for the lack of posting. I've been working double time trying to unpack in our new house as well as manage a classroom. A lot of give and take lately.

Now for some business.

1. Quarter 1 is complete. I have one grade left to enter tonight and it should substantially boost some grades. This is the lab report. Since it is the only grade that will be entered under "Projects" a good grade will go a long way. From what I have seen so far, none of you have much about which to worry.
2. Some assignments were not visible despite numerous attempts to make them so. This made averages appear wonky (is that a word?). All should now be visible in INOW. I NOW would like to say something to the makers of THAT program, and no, it isn't nice. By the way, our admin has done a stellar job in keeping things up and running and none of the INow issues can be faulted to them.
3. If a blank appears next to a grade in your grade report, that means the you are exempt from that assignment.
4. Homework assignments will now be ascribed 5 and 10 point values depending on the length of the assignment.

I am loving this school and this job more by the day. Thanks to all of YOU who make it fun and exciting. Keep up the good work.

Test Tomorrow

A rough week got worse with the death of a college friend. Test will be tomorrow. Make sure you touch base with me tonight if you have questions as I'll try to be on here from 8-10.

Download Notes Here

Click on this link to download the PowerPoint presentation for the Energy unit. Test is on Tuesday. Use this link to download the study guide.

Practice Problems

1. A football player has a velocity of 3 m/s. If his mass is 48 kg, what is his kinetic energy.
   
2. Double the football player's mass. How does this affect his energy?
   
3. Now double his velocity. How does this affect his energy?
   
4. A girl sits a book with a mass of 1.2 kg on a shelf that is 1.4 m high. How much potential energy does the book now have?
   

Interesting Days Tomorrow and Friday

Tomorrow, Savannah Weaver, a senior from PCA, will speak to both 7th grade classes. Savannah is a certified VFR/IFR pilot and will speak about her journey to become a pilot as well as the physics and math needed as a pilot. We welcome her.

Friday will be our first lab of the year. We will be dropping a few interesting things from some rather high spots here at the school. I will have a short lab report to fill out Monday, and we will test Tuesday instead of this Friday as originally planned. I will post our PowerPoint in the next post to keep things clean and easy to find.

Test on Friday, Sept 17

Make sure you study your Energy notes. I will post the PowerPoint on Wed. Don't wait until then to study. Also, be sure to make up your missing work.

Test Next Wednesday, Sept 8

Seventh grade will test on Newton's Laws on Wednesday, Sept 8. I wanted to test on Tuesday, but since we will be off on Monday and it's going to be a long weekend, I think it's better to wait a day. A printed study guide will go home on Thursday. Please download the notes from this link. Simply enter the letters into the captcha box, click "download file" and then wait 45 sec. for the free download link to appear. Make sure to save the file. Books for studying are available for check-out if needed. Please let me know if there are any questions.