Students if you did not finish and turn in your work, using the following website (Copy and paste in the web bar address):
https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/gravity-and-orbits/latest/gravity-and-orbits_en.html
Draw motion of planets, moons, and satellites to show how gravity is the force that controls the motion of our solar system, and identify the variables that affect the strength of gravity, as well as predict how the motion would change if gravity strengthened or weakened over time.
Attention all Students: Remember to complete ALL the summaries and annotate the pictures in the picture boxes given.
Tomorrow as you work briefly on an assignment, I will be rotating amongst you and score your work out of 20 formative points. Many of you DO need the points. Do your homework. Study the remaining vocabulary that we did today in class for a possible quiz on the handout next week. More information to follow on that topic.
Students: Remember in addition to completing the four (4) summaries on the (4) passages that we read and discussed today, DO study the 11 vocabulary terms that were assigned, because we will be having a possible quiz/test on them sometime next week, before the Christmas break.
Students: Bellwork evaluation scores have been posted.
Congratulation to many of you who focused enough to get the work done upon entering the classroom, while others continue to either dilly-dally (waste time) or simply ignore the entire work.
Failure to have performed well on the bellwork is a sign of lack of focusing or not writing down the proper responses when we go over the answers.
Unfortunately, bellwork makeup DOES NOT exist. It is simply a review of what was discussed earlier to determine who is on-task upon entry and who is outside looking in!
Write a definition, a complete sentence, an example, and a non-example for each of the following 8 concepts:
Newton’s Second Law of Motion
Potential Energy
Kinetic Energy
Acceleration
Newton (not the person)
Net force
Velocity
Crater
Students: Do remember that if you are planning on doing a test retake next week, make sure you have answered CORRECTLY the review questions, since you and the classroom teacher will go over them.
When you are ready to have your study guide review verified, make sure that you have both the question sheet and the answer sheet(s). The time for verification is after school (no Mondays after school due to teachers’ meetings) or if you prefer at 7:35 am, starting on Monday.
The classroom teacher DOES wish you good luck!
The scores of Unit 1, Part 2 have been posted and the test will be discussed tomorrow, including the retake process for those who scored below 70% as a total score for both parts.
Students will be evaluated upon their daily bellwork as they enter the class and supposedly commence their work. Note that this will be a summative score.
Using their bellwork notebook as a reference source, students will have an opportunity to answer the set of the assigned very brief questions to reflect their learning processes and behavioral attitudes upon entering the classroom and how well on-task they really are as the class period begins.
Students were informed last Friday, November 30, 2018 about this coming bellwork evaluation. They have been highly advised to make sure that their bellwork notebook is up to date so that they will be ready for this evaluation.
This evaluation will definitely give parents/guardians a window into the student as s/he enters the classroom and commences the expected work and how well they are on-task on a daily basis.
Note that students will attempt to give parents/guardian excuses for lack of good performance, but it is their daily task to make sure that their daily work is up to date, as it is scored periodically.
Unit 1, Part 1 scores have been posted.
Instead of wasting time on nonessential activities, get cracking and study for Part 2 test for tomorrow.
Get off your cell phone, since it won’t get you the score that you hope for!
Students: Since you have been allowed to keep the data graph worksheet on kinetic energy in order to use it as part of your study guide for this week’s two-part test, it will be graded on Thursday in class.
Failure to have it on that day-THURSDAY, will results in 50% reduction of the score. Thus you will earn half of the credit for not having it.
At home, in my locker, left it in another room, whatever, it will all amount to the same consequence of being late.
