Week of September 30, 2013

TESTING T,W,TH,F periods 1-4.

Monday- Periods 1,4  NASA spinoff technology
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBNwlC75uIo
periods 5,7,8 all week Project X

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIWTX0Ki-yQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhVK40poPs0

Week of September 23, 2013

Monday-
Highlight important boxes on rocket timeline.
Rocket terms-
video of how rockets work:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1TuxJRszVo

Begin designing rockets
groups- brainstorm- build

distance and accuracy

Tuesday-
BUILD

Wednesday- Launch, redesign, relaunch- analysis
Piece of lined paper- What design worked best.  Why?  What was the difference between the two designs and how did it change the flight?

Thursday- flight analysis due & quizzes back
Friday- finish going over quizzes
http://www.solarsystemscope.com/ 
http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/
http://www.superteachertools.com/jeopardy/usergames/Mar201009/game1267748798.php
Sometime after testing?????:
gravity-
http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/videos/physics/gravity.html
gravity slide show
http://www.slideshare.net/MMoiraWhitehouse/gravity-for-elementary-and-middle-students 
Calculate your weight on the planets- use ipads!!!!!!!!ummm or not :(
MOON- feather and hammer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eTw35ZD1Ig
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C5_dOEyAfk


 Gravity NASA eclips
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/nasaeclips/search.html?terms=%22Our%20World%3A%20Gravity%20in%20Space%22&category=0000&disp=grid

moon gravity:
http://btc.montana.edu/ceres/html/Weight/weight1.htm#exploration
gravity of planets simulator:
http://lasp.colorado.edu/education/outerplanets/orbit_simulator/
your weight on other planets
http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/weight/

http://www.williamsclass.com/EighthScienceWork/Gravity.htm

Writing assignment- what is gravity and how does it influence our solar system?
Monday- escape velocity lab

Tuesday-
Elliptical orbits-
eccentricity of moon, earth orbits
http://kaffee.50webs.com/Science/activities/Astro/Activity-Ellipses.Orbits.htm
http://www.mathopenref.com/ellipseeccentricity.html

Travel to the MOON

Moon facts
rocket?
TPS?

Week of September 16, 2013

Monday- Finish solar system sketch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk7LcugO3zg
Tuesday-
History of space travel
videos of space travel:
history
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XoXih6dkZE 
NASA rocket mission- for ipad/computer use
http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/RocketScience101/RocketScience101.html

Wednesday-
 more
http://www.havefunwithhistory.com/HistorySubjects/spaceRace.html
ISS
http://www.weather.com/video/grossest-thing-about-space-travel-36653 
animals in space
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYfjdSHQJOA
tardigrades
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W194GQ6fHI
Bill NYE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_hvH3KSkRg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_OWnlS56rE



Greatest inventions in physics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bpid0LBTqWg

Thursday-
Rocket timeline- handouts and timeline
(Complete timeline with Heading, Date, an descriptive sentence).

Friday- finish timeline

Week of September 9, 2013

Monday- Finish reading and highlighting notes
videos-
http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/StarChild.html
Start making guide?

Tuesday- Solar System walk
Homework- begin making a study guide from highlighted notes

Wednesday- 9/11
http://gretawire.foxnewsinsider.com/video/a-human-face-put-on-the-benghazi-tragedy-video-of-former-navy-seal-glen-doherty/
-Finish highlighted notes
-scale videos
http://htwins.net/scale2/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT99yhzKYWQ&feature=fvst
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEheh1BH34Q
http://www.powersof10.com/ 
Homework- finish study guide from highlighted notes. 

Interactive
http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/idealabs/universe/index.html

Thursday- Study guides due!
Guide to Universe- find the labels and construct


Friday- sketch of solar system


Assessment- 
-Sketch of solar system

Week of September 3, 2013

Monday- no school!
Tuesday-
1.  Finish Friday's work
H= finish putting data on graph

Wednesday-
1. Look at our scatter plot- Graphing worksheet. Look at graphs 1-4.  Write a statement about what the graph is telling you.
2. How Big? far? old?

Thursday-
Finish How big, far old...


Friday-Finish How big, far old...
1. Text for solar system
2. What is in our galaxy?
 http://www.brainpop.com/science/space/solarsystem/preview.weml