11/06-11/09 Simple Machines 1-2
Use Machines 1 packet (in documents to go along with the lab 1 of this link:
http://aspire.cosmic-ray.org/javalabs/java12/machine/index.htm
Write answers on lined paper and add it to you folder.
SciFi Reading/Book Reoports due today!
11/04 Simple Machines 1-2
(must leave flight lessons until after our next teleconference)
Materials: Internet access, paper marker or pen, pencil, wedges, blocks
Objectives: Understand the terms of Work, Inclined plane, lever, screw, wedge
Think about this...How much work did you really get done? How can you know?
Procedure: Open the Simple Machines 1-2 PPT. Follow the instructions. Ask for material when needed.
Take notes for yourself and add to your folder. Include drawings, combination notes, Frayer model, outline- however you prefer to take notes. There will be a test.
BOOK REPORT DUE NEXT FRIDAY CLASS!!!
Title: Plane Math Web/Mean/Median/Mode
Materials: Internet access
Objectives:
Intro:
Lesson: Do the
PlaneMath Enterprises Training using the PlaneMath link in the links section of this webpage.
Write the Plane Math Vocabulary in your notes using complete sentences (feel free to include pictures to help you remember the meaning of any new terms):
1. Bernoulli's Principle
2. lift
3. air pressure
4. direct relationship
5. inverse relationship
6. weight
7. gravity
8. thrust
9. drag
10. streamlined
11. bulky
12. aerodynamic
13. cruising (or level flight)
14. wind tunnel
15. What is the formula for area?
16. What is Aspect ratio?
17. How is Aspect Ratio related to drag?
Add the following terms to your notes as well. You may include examples in the definitions you write.
18. The Mean
The arithmetic mean is another name for the average of a set of scores. The mean can be found by dividing the sum of the scores by the number of scores.
For example, the mean of 5, 8, 2, and 1 can be found by first adding up the numbers. 5 8 2 1 = 16. The mean is then found by taking this sum and dividing it by the number of scores. Our data set 5, 8, 2, and 1 has 4 different numbers, hence the mean is 16 ÷ 4 = 4.
19. The Median
The median of a set of data values is the middle value once the data set has been arranged in order of its values. To find the mean of 2, 9, and 1, first arrange in order: 1, 2, 9. The median is the middle number or 2.
If you have an even number of values such as 1, 2, 5, and 8, the median is the average of the two middle numbers. The median for 1, 2, 6, and 8 is the average of 2 and 6 = 4.
20. The Mode
The mode of a set of data values is the number in the set that appears most frequently. For example, the number 5 appears three times in 1, 2, 5, 5, 5, 8, 8, 9. Since the number 5 appears the most times, it is the mode. A set of numbers that can have more than one mode, as long as the number appears more than once. In the data set 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5. The mode is 2 and 3. We also can say that this data set is bimodal.
Remember that you have Book Reports due soon! Friday will be a SciFi Friday- Have your Book!
10-27 & 11-2
I believe I can Fly
Materials: Computer with Internet access, paper, pencil, class folder, agenda
Objectives: Students will compare and contrast boats and planes.
Intro: Discuss what compare and contrast mean and how to demonstrate them.
Lesson: Using the link, read all of the following and answer the questions on the lined paper:
Air is stuff, Why can't we fly like the birds?, How are balloons like boats?, How does a jet fly?, Can YOU fly?
1. How high can a person jump? How far?
2. How long can you stay in the air?
3. Define each of the 4 forces of flight: weight, lift, thrust, drag.
4. How much pressure are you under?
5. Why doesn't all this pressure squash you like a pulp?
6. What stuff is makes air?
7. How does buoyancy lift a balloon?
8. How Is the atmosphere like the ocean?
9. How do birds fly?
10. What makes a wing work?
11. Name a milestone of flight.
12. Explaining Lift
Describe the Momentum Explanation of Lift
Describe the Circulation Theory of Lift
13. Why is pressure a drag?
14. Why Is friction a drag?
15. Why are whirls off the wing tips also a drag?
http://www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/GAL109/NEWHTF/HTF541B.HTM
Finish Mission Patch submittal:
Students will take turns scanning their Mission Patch and saving their essay to the flash drive.
Cut out the patch original and essay, paste the essay on back of Mission Patch.
Exit ticket today: In your own words-
- Air is stuff, Why can't we fly like the birds?
- How are balloons like boats?
- How does a jet fly?
- Can YOU fly?
10/23-10/26 Lift
Title: Lift- The Collapsible Paper Tent
Materials:
1. A pen or pencil and paper
2. 3 x 5 inch note card for each student (you may use your exit ticket)
3. Exit ticket is the same as #2
Objectives:
. Discrepant Event activities will help students understand Bernoulli’s Principle by writing their own Principle of Lift.
Lesson:
Activity: Discrepant Event activity
1. Distribute the note cards to each student.
2. Fold the cards in the center to form a tent structure.
3. Place the folded tent note card on a desk or table and try to blow the card off the
desk or table by blowing underneath it.
4. Predict what will happen before you blow under the folded tent note card.
5. Make a sketch of what was observed. Use thick arrows to indicate stationary (or
slower moving) air, thinner arrows for faster moving air, and a line arrow to
indicate the motion of the paper strip.
Summary: Stationary air exerts pressure. Flowing air exerts less pressure as compared to
stationary air. The faster the flow, the lower the pressure it exerts. By blowing
underneath the card, you actually created less pressure underneath the paper, so that
the pressure above the paper became larger than below the paper, and this is why the
card got pressed down against the table.
Assignment:
Exit Questions:
1. What did you observe when blowing underneath the paper tent? Describe the movement of the paper tent.
2. Stationary air exerts equal amounts of pressure on all sides of an object. What is different about the air on top of the paper compared to the air below?
3. What is Bernoulli's Principle? (may need to research)
Mission Patch due next class. (due )
URLs
http://nasadln.nmsu.edu/dln/admin/media/download.jsp?file_id=71
Wednesday will be a SciFi Wednesday! Bring your book!
10/21-10/22 Discovering NASA & You (Post Test)
Did you pay attention during the teleconference?
On lined paper, complete the Teleconference Post-test to turn in with your exit ticket. This is not an open internet test...
1. In what year was NASA created?
2. Who was the first American in space?
3. What was the name of the program that sent astronauts to the moon?
4. What was the name of America’s first space station?
5. How is the space shuttle remarkable?
6. How has the Hubble Space telescope advanced our understanding of our solar system, galaxy, and universe?
7. How big is the International Space Station?
8. What are the names of the rovers that are currently exploring the Martian surface?
9. What is the main goal of Project Constellation?
10. What is the importance of building a lunar base?
Next,
Continue with the rough drafts of the Buzz Lightyear Commemorative Mission Patch sketch and the essay to go with it.
When you are ready, get your idea approved and get the final drawing sheet from another galaxy.
Type your essay on the computer. We will have peer editing done on it when you are ready.
We will do astronaut training at 2:10. Someone please remind the absent-minded professor ;)
Exit Ticket
Add the new quarter dates for this class from the calendar to your Agenda.
10/19-10/20
Debrief Teleconference
NASA Assignment
Brain Break Review
Class Summary- turn in all work from folders
Time to work on NASA Assignment
Visit the Mission Patch Design Challenge link. You will be completeing the challenge for an assignment. The best 3 from KSTM will be entered into the contest.
Research Buzz Lightyear
Research Mission Patches
Come up with an idea and sketch a design.
Write the 100 word Essay (about your choices and the symbolism) and finalize the Mission Patch drawing.