Goggles On!


Week of February 8th

  • Monday: Finish Projects/ Review Gravity
  • Tuesday: Newton’s First Law of Motion: CHOICE Homework
  • Wednesday: Scooter Races
  • Thursday: Newton’s Second Law of Motion: CHOICE homework
  • Friday: Scooter Races… revisited!

Week of Feb 1

We are chugging along. We will wrap up our discussion on Gravity this week with making a comic strip.

Monday: Review of Gravity concepts: Watch Bill Nye

Tuesday: Friction– the good and the bad

Wednesday- Friday: Work on Graphic Novel/Comic Strip on Gravity

Click here for comic requirements: Gravity Graphic Novel

Click here for the grading rubric:rubric gravity 2010

Graphic Novel/Comic Strip are due: Monday, February 8th at 3:30 PM.


Week of January 25th

We are plunging into the realm of forces and energy…great discoveries await us!

Monday: Practicing unbalanced forces through games. Read CH 5 Sect 2 Homework CHOICE

Tuesday: Grade homework/ Watch video on KE and PE

Wednesday: Newton and Gravity vs. Einstein and Gravity — Advanced Reading opportunity: History of Time

Thursday: Inquiry lab on Gravity

Friday: Lab: Toys in Space


Week of January 17

We will wrap-up our chemistry unit with a mid-term lab experiment on sugar in chewing gum.

  • Monday/ Tuesday: Work on lab: Conclusion and Graph due Tuesday by 3:30 PM… adequate class time will be given to complete this assignment in school
  • Wednesday: New Textbook Review/ Mythbusters
  • Thursday: Kinetic and Potential Energy– Rocket Experiment
  • Friday: Test on Independent/ Dependent Variables: Retake test from earlier this year

Extra Credit: Dr. Martin Luther King


Week of January 11th

The quarter officially ends on Friday. We wrapped up second quarter grades last week with our comprehensive atomic quiz. Grades are posted and final with the exception of students absent last week.

Monday: Review Tests/ New Textbook Review

Tuesday: Einstein’s Theory of Relativity

Wednesday: Sampling of Quantum Physics

Thursday and Friday: Design Your Own Lab: How Sweet It Is