Monday, September 30, 2013

HW Due Wed Oct 2

Finish Pre-Lab
Hypothesis, Variables, Procedure, Data Table
Take Data
Create a Graph

How does --- affect pulse rate?

Planet exploration:  12 Strangely Beautiful Alien Worlds You Really Wouldn't Want To Live On

Objectives:
  • Designing experiments
  • Working with data
  • Drawing Conclusions

Class Activity:

How does _____ affect pulse?  Why?

Pulse Lab:  Google Doc Investigation


Beating heart with blood flow from hybrid medical animation on Vimeo.

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

HW Due Thurs Sept 12

Finish Eclipse Gizmo and upload
Finish lab write up and put in Drive folder Space Tech

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Eclipse and Lab Write Up

Objectives:

  • Understand why eclipses occur
  • Communicate lab results


Classwork

  • Finish Eclipse Gizmo
  • Write up lab graphs and conclusions
  • Meet with Mr. Fox on PLP's

Monday, September 2, 2013

HW: Due Tues Sept 10

Finish the Eclipse Gizmo doc and upload it to the Eclipse Folder in Google Drive.

Eclipses and PLPS

Why do eclipses happen?  What are you interested in?

Objective:
  • Explore the causes and geometry of eclipses
  • Brainstorms and formulate a research question
Class
  1. Quick discussion:  Infographics, How far is the moon from the earth?
  2. Investigate eclipses through the Eclipse Gizmo
  3. Download Eclipse word doc to your desktop
  4. When you have completed the doc upload the assignment to the Eclipse folder

  1. Meet with Mr. Fox independently to discuss your Strengths and Interest form, possible interests and concepts.  Begin formulating a topic of your interest that you can investigate, experiment, explore, and share.