Mr. Schnitger

Tuesday May 17, 2011

8th Grade Science:
Review Rocket Car Requirements, share the links on the blog.
Watch some of the Balloon Rocket car videos
Students will have time to design cars and prepare materials lists for the car they want to build.
 
I will give students one balloon when they are ready to build if the balloon is popped or broken for any reason students will have to "purchase" a new balloon with point deductions from the final grade they will recieve. 

7th Grade Science: 
External and Internal Exam Pre-Dissection videos. 
HW:  Coloring Page for open notes quiz at the end and idetification help. 

Monday May 16, 2011

8th Grade Science:
Tomorrow we will be starting our balloon car activity here are the requirements:
BALLOON CAR RACE
The balloon car race project is designed for students to use the information they learned (simple machines, Newton's three laws, speed acceleration, friction, ect.) to design a balloon powered car.

• The Balloon is a 9 inch balloon.
• Students will blow up the balloon to a maximum size (there will be a quage that the balloon will fit into) and placeit on the car.
• The car will be placed on the starting line and the balloon is released.
      Students will have 3 tries will be used for the final distance.
      The average of the 3 tries will be used for the final distance.
      The furthest average distance will get the highest grade (100), the next longest distance gets a 99, and the grade goes down by on point for each shorter distance.
• The car cannot be a pre-made car like a hotwheels, or RC (remote controled) car.  It must be made from scratch using materials from home or in the classroom and cannot use any other form of propulsion other than the balloon.

Links for Balloon Car Race Research

http://www.mrg-online.com/car.htm

http://www.biglearning.com/article-balloon-car.htm

http://quest.nasa.gov/space/teachers/rockets/act2ws1.html

http://sciencesquad.questacon.edu.au/activities/balloon_powered_car.html

http://www.ehow.com/how_6199370_make-balloon-race-car.html

http://connected.waldenu.edu/curriculum-resources/educational-games/item/1007-how-to-build-balloon-race-car-a-high-school-student

http://www.trimble.k12.ky.us/tchsweb/teachers/njones/2009-10%20School%20Year%20Stuff/PhysicsPowerPoints/Ch.%206/Building%20Balloon%20Racers.pdf

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Balloon-Car

http://www.suffolkmaths.co.uk/pages/Maths%20Days/St%20Albans%20MathsDay1/Balloon%20Car%20Racers.pdf

http://pbskids.org/zoom/activities/sci/ballooncar.html

http://www.ehow.co.uk/how_7225663_build-balloon-race-car.html

Balloon Cars will be made on Wednesday and 25 minutes in class on Thursday.  No more building will be allowed after that. 
Students get three tries to accumulate the highest average.  Not retries

7th Grade Science:
Today we will be preparing ourselves for our Frog Dissection that will be taking place Wednesday or Thursday or Thursday and Friday depending on how long it takes us to prepare for it. 
Monday:  Body Worlds DVD
HW:  None
Tueaday:  Frog Preparation Video # 1 and Frog Dissection Video # 2Coloring Page
HW: Finish Frog Dissection Coloring Page
Wednesday:   Frog Prep. and External Frog Dissection
HW:  NONE
Thursday:  Internal Frog Dissection and Frog Organ Identification
HW:  NONE
Friday:  Internal Organ Identification Quiz
HW: None

Wednesday May 4, 2011

7th Grade Science:
Human Preformance Projects:  Work on presentations the due date has been moved to Monday May 9, 2011

8th Grade Science:
Bottle Rocket Research and Build Day:  Make sure you are getting checked off on the things listed below do the first thing then move on to the next one.
Checklist: 
Rough Draft Materials List
Rough Draft Design
Final Materials List
Final Design Drawing with accurate Metric Demensions
Final Rocket Build # 1
Launch Time # 1
Final Rocket Build # 2
Launch Time # 2

 

Bottle Rocket Research Sites

Download Water rocket web sites  open this word doc and use the sites to research ideas for your bottle rockets. 
We will have one and a half days for research and design and 1.5 days to build the rocket with a test launch scheduled for Monday May 9, 2011

Tuesday May 3, 2011:  Research and Design Day
Wednesday May 4, 2011:  Research Design and Start Building
Thursday May 5, 2011:  Build (any build that is not finish by the end of class on Thursday must be completed over the weekend)
Friday:  Olympic Field Day

Checklist: 
Rough Draft Materials List
Rough Draft Design
Final Materials List
Final Design Drawing with accurate Metric Demensions
Final Rocket Build # 1
Launch Time # 1
Final Rocket Build # 2
Launch Time # 2

 

April 27, 2011

8th Grade Science:
We were going to do our EGG DROP but with Tornado watches and bad weather we needed to postpone until tomorrow which is suppose to be 70 degrees and sunny.  I can't wait this is going to be fun!
HW:  NONE

7th Grade Science:
Students have finally started their Human Performance Idea project.  I have already had great ideas for the presentations from students.
HW:  Imagine

Pass for Massing your Egg Drop Device

Pass to room 840 @ 8:15 am for Egg Drop Device Mass and Parts List
May 2, 2011

April 26, 2011

8th Grade Science:
Final Build Day
HW:  Finish your build but you must bring it before homeroom to get the mass and final parts list

7th Grade Science:
Human Foot Print
HW: NONE

 

Monday April 25, 2011

8th Grade Science: 
Final Drawings and Build Egg Drop Device
HW:  Materials for Egg Drop
Egg Drop First Test Drop will be on Wednesday (weather permitting)

7th Grade Science: 
Human Footprint Video
HW: NONE

Wednesday April 20, 2011

7th Grade Science:
Human Performance and Solutions to Human Deficiences
HW: NONE

8th Grade Science:
Sound PHet Simulation/Egg Drop Contest Rules evaluation and brainstorming.
http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/sound
Download Sound%20Waves%20Simulation[1]
HW:  Start gathering materials for the egg drop contest and 2 liter bottles for the bottle rockets in May.  Remenber no Coke products because of the shape of the mouth piece. 
Download EGG DROP CONTEST OFFICIAL RULES

Thursday April 14, 2011

8th Grade Science:
Finish Posters work on the Sound PHET Simulation
http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/sound
HW: None

7th Grade Science:
CRCT review Game
HW: None