Honors Physics Schedule |
2011 | September | October | November | December | 2012 | January | February | March | April | May | June
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Labor Day |
Begin The Circle Post-Lab (Presentation) Using LoggerPro to graph the Circle Lab
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Diagnostic Test
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| 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
7:00 PM Senior Parent Night |
Finish
Writing the Physics Lab Report Work on Toy Car Lab Report |
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| 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 |
| Movie "Galileo's Battle for the Heavens" Part 1 | 6:30 PM Back to School Night |
Velocity vs. Time Graphs (Presentation) Walking the Graph Activity |
Toy Car Lab Report Due Average Speed and Average Velocity (Presentation) Continue Walking the Graph Activity |
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Motion Map Examples (Presentation) Area Under the Curve (Presentation) Begin Unit I WS 5 |
Finish Unit I WS 5 Constant Velocity Multiple Representations (Presentation) Begin Unit I WS 6 |
7:00 PM Powderpuff Game Finish Unit I WS 6 Begin Unit I Review Worksheet |
Movie "Galileo's Battle for the Heavens" Part 2 Due to Junior writing exam 2nd & 3rd Hours |
Finish Unit I Review Worksheet |
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October 2011
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| Homecoming Dance | ||||||
| 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
Unit I Test Turn in Unit I Review Worksheet |
Unit I Test Corrections (Presentation)
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Finish Ball on Incline Lab |
PD Day - No Students | Happy 71st Birthday John Lennon! | ||
| 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |
Lab Extension Post-Lab (Presentation) Work on Ball on Incline Lab Report and Lab Extension Report |
Whiteboard Speeding Up an Slowing Down Activity #1-4 | End of 1st Marking Period Finish #1-4 Speeding Up and Slowing Down #5-6 (Presentation)
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| 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
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Work on Lab Extension Report |
Begin Kinematic Concepts & Graphing MOP Record Keeping Form | Continue MOP's |
Continue MOP's
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Finish MOP's and begin
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| 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 |
Finish Unit II WS 3a |
Kinematic Equations Derivation (Presentation)
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Kinematic Equations Examples (Presentation) Begin Unit II WS 3b |
Finish Unit II WS 3b |
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Halloween BOO! Free Fall Post-Activity (Presentation) Movie "Free Fall" |
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November 2011
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| PD Day - No Students | Free Fall Demonstration |
Unit II Test Yay!!!! |
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| 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
Test Corrections |
Drawing and Naming Two-Dimensional Vectors (Presentation) Vectors MOP Record Keeping Form Do MOP's #1 |
Vector Addition Graphical Method (Presentation) Do MOP's #2-3 |
4:00-7:00 PM Parent-Teacher Conferences Right Triangle Vector Trig (Presentation) Do MOP's #4 |
Parent-Teacher Conferences during the school day No Students |
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| 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
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Do MOP's #5 |
Finish MOP's |
Vector Quiz Turn in:
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Begin "Newton's Dark Secrets" |
Quiz Corrections |
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| 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 |
Begin Inertia (Presentation) Movie "Inertia" |
Finish Inertia (Presentation) with demonstrations Newton's Laws MOP Record Keeping Form Do MOP #1 |
Thanksgiving Break |
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| 28 | 29 | 30 | ||||
Describe "Freebody" Do MOP's #2, 4-5 |
Force Diagrams #3-5 (Presentation) Begin Unit III Worksheet 2b |
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December 2011
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Finish Unit III Worksheet 2a & Unit III Worksheet 2b Extra time - work on MOP's |
End of 2nd Marking Period |
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| 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 |
Force of Gravity Post-Lab (Presentation) Do MOP #6 |
John Lennon 10/9/1940 - 12/8/1980 Happy 13th Birthday! Chapin Lennon Kartsounes 12/8/1998 |
Unit III Review Worksheet | ||||
| 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
Unit III Test Turn in:
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Finish "Newton's Dark Secrets" | Test Corrections | Continue Lab | |||
| 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 |
Finish Lab Begin Working on Lab Report |
Newton's Laws MOP Record Keeping Form Do MOP's #3 & 7 |
Do MOP's #8 |
Holiday Break | |||
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Holiday Break |
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January 2012
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| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun |
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| Holiday Break | ||||||
| 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
Holiday Break |
Begin Unit IV Worksheet 3 Do MOP's #9-11 |
Newton's Second Law Lab Report Due. Finish Unit IV Worksheet 3 |
Unit IV Worksheet 4 | Unit IV Worksheet 5 | ||
| 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
Newton's Third Law Post-Activity (Presentation) Begin Unit IV Worksheet 6 Do MOP's #12 |
Finish Unit IV Worksheet 6 |
MLK Day Presentation |
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| 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 |
MLK Day |
Unit IV Test Turn in:
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1st Semester Review | Test Corrections | Continue Review | ||
| 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 |
| Continue Review | AM Final Exams |
AM Final Exams | AM Final Exams | End of First Semester Teacher Records Day No Students |
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| Exam Corrections | ||||||
February 2012![]() |
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| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
Finish Kinetic Friction Lab |
Force of Kinetic Friction Post-Lab (Presentation) Force of Static Friction (Presentation) Begin Unit IV Worksheet 7 |
Take ACT Science Practice Test Finish Unit IV Worksheet 7 |
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| 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
One Dimensional Projectile Motion (Presentation) Begin Unit V Worksheet 1 |
Finish Unit V Worksheet 1 Work on Lab Report |
Introduction to 2D Projectile Motion (Presentation) Projectiles MOP Record Keeping Form Do MOP #7 |
Unit V Worksheet 2 (Presentation) Do MOP #8 |
Unit V Worksheet 4 | ||
| 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 |
| Projectile Motion Practicum I | General Projectile Motion (Presentation) Do MOP #9 |
Continue Projectile Motion Activity |
Finish Projectile Motion Activity |
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| 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 |
Projectile Motion Post-Activity (Presentation) Begin Unit V Worksheet 6 Do MOP #10 |
Finish Unit V Worksheet 6 |
Unit V Test Turn in:
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Mid-Winter Break | |||
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| Mid-Winter Break | Test Corrections | |||||
March 2012
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| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun |
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| Unit VI Worksheet 1a | Unit VI Worksheet 1b | |||||
| 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 |
ACT Testing No regular classes |
1st, 2nd & 3rd Hours |
4th Hour Spring Post-Lab (Presentation)
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End of 4th Marking Period Elastic Potential Energy (Presentation)
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| 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
Gravitational Potential Energy (Presentation) |
Begin Kinetic Energy Lab | Finish Kinetic Energy Lab | Kinetic Energy Post-Lab (Presentation)
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| 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 |
Finish Unit VI Worksheet 3b Movie "Conservation of Energy" |
PD Day - No Students |
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| 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | |
Finish Unit VI Worksheet 4 Movie "Potential Energy" |
Unit V Test Turn in:
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Movie | ||||
April 2012
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| 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
Test Corrections |
Continue Lab |
Finish Lab |
Spring Break | |||
| 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
Spring Break |
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| 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 |
Finish Uniform Circular Motion (Presentation) Circular Motion & Gravitation MOP Record Keeping Form Do MOP's #1-3 |
Water in a Coffee Can and Examples (Presentation) Do MOP #4 |
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Driving in Circles Examples (Presentation) Do MOP #5 |
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| 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 |
Finish Unit VII Worksheet 3 Complete MOP's # 1-5 |
No School |
Do MOP's #9-10 |
End of 5th Marking Period Law of Universal Gravitation (Presentation)
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2nd Hour is one day behind |
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Do MOP's #6-7 |
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May 2012![]() |
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Circular Orbits (Presentation) Do MOP #8 |
Movie "Einstein's Big Idea" |
Unit VII Test Turn in:
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| 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| Finish "Einstein's Big Idea" | Test Corrections | Movie "Einstein's Wife" |
Momentum and Collisions MOP Record Keeping Form Do MOP #1 |
Prom |
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| 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
Impulse-Change in Momentum (Presentation) Do MOP's #2-3 |
Finish MOP's |
Unit VIII Worksheet 2 | Finish Explosions Lab Explosions Post-Lab (Presentation) Do MOP #6 |
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| 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 |
| Amusement Park Project Final | Continue Amusement Park Project Final | Continue Amusement Park Project Final | Seniors' Last Day! Amusement Park Project Due |
PD Day - No Students |
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| 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | |||
| Memorial Day | Collisions Post-Lab (Presentation) Do MOP's #4-5 |
Conservation of Momentum Examples (Presentation) Begin Unit VIII Worksheet 3 |
Finish Unit VIII Worksheet 3 Do MOP's 7-10 |
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June 2012
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| Unit VIII Worksheet 4 | ||||||
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||
| Unit VIII Review Worksheet | Unit VII Test Turn in:
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AM Final Exams Test Corrections |
AM Final Exams Test Corrections Graduation |
AM Final Exams Test Corrections Last Day of School! |
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