Daily Archives: March 18, 2020

Chemistry & Honors Chemistry – Exploring Remote Learning

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CHEMISTRY: Welcome back! I’ve missed you guys!! This new way of learning is going to be a tad awkward for a while, but remember how you eat an elephant…! We’ll gradually build and add new aspects to what we do – lessons via vodcasts and hopefully very soon, video conferencing with the class. For now, though, baby steps! Be sure and explore the Remote Learning Page in your Chemistry page in PowerSchool.

Here’s where you begin. Go the Chemistry Page in PowerSchool Learning. Explore the Remote Learning Page and get comfortable with where everything is (especially the Discussion Board!)

  • Read the “What We’re Doing” block
  • Read the “Daily Expectations” block
  • Find the Discussion Board Tab
  • Let me know if you have any questions!

Now for the written part. Go to the Discussion Board in the Chemistry Page on PowerSchool Learning and enter the following in the Lost… Project Discussion Board:

  1. What is your biggest difficulty with the project?
  2. What question(s) do you have about the project?

FYI – There will be some changes to the project that I’ll let you know about very soon. For example, you are now going to be allowed to use eBooks as your book sources.

I’ll put the new project details on the class website as soon as I have everything finalized.

The web post topic for this week: Challenge. What’s been your biggest challenge in the last seven days (personal life or school life)? What are you doing to try face it?
(Let me know at some point what you think about this new deadline for web posts. Good? Bad? No opinion?)

This is going to be a great day!!

Physics 3-18-20 Paper Airplanes & Physics

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PHYSICS: Welcome back! I’ve missed you guys!! This new way of learning is going to be a tad awkward for a while, but remember how you eat an elephant…! We’ll gradually build and add new aspects to what we do – lessons via vodcasts and hopefully very soon, video conferencing with the class. For now, though, baby steps! Be sure and explore the Remote Learning Page in your Honors Physics page in PowerSchool.

So what do you remember about Bernoulli? And lift? Use the thLAB: Paper Airplanes & Physics on the class website (and the Internet, You Tube, etc.) as a review and design your own, best paper airplane.

Next, build and test at least two different types of planes. Record the pertinent data and make a video of your longest flight. Then, go to the Discussion Board in PowerSchool Learning and enter the following:

  1. Your longest flight time
  2. Your longest flight distance
  3. Photo of your two (or more) best airplanes. (Let me know if you can’t do this in the Discussion Board. We may have to move this part to Google Drive. For now, it’s a way for me to see what the Discussion Board is capable of allowing.)

Finally, upload a VIDEO of your longest flight to your Shared folder. Save as P5 Last Name, First Name Paper Airplane Physics Video

Today is going to be a great day!!