This week will mostly be used for catching up. The only thing that you need to get done by the end of the week is the unit 3 assessment. If you are behind, do your best to catch up. If you are up-to-date, once you finish the Unit 3 assessment, work on the CSP Test 1 which is linked below and on Canvas. This assessment consists of actual college board questions from previous years and is invaluable to your preparation …
Learning Objectives 2.A 2.B 3.A 3.C 3.G Topics 3.3 Gravitational Forces 3.4 Gravitational Field/Acceleration Due to Gravity 3.5 Inertial vs. Gravitational Mass 3.8 Applications of UCM + Gravitation This week, students will learn an application of the topics learned last week. We will be looking at Newton’s understanding of gravitation. Throughout the week we will be building on the ideas from the previous lesson plan. This provides you with a great opportunity to review and remediate if you had …
Standards CRD-1 CRD-2 Topics 1.2 Program Function and Purpose This week you will finally get to dive into a little programming. You will explore the App Lab in the first two lessons before diving in and creating your own app in lessons 3 and 4. Don’t worry, there is a lot of scaffolding in the early stages so that you can work your way up to more complicated programs and programming tasks. If you get stuck on something this …
Learning Objectives 4.A 3.B Topics 3.6 Centripetal Acceleration and Force 3.7 Free Body Diagrams for Objects in UCM In this unit, we study the circular motion of objects, and how Newton’s laws of motion apply. Next week we will discuss how Newton conceived of another great law by applying the concepts of circular motion to the motion of the Moon and the planets. This is the law of universal gravitation, which was the capstone of Newton’s analysis of …
Standards CSN-1.B CSN-1.C CSN-1.D IOC-1.C IOC-1.F IOC-2.B Topics 4.1 The Internet 4.2 Fault Tolerance 5.2 Digital Divide We will continue to look at how the internet works this week as we work through the second half of Unit 2. This week we will be focusing on two particular aspects: the different protocols that make the internet work and the impacts the internet has had, both good and bad, on modern life. CSP Week 7 Lesson Plan
Learning Objectives All previously covered topics. Topics Position, Velocity, and Acceleration Representations of Motion Contact Forces Newton’s 1st Law Newton’s 2nd Law Systems Gravitational Field Newton’s 3rd Law This week we will be having our first comprehensive test. The purpose of this is to help you retain all of the information that we have covered and to give you another chance to learn all of the material, especially if there was something that didn’t make sense the first time. …
Standards CSN-1.A CSN-1.B CSN-1.E Topics 4.1 The Internet 4.2 Fault Tolerance 5.2 Digital Divide Unit 2 reveals how the internet was designed to connect billions of devices and people to one another. This first week of Unit 2 we will be concentrating our investigation on networks and will see how their design of them helps to make the internet fault-tolerant and safe. A key aspect of our investigation will be the Internet Simulator that is built into the unit. …
Learning Objectives 1.A 2.B 3.A 3.B Topics 2.1 Systems 2.2 Gravitational Field 2.5 Newton’s 3rd Law 2.6 Newton’s 2nd Law This week we are going to move past the general descriptions of force and motion that we started to discuss last week and start focusing on some specific forces. We will continue to apply Newton’s Second Law but now in situations with friction, on inclines, and with multiple objects moving at once. It’s imperative that you learn how to …
Learning Objectives 3.B 1.C 3.C Topics 2.3 Contact Forces 2.4 Newton’s 1st Law 2.6 Newton’s 2nd Law This week we begin our study of forces and, specifically, Newton’s First and Second Laws. These are two pretty tough concepts to understand, but they are absolutely essential to a proper understanding of the course and a necessary piece of a good foundation from which we will build the rest of the concepts in the course. Physics Week 5 Lesson Plan
Since a lot of people had trouble getting logged into code.org and started on the course material, this week is a down week to help you get caught up. Throughout the year we will have these periodically to help make sure that you are staying on schedule. For this week, complete any lessons that you haven’t in code.org and anything that you haven’t finished on here. I have also attached a Check for Understanding with questions covering all of Unit …