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Syllabus and calendar
Spring 2009 calender (ods)
Outline
Assessment
Inventory
Text prototyping area
Access to material from other terms
Rubrics •
.ods
Lab write-up format sample
Jump rope lab sample in xhtml
Notes on durable for life email addresses
Qualities: Walking around the patios in an ancient school
011 Measuring space, time and matter:
Getting to know your personal measurements
012 Laboratory one: Speaking on a soap box
Lab 01 photos
Lab01 data original proposal fall 2008 •
demo data
Making XY graphs in OpenOffice 2.4 and 3.0 [T?]
Making XY graphs in Excel [T?]
Quiz 02 Fundamental measures, BMI, volume, density
021 Measuring motion: What is your velocity?
022 Laboratory two: Linear motion A rolling ball gathers no moss
022 spring 2009 lab data spreadsheet
022 lab report feedback notes
022 An image from laboratory two
031 Parabolic path: The arc of a sphere
031 Ball arc data
032 Laboratory three: accelerated motion
Dropping the ball on the job
Lab 03 data
Images from laboratory three fall 08
Test 01 measurement and motion
041 Conservation of energy: Banana leaf marble ramp
Kinetic energy data
042 Lab 04: Momentum Loosing your marbles
042 Lab 04-91: Momentum 01 mod Loosing your marbles
Laboratory data metastudy
Images from laboratory four
Quiz 04 Mathematical models and momentum
Fall 2008 Unit five followed unit six due to loss of lab on liberation day
051 Introduction to temperature: boiling and melting
052 Laboratory five: heat conduction If you cannot take the heat, get a non-conductor
Images from laboratory five
Quiz 05 Acceleration revisited, heat
061 Air pressure activities
Fall 2007: Ball bounce: First bounce height
Fall 2007: Ball bounces: exponential decay
Spring 2009: 062 Lab 06 concept one
Spring 2009: 062 Lab 06 take two
Test two Air pressure and Bernoulli effects + prior material
071 Hide and seek activity
072 Laboratory seven: Changes in latitude, longitude, and the metric system
Walking the line - of latitude [T]
Data
Images from laboratory seven
No quiz spring 2009 due to staff development day. Fall 2008:
No quiz nn: Changes in heat, latitude, and longitude
081 Relative humidity and precipitation
082 Laboratory eight: Clouds The stuff of which dreams are made
Images from laboratory eight
Quiz 06 Latitude, longitude, weather, clouds
091 Waves on a chain
092 Laboratory nine: Sound. Mach one: the speed of sound
093 rubric
Images from laboratory nine
Quiz 07 Applied Bernoulli and Waves
101 Lenses
102 Laboratory ten: reflection and refraction Mirror, mirror on the wall
103 Rubric
Student lab data
Images from laboratory ten
Quiz 08 Reflection and refraction
111 Activity includes playing with a cereal box spectrometer, colors of the rainbow
112 Laboratory eleven: colors of light Somewhere over the rainbow [T]
Spectrum using SVG
Quiz 09: Spectra and the colors of light
121 Magnetism, magnetic fields, and iron filings
122 Laboratory twelve: Circuits, conduction, and Ohm's law Let your light bulb shine
Images from laboratory twelve
123 rubric
124 test 03 waves, sound, refraction, electricity
131 Introduction to periodic table, chemical symbology
132 Laboratory thirteen: Flower colors, acids, and bases:
Chemistry from the flower garden in the kitchen
Images from laboratory thirteen
Cosmology
MITC DVD 1 (B): Discovery: The universe a guided tour. NJ : Films for the Humanities and Sciences., 2000. (120 min.) This digital video disc, comprising 12 ten-minute programs, considers the past, present, and future of astronomy and space exploration; technological innovations such as the Hubble Space Telescope, robot probes, and satellites; life aboard the space shuttle and the Mir space station; black holes and dark matter; the structure of the universe; and the Big Bang. NDVD format
Notes on first half of Discovery: Guided Universe
Notes on the three cosmology videos
152 Laboratory fifteen:
Site swap notation Keeping three too-many balls up in the air
Images from laboratory fifteen
Sample final. Questions will vary.
Significant digits in the soap box volume laboratory •
pdf
Stopwatch operation •
stopwatch diagram
Ball arc activity •
.plt •
blank
Ball arc as activity two spring 2008
Sphere arc activity fall 2008
Using statistical modes on a Sharp EL-531W calculator
Marble momentum
Graph choices
Mathematical models
SVG graph and relationship analysis decision tree
Math models two homework
Award words
Cabinet clean-up
table maker •
html
OpenOffice Calc file for building xhtml5 pages with SVG xy scatter graph
SVG and MathMl testbed page
Magnifying lens regression
Text
Ball arc
Center of gravity and cantilevers •
cantilever.ods
Fall 2008: An increasing number of files are in XHTML5 + SVG + MathMl format. These files can be rendered by Gecko and Webkit based browsers. Other files are in OpenDocument formats and were created using OpenOffice.org. A few are Gnuplot plot files. Other formats such as Excel and portable network graphic files are present as well.
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