9th+Grd+1st+Sem

__**[|Paper as thick as the Univesrse Video]**__

__**Week 1 Aug 28 - Aug** 30__ Wednesday August 28 - Introductions Thursday Aug 29 - Interest Inventory/Get to Know You Friday Aug 30 - Expectations/Academic Contract/Syllabus

__**Week 2 Sept 2 - Sept 6**__ Monday Sept 2 - No School - Labor Day Tuesday Sept 3 - What is Physics?/Graphing Wednesday Sept 4 - Graphing cont. Thursday Sept 5 - Introduction To Physics Webquest CW - Library [|Introduction to Class Website Video] Friday Sept 6 - Diagnostic Assessment

__**Week 3 Sept 9 - Sept 13**__

Monday Sept 9- Metric Measurements Length Lab Tuesday Sept 10 - Metric Olympics [|Metric Olympics Handout] Wednesday Sept 11- Scientific Method Reading in Textbook Thursday Sept 12- Gummie Bear Experiment Friday Sept 13- Gummie Bear Experiment Cont./ Metric Olympics cont.

__**Week 4 Sept 16 - Sept** 20__ Monday September 16th - Scientific Method Foldable Notes [|Sciemtific Method Comic Strip Project] Tuesday September 17th - Scientific Method Wednesday Sept 18th - Scientific Method Paper Airplane Experiment [|Paper Airplane Experiment] Thurs Sept 19th- - Writing a Hypothesis/Scientific Method Step [|Hypothesis Writing Worksheet] [|Hypothesis Worksheet 2] [|Hypothesis Writing and Independent, Dependent Variables] Fri Sept 20 - More Hypothesis Practice [|Even More Hypothesis Practice]

Mon Sept 23rd - Review Tues Sept 24 - Test 1 - Class Rules and Expectations/Measuring in Metric/Scientific Method Wed Sept 25th - 3 variable equations baseline, 3 variable equations speed [|Speed Problems Worksheet] Thurs Sept 26th - Velocity Tubes Experiment Friday Sept 27 - Velocity Tubes Experiment Continued
 * __Week 5 Sept 23rd - Sept 27th__**

**__Week 6 Sept 30 - October 4th__** Monday Sept 30 - Finish Velocity Tubes Expt Tuesday Oct 1 - Scientific Method Worksheet Wednesday Oct 2 - Terminal Velocity Assinment Thursday Oct 3 - Physics:A Frst Course Asignment Friday Oct 4 - Conversion exercise -

Monday Oct 7 - Conversions Units [|Conversion Exercise] Movie Tuesday Oct 8 - Conversions - Half Dys NECAP Wed Oct 9 - Conversions - Half Days NECAP Thurs Oct 10 - Conversions - Half Days NECAP Fri Oct 11 - Conversions - Half Day NECAP
 * __Week 7 Oct 7 - Oct__** __11__

Monday Oct 14 - Columbus Day - No School Tuesday Oct 13 - Jason Velocity Lab - Wednesday Oct 14 - Jason Velocity Lab 2 Thursday Oct 15 Velocity Video [|Velocity Video] Friday Oct 15 - All classes assembly except Period 4 - Animal Tracks Inquiry
 * __Week 8 Oct 14 - Oct__** __18__

Monday Oct 21- Finish Jason Velocity Lab, Review Test 2 - Units, Conversions, Problems, velocity tube lab, displacement lab Speed Tuesday Oct 22 - Test 2 - Units, conversions, problems, velocity tube lab, displacement lab, Speed Wednesday Oct 23 - Acceleration [|Acceleration Worksheet] Thursday Oct 24 - Vector Voyage [|Vector Voyage 1] [|Vector Voyage 2] Friday Oct 25 - [|Newtons Dark Secrets]
 * __Week 9 Oct 21 - Oct 25__**

Monday Oct 28 - Paper Experiment - Car with Leaking Oil Tuesday Oct 29 - Makeup work Wednesday Oct 30 - Car with Leaking oil Velocity Video [|Velocity Video] Thursday Oct 31 - Graphs of motion w/o numbers- Worksheets from worksheet page - Quarter Closes Friday Nov 1 - Graphs of motion w/ numbers
 * __Week 10 October 28 - November__** __1__

Monday Nov 4 - Newtons Laws Forces Webquest Library Tuesday Nov 5 - Newton's Laws [|Preconceptions] [|Newtons Laws Video] Wednesday Nov 6 - F = ma [|Newton's Laws] Thurs Nov 7- Mass vs, Weight [|Weight mass extra credit] [|mass weight video] [|weight mass video] Fri Nov 8 - Applying Newton's Laws [|Newton's Law Video 3]
 * __Week 11 Nov 4 - Nov__** __8__

__**Week 12 Nov 11 - Nov 15th**__ Monday Nov 11- Veterens Day - No School Tuesday Nov 12- Parent Teacher Conferences - No school Wednesday Nov 13th - Test Review - Acceleration, Graphs of Motion, Oil Drop, Newton's Laws Thursday Nov 14th - Test - Acceleration, Graphs of Motion, Oil Drop, Newton's Laws Friday Nov 15th - Additional Motion Equations

__**Week 13 Nov 18 - Nov** 22nd__ Monday Nov 18th - 9th Grade Field Trip Tuesday Nov 19th - Chapter 2 Section 3 Wednesday Nov 20th - Chapter 2 section 4 Thursday Nov 21th - Wagon Race Power Point Friday Nov 22- Wagon Race Power Point

__**Week 14 November 25th - Nov 29th**__ Monday Nov 25th- Wagon Race Portfolio Task Practice Tuesday Nov 26th- Wagon race Portfolio Task Wednesday Nov 27th- Wagon Race Portfolio Task Thursday Nov 28th- No School - Thanksgiving Friday Nov 29th - No School - Thanksgiving

__**Week 15 2rd - Dec 6**__ Mon Dec 2nd- Earth Science pretest Tues Dec 3rd - Intro to Earth Science Wed Dec 4th- Intro to Plate Tectonice w/ clickers Thurs Dec 5th - [|Plate Tectonics Worksheet] Friday Dec 6th - [|LA Earthquakes Reading and Qs]

Mon Dec 9th - Library Earth Science Webquest
 * __Week 16 Dec 9th - Dec 13__**

Tues Dec 10th - Inferred Properties of the Earth [|Inferred Properties of The Earth Graph] [|Worksheet 2] [|Worksheet 2] Wed Dec 11th - Mapping the Earths Plates [|Worksheet Front] [|Worksheet back] Thurs Dec Theory of Plate Tectonics media type="youtube" key="4GmP_hXyPq0" height="59" width="84" [|Plate Tectonics Vocab Exercise] [|Theory of Plate Tectonics]

__**Week 17 Dec 16th - Dec 20**__ Mon Dec - Jason Reading - Epicenter/Focus Tues Dec 17th - Triangulation from seismographs to find the epicenter of an earthquake Wed - Seafloor Speading/Seismic Waves [|Seafloor Spreading Worksheet][|Seafloor Spreading Model] [|Seismic Waves Reading] Thur Dec - Earthquake of 1884 [|Earthquake of 1884 Exercise] [|Earthquake 1884 Map] media type="youtube" key="9oPN3Ti54GI" height="88" width="132" Fri Dec - Anatomy of an Earthquake movie

__**Week 18 Dec 30 - Jan** 3__ Mon Dec 30 - No School Tues Jan 31 - No School Wed Jan 1 - No School Thurs Jan 2 - Falling Objects Friday Jan 3 - Falling Objects

Mon Jan 6th - [|Momentum worksheet] Tuesday Jan 7th - Wed Jan 8th - Impulse Thursday Jan 9th - Momentum Reading (sub in/Murray out) Friday Jan 10th - Conservation of Momentum/Collisions
 * __Week 19 Jan 6th - Jan__** __10th__

Mon Jan 13- Review for Exams Tue Jan 14- Review for Exams Wed Jan 15 - 1st and 2nd period Exams Thur Jan 16 - 3rd and 4th period Exams Fri Jan 17 - 5th period and makeup exams - Last Day of 1st Semester - Grades Close!
 * __Week 20 Janurary 13 - 17__**