Weeks 1- 3 Goals and Assignments

On Friday Sept 14 and Monday Sept 17 I will collect binders and give a short quiz.

The goals for weeks 1-3 are

• Know key ways to describe horizontal and proportional relationships.
• Know how to use the slope of a line.
• Be able to do calculations with the velocity equation.
• Be able to complete the parts of a lab report.

The assignment list for binder will be recorded here.  

1.  Notes on Uncertainty
2.  One question reflection on homework reading
3. Homework:  Minilab A

Join Google Classroom

Please log into your google account and join the NGSS Physics google classroom.

The sign in codes are
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Your pps account for anyone that is new is

firstinitiallastnamelast4digitsofstudentid@apps4pps.net

You should reset your password at https://password.pps.net/QPM/User/Identification/

What you need for class

Students will need a 1-2 inch three ring binder and a pencil in class every day.  Students will use computers in class and at home. The class text and lab submissions are both online, for example.  If computer access at home is not possible or reliable please let me know. I have work-around options, and I want to get them in place as soon as possible.  

Most importantly please keep an open mind and a curious point of view. Plan on asking lots of questions, accepting challenges, and learning a lot about how the world works.

What's happening in class

The class is divided into 6 thematic units as follows:

• Texting and Driving - Basic kinematics, an introduction to four patterns (horizontal, proportional, quadratic & inverse) that students will see repeatedly through the year, an introduction to spreadsheets, a final project about texting and driving.
• Energy and Engineering - Conservation of energy, gravitational, kinetic and elastic energy, more spreadsheets with a final project on bungee jumping.
• Forces - Momentum and Newton’s Laws, with  a final project on collisions and bike helmets.
• Waves and Technology - basic wave concepts and relationships, and their application to cell phones, ultrasounds and a lot more of our modern tech.
• Electricity and Power Production - basic electrical relationships with a final project on optimizing a windmill.
• Power Production and Oregon’s 50 year plan - the grid, multiple power options, climate change and the challenge of developing a 50 year plan to meet Oregon’s needs.

Each unit includes an emphasis on technology and engineering and culminates in a project as well as a test.  More information about class routines and grading can be found at class routines.

Welcome

Welcome class of 2022 to Freshman Physics at Grant.

The NGSS Physics class is Grant High School’s physics course for 9th graders.  It covers the physics, engineering, and some of the earth science standards from the Next Generation Science Standards  (NGSS). It will challenge students to develop their critical thinking skills, their expectations for evidence-based claims, and their use of spreadsheets as well as teaching them basic physics concepts and how they’re applied in the world.  It will prepare them for chemistry their sophomore year and future physics classes their junior and senior years if they want. The algebra the students use will either complement the algebra they’re learning in their algebra class, or review basic concepts if they’re in a more advanced class.