Electricity and Upcoming Test

Hey All,

For today, you should have read and highlighted through page 38 in the Electricity packet. Following up on today's quiz show on energy:

1. Finish reading and highlighting the rest of the Electricity packet for Monday, 3/2.
2. WE HAVE A TEST next Thursday, 3/5 on all of the material in the Introduction to Energy and Electricity packets, as well as the presentations by your classmates.

ELECTRICITY!

Nice presentations last week! As we move ahead in our energy unit, we will look at electricity, renewable and non-renewable sources, and eventually get to climate change. For Wednesday 2/25, read pages 32-35 in the Electricity packet, and highlight the key points.

Moving Ahead with Energy

Hi All,

Energy papers and presentations are due Thursday. Reminder of the criteria below:

The following checklist is to be used for crafting your energy paper and presentations for Thursday, February 19th. The numbers in parentheses are the point values for those items in the project.

_____ (1) Your energy type

_____ (2) Define/explain it.

_____ (2) Is it kinetic or potential? How do you know this?

REFERENCE TO THREE EXAMPLES TO HELP ARTICULATE THE FOLLOWING FOUR ITEMS:

_____ (2)Describe how it “moves” (if it is kinetic) or “stored” (if it is potential)

_____ (2) Describe what energy gets converted into this form of energy.

_____ (2) Describe what energy form it converts into.

_____ (2) How is it relevant to your lives?



_____ (3) Have you used three good explanatory examples to help articulate the four items in the box above?

_____ (5) A well-organized five-minute presentation including all team members with a good visual demonstration of your energy type

_____ (3) Is your paper written clearly with good structure, grammar, and spelling?

_____ (1) Is your paper double-spaced with a readable 12-point font and 1” margins?

_____ (2) Have you cited all of your sources? (At least three of them)

Total Possible Points: 27

Hope you are having a great break!

Wrapping Up the Minerals and Moving On

Hey All,

Out today - sorry about that. I hope you all enjoyed the identifying minerals in search of signs of granite activity last week. Definitely some great collaboration there!

Due today, February 2nd, Please make sure that you have completed the prompt related to last Thursday's Out of the Inferno film:
Write a good paragraph describing how cultural and natural forces interconnect in the film. Be detailed!

Also, for Wednesday, February 4th, please complete the reading and worksheet on "Introduction to Energy." Do not forget the last item on the worksheet, which asks you to identify things that stump, surprise, or concern you about the two tables in the reading.