Good morning - I hope everyone is well.
Where are we? At this time you should feel pretty comfortable with the Activity Model for Inquiry as a model for conducting (and learning) science. Hopefully this is becoming "foundational"; that is a base for our doing and learning science. You should also be comfortable with terms such as model, precision, accuracy, theory, law, hypotheses although I will be going over the last three in class at a later date. Science as a practice - you should be moving to a higher comfort level with designing experiments, identifying and controlling variables, constructing tables and graphs and using evidence to support statements. And then there is the science content - speed, average and instantaneous velocity, acceleration...The assessment on Thursday was a check to see where you are at with your understanding. If you did not perform well on these items, now is the time to check-in and get some help.
Where are we going? Our next step is to move from horizontal motion to vertical motion by looking a freefall. We will then move onto examining the "why" of motion - that is Newton's Laws of Motion, which provide the connection between forces and motion. We will then move onto momentum and energy. I will be discussing the schedule in class today but we are also moving towards starting our physics capstone project and our first exam! More later.
The blogs on creativity were awesome. For some I was looking for more connection to the article and the video. The insights were interesting and I hope we can take these ideas on creativity into our doing and learning. The challenge for those who are going to become teachers is integrating these ideas into a pretty rigid school culture and framework that focuses on assessment and outcomes. But that is the creative part of the teaching, right? It is a challenge in my practice and I am not always sure I am that successful.
And I think that is it - I look forward to seeing you in a few hours. Until then
Be well...Matt
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