Meeting Minutes 09/28

Common summative assessment block schedule days 10/03 & 10/04
Review for the assessment on Monday & Tuesday
Consider open notes for the assessment/formulas

Alternate plan for 6th Period due to rewards day on Thursday during their class

Key items for review:
- Friction/thermal energy loss (8.9% & 10.1%)
- What is a system? (12.7%)
- Law of conservation of energy (20.3%)

- Conversion of kinetic energy to gravitational potential (26.6%)

- Definition of energy (34.2%)
- Formulas (Gravitational Potential and Kinetic Energy) and practice opportunities

Meeting Minutes 09/21

Planning for next two weeks
Rube Goldberg post-mortem
First six weeks gradebook analysis

09/24 - Energy Mythbusters (Roberts) / Formula Review (Rahmlow)
09/25 - Formula Practice & Conservation of Energy Table
09/26&27 - Chem Lab (Roberts) / Station Activity (Rahmlow)
09/28 - Graphs and Charts

10/01 - Energy Review
10/02 - Energy Review
10/03&04 - Energy Test

Rube Goldberg went well for most students.  Students struggled but most did not give up.  Giving full grades for the builds as long as students did not give up (regardless of the ultimate success of their machine).  Remainder of grade is dependent on student write-up of their Rube Goldberg machine and a reflection on the importance of failure in science.

Rahmlow: 8 students failing currently
Roberts: 21 students failing currently

Reviewed energy unit test to ensure we are continuing planning toward that goal.

09/13 PLC Planning Minutes

Roberts, Rahmlow, Montgomery

09/17: Introduce Rube Goldberg / Rube Goldberg videos and energy transformations
09/18: Finish Rube Goldberg energy transformation and student planning for Rube Goldberg Builds
09/19-20:  Rube Goldberg build days
09/21:  Rube Goldberg recap / Energy Mythbusters

Plan for quiz/test over energy next week
Roberts in lab 09/26 & 09/27 during block schedule