Mission 3 Terms

Alternating Current (AC)
carbon footprint
circuit
circuit breaker
coal
combustion
direct current (DC)
electric current
electrical conductor
electrical insulator
electromagnet
energy portfolio
fossil fuel
fuel
fuse
generator
global warming
ground fault circuit interrupter (GFCI)
hydrocarbon
hydroelectric energy
internal combustion engine
magnetic field
natural gas
non-renewable
nuclear fission
Ohm's Law
oil
petroleum
power distribution grid
renewable
resistance
turbine
voltage

Please turn your initial definitions in by April 30th.

Egg-tastic

Congratulations to all Mission 2 teams on the Egg Drop!! You all worked hard and deserve to give yourselves a pat on the back!

Unit 4- Mission 2 Vocabulary

Please define these words in your science notebook. The first due date is February 4th or 5th.

amplitude

compact fluorescent lamp (CFL)

compression

compression wave

conduction

conductor

Conservation of Energy

crest

efficiency

electromagnetic wave

energy transfer

energy transformation

frequency

heat

insulator

mechanical wave

radiation

rarefaction

system

temperature

thermal energy

transverse wave

trough

wave

wavelength

Field Assignment- Mission 1

Your Mission 1 group is to collect illustrations of energy forms in our area and present them.

Please collect the data as digital photos. You may add illustrations for emphasis or effect but the core of the information should be photographic. Your group may present the data as a powerpoint or keynote presentation, a poster, or a video. If there is another way you wish to present the information, please see me with your idea.

Requirements:

Each group member shall contribute 3+ photos.
Each group member must be able to answer orally (in person or recorded) the information in a-e of #2 on the data sheet.

Grading: 70 pts total

Group
Completeness of the presentation (all energy forms included)- 10 pts
Written answers to a-e- 10 pts
Neatness- 5 pts
Conventions of writing and speaking English- 5 pts
30 points

Individual
Photo Contribution- 10 pts
Oral discussion of a-e with teacher- 10 pts
Neatly completed Data Sheet- 20 pts
40 pts

Due Jan 15- A1 & A3
Jan 20- B4

New Policy

To assist you in developing superior study habits that will serve you through high school, college and beyond, I am implementing the following late policy with the accompanying rationale:

1. Late Policy
The late policy in jr high science classes will follow the establish late policy in sr high science classes and sr high history classes.
Assignments are due in class on the day noted at the beginning of class.
Assignments turned in anytime after that will incur a late penalty.
After the beginning of class but the same day- L1- minus 10% of score
Assignments turned in the next day- L3- minus 30% of score
Assignments turned in the following day- L5- minus 50% of score
Assignments turned in anytime thereafter- L7- minus 70% of score
Assignments due online will be due by midnight of the due date. After that time the L3, L5 and L7 designation will occur as applicable.

Rationale- Due dates matter. It is important to learn to provide work in a timely fashion. Penalties serve to encourage timeliness. The "always at least 30%" rule encourages students to do the work no matter how late it is as some points are better than no points.

Terms Unit 3

These are the Unit 3 terms that will be due on January 15th.

absorb
concave lens
Conservation of Mass
convex lens
coronal mass ejection(CME)
electromagnetic wave
energy
force
gravity
infrared(IR)
joule
kinetic energy(KE)
magnetic field
opaque
potential energy(PE)
power
ray diagram
reflect
refract
solar wind
temperature
thermal energy
translucent
transmit
transparent
ultraviolet
wave
work

New Website!!

This will be the new website for our Jr. High Science Class. The previous one met with an untimely end when the BuddyPress people upgraded their site and summarily wiped out the HIS websites. Please find information here on grading, classroom policies, assignments and vocabulary. Be sure to create an OpenID through myopenid.com so you can comment as needed. You must get an OpenID unless you have an account through yahoo, facebook, myspace, flickr or the like. Have fun!