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Units of Study


  1. Force and Motion
  2. Structure and Design
  3. Earth and Space
  4. The Moving Crust
  5. Cells, Tissues, Organs and Systems
  6. Fluids















































Force and Motion


Student Notes


Unit Assignments


Assignment #2 Free Body Diagrams

Assignment #3 Friction

Assignment #4 Forces and Motion and Gravity

Assignment #5 Bottle Rockets - instructions and evaluation
Assignment #5 Bottle Rocket Questions

Assignment #6 More Machine Power


Unit Labs



Lab #1 Measuring Force

Lab #2 Making Your Own Force Meter

Lab #3 Friction

Air track lab

Lab #4 Drag

Glossary of Terms

The following definitions will appear during this unit.
  1. Force
    a push or a pull
  2. Motion
    a change in position with time
  3. Mass
    amount of matter in an object
  4. Static
    A body that is at rest
  5. Kinetic
    A body that is moving
  6. Acceleration
    Rate of change of velocity.
  7. Wind Tunnel
    Device for producing a controlled stream of air in order to study the effects of movement through air or resistance to moving air on models of aircraft and other machines and objects.
  8. Pressure
    Force applied to a specific amount of area.
  9. Newton
    Unit of force.
  10. Airfoil
    A surface, shaped like an airplane wing, which produces lift.
  11. Balance
    Instrument for comparing the weights of two bodies, to determine the mass of the object
  12. Matter
    nything that has mass and volume
  13. Velocity
    Quantity (a # value) that designates the speed and direction that something is moving.
  14. Gravity
    The universal force of attraction acting between all matter.
  15. Spring Scale
    An instrument used to determine weight.
  16. Resistance
    A force opposing movement.
  17. Texture
    How the surface of an object feels.

    Helpful Websites

    Bottle Rockets
    How to make the fins
    How to make a bottle rocket
    Flight Simulator A bottle rocket simulator with data output

    Great bottle rocket site with parachute ideas click here
    More rocket ideas
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    Structure and Design


    Class noteshere

    Vocabulary Quiz take the quiz


    Assignments


    Assignment #1 In clas questions

    Assignment #2 In Class - scenario

    Assignment #3 In Class - project

    Assignment #4 Stress

    Assignment #5 Beams

    Assignment #6 A Bridge So Far

    Assignment #7 Creating a newspaper article

    Labs



    Lab #1 Shapes

    Lab #2 Columns

    Lab #3 Arches

    Lab #4 Beams

    Lab #5 Material strength

    Glossary of Terms


    You need to know these definitions for the vocab quiz at the start of the unit.
    1. Wind Tunnel
      Is a research tool developed to assist with studying the effects of air moving over or around solid objects.
    2. Force
      A push or a pull
    3. Beam
      A structural element that carries load.
    4. Truss
      A structure consisting of straight slender pieces that are inter-connected at joints forming triangular units
    5. Cylinder
      a geometric shape of a tube
    6. Column
      A vertical structural element that transmits the weight of the structure from above to other structural elements below.
    7. Disperse
      To cause to separate and go in different directions.
    8. Dome
      A dome is a common structural element of architecture that resembles the hollow upper half of a sphere.
    9. Span
      Span is a section between two intermediate supports.
    10. Frame
      A skeleton that supports other components of the object.
    11. Bridge Deck
      the roadway surface of a bridge
    12. Foundation
      The portion of a building's structure that serves to transfer the weight of the building into the ground.
    13. Girder
      a large iron or steel support beam used in construction.
    14. Excavate
      To dig.
    15. Distort
      The alteration of the original shape of an object















































    Earth and Space


    Glossary of Terms


    The following definitions should be understood for this unit.





































































    26. The Moving Crust



      Notes in PDF format

      Assignments


      Assignment #1 Layers of the Earth

      Assignment #2 Continental Drift

      Assignment #2 Continenal Drift Essay -question #6

      Assignment #3 Sea Floor Spreading

      Assignment #4 Library Research

      Assignment #5 Types of Rock

      Assignment #6 Fossils and Potash

      A useful quiz click here