COLLABORATION ROTATION
ROTATION EXPLANATION:
Learners (You) will work together to create and test a roller coaster track, made from tubing, following a set of guidelines. This activity includes drawing, data measurements, calculations, analysis of data and calculations, and conceptual questions all connected to energy.
Learners (You) will work together to create and test a roller coaster track, made from tubing, following a set of guidelines. This activity includes drawing, data measurements, calculations, analysis of data and calculations, and conceptual questions all connected to energy.
KEY LEARNING:
There is a single quantity called energy and due to the fact that a systems total energy is conserved even as within the system energy is continually transferred from one object to another and between its various possible forms.
There is a single quantity called energy and due to the fact that a systems total energy is conserved even as within the system energy is continually transferred from one object to another and between its various possible forms.
LEARNER EXPECTATIONS:
1. For the duration of this activity, learners are expected to work as a team to complete the activity as outlined.
2. There should be at all times the following: positive comments and supportive assistance for your fellow team members, a concerted effort to equally share in the work, and appropriate behaviors when working in the hallway around other classrooms.
1. For the duration of this activity, learners are expected to work as a team to complete the activity as outlined.
2. There should be at all times the following: positive comments and supportive assistance for your fellow team members, a concerted effort to equally share in the work, and appropriate behaviors when working in the hallway around other classrooms.
MATERIALS NEEDED:
- Student laptop
- Roller Coaster Lab Packet
- One length of tubing
- One to Two meter sticks
- Masking Tape
- One ball bearing
ACTIVITIES & INSTRUCTIONS
1. Every learner should take a packet from the folder.
2. Proceed to each activity outlined below.
ACTIVITY 1
3. STOP and move to Activity 2 |
ACTIVITY 2
Setting Up Your Lab and Completing It
2. Complete question 5, taking your measurements
ball bearing.
4. Complete questions 7-10 following the instructions and/or using the formulas outlined in the packet 5. You may skip number 11 6. Complete the Post-Lab questions |