8th grade Owen Goodnight Jr' High

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8th grade Owen Goodnight Jr. High

• 130 students
• 6 classes
• 2 Pre-AP
• 1 Co-teach
• Block schedule
• 3 - 90 min classes daily
• Rotates every other day
• New Gatewaysbook

Owen GoodnightJunior High
GK-12 Teacher Sandra Baker
GK-12 Fellow Allana Welsh
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Curriculum

• Safety/Metrics
• Chemistry
• Dry ice/ice demo
• Endothermic/exothermic lab
• Balancing chemequations
• Bohr Models
• 4 Chem rxns lab

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Curriculum

• Physics
• Balanced vs opposing forces
• Spring scales lab
• Indy car lab
• Potential vs kinetic energy
• Waves
• Earths Interior
• Layers of Earth
• Convection currents

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Indy car lab

• TEKS
• Scientific inquiry, force and motion, tools, safe
  lab practices
• Basics
• Teams 3 or 4
• 3 effects mass, friction,or track angle
• Each effect had 3 treatments
• Calculate speed, acceleration and force

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Indy car lab

• Demo
• Before hitting thetrack
• Chose effect
• Pit crew jobs
• Summarize theirexperiment
• Identify variables
• Make hypothesis

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Indy car lab

• Data collection
• Timed cars run on thetrack
• For each effect, three treatments
• For each treatment, three replicate runs

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Indy car lab

• Calculate
• Average time
• Calculate speed
• Calculate acceleration
• Calculate force
• Summarize
• 1 sentence each on how their treatmentaffected
  speed,acceleration and force

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Indy car lab

• Wrap up
• Shared how mass,friction and trackangle
  affected thecars speed,acceleration andforce
• Reviewed formulasfor speed and force

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Spring Curriculum

• Earths Interior
• Changes Over Time
• Earths Systems
• Living Systems
• The Universe
• TAKS TEST
• Edwards Aquifer
• San Marcos River