Today in class, students in Integrated and science 8 began with the question, “What would you see standing on the side of the road if a moving truck going 50 mph shot a cannon ball backwards at 50 mph?” Students watched a mythbusters clip that showed you would see the ball drop down, with no horizontal motion. Students in integrated science discussed this fact a bit further, and then we worked to define acceleration. Deceleration is no longer a term in our vocabulary: Positive acceleration means the velocity is becoming more positive, and negative accelerations means the velocity is becoming more negative. Students began reading over and making observations for the Acceleration lab.

Students in science 8 took their quiz retakes today after the bell ringer, and then worked on the Acceleration lab, with a short demonstration on how to collect the data. Tomorrow they’ll finish collecting data, and then finish the rest for homework.

HOMEWORK: none