During integrated science today,  students collaborated again to solve a difficult challenge. Based on the spring labs this week, students tried to make two cars attached to different springs move at the same velocity. Students learned Friday that matching the forces on each spring doesn’t work because the springs don’t have the same force as they compress. We challenged students to take new data and then determine when the two springs would have the same area beneath their graphs. This is a challenge! To help out, take your equation for the red spring, set the distance to 7 cm, and then figure out the area below that line on the graph. Then use this area to solve for the distance the other spring must stretch to create that area. This will be a bonus for us tomorrow!

Students in science 8 began with a bell ringer asking them to determine what kinds of plates were present given some information about land features. Then we reviewed the Finding the Tectonic Plates Lab and gave students some additional time to finish their labs.  The lab was due at the end of the period. Tomorrow’s quiz will ask students to determine plate boundaries and types of plate boundaries from geographic features.

HOMEWORK: Integrated=Bonus problem: Match the areas. How far back do I pull each spring?
Science 8= Plate Boundary Worksheet.