Reminder: Team Legacy Spirit Wear Link (ends September 23)
Today in class, integrated students traded and graded their math models ws. Afterwards, students worked to develop their algebraic models and graphs of their car motions, and then they made predictions and tested them based on their models. If their predictions were largely inaccurate, they recollected their data. To finish class, students did a pre-write in their notebooks on the article they’ll read tomorrow (Self-Driving Cars Gain a Powerful Ally: The Government). Tomorrow, students will be presented with a challenge, as well as their reading assignment.
Post-Questions for the reading assignment:
1. Based on what the article said, do you feel the government regulations address concerns you may have had with driverless cars?
2. Name two potential problems that driverless cars could solve.
3. There was a fatal accident in Florida with a driverless car recently (you can learn more by clicking on the graphic in the article). There is a lot of money going into the technology that makes these cars work. Do you think these cars will have better, worse, or equal reaction times to change their speed compared to humans? (Essentially, can people or computers drive better?) Explain why you think this.
LESSON FOR THURSDAY: Create your mathematical model of your car’s motion (in y=mx + b format), and then predict how long it would take to go 123 cm. Once you have a prediction, test it to see what the actual time would be. If your prediction and actual time are close, you made a good model! If your prediction and actual times don’t match up closely…maybe you need to retest to make sure you did everything correctly, maybe you need to re-analyze your graph, or maybe you need to recollect data that is more accurate. Feel free to alter your equation as you see necessary!
Once you have a good equation, you will be assigned another group (Friday). You and the other group will be asked on Friday/next week to set up your cars to crash, starting 2 m apart. You will have to show where they will crash. The smaller the difference between your crash site prediction and the actual site, the higher your grade will be.
If you finish early, please work on your reading and the questions with it. They will be due Friday.
In science 8, students continued work on their coastal COASTAL GEOLOGIST PROJECT, which will be due next Friday (September 23). Students should be finalizing their products and making sure they are ready to turn in their work on Friday. Tomorrow will be the final day to work!
HOMEWORK: Integrated= Self-Driving Cars Gain a Powerful Ally: The Government and questions due Friday.
Science 8= Coastal Geologist Project due tomorrow.