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Notes: Continental Drift
Video: Convection currents
Video debrief: questions
Video: Summary of convection
Read pages 73-78
Do SEP (9) page 74 and CCC (12) page 77; due today
Correct SEP (3) page 67, CCC (4) page 69, SEP (5) page 70, and SEP (6) p. 71; homework check /2
Notes: Plate Tectonics and Sea floor spreading
Submit Thermal Energy and Heat Transfer lab
Thermal Energy and Heat Transfer lab quiz
Read about Investigative Phenomenon: Why are there so many volcanoes in California?
Begin CER; write question, make a claim, cite evidence to support claim (if possible)
Do CCC (1) and SEP (2) page 65; due today
Read pages 66-72 in textbook
Do SEP (3) page 67, CCC (4) page 69, SEP (5) page 70, and SEP (6) page 71; due Tuesday
Thermal Energy and Heat Transfer lab questions? Due tomorrow
Thermal Energy and Heat Transfer lab; lab due Friday; lab quiz Friday; know: safety hazard described in the manual, how to define calorimeter, formula used in the assessment section, lab outcome
Notes: Calorimetry
Correct CCC (13) page 48, CCC (15) page 50, and SEP (17) page 53
Do SEP (18) page 54
Correct SEP (22) page 61, SEP (23) page 62, SEP (24) and “revisit the Anchoring Phenomenon” page 63
Energy Quiz; 14 m.c. questions
Complete Thermal Energy and Heat Transfer lab; lab debrief
Read pages 55-62
Discuss Investigative phenomenon
Do SEP (22) page 61, SEP (23) page 62, SEP (24) and “revisit the Anchoring Phenomenon page 63; due tomorrow
Thermal Energy and Heat Transfer lab; lab due Friday; lab quiz Friday; know: safety hazard described in the manual, how to define calorimeter, formula used in the assessment section, lab outcome
Energy Quiz tomorrow
Energy quiz Wednesday; know:
Kinetic molecular theory
How molecules move in a solid, liquid, and gas
Know how energy flows through a system
Compare and contrast convection, conduction, and radiation
Why thermal equilibrium is hard to maintain
Complete notes from Friday
Correct CCC (13) page 48, CCC (15) page 50, and SEP (17) page 53
Do SEP (18) page 54
Tutoring today after school from 3:35-4:35
Warm-up #1: How does a lava lamp work?
Warm-up #2: How can a lava lamp be used as a model to explain convection?
What is convection? Convection simulation
Notes: Convection and radiation
Notes: Feedback systems
Read 48-53
Do CCC (13) page 48, CCC (15) page 50, and SEP (17) page 53; due Tuesday
Energy Quiz on Wednesday
Specific Heat problem set due
Do Thermodynamics Problem set; due Tuesday; include work and units in all steps and box in final answer
Notes: Mechanisms of Heat Flow
Video: Lava Lamp
Notes: Conduction
Read pages 41-47; do CCC (8) page 41 and CCC (12) page 47; due tomorrow
Submit pHet lab sheet
Specific Heat problem set due tomorrow
Computer simulation: Thermal difference between substances with different specific heats
Computer simulation: does heat flow faster through a hotter source?
Laws of Thermodynamics simulations
Notes: Heat of vaporization and fusion
