Section outline

  • PLAN & DO / WHAKAMAHI

    PLAN & DO / WHAKAMAHI learning intentions:

    • We are PLANNING to demonstrate our understanding of Hooke's Law by hypothesising the outcome of our experiment and applying our learning and knowledge of the concepts to our results.
    • We are PLANNING to practise our understanding of experimental processes by demonstrating this in our practise experiments.

    Energy circus practical experiment / activity.

    This week we will continue preparing for our NCEA/assessment in Week 5 by conducting more experiments and write-ups. 

    Plan for the week is as follows: 

    Tuesday: Toy car ramp experiment - Practice for NCEA 
    Wed/Thursday : Energy transformation  theory notes - confirm who is doing NCEA 
    Friday: Pendulum swing experiment ( Ms Katafono will demo) - you will do the scientific write-up 

    key words: Kinetic energy, potential energy, Law of conservation of energy, gravitational potential energy, heat energy , sound energy, thermal energy 

    Paearu Angitu / Success Criteria: I can/have...

    1. Understand the concepts of potential and kinetic energy.
    2. Relate concepts of kinetic and potential energy to real life examples, as well as to engineering examples.
    3. Understand that a pendulum has a specific period, regardless of where the weight on the pendulum is started, or how much it weighs.
    4. Use the concepts of kinetic energy, potential energy, and conservation of energy to perform an experiment to determine an object's velocity.

     Activities:

    1. Toy car ramp experiment 
    2. Pendulum swing experiment ( Demo) 

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    Mahi Kāinga / Homework:
    Work on NCEA practice questions, KB and graphing questions on Google classroom