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OUR LADY QUEEN OF MARTYRS SCHOOL WEEKLY LESSON PLAN

 

Teacher’s Name: Mrs. Ramsey                           Subject: Science                                         Grade: 8th

  

Week of : November 5th, 2012                                    Unit: III -9 Weeks                                Week: 1

Unit Title: Forces and Energy                                        Essential Question:  How can you describe the motion of objects and their reaction to forces                       

 

 

CCSS

Code

e.g.

RL.K.5

OUTCOMES

(Lesson Focus)

What will the students know or be able to do at the end of the lesson?

ASSESSMENT

How will the students demonstrate that they have accomplished the desired outcome? Please state the question that will be asked during your formative assessment.

STRATEGIES

In what activities will the students be engaged to accomplish the desired outcome? Please list in the order that you will implement.

3 HOTS QUESTIONS

e.g. one should be on knowledge, one on application, and one on synthesis or evaluation.

Mon

 

 11/5

 

L.6.3a

SL.2

W. 2c

Students will learn how to identify friction and gravity

 

 How is Newton’s 2nd law used to find distance, mass, and time.

1. Vary sentence patterns for meaning.

2.  Interpret information presented in diverse media and formats

3.  Use appropriate and varied transition to link the major sections of the text. 

1.  Define gravity and friction.

2.  Name the types of frictions.

3. How does lubricant reduce friction?

Tues

 

 11/6

 

WHST.6

SL. 1.a

RI.7

 Students learn of Newton’s Three Laws of Motion

What is energy? 

 1.  Use technology, including the Internet to present the relationship between information

2.  Come to discussion prepared, having or studied required material.

3.  Analyze various accounts of a subject told in different mediums

1.  Explain how the three laws are different.

2.  What is the relationship between mass, force, and acceleration.

3.  How is a falling object relates to gravitational forces.

Wed

 

 11/7

 

WHST.2a

RI.4

RL.6

 Students will learn how to graph the speed and velocity of an object.

What is displacement? 

1.  Introduce topic clearly, previewing what is to follow.

2.  Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in text.

3.  Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in the literature. 

1.  Calculate speed and velocity.

2.  What is displacement.  Demonstrate!

3.  Compare and contrast speed and velocity

Thurs

 

 11/8

 

WHST. 9

L7.3a

RL.11.b

Students will learn that physical quantities and laws depend on units used for 3 basic measurable quantities--distance, mass and time

 

How is force determined? 

1.  Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis.

2.  Choose language that expresses ideas precisely and concisely.

3.  Uses established criteria to classify text.

 

1. What happens when a force acting on an object is opposed?

2.  What determines how big that acceleration will be?

3.  Give an example of a force.

Fri

 

 11/9

 

RST.4

WHST 2.a

RI.7

 Student will learn the concept of energy, using a variety of examples and also the analogy between energy and money.

What is work? 

1.  Use symbols on the periodic table.

2.  Write information using charts.

3.  Analyze various accounts of a subject told in different mediums.

 

1.  How is energy measured?"

2.  Describe the  kinds of energy did you use today?

3.  When an object falls down from a height h meters, what is the relation between h and its final velocity v, in meters per second?

 

 

Bloom’s Taxonomy

 (HOTS Questions)

-Knowledge

-Comprehension

-Application

-Analysis

-Synthesis

-Evaluation

School Grade Weighting Scale:

Tests (40%):

Quizzes (20%):

Classwork/ Participation (15%):

Homework (5%):

Projects/ Portfolios (20%):

 

Vocabulary words for week:

1.  speed                      

2.  conservation of momentum

3.  displacement                           

4.  velocity                            

5. energy                              

6. acceleration 

7.  inertia

8. momentum

9.  mass

10. kinetic energy