Catching up

Teaching the same class 6 periods seems to eat up my blogging time. We have been exploring distance versus time graphs and velocity time graphs.  We just started acceleration and the idea of things falling.  

We have used the moving man from PhET to translate movement to graph form and vice versa.  

Who would have thunk it?

Today was a cool day. Carly, our favorite "techie" figured out how to get our LabQuest2s to hook up to Graphical on our iPads. It is a very unusual solution that defies logic, but hey it works and she was cool enough to make a video on how to do it. The cooler part is my evaluator was in the room and saw the whole thing. I must admit I didn't believe her but her excitement when she proved it worked was the coolest part of my week so far. I am in teaching for moments like today. 

Still graph matching

Main Street seems the place to be. The great thing is with the LabQuest2 we can go anywhere. 

I love it

So I love when I learn stuff or the student use things in a way I had not thought of. The first group is using the motion detector position data to figure out where to start to match a graph. I don't know why but never thought of it or seen it before. The other group is using the draw prediction line to draw in the graph they have to make. Cool new feature they found on their own. I knew about it but I wanted to keep it simple. I guess they can handle it.

Getting closer to racing

We are almost done constructing cars. We are gathering data to plug into algebraic equations to tell us where to put our cars to tie. 

Ultimate Graphing Challenge

Today, we are playing ultimate graphing challenge. It's an awesome game to intro using graphs to describe motion. I was helping a student and it was making me think. 

First time

Today we are using the LabQuest2 with the motion detectors and graphical on the iPads. They think I am evil because I want them to make pretty graphs. I am a stickler but they can produce decent graphs.