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This document contains announcements and assignments from a science teacher. It lists several upcoming projects and assignments due, including a 3-page report, a scaled planet model with information chart, and a 1-hour debate. It also provides the daily assignments, such as comparing sizes of inner and outer planets, drawing and naming a comet with its path and tails, and choosing between a space probe timeline or travel brochure project. Students are reminded that their main project is due on Friday.
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The document provides assignments and instructions for students across four class periods. In period 1, students are asked questions about the planets closest and furthest from the Sun, and the only habitable planet. In period 2, students are instructed to finish projects and add sections, links, and images. In period 3, students must conduct and present a science experiment by a deadline, and complete a weather packet. Similarly in period 4, students must write paragraphs for an online debate due that day, and also complete the weather packet.
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This document is a warm-up assignment from a teacher that asks students to define intelligence, discuss where it comes from and whether it is important for happiness and success. It also asks students if they have ever made fun of someone for being intelligent and why. Finally, it provides a list of assignments and due dates for students to turn in.
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Potential energy is stored energy due to an object's position or state. Objects that can store potential energy include stretched rubber bands (elastic), chemical bonds in batteries (chemical), and objects raised above the ground due to gravity (gravitational). The law of conservation of energy states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only converted from one form to another, so the total energy in the universe remains constant.
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The document discusses school uniforms and how their impact on student learning could be tested. It also covers different types of mechanical waves, including transverse waves where matter moves perpendicular to energy motion and compressional waves where matter moves parallel to energy motion. Examples are given such as ocean waves, earthquakes, light, and sound.
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The document provides concepts for students to illustrate in their daily warm-up: motion, air resistance, and velocity. It also lists some announcements and examples of interesting science topics, including 4D cubes, super slow motion lightning, nanotechnology concepts, genetic engineering experiments, bird evolution, solar aircraft, and newly discovered species.
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When describing the rate at which a race car moves around a track, one should use the term "speed" rather than "velocity" because speed refers to the distance traveled over time without regard to direction, while velocity includes both speed and direction of motion.
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This document contains instructions to complete questions from various pages in a textbook or workbook, asking about the three types of rock, properties of igneous rock, sedimentary rock formation, metamorphic rock examples, and properties of the three main types of rock.
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The document provides announcements and instructions for a student science project. It outlines what is due, including a rubric, poster board outline, step-by-step instructions, and demonstration materials. Students are asked to write questions for other groups and make their projects entertaining. The document emphasizes putting effort into individual research and presentations, with consequences for a lack of effort or copying materials. It requests a short scientist biography and accomplishments. Extra credit is offered for presenting cool science information to the class.
08
The document appears to be notes from a science class. It includes announcements about binders being due and no homework over the weekend. It encourages students to be safe and do their current events article. The notes indicate it is Friday and students should finish any unfinished work, ask questions, and review for next week's quiz. It concludes with questions about boring and interesting things and what was learned that day and is due next class.
09
This document contains information about an upcoming Earth Science project that is due on October 12th. It lists the required elements of the project, which must include a demonstration, diagram, poster, and an oral presentation where each group member can answer questions. It encourages entertaining and engaging presentations to earn a good grade. Several Earth Science topics are provided as options for the project subject. It also describes opportunities for bonus points, such as incorporating a video, song, poem, or going above the minimum requirements. The document ends by asking students what they will do to help their group succeed on the project.
09
El documento proporciona instrucciones en tres idiomas (inglés, español y francés) para crear un gráfico de tiempo-distancia que muestre un viaje en coche al trabajo en 30 minutos, una estancia de 2 horas en el trabajo y el viaje de regreso a casa en otros 30 minutos.
09
This document provides instructions for a class activity where students will measure their running speed over 10 meters using a stopwatch and meter stick. They will then calculate their speed in meters per second and kilometers per hour to compare to speed measurements of various animals and objects listed in a table, ranging from hair growth to the speed of light. Students are asked to write a paragraph comparing the different means of movement and why their running speed is better or worse than the listed items.
09
The document discusses various forms of energy transformation. It provides examples of how light energy from the sun is converted to different forms of energy on Earth, such as chemical, thermal, kinetic, and electrical energy. It also discusses how energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed from one form to another.
09
The document discusses energy and asks how students saw energy moving in spring demonstrations the previous day. It then announces hip hop/rap club, science tutoring sessions, and an assignment to create a timeline illustrating the formation of the solar system and Earth using information from a video on Nova Origins: Earth is Born, with at least 10 events and 3 illustrations and an outline, to be graded on organization and legibility.
09
Friction is the force that opposes the relative motion or attempted motion of two surfaces in contact. Two examples of friction experienced daily are the friction between shoes and the ground when walking, and friction that allows brakes on vehicles to slow them down. Gravity is the force that attracts objects with mass towards one another, and its strength decreases with distance. On Earth, gravitational acceleration is approximately 9.8 m/s2.
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La energía potencial es la energía almacenada en un cuerpo debido a su posición o estado, mientras que la energía cinética es la energía de movimiento de un cuerpo. Un ejemplo de energía potencial es una bola en lo alto de una colina y un ejemplo de energía cinética es una bola rodando colina abajo.
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This document discusses a student's school project on the history of toilet paper. It mentions that the student should research their topic in textbooks and record their findings in the labs section of their notebook. The student is also reminded to complete all parts of the assigned work.
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