link to unit plan

Monday, 29 Sept and Tuesday, 30 Sept

Objective: prepare for and engage in Socratic seminar

Agenda:

Welcome and overview
Prime the pump
1. Retrieve your team's board
2. Describe what your model shows.
  1. EXPLAIN how energy flows through the system
  2. EXPLAIN what mechanism changes the way energy flows through the system
3. What questions do you still wonder about?
Refine your model
Set expectations for fishbowl Socratic seminar
1. Protocol
  1. Round 1: spreading dye
  2. Round 2: melting ice
  3. Round 3:
2. Expectations
  1. Participants
    1. Engage academically
      1. Share your thoughts
      2. Share your questions
      3. Question others to better understand their thinking
    2. Engage in the community
      1. Actively listen to understand
      2. Build on ideas of others or probe respectfully
  2. Audience
    1. Engage academically
      1. Write key ideas in your notebook
      2. Help your delegate by sending them notes with ideas, questions, and reactions
    2. Engage in the community
      1. Actively listen
      2. Sit up and lean in
      3. Use body language to express support for ideas you agree with
3. Assessment
  1. Communication:
    1. Does your model EXPLAIN how energy flows?
    2. Do you share with your voice?
    3. Do you actively listen?
  2. Self-management
    1. Are you capturing key ideas in your notes?
    2. Do you reflect on how your ideas were supported or changed?
    3. Do you offer appreciation for others' contributions?
Engage in Socratic seminar:
1. Monday: round 1 and, time permitting, round 2
2. Tuesday: round 2 and round 3
Reflect and appreciate
1. Deliverable Fill out this brief survey to summarize how your ideas were supported or changed
Next steps and closing
1. Prepare for tomorrow's class by watching this Khan academy video [or find a different one if you prefer]
2. In your notebook,
  1. define and distinguish between thermal energy, temperature, and heat
  2. distinguish between conduction, convection, and radiation

Homework:

Due Monday, 29 Sept <1900 PDT (7 pm) AND Tuesday, 30 Sept <1900 PDT (7 pm) If you have not already filled out the reflection survey [agenda item 6a], do so now.

Due Wednesday, 1 Oct <start of class Watch video regarding difference between thermal energy, temperature, and heat; capture key ideas in your notebook [agenda item 7.b]

Wednesday, 1 Oct

Objective: summarize key ideas; define, illustrate, and give examples of key terms

Agenda:

Welcome and overview
1. New seats!
2. Introduce yourself to your new tablemates
  1. What’s a topic that you know lots about that is not at all useful?
  2. What is the best non-traditional pizza topping?
  3. What’s the worst haircut you ever had?
Debrief Socratic seminar
1. Share appreciation
2. Summarize key ideas so far
Prime the pump
1. Share your responses from last night's homework:
  1. Define thermal energy, temperature, and heat
  2. What is the key difference between conduction, convection, and radiation?
2. On a whiteboard, respond to the following prompts
  1. How is thermal energy different than temperature?
  2. Suppose you add energy to 1,000 g of water and temperature changes by 10 deg C. If you add the same amount of energy to 500 g of water, predict how much the temperature would change
Next steps and closing

Homework:

Thursday, 2 Oct

Objective: define, provide rationale for, and practice Pomodoro, a time-management technique

Agenda:

Welcome and overview
Give examples of conduction in your life; give examples of conduction in your kitchen.
Refine conceptual model of conduction.
Attend to this presentation to build a graphical and mathematical model of conduction
Work through some examples together
Working individually at first and then with peers, complete this problem set
1. Alg 1: to earn a 4, complete standard problem set at 18+ points
2. Alg 2: to earn a 4, complete standard problem set at 18+ points and challenge problem set at 15+ points
Next steps and closing
1. Your instructor has been invited to present at a conference in Washington DC this weekend. Prepare to welcome the substitute teacher tomorrow.

Homework:

Due Monday, 6 Oct: If you have not already done so, complete the problem set.

Friday, 3 Oct

Objective: Prepare for quiz

Agenda:

Welcome and overview
Prepare for quiz on Tuesday
Work on problem set from yesterday
Build stronger technical vocabulary
1. Introduction to Frayer model
2. Example
3. Guided
4. Independent:
  1. Create a Frayer model for each of the following words:
    1. thermal energy
    2. temperature
    3. heat
    4. conduction
    5. convection
    6. radiation
  2. Connect your definition to ideas you already know. Use words and diagrams.
  3. Distinguish it from other key ideas. Use words and diagrams.
  4. Give an example from your life.
  5. Consider using Conceptual Physics to improve your model. See pp. 307 - 311 and 325 - 331
5. Share your models with your peers. If your peers share an idea that resonates, refine your model as others share their models Deliverable Be prepared to share your Frayer model with your instructor
Next steps and closing

Homework:

Due Monday, 6 Oct [repeat from Thursday] : If you have not already done so, complete the problem set.

Due Monday, 6 Oct: Complete your definitions and Frayer models if you have not already done so.