Mr. David Marialke Science 8

Important Messages

*What's due this week?  For Periods 1,2,4,6: each day you will be required to hand in the days work.  There will be plenty of time to conduct and write up the labs each day.  For Period 3: You will be allowed to use your best time management skills and work on the labs at your own pace.  You will be required to pass in all labs on Friday at the end of the period.

*ASK A GOOD QUESTION!  Scroll down and read one of my favorite stories about how to become a prize winning scientist.

Monday (10/6)-Labs 1-2: Bodies at rest and bodies in motion.  Due at the end of the period.  As always, individuals will be allowed to take the daily work home to complete it but must return the lab write up the following day for full credit.  Those students that finish the lab by the end of the hour will turn it in to Mr. M.

Tuesday(10/7)-Labs. 3-4:  The speed of moving bodies will be investigated.

Wednesday(10/8)-Labs. 5-7: Graphing the average speed.

Thursday(10/9)-Mr. M will be absent.  Please show the guest teacher the utmost respect.  Students will view a DVD on the physics of roller coaster science and catch up on any Labs. 1-7 that have not been completed.

Friday(10/10)-Labs. 8-9:  Tracking Collisions and Newton's Laws of Motion.  Inertia will be introduced. 

ONE OF MY FAVORITE STORIES

"The Nobel Laureate in physics, Isidor Rabi, was once asked, 'Why did you become a scientist, rather than a doctor, or lawyer, or businessman, likethe other immigrant kids in your neighborhood?'  Dr. Rabi answered: 'My mother made a scientist without ever intending it.  Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school,'Nu? did you learn anything today?'  But not my mother.  She always asked me a different question, 'Izzy,' she would say, 'did you ask a good question today?'  That difference-asking good questions-made me become a scientist."  (Donald Sheff, New York Times, 19January 1988).

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