Nature+of+Science

Welcome to the Wikispace for West High Physics period 2. This wiki will serve as our online textbook for this school year. Each of you will take a turn in charge of submitting the wiki entry that summarizes a days worth of physics. These entries may just involve text, but could also include pictures or videos that could assist your classmates with understanding the day's topic. I'll be entering the summaries for the first few days while we continue to get acquainted with each other. Additionally, you can consult [|the physics ramble] for quick information on homework assignments and daily activities.

Class started with a grouping activity. Each person received a card with a word on it. They had to record some information on the card and then attempt to create a meaningful group of words with three other people. The class spent some time moving words back and forth until everyone was in agreement that the words were in meaningful groups. The following are some comments overheard during the activity, "I could be in five different categories" "Ours could be cars or planets or they could all be streets" "Burlington - Like my whole family lives there" "Cedar? That's a tree" At the end of the activity, we discussed things like whether or not the meaning of our word changed during the activity, what were some important things to do during the activity, and how we knew we were done at the end of the activity.
 * Thursday, August 18th**