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Unit Overview		Name: Maria Vasiliu
Curricular Area: Physics Topic or Theme: Kinematics-Acceleration Grade Level:  11 Big Ideas:   At the end of this course, students will know what acceleration is, and to calculate displacement during constant acceleration	Resources:	Checking for Prior Knowledge:
	School book: Merrill My blog Handouts and worksheets Internet others	Students should be familiar with: manipulating algebraic equations, position, velocity and motion at constant velocity
		General adaptations: use visual and graphic representations where necessary highlight important concepts/words write with different colors in worksheets or transparencies breaking lesson into smaller segments providing on-going coaching and feed-back concrete examples teaching assistant

Lesson #	Topic	Objectives/Learning Outcomes	Activities	Materials:	Assessment/Criteria
1.	Average and instantaneous acceleration	-Define average and instantaneous acceleration -Calculate average acceleration -Calculate average and instantaneous acceleration from a velocity-acceleration graph -Calculate final velocity in case of uniform acceleration	KLW entrance slips Video-Physics of motion Students will start a formula page Transparency and worksheet In-class questions	School book-Merrill video the blogs	The assessment of students’ ability to resolve problems Teacher’s observation on how students : Understand the concept
2.	Displacement during constant acceleration	-be able to calculate the displacement of an object undergoing uniform acceleration	Warm-up: see teacher’s blog for answers Transparency day2: In class questions Practice problems: start in class Check up the understanding	Teacher’s blog School book: Merrill Internet	how students understood the difference between velocity and acceleration, difference between scalar and vectors, displacement and acceleration and the ability to resolve the problems self assessment for practice problems
3	Displacement when a & t are known/ v & t are known	-be able to use an organized strategy for solving motion problems	Warm-up: Entrance slips Discuss the animation graphs Transparency day3: In class questions: first 3 solved together Practice problems: start in class Check up the understanding	Teacher’s blog School book: Merrill Internet	how students understood and are able to solve motion problems pair assessment for practice problems
4	Acceleration due to Gravity	-be able to solve problems of the motion of objects uniformly accelerated by gravity	Warm-up: Entrance slips Discuss the animation graph Transparency day4 Activity: Reaction time for ruler drop In class questions: first 3 solved together Vocabulary review Study guide Practice problems: start in class	School book: Merrill Study guide Vocabulary review Internet	how students understood and are able to solve motion problems self assessment for practice problems Pair assessment for Vocabulary review and Study guide
5	More practice/Jeopardy/ Enrichment	be able to solve problems of the motion	Warm-up: Jeopardy: Pair work 5 problems for more practice Chapter Review problems: Supplemental problems ( Appendix B): start in class KLM-exit slips	School book: Merrill	how students understood and are able to solve motion problems pair-group assessment for jeopardy self assessment for enrichment
6	Preparation test	be able to solve problems of the motion	Preparation test	School book: Merrill	how students understood and are able to solve motion problems Developed criteria for assessment
7	Test	be able to solve problems of the motion	Test	School book: Merrill	how students understood and are able to solve motion problems SCANTRON
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