By: Sue Speirs

Use a digital camera or series of sketches to capture, in snap shots, the motion of an object of your choice… You might select…. A falling leaf, a flying airplane, an erupting volcano, a wriggling worm, a shooting star, a lunar eclipse, a racing car, a rolling bowling ball, a ripple in the lake… Then, write about….

Name ______________________ Day/Date ______________ Place _________________ Time __________________ Weather (temperature, cloud cover, wind direction) _______________________ Object _________________ Be sure to include the… First Impressions (describe the object you are observing and be sure to include details—measurement / numbers estimates,) Movement Observations (the object’s movement,) Why Ideas (describe why you think this object is moving this way and not some other way,) Prediction Structure to Function Ideas (describe what might happen to the object’s movement if you could change something about the object— shape, mass etc) Prediction Forces ideas (write and or sketch what might happen to the object’s movement if you could change the forces acting on the object,) Resources 7

Prepare at least 14 PowerPoint Slides for the Motion Analysis Project One title slide—nifty title, name, date, course One object description slide—picture/sketch of the object and detailed description At least five slides depicting the motion of the object Seven Slides that contain the highlights from the motion journal parts 1-7 Complete a motion journal Use the rubric and model Motion Analysis Projects to guide your thinking Present your motion to the class

Click here to view the sketch a motion PowerPoint samplesketch a motion Click here to view the baseball motion PowerPoint samplebaseball motion Click here to view the California fires motion PowerPoint sampleCalifornia fires Click here to view the Lunar Eclipse motion PowerPoint sampleLunar Eclipse

Get a Notion, It’s All About Motion Throw a Ball Animated Sketch

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Baseball pictures taken by Sue Speirs

America’s Favorite…! What were you thinking,…Baseball? Physics and Motion

Pay Close Attention Mo, you are about to get a lesson in...

So easy we will solve it with our bare knuckles...

physics is phun

Consider the forces in action… The bat speed of Mo Vaughn vs. The sweet knuckle ball of Steve Sparks NOW YOU MAKE THE CALL!

“GIBBY, Did you see the Physics behind that play?” “I’m still work’n the formulas… JOSH”

PHYSICS is a BLAST

Science Rocks! That’s the GNEISS thing about SCIENCE Return to Table of Contents

Pictures used with permission from John Walker

HWY 15 N & Miramar Way

The fire moves south down Oak Canyon toward the 52 freeway.

Aerial view of the fire line along Route 15 near Miramar Air Station.

A San Diego police officer backs his car off Clairemont Mesa Blvd just east of I-15 as the fire flares up on the north side.

Fire rages on the east side of the I-15 at Clairemont Mesa Blvd

Traffic backed up on I-15 from closures forced by the wildfires on Sunday

The fire line nears a Scripps Ranch development.

A large home burns out of control in Ramona

The fire line nears a Scripps Ranch development.

Ventura County firefighters look at a twister of flame from a wildfire, Sunday, in Simi Valley

A home burns along North Lake Wohlford Road at Valley Center Road on Sunday morning

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November 8, 2003 Livonia, MI Home Driveway 7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. Prepared by: Sue Speirs, K-12 Science Specialist Grosse Pointe Public Schools

A total eclipse of the Moon occurred the weekend of Nov. 8-9, A Lunar Eclipse (eclipse of the Moon) happens at Full Moon. The Moon orbits Earth about once every 29 ½ days. Lunar eclipses happen when the Moon passes through the shadow of the Earth.

About two to four times each year, the Moon passes through some portion of the Earth's shadows (penumbral or umbral) and one of three types of eclipses occurs.

During a total lunar eclipse, the Earth blocks all direct sunlight from the Moon. The Moon has no light of its own, but shines by sunlight reflected from its surface.

Just about 35% of lunar eclipses are total eclipses— and are totally awesome to watch!

November 8, 2003 Livonia, MI Home Driveway 7:00 p.m.

November 8, 2003 Livonia, MI Home Driveway 7:15 p.m.

November 8, 2003 Livonia, MI Home Driveway 7:35 p.m.

November 8, 2003 Livonia, MI Home Driveway 7:45 p.m.

November 8, 2003 Livonia, MI Home Driveway 8:20 p.m. A bright rim along the moon’s southern edge will appear in a totally eclipsed Moon.

November 8, 2003 Livonia, MI Home Driveway 8:45 p.m.

November 8, 2003 Livonia, MI Home Driveway 9:05 p.m.

November 8, 2003 Livonia, MI Home Driveway 9:20 p.m.

November 8, 2003 Livonia, MI Home Driveway 10:00 p.m.

Trading Spaces Question FYI: Lunar eclipses are safe to watch—unlike solar eclipses. Imagine that you are an astronaut on the moon November 8th and 9th If you are “looking at planet earth,” what would you see? Should you be “looking back” at planet earth? Support your reasoning. Return to Table of Contents