Jim'sCosmicScience

These resources lets student learn and practice a fun, intuitive, and visual method for carrying out metric conversions. Includes a handout/tutorial explaining the method, and a worksheet (with solutions) for student practice.

This tutorial explains clearly and intuitively what "pi" is, and how the radian angle measurement system works using the intrinsic properties of all circles. Students learn the natural advantages of this system in simplifying math formulas. The tutorial ends with two example problems computing arc length of angular displacements in both revolutions and degrees.

Students turn a mundane Periodic Table into a very useful reference in this assignment. Following the checklist of 15 tasks (included in this bundle), students annotate their Tables with color coding for metals/non-metals/metaloids, labeling groups with Lewis Dot Structures, valence electrons, oxidation numbers, and also with the customary names for element groups (such as "halogens" etc).

A 1 page review of the concepts of Work and Power and their relationship energy transfer and transformation. Students fill in the blanks using a word bank. A good warm-up activity with a partner or a small group. Complete solution is included.

A 1 page review of Potential Energy, Kinetic Energy, and Mechanical Energy and conservation. Students fill in the blanks using a word bank. A good warm-up activity with a partner or a small group. Complete solution is included.

Using proportional reasoning lets us find quantitative and qualitative answers to Physics and Math problems in a fast and easy way. This 4 page tutorial explains a three step process for approaching these problems, and also has 6 completely worked examples to help the student become a master at solving proportional reasoning problems. Great prep for the AP Physics and other standardized Physics exams.

Using the chart in Handout/Tutorial "Visual Metric Conversions How To" the student can quickly, intuitively, and visually convert between the metric units in this practice worksheet.

Using a simple and intuitive visual method, a quantity that uses a metric prefix can be quickly and visually converted to another prefix or to the root unit!

This set of DVT Word Problems are scaffolded to walk students through an organized problem solving process. This includes determining if inconsistent units require a conversion, writing down givens and formula to be used. The first of the 12 problems is completely solved as an example.

A 1 page review of Kinematics Vocabulary. Students fill in the blanks using a word bank. A good warm-up activity with a partner or a small group. Complete solution is included.

This study aid connects four types of descriptions (Verbal, X-t graphs, V-t graphs, and Motion Maps) to various scenarios involving Uniform Accelerated Motion (UAM). Because the same motion is described in parallel in several different graphical "languages", it is likened to the Rosetta Stone, a key archeological discovery that unlocked the secrets of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.

This study aid connects three types of descriptions (Verbal, X-t graphs, V-t graphs, and Motion Maps) to various scenarios involving Constant Velocity (CV) motion. Because the same motion is described in parallel in several different graphical "languages", it is likened to the Rosetta Stone, a key archeological discovery that unlocked the secrets of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.

This succinct illustrated handout provides definitions and some formulas for nine commonly encountered forms of energy.

A number of chemical symbols we use to this day are abbreviations of the Latin names for various elements. The reason for this anomaly is that these elements were the ones known to the ancient and medieval Alchemists. This worksheet lists the symbols for these "annoying" elements, and asks students to take a minute to look them up.

A 1 page review of Newton's first and second laws. Students fill in the blanks using a word bank. Good warm-up activity with a partner or small group. Complete solution included.

This handout is a table of common ions including symbols and charges for main group ions, transition metal ions, and polyatomic ions. Very useful reference item.

This easy to use flow chart is a very useful guide to naming chemical compounds. Includes both ionic and covalent naming conventions.

This spreadsheet allows you to enter in numeric equalities between units (for example "12 inches = 1 foot") or situational equivalencies (for example 8 slices = 1 pizza) and then generates the front and back of "Conversion Factor Cards" with a conversion factor on one side, and it's reciprocal on the other side. Using a copier in Single --> Double sided mode, a sheet of "Custom Flipable Conversion Factor Cards" is created and can then be cut out for use as student manipulables... Great for

This is a quick 1 page reference sheet that contains 20 SI prefixes, the 7 root SI units, and an explanation of how prefixes and units combine to give re-sized units. Also defines Liters and millilters in terms of SI units. A very handy reference sheet.

Handout explains vector components in a clear and accessible way, including how to calculate them using elementary trigonometry.