Kim Melso

Guided notes which follow along with the 2022 Savvas Experience Physics textbook. Included are notes for investigation 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 16. Also includes the notes for experience 4 in investigation 10. See individual listings for more details. Bonus file is a simple net forces worksheet to go along with investigation 2.

10 pages of guided notes which follow along with the Experience Physics Textbook copyright 2022 by Savvas Learning Company. Does not include speed of electron examples in experience 1 or the culinary molecules or medical engineering sections in experience 4. The comprehensive nature of these notes with the provided solutions could also be reformatted to be used as stand alone notes, without a textbook. You could create slides that follow along the guided notes if you do not have or want to use t

This TI-84 calculator guide goes through basic features on the calculator every student should know how to use before taking the ACT and SAT. Understanding how to use the calculator as a tool can save time during the calculator portions of the test and reduce minor errors. This guide walks students through how to input different problems in the calculator, where to find the buttons, and what order to enter the pieces of the functions. This how to guide features 10 topics including order of opera

This card sort activity includes 8 semi log plot graphs and their matching table of values, exponential function, and linear log function. Teachers can pick and choose which cards they want students to match together. For an extension activity, consider removing the equation cards and having the students write them! I used this in AP Precalculus to solidify topic 2.15.

Vocabulary words for AP Precalculus and precalculus. Formatted so that there is one word with a definition and example per 11x8.5 page. All are formatted with landscape view and on white paper so that they are easily printable. Includes key words from all 3 units on the AP exam. At this time not planning to add any key words from unit 4.

Parametric equations can be challenging for students but they are so important because they show us concretely how math can be represented in the real world. This card sort activity lays it all out there. There are 4 different sets of 6 cards each to be matched together (24 total cards). The parametric equations (half are sin/cos equations) The rectangular functionThe graph of the parametric curveA real life scenario that could represent the equations/graphYou could mix and match the cards depen

This is a COMPLETE lesson on domain restriction including a google slide show which follows along with the notes and a homework page. The notes contain restricting the domain on a graph to make the function one to one and restricting the domain algebraically of rational and square root functions. The guided notes has 7 example problems. The homework contains 4 graphs to restrict and 3 algebraic functions. This lesson could supplement a domain lesson or an inverse lesson. I found that my student

12 pages of guided notes which follow along with the Experience Physics Textbook copyright 2022 by Savvas Learning Company. Specifically Investigation 5: Magnetic Forces. I do not have a lot of mathematical examples in this section as it is a bit above my students head but there are a few and more could easily be added. I also skipped the section “Torque on loops” but that could easily be added in if you need it.  The comprehensive nature of these notes with the provided solutions could also be

This google form "lab" goes with the 1 dimensional collision simulation from PhET. Students will explore 4 different scenarios, elastic collision with the same mass, elastic with different mass, inelastic with different mass, and inelastic with same mass. In each scenario students will write a claim (you could change the wording to prediction or hypothesis) as to how the initial and final momentum values will compare. Students will be exploring the concept of conservation of momentum and making

This error analysis activity features 4 different problems. 3 of them are using the definition of the limit to find the equation of the slope of the tangent line and the 4th problem has students find the slope at a specific point and write the equation of the tangent line. Students are presented with a set of work on each problem which contains an error. They need to find the error, describe the error, and then correct the error. Students should use the definition of a limit to solve and not der

15 pages of guided notes which follow along with Investigation 1: Position and Motion in the Experience Physics 2022 textbook by Savvas Learning Company. There are several examples in the guided notes which are not in the textbook. Specifically, there is a section in the notes titled “All graphs together” starting on page 11 which is not in the textbook. There are also more examples in the textbook not in the guided notes. Vector mathematics, modeling uniform motion equation writing, adding com

In this activity, students will explore their "universe" to figure out the rate of expansion. They will need to have knowledge of how to calculate velocity, how to calculate acceleration, how to graph a line of best, and how to read a ruler in centimeters. Materials required: rulers and cut rubber bands with 7 black marks on them. Each mark represents a galaxy and the rubber band is the universe. I recommend putting students in groups of 2 so that one student can hold the rubber while the othe

14 pages of guided notes which follow along with Investigation 7: Energy in the Experience Physics 2022 textbook by Savvas Learning Company. These notes can also be used WITHOUT access to this textbook. Specifically these notes follow Investigation 7: Energy which begin on page 280 and concludes on pg. 319 in the student textbook. These guided notes DO NOT include electromagnetic potential energy found on pg. 300 of the textbook or friction as a change of energy on pg. 306 (this is prior knowle

Mini financial literacy unit, math focused. I used with my seniors after their AP math exam when I still had some time before the year was up. Great for them to learn some real life info before graduating. Included are the slides I use to go along with each worksheet. Includes: Buying a car -- students will research the cost of buying a car. My students took a full 45 minute class period on this. Renting vs. Owning -- students will identify an area that want to live and determine the costs at

12 pages of guided notes which follow along with Investigation 2: Forces in the Experience Physics 2022 textbook by Savvas Learning Company. Additionally "Forces mini labs" is included at the end of the document which is 4 short lab activities that compliment the curriculum (not from savvas). Experience 4 (earth’s surface forces) not included. There is also no modeling in 2 dimensions, no internal force calculations, and no atwood machine notes but these could easily be added in manually. The co

This worksheet, containing 5 problems, provides an introduction on how the compound interest formula can be applied to borrowing money to calculate interest paid on student loans, mortgages, personal loans, etc. The 5th problem is multi part problem calculating the monthly balance, for 3 months, on a credit card bill after subtracting payments, adding new purchases, and calculating the interest.

Includes 12 posters for physical science, general science, and physics classrooms! This bundle could grow as I am always trying to create new visuals for my students. Topics included on the posters are: distance vs. displacement, series vs. parallel circuits, inelastic vs. elastic collisions, transverse vs. longitudinal waves, electromagnetic vs. mechanical waves, systems (open, closed, isolated), heat vs. temperature, mass vs. weight, centripetal vs. centrifugal force, the 3 laws of thermodyna

28 total cards to be matched together. 5 functions and 5 graphs. The other 18 cards are descriptions including vertical asymptotes, end behavior, slants, zeros, and other characteristics. Some cards could match to multiple functions. Solutions are the last page of the document (in landscape view). Activity could be applied to a regular precalculus course but you may want to remove the limit statement cards (4 total).

9 pages of guided notes which follow along with Investigation 8: Collisions in the Experience Physics 2022 textbook by Savvas Learning Company. These notes can also be used WITHOUT access to this textbook. Investigation 8: Collisions begins on pg. 321 and concludes on pg. 363. There are 9 pages of guided notes with 9 mathematical examples throughout. There is not a heavy focus on angular or rotational momentum. This includes a section on collisions in the earth which discusses tectonic plates.

7 pages of guided notes which follow along with Investigation 9: Thermal Energy in the Experience Physics 2022 textbook by Savvas Learning Company. These notes can also be used WITHOUT access to this textbook. These guided notes do not include heat engines, Carnot cycle, heat pumps (pages 386-392) and seismic waves, mantle convection, and core convection/magnetism (pages 402-405) but could easily be added in.