Physics: Electric Field Lines

Students whiteboarded their answers to yesterday’s worksheet. The time we spent on vector addition diagrams with forces paid off as students were very successful adapting those to make sense of electric fields.

Chemistry: Energy in Reactions

We started with a “mini-lab” to give students some first-hand, tactile experience with endothermic and exothermic reactions. After that, I tried having them sketch bar charts for those reactions, but it was clear I hadn’t done enough to help them understand what energy is, let alone the different types of energy that will appear in a chemical reaction, so the bar charts ended up a confusing abstraction for most students. I need to rethink how I approach reaction types next time to give students a better foundation in energy.