Welcome to Physics!
Below is the basic syllabus. It is subject to modification and change as we progress through the school year.
“Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Academic Physics Syllabus
Welcome to Physics! We are going to have a lot of fun this year, and we are so excited that you’re our students!
There are a few supplies you’ll need for class. These include: a section in a 3-ring binder, 5 dividers, and pencils. We are going to be doing a lot of drawing this year, so I also highly suggest that you have highlighters and colored pencils for note taking. It is also good to have your own scientific calculator. The textbook is online. It is Essential Physics. There are 2 ways to access the textbook:
Through the AISD Cloud
Through the Internet
1. Go directly to http://www.essential-physics.com/TX/sbook
2. Enter the student campus code
The student campus code is 742 014 3531
Grading Categories:
15% Daily 15% Quizzes 35% Labs 35% Tests
Fall Semester Itinerary (subject to modification, if needed)
1st Six Weeks - PEMDAS, Literal equations, Scientific notation, SOH-CAH-TOA review, Number sense, Metric system and conversions (dimensional analysis), Accuracy and precision, Intro to Graphing, Scientific method, Bias, claim, evidence and reasoning.
One-D Motion – Frame of reference, Position, Distance (d) vs. Displacement (x or y), Intro to scalar vs. vector, velocity vs. speed, acceleration, graphical analysis.
2nd Six Weeks - One –D Motion continued, Intro to Forces, and free body diagrams, Intro to Two-D Motion – Kinematics, Free fall, Projectile Motion
3rd Six Weeks - Two-D Motion continued – Kinematics, Vectors, Forces (including Hooke’s Law, Circular motion, Momentum and impulse)
Spring Semester Itinerary (subject to modification, if needed)
4th Six Weeks – Newton’s Laws and Forces (review), Machines, Work – MA and efficiency, Energy – KE, PE, ΔKE = work, Momentum – conservation, collision, impulse
5th Six Weeks – Harmonic Motion, Waves – transverse, longitudinal, mechanical, Sound, Light and Optics, Electricity and Circuits
6th Six Weeks – Electromagnetic Spectrum, Matter – quantum physics and nuclear physics, Semester Projects
Tutorial Hours
Ms. Jones Ms. Bohls-Graham
Before school starting at 8:30 am During lunch in room 142
Tuesday & Thursday after school By appointment, sign up 24 hours in By appointment advance
**Ms. Bohls-Graham is a Saturday School teacher, from 8:00-11:45 am
To be eligible for tutorials, you must have complete notes from class. If you arrive to tutorials without complete notes, we will ask you to finish them and come back another time. (If you are absent, get them from a classmate) Tutorials are a time for clarifying and re-teaching information when a student is already trying his/her best. It is not a time for me to re-teach because of off task behavior during class. We appreciate your cooperation on this policy.
Cell Phone Policy
We do not allow cell phones to be out on desks during class, without permission. The vast majority of the time, yours should be put away. The exceptions to this are checking the gradebook, and entering homework assignments into your phone calendar. It’s best if you do these two things at the end of class, before the bell rings. If your phone is out during class, you will be asked to put it into the cell phone time-out box. We DO allow you to listen to music during independent working time, but not during tests.
Contact Information
Elaine Bohls-Graham
Room 154
Phone: 512-841-2227
Website: bohls-grahamscience.weebly.com
Email: [email protected]
Departmental Absence Policy
You are responsible for picking up your missed work the day you return from an absence. If you have more than 1 excused absence in a row, see your teacher to work out a makeup work schedule the day you return.
Tests, Labs and Quizzes
You will be allowed 5 school days (not 5 blocks days) to make up tests, labs, and quizzes that are missed due to an excused absence. The first available Saturday school is also a good option for making up tests and quizzes.
After these 5 school days, plus the closest Saturday School, you will not receive credit.
Daily Work and Homework
# of days absent = # of days the due date is extended
Daily work is due by the next block that you come to class.
If work is not made up and turned in by the extended due date, the late work policy applies.
Late Work Policy
Every day counts as one day late!
This applies to all work not turned in on time unless it was because of an excused absence (see above). Every day counts as one day late! You can turn in work to your teacher, even if you do not have the class that day! Stop by the classroom, or place it in the teacher’s mailbox in the front office.
1 school-day late = up to 90% possible credit (-10%)
2 school-days late = up to 80% possible credit (-20%)
3 school-days late = up to 70% possible credit (-30%)
4 school-days late = up to 60% possible credit (-40%)
5 school-days late = up to 50% possible credit (-50%)
More than 5 school-days late = 25% (-75%)
Late work will not be accepted if the assignment is incomplete!
Late work will not be accepted during the last week of the grading period –
look at your calendar and prepare!
Below is the basic syllabus. It is subject to modification and change as we progress through the school year.
“Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Academic Physics Syllabus
Welcome to Physics! We are going to have a lot of fun this year, and we are so excited that you’re our students!
There are a few supplies you’ll need for class. These include: a section in a 3-ring binder, 5 dividers, and pencils. We are going to be doing a lot of drawing this year, so I also highly suggest that you have highlighters and colored pencils for note taking. It is also good to have your own scientific calculator. The textbook is online. It is Essential Physics. There are 2 ways to access the textbook:
Through the AISD Cloud
- Log in to the AISD Cloud
- Click "Classroom Resources"
- Click the "Textbooks" icon
- Click the "Ergopedia" icon
- Enter the student campus code
Through the Internet
1. Go directly to http://www.essential-physics.com/TX/sbook
2. Enter the student campus code
The student campus code is 742 014 3531
Grading Categories:
15% Daily 15% Quizzes 35% Labs 35% Tests
Fall Semester Itinerary (subject to modification, if needed)
1st Six Weeks - PEMDAS, Literal equations, Scientific notation, SOH-CAH-TOA review, Number sense, Metric system and conversions (dimensional analysis), Accuracy and precision, Intro to Graphing, Scientific method, Bias, claim, evidence and reasoning.
One-D Motion – Frame of reference, Position, Distance (d) vs. Displacement (x or y), Intro to scalar vs. vector, velocity vs. speed, acceleration, graphical analysis.
2nd Six Weeks - One –D Motion continued, Intro to Forces, and free body diagrams, Intro to Two-D Motion – Kinematics, Free fall, Projectile Motion
3rd Six Weeks - Two-D Motion continued – Kinematics, Vectors, Forces (including Hooke’s Law, Circular motion, Momentum and impulse)
Spring Semester Itinerary (subject to modification, if needed)
4th Six Weeks – Newton’s Laws and Forces (review), Machines, Work – MA and efficiency, Energy – KE, PE, ΔKE = work, Momentum – conservation, collision, impulse
5th Six Weeks – Harmonic Motion, Waves – transverse, longitudinal, mechanical, Sound, Light and Optics, Electricity and Circuits
6th Six Weeks – Electromagnetic Spectrum, Matter – quantum physics and nuclear physics, Semester Projects
Tutorial Hours
Ms. Jones Ms. Bohls-Graham
Before school starting at 8:30 am During lunch in room 142
Tuesday & Thursday after school By appointment, sign up 24 hours in By appointment advance
**Ms. Bohls-Graham is a Saturday School teacher, from 8:00-11:45 am
To be eligible for tutorials, you must have complete notes from class. If you arrive to tutorials without complete notes, we will ask you to finish them and come back another time. (If you are absent, get them from a classmate) Tutorials are a time for clarifying and re-teaching information when a student is already trying his/her best. It is not a time for me to re-teach because of off task behavior during class. We appreciate your cooperation on this policy.
Cell Phone Policy
We do not allow cell phones to be out on desks during class, without permission. The vast majority of the time, yours should be put away. The exceptions to this are checking the gradebook, and entering homework assignments into your phone calendar. It’s best if you do these two things at the end of class, before the bell rings. If your phone is out during class, you will be asked to put it into the cell phone time-out box. We DO allow you to listen to music during independent working time, but not during tests.
Contact Information
Elaine Bohls-Graham
Room 154
Phone: 512-841-2227
Website: bohls-grahamscience.weebly.com
Email: [email protected]
Departmental Absence Policy
You are responsible for picking up your missed work the day you return from an absence. If you have more than 1 excused absence in a row, see your teacher to work out a makeup work schedule the day you return.
Tests, Labs and Quizzes
You will be allowed 5 school days (not 5 blocks days) to make up tests, labs, and quizzes that are missed due to an excused absence. The first available Saturday school is also a good option for making up tests and quizzes.
After these 5 school days, plus the closest Saturday School, you will not receive credit.
Daily Work and Homework
# of days absent = # of days the due date is extended
Daily work is due by the next block that you come to class.
If work is not made up and turned in by the extended due date, the late work policy applies.
Late Work Policy
Every day counts as one day late!
This applies to all work not turned in on time unless it was because of an excused absence (see above). Every day counts as one day late! You can turn in work to your teacher, even if you do not have the class that day! Stop by the classroom, or place it in the teacher’s mailbox in the front office.
1 school-day late = up to 90% possible credit (-10%)
2 school-days late = up to 80% possible credit (-20%)
3 school-days late = up to 70% possible credit (-30%)
4 school-days late = up to 60% possible credit (-40%)
5 school-days late = up to 50% possible credit (-50%)
More than 5 school-days late = 25% (-75%)
Late work will not be accepted if the assignment is incomplete!
Late work will not be accepted during the last week of the grading period –
look at your calendar and prepare!