The moment every physics teacher loves and hates...
VECTORS!!!!
Why do we love them, you ask? When understood, there is nothing more useful in the world. Why do we hate them? Understanding vectors takes a ton of time that most classes don't have. The activity we did today felt pretty good though. We walked different steps in the vector process, and the students seemed pretty engaged in it. I don't know how well it was related to them that what we did today was look at components to vectors and drawing based on that. I'm hoping in this class we will be looking mostly at vectors in the cardinal direction, but we shall see. The students in this class (second period) seem to react well to direct instruction. Their language is a bit higher than the other class, so things in general seem to go faster. Most even finished the worksheet by the end of the period. They were also pretty quick to give directions to each other, which was part of the in class activity that was very heavily language based.
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