9-29

Click on the link Dateline Manheim Township H.S. On September 29th in room 019, beginning at 9:41 ante meridiem, Christopher Manning, a science teacher, had his third period class complete a lab on the state of equilibrium over the course of 48 minutes. The lab consisted of students in the class working together in groups of two or three while teaching themselves about different forces, force measurement, equilibrium, and net force. In this lab students completed activities that involved a weight of five or 10 Newtons, three masses like the two in the diagram, a meter stick divided into centimeters with three holes in it, a bar or ruler to hold up the masses for equal measurement, and a string to hold the weight. The lab required the students to configure the masses into different arrangements to find out if it changed the amount of force was being adhered in different positions. The positions that needed to be tested were two scales hung from the center hole stacked, two hung one on each outer hole, three hung from the center stacked, and three hung individually from each hole. The students were required to predict, try the experiment, and conclude their experiment while inferring based on their reading guide questions and readings. In addition to their lab activity the students also had a post lab to pick up called static equilibrium post lab. The post lab was not assigned as homework, but as tomorrows class work. The class did not have any daily questions or assignments that needed to be handed in, including the lab itself, but Manning did say that it could be collected in the future.