GIZMOS Student Exploration

Directions: Follow the instructions to go through the simulation. Respond to the questions and prompts in the orange boxes. Vocabulary: component, dot product, magnitude, resultant, scalar, unit vector notation, vector Prior Knowledge Question (Do this BEFORE using the Gizmo.) An airplane is traveling north at 300 km/h. Suddenly, it is hit by a strong crosswind blowing 150 km/h from west to east. Draw an arrow on the diagram showing the direction you think the plane will most lik...

Student Exploration: Energy Conversion in a System Vocabulary: energy, gravitational potential energy, heat energy, kinetic energy, law of conservation of energy, specific heat capacity Prior Knowledge Questions (Do these BEFORE using the Gizmo.) A battery contains stored energy in the form of chemical energy. 1. What are some examples of devices that are powered by batteries? A calculator, batteries, flashlights. 2. What different forms of energy are demonstrated by these devices?...

Gizmo Student Exploration: Cell Types Name: Vocabulary: ATP, bacteria, carbon dioxide (CO2), cell, cellular respiration, compound light microscope, eukaryote, multicellular, muscle cell, neuron, organelle, photosynthesis, prokaryote, protist, red blood cell, root hair cell, tissue, unicellular, white blood cell Prior Knowledge Questions (Do these BEFORE using the Gizmo.) 1. How do you know if something is alive? Describe some of the characteristics of living things. You know if som...

Directions: Follow the instructions to go through the simulation. Respond to the questions and prompts in the orange boxes. Vocabulary: acid, base, catalyst, chemical change, coefficient, conservation of matter, decomposition, dissolve, double replacement, endothermic, exothermic, indicator, ion, physical change, product, reactant, single replacement, subscript, synthesis Prior Knowledge Questions (Do these BEFORE using the Gizmo.) 1. A student mixes baking soda and vinegar in a glass. The...

Directions: Follow the instructions to go through the simulation. Respond to the questions and prompts in the orange boxes. Vocabulary: covalent bond, diatomic molecule, Lewis diagram, molecule, noble gases, nonmetal, octet rule, shell, valence, valence electron Prior Knowledge Questions (Do these BEFORE using the Gizmo.) 1. There are eight markers in a full set, but Flora and Frank each only have seven markers. Flora is missing the red marker, and Frank is missing the blue marker. What c...

Student Exploration: Ionic Bonds Vocabulary: chemical family, electron affinity, ion, ionic bond, metal, nonmetal, octet rule, shell, valence electron, ♫heavy metal ♫ Prior Knowledge Questions (Do these BEFORE using the Gizmo.) 1. Nate and Clara are drawing pictures with markers. There are 8 markers in a set. Nate has 9 markers and Clara has 7. What can Nate and Clara do so that each of them has a full set? Nate gives one to Clara 2. Maggie is sitting at a table with Fred and Florence...

Directions: Follow the instructions to go through the simulation. Respond to the questions and prompts in the orange boxes. Vocabulary: amino acid, anticodon, codon, gene, messenger RNA, nucleotide, ribosome, RNA, RNA polymerase, transcription, transfer RNA, translation Gizmo Warm-up Just as a construction crew uses blueprints to build a house, a cell uses DNA as plans for building proteins. In addition to DNA, another nucleic acid, called RNA, is involved in making proteins. In the RNA a...

Student Exploration: Nuclear Decay Vocabulary: alpha particle, atomic number, beta particle, daughter product, gamma ray, isotope, mass number, nuclear decay, positron, radioactive, subatomic particle Prior Knowledge Questions (Do these BEFORE using the Gizmo.) The chart below gives the locations, charges, and approximate masses of three subatomic particles. The approximate mass of each particle is given in universal mass units (u). Particle Location Charge Approximate mass Proton Nucleu...

GIZMOS STUDENT EXPLORATION : Boyle’s Law and Charles’s Law latest update 2024

Directions: Follow the instructions to go through the simulation. Respond to the questions and prompts in the orange boxes. Vocabulary: circuit, closed circuit, conductor, current, electron, fuse, insulator, open circuit, parallel circuit, series circuit, short circuit Prior Knowledge Questions (Do these BEFORE using the Gizmo.) 1. What do a light bulb, a toaster, a radio, and a computer all have in common? they all need energy 2. Suppose you connect a battery to a small light bulb with a...