Grade 12 · Week 04 · U1
Essential question: Why can horizontal and vertical motion be analyzed separately in a model?
Five complete daily lessons, safe native-JS lab, seven-round game, worked examples, vocabulary, teacher notes and randomized practice. Your original student evidence journal remains below.
A dropped object and a horizontally launched object fall for similar times from the same height in an idealized model.
Build an initial model and explanation for: Why can horizontal and vertical motion be analyzed separately in a model?
Record observations, questions, an initial model, and one claim that could be tested. Use these concepts where relevant: component; projectile; independence; trajectory; gravity.
Study and explain the week's core ideas: component; projectile; independence; trajectory; gravity
Open text on 2-D kinematics.
Revise Monday's model. Add two evidence-backed annotations and explain one limitation or uncertainty.
Resolve vectors and analyze projectile motion algebraically.
Show units, setup, calculation or graph reasoning, then write what the quantitative evidence can and cannot establish about: Why can horizontal and vertical motion be analyzed separately in a model?
Projectile simulation; no launching hard objects near people/property.
Use the course safety charter. If supervision, facilities, materials, or conditions are not appropriate, use the supplied-data/simulation alternative rather than improvising hazardous procedures.
Record variables or design constraints, procedure/model, observations/data, and one revision you would make after reviewing the evidence.
Answer the essential question: Why can horizontal and vertical motion be analyzed separately in a model?
Submit a claim, at least two specific pieces of evidence, reasoning that connects them, one limitation/counterclaim, and a correction note for any essential concept below 80%.
Select one artifact from this week and explain why it is trustworthy evidence of growth.