Springville High School Physics

I've heard a lot of math teachers talk about how much they love "vertical whiteboarding." I didn't think doing problems like this would make such a difference, but it does! Here is why:
1. It makes it easier for students to work together, and standing up forces them to be active, not passive.
2. It's easy to see where everyone is, so I can help groups who are struggling, or they can look at each other's work for guidance.
3. Students aren't afraid of writing a "wrong" answer like they are on worksheets, so we end up moving much faster.

In the State tournament for the National Science Bowl, Springville's two teams ended up facing each other to take 3rd and 4th place. Congratulations to Ethan Stewart, James Fowler, Katie Harlow, Sam Bailey, Oliver Wilson, Matthew Guinn, Nando Sosa, and Ethan Goslin!

We're happy to be on break! We learned a lot about motion this semester in all physics classes, and this was a fun activity to explore torque and rotation.

I've been going to the conference for six years, and I have gotten so many great resources there. It was fun to have the chance to be a presenter this year! Physics and eighth grade teachers enjoyed learning about analog and digital information. This is a newer standard, so we were able to share ideas for the best ways to implement it.

Funnest way to learn about friction: overlapping smooth pages from textbooks. Adding lots of surfaces and squeezing them together makes it much harder to pull them apart. Yes, this is the only time we use actual textbooks.

This week we got to have lessons from other teachers and discuss how we think about learning. Fun to remember all the chemical names like phosphate and chlorate.

Getting outside makes every lab better. will have to find a new creek to measure if they end up diverting this one.

Everybody loves Doodle Bot day! Super fun way to introduce distance and displacement.

First day of in . We love learning about pressure, which is literally all around us at all times.

At I took lots of pictures with a . Really cool reminder that everything we see is reflected light that can take a lot of turns on its way to our eyes.

Springville High ALSO won the “Most Synchronized” award for our dance to “Never” from Footloose. It’s our first time winning a dance award! Thanks to for teaching us an awesome dance! This is going to be an awesome year!