Do you have a child who loves physics?  This class is a semester-long survey of beginning science concepts in physics and includes all of the physics material from my Science Foundations classes.  Students are not required to have any prior scientific experience.

Schedule:
Week 1 - Energy
                --What is energy and what are the different kinds of energy?
Week 2 - Sound
                --A closer look at sound as a result of energy.
Week 3 - Forms of Energy
                --Learn the differences between kinetic and potential energy.
Week 4 & 5 - Force
                --What is force and how is it related to energy?
Week 6 - Matter and Energy
               --The difference between matter and energy.
Week 7 - Inertia
                --Left alone, things in motion stay in motion and things at rest stay at rest.
Week 8 - Friction
                --Concept of friction and everyday applications.
Week 9 - Push Pushes Back
                --Newton's third law of motion.

**Class Format**
This is a flexible schedule class with NO live meetings.

Monday
              --Prerecorded instructional videos will be posted by 8am (MST) each Monday.  Videos will be 10-20 minutes in length.

Wednesday
              --By Wednesday of each week, each student will need to post in the classroom a short written or video response to the video as well as a picture of the entry they made in their science journal about that weeks topic.

Friday
               --In addition, students will also be required to complete a small homework assignment by Friday.  These assignments will be posted at the same time as the instructional videos on Mondays, so students will have the entire week to work on them.  Don't wait until the last minute!  For more on the homework, see the homework section below.