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Nick Watkins @pnwphysics.bsky.social · 12h

Day 29 Physical Sci - Wrapping up our unit 1 Patterns and Motion unit with the Catch the Marble Challenge. Multi-Day assessment. Today had students recollect and derive velocity and acceleration of car and marble (pg 1&2). #iteachphysics #teach180 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Unit 1 Challenge - Catching the Marble

Your Name: __________________________ Group Member Names: _______________________________ Unit 1 Challenge - Catching the Marble Constant Velocity Buggy Model Observations When the Constant Velocity B...

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Nick Watkins @pnwphysics.bsky.social · 12h

Day 29 Physics - walked out to the main road to set up our filming procedure and take some measurements. Also some qualitative data like how many people are getting cutoff and near misses #iteachphysics #teach180

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Nick Watkins @pnwphysics.bsky.social · 1d

Day 28 - actually didn’t see any of my physics or physical science kids today due to conference schedules. We do 2 late nights til 7:30pm but get to go home at lunch Thursday Friday so not a bad payoff, but a bummer to not be home with my own kids.

Nick Watkins @pnwphysics.bsky.social · 2d

Professional development day before conferences. Really struggling with one-size-fits-all PD especially when there is no acknowledgment of real issues (huge class sizes, no funding, etc). Don’t have capacity this year but hope to join a physics PLC in the future ow.ly/QsL950X51AC #iteachphysics

AAPT Physics Teacher PLC Application

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Nick Watkins @pnwphysics.bsky.social · 2d

I definitely use textbooks! Mostly to prop up ramp.

In all seriousness I have a text for college level that is mostly for reference and practice Qs, but we never got one for on level or physical sci. Developed my own set of materials and adapted others that align with NGSS and inquiry approaches

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Nick Watkins @pnwphysics.bsky.social · 5d

Day 27 Physical Sci - Quiz day! Added in acceleration. Good opportunity for students to reassess their velocity and motion graph skills. Included a simple post-quiz #iteachphysics #teach180 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Velocity & Acceleration Quiz - Version A

______________’s Favorite childhood cartoon is _________________ Date: ____________ Velocity & Acceleration Quiz - Version A Complete the missing parts of each pattern in the table below: Question 1 ...

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Nick Watkins @pnwphysics.bsky.social · 5d

Day 27 Physics - worked more on our road safety project. Had students try calling county offices but lots of going straight to voicemail unfortunately. #iteachphysics #teach180

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Nick Watkins @pnwphysics.bsky.social · 6d

Last year we had no phone policy, this year a super strict phone policy (if it’s out it goes straight to office for the day, no warning) and it’s been a night and day difference in just basic critical thinking and less helplessness and blank stares. Definitely more fidgety though!

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Nick Watkins @pnwphysics.bsky.social · 6d

Day 26 Physics - Each student is taking on a section of the project to own and contribute to. Students chose what they wanted to work on and contribute to the whole. Background research and scope of issue to start then data collection next week. #iteachphysics #teach180

Nick Watkins @pnwphysics.bsky.social · 6d

Day 26 Physical Sci - finished our review and used @wayground.bsky.social for the first time for quiz practice. They were Quizziz before but doesn’t seem like much else changed. Like that students can work at their own pace and has some gamified features. Quiz tomorrow! #iteachphysics #teach180

Nick Watkins @pnwphysics.bsky.social · 6d

Definitely misread your comment, going to include a section on reaction and braking distances which I didn’t think about!

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Nick Watkins @pnwphysics.bsky.social · 7d

This is great! Will share this with my students. Bummer the about the outcome!

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Nick Watkins @pnwphysics.bsky.social · 7d

You Canadians are far too conscientious to be a good comparison. Americans need double-digit fatality data to make “data-driven” (pun-intended) changes.

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Nick Watkins @pnwphysics.bsky.social · 7d

For context: the road leading to our HS has a speed limit of 40 mph and is not in a neighborhood. Close to a highway entrance/exit. Four to five lane road with lots of semis. No signage for crossings or school zone whatsoever. Multiple fatal accidents in 2025 alone.

Nick Watkins @pnwphysics.bsky.social · 7d

Day 25 Physics - went over quiz corrections from yesterday. Introduced our big unit project so took a field trip to the main road in front of the school. Poll for those of you in high schools: do you have any school zone signage or kid crossing signs, speed radars etc? #iteachphysics #teach180

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Nick Watkins @pnwphysics.bsky.social · 7d

Day 25 Physical Sci - built off our velocity quiz by adding in acceleration models. Warmed up with the Universe and More Motion Mapper game but the V-T version. Working on this review and whiteboarding questions today and tomorrow docs.google.com/document/d/1... #iteachphysics #teach180

Review for Velocity & Acceleration

Name: __________________________________________________ Review for Velocity & Acceleration Quiz Complete this review in order to take the next quiz Complete the missing parts of each pattern in the...

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Nick Watkins @pnwphysics.bsky.social · 8d

Day 24 Physics - sub day and quiz day! Best sub plan when timing works out. All on 1D Motion, going to move into larger assessment next. #iteachphysics #teach180

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Nick Watkins @pnwphysics.bsky.social · 8d

Day 24 Physical Sci - a sub day so had students use the @phetsims.bsky.social Moving man simulation to help consolidate our learning. Would be a great sim to update in HTML5! Everyone can donate to make it happen #iteachphysics #teach180 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Moving Man Activity

Motion Simulation: The Moving Man Go to bit.ly/watkinsmovingman Click the play button to open the simulation Click “Run CheerpJ…” Object of the simulation To explore position and velocity graphs of ...

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Nick Watkins @pnwphysics.bsky.social · 8d

I print out the levels double sided and put them in sheet protectors so classes can reuse them by using whiteboard markers. Great resource year to year!

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Nick Watkins @pnwphysics.bsky.social · 9d

Day 23 Physical Sci - motion graph warmup from @cossettej.bsky.social passionatelycurioussci.weebly.com/blog/motion-... then did acceleration problem sets qualitatively, graphically, and mathematically #iteachphysics #teach180

Motion Graphs Practice Worksheet

Free worksheet to practice drawing and interpreting motion graphs

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Nick Watkins @pnwphysics.bsky.social · 9d

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Quiz Review – Kinematics in One Dimension.pdf

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Nick Watkins @pnwphysics.bsky.social · 9d

Day 23 Physics - Did some whiteboarding practice with graphing diff motion (ball thrown up and down, block slowed by friction) then did some quiz practice review. Good opportunity to work with students one on one #iteachphysics #teach180

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Nick Watkins @pnwphysics.bsky.social · 12d

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Quiz - Speed, Velocity, Patterns.pdf

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Nick Watkins @pnwphysics.bsky.social · 12d

Day 22 Physical Sci - did some whiteboarding review on motion graphs and velocity equations, then ended with a short quiz. Want to give quick feedback before a longer assessment next week #iteachphysics #teach180

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Nick Watkins @pnwphysics.bsky.social · 12d

Day 22 Physics - Finished hot wheels kinematics lab. Discussed role of linearizing data. Graphed D-t^2 data to show new ways of analyzing motion data. Lots of great info on Mr. Wayne’s website about linearization and physics in general #iteachphysics #teach180 www.mrwaynesclass.com/labs/index06...

Linearizing data

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