MAJOR INQUIRY LAB:
TASK STATEMENT: Investigate some aspect of conservation of energy."
This could include transformations between:
gravitational potential energy
kinetic energy AND / OR
elastic potential energy (such as can be stored in an elastic band, bungee cord or spring)
GROUPS:
of three maximum for regular stream students who may produce ONE full lab report per group
Grade 11 IB students must do this this lab indivually and must produce labs which are completely different from their fellow IB students.
PLANNING TIME:
Friday, April 12
SUBMISSION OF A PROPOSAL:
Each group will submit a plan by the end of class on Tuesday, April 16 detailing their experiment proposal:
hypothesis
outline of method
materials
how will data be measured?
DATA COLLECTION DAYS:
Monday, April 22
Tuesday, April 23
MARKS VALUE:
This will be the only major inquiry lab you will be doing this semesters. It will be worth a lot! Around 8% of yoru final mark.