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.