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I just did ap physics 1 so sorry if this is too late but look at the equations given to you and see which factors you have and see if you can get to the one you dont. Like if you have the initial and final velocity and the time but you want the acceleration then you should use Vf=Vi+at and solve for a

I didn’t really think or know if it would all come together but it has & I’m committed to a school & I’m back to doing busy work to prepare for exams!! It’s weird to do busy work after being in IB for 2 years bc now I always do way more than I need to.

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—— Hi! I don’t know how long this has been here but here are some tips: Engaging Activity: get the audience actively engaged with one of their senses. Have them listen to a song and talk about it/ask them questions for a minute or two, come up with something with cards (like write something on each one and that has them do something), have them play a quick game. A couple people in my class let their friends know what they were doing before hand and asked them to do specific things to get the audience involved by breaking the ice. Make sure it doesn’t take up too much time for your presentation though, because if you prepared at all then you want to use as much of you mins as possible. Format: In preparation for our IOP’s my teacher gave us formatting guides and all. Look at the internet and find presentations that have gotten A’s in the past, and use their format as a guide for getting your own presentation really well-organized. Don’t follow their format if it would make your topic awkward tho. Be flexible. If you don’t have a topic, think about your class discussions and choose something that you talked about a lot in class. Time: Make sure you know the time minimum and limit. Ask someone in your class to let you know when you have reached the minimum, when you have two mins left, and if you’ve gone over time. My class had a volunteer who held up a giant paper with “8” and “10” on it when we reached those minutes. Look up recommended times to spend on each part of your iop!!! Nervousness/Presentation: Perform your presentation once by yourself, once in front of a friend, and once in front of a classmate that you don’t know very well. If you do a powerpoint/presentation, don’t write out everything on your slides & same for your notecards!! If you just read off your slides or notecards then you will get a bad score. Unless you are/were a theater student, I would suggest that you memorize the organization and path you want to take, not your 10 minute word for word presentation. If you memorize the words themselves, you will want to go off of that and then you will probably remember something about this being graded or get nervous and you will forget and take up precious time by trying to remember words. However, don’t be afraid to take a second to look at your notecards to remember the point you want to make. You just dont want to take 20+ seconds for each slide. If you’re not remembering the full point/argument, just start talking about it and try to improvise. Number your notecards and your slides AND organize them ahead of time. It’s better to bullet keywords and phrases than complete sentences on ur notecards. This way you can write more. Draw arrows and visualizations bc it’s hard to read when you’re nervous. For presentations, I like to put my evidence in complete, but simple, sentences. Spend most of the slide on your evidence (and try not to do more than ¾ sentences for this. Dont be afraid to use ellipses). You can engage your audience by asking them to read it (but this is NOT your activity). Then use animations or another slide to bring in implied meaning at the end of each point. *IB doesn’t care if you only ever talk about or focus on one thing in your assignments as long as you’re producing original thought and insights!!!!!* I did mine a while ago but I think the format I followed was Title Slide Activity Thesis First Argument/Point >evidence Second Argument/Point >evidence Third Argument/Point >evidence How they relate Conclusion Things about your thesis (this applies to all subjects too except ToK which is more flexible): Your thesis should be something that needs to be proven. If your class or teacher accepts it as true before you even begin your iop (or papers/presentations) then you’re doing it wrong. Don’t restate your thesis in your conclusion. Instead, you should try to find a way to talk about your thesis in relation to your arguments. The implications should add to and be related to your conclusion. Implications don’t need to be controversial… “in this book, it’s revealed that the villain’s dad her kicked out. Because of that, she had to build a life for herself, and even had to live on the streets for some time. This adds to [author]’s theme of the harm of homophobia, and leads us to see her villainy as a product of helplessness and self-reliance.” See? Not that controversial- it’s connecting the obvious and the innate. But if your thesis is something like “[book] uses plot and emotional imagery in order to inspire sympathy with the (gay) villain,” then that’s connecting the truth to the controversial, bc not every person might like the villain or agree that she has any good purposes for villainy. U see? (Btw I just made that up so dont ask what book it is lol) Anyways ik that’s long but I hope it helps. Jay

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I dont in particular but there’s a website called Jet Pens (jetpens.com) that has good stationary so you’ll probably be able to find something there!Followers?

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