Lesson Schedule

Lesson 1 : What is Physics? – Overview of physics, its branches, and its applications in understanding the natural world.
Lesson 2 : The Scientific Method in Physics – Steps of the scientific method and how it’s applied to physics experiments.
Lesson 3 : Units, Measurement, and Precision – Understanding SI units, dimensional analysis, and the importance of significant figures.
Lesson 4 : Motion and Graphing – Introduction to motion, position-time graphs, and velocity-time graphs.
Lesson 5 : Kinematics: Speed, Velocity, and Acceleration – Concepts of speed, velocity, and acceleration with equations of motion.
Lesson 6 : Free Fall and Acceleration Due to Gravity – Studying objects in free fall and calculating acceleration due to gravity.
Lesson 7 : Vector Basics and Operations – Understanding vectors, scalars, and basic vector operations like addition and subtraction.
Lesson 8 : Projectile Motion – Analyzing the motion of projectiles with horizontal and vertical components.
Lesson 9 : Circular Motion and Centripetal Force – Exploring motion in a circle, centripetal acceleration, and centripetal force.
Lesson 10 : Newton’s Laws of Motion – Introduction to Newton’s three laws and their applications.
Lesson 11 : Forces and Free-Body Diagrams – Identifying and analyzing forces using free-body diagrams.
Lesson 12 : Friction and Inclined Planes – Exploring frictional forces and their effects on motion, including motion on inclined planes.
Lesson 13 : Review of Lessons 1-12 – Recap and reinforcement of concepts, interactive problem-solving, and student discussions.
Lesson 14 : Work and Energy – Introduction to work, kinetic energy, and potential energy.
Lesson 15 : Conservation of Energy – Exploring the law of conservation of energy and solving energy-related problems.
Lesson 16 : Power and Efficiency – Understanding power, efficiency, and energy transfer in systems.
Lesson 17 : Momentum and Impulse – Exploring the relationship between force, time, and changes in momentum.
Lesson 18 : Conservation of Momentum – Applying the principle of momentum conservation to collisions.
Lesson 19 : Elastic and Inelastic Collisions – Differentiating between elastic and inelastic collisions with problem-solving.
Lesson 20 : Rotational Motion and Torque – Studying rotational kinematics and the concept of torque.
Lesson 21 : Rotational Inertia and Angular Momentum – Exploring rotational inertia, angular momentum, and their conservation.
Lesson 22 : Universal Gravitation – Understanding Newton’s law of universal gravitation and planetary motion.
Lesson 23 : Heat, Temperature, and Thermal Expansion – Introduction to heat, temperature, and how materials expand with temperature changes.
Lesson 24 : Heat Transfer: Conduction, Convection, and Radiation – Exploring the three methods of heat transfer and their applications.
Lesson 25 : Laws of Thermodynamics – Examining the principles governing energy transfer and entropy.
Lesson 26 : Properties of Waves – Understanding wave properties like wavelength, frequency, amplitude, and speed.
Lesson 27 : Sound Waves and the Doppler Effect Exploring sound waves, their properties, and the Doppler effect in motion.
Lesson 28 : Standing Waves and Resonance Analyzing the formation of standing waves and the concept of resonance.
Lesson 29 : Basics of Electricity and Circuits Introduction to electric charge, electric current, and basic circuits.
Lesson 30 : Review of Lessons 14-29 Comprehensive review of key concepts and problem-solving for the second half of the course.

Class Introduction Video

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✨ 🍋 ✨ Why Lemons-Aid? ✨ 🍋 ✨

A BIBLICAL WORLDVIEW: The Bible, infallible and inerrant, is the very written word of God, who has revealed Himself to man. The Bible is like the light we cast on all content areas in order to understand it, whether that be literature, physical science, history, or geometry. Students learn all content through a Biblical lens. Theology is important for understanding all subject areas. We carefully curate courses that capture learners’ imagination while pointing them to God through sound doctrine. THIS is most important!

RICH CONTENT / CORE KNOWLEDGE: While other schools and systems try to align their content to broad standards that are vague and open to wild interpretations, we focus our content on what students should know and be able to do so they see the world biblically and head into their adult lives filled with knowledge, wisdom, and mastery of skill such as computing and writing. For over a century, progressive education reform has been “anti-content,” which means they de-emphasize rich content and focus instructional time on things such as self-esteem and “skills” they hope will benefit a learner in the future. This is why American kids do so poorly in testing compared to nations with content-rich curricula. We want our learners to increase in knowledge and grow in wisdom, which our content-area experts foster while teaching.

EXPLICIT TEACHING: We understand the skills and concepts students need to learn and know how to teach them. Lemons-Aid’s materials are top-notch, organized, and clear for students and parents to understand. We are especially skilled at breaking down a complicated process into understandable parts. Further, explicit instruction is “a structured, systematic, and effective methodology for teaching academic skills. It is called explicit because it is an unambiguous and direct approach to teaching that includes both instructional design and delivery procedures. Explicit instruction is characterized by a series of supports or scaffolds, whereby students are guided through the learning process with clear statements about the purpose and rationale for learning the new skill, clear explanations and demonstrations of the instructional target, and supported practice with feedback until independent mastery has been achieved.”

• Explicit Instruction: Effective and Efficient Teaching by Anita L. Archer and Charles A. Hughes.

Anita Archer trained Mrs. Lemons in workshops, and it changed her teaching. Read a little more about the research behind explicit teaching here and here.

STUDENT ACCOUNTABILITY = ACHIEVEMENT: Students master skills with us and make gains. We have a high degree of accountability. Since we make promises here and parents are paying good money, we understand you trust us to work! Students have to work too, and let’s be honest: they’re kids and don’t always want to. We push it. We teach them how to stay engaged, we cold-call on kids, we tell them to use the chatbox, and we want them to use emojis! If they are resistant, we contact the student through the teacher tab first. If that doesn’t work, we call in the big guns–Mom and Dad. We want kids to learn. We don’t want them to pass through our classes without gaining skills and doing great learning.

DO HARD THINGS. Boost your confidence, master new skills, learn new concepts. This takes a commitment to do hard things. Like the standards we have for our teachers, we also expect our learners to do hard things, whether that means they stand firm in their convictions, learn geometry, write an essay, or give an oral presentation. You can do hard things!

HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS: To balance our high expectations for their learning and behavior, we build relationships with them. We want them to know we care about and know them. We’ll ask about their play last weekend or the new trick they’re trying to master on the skateboard. We also want students to get to know each other and encourage community engagement.

DEPENDABLE: Multiple teachers are teaching this class, and we have an entire year of lessons planned and scheduled. Since we are a mission-driven organization, we protect our brand and the relationships with our families. We are accountable to our learners. When things come up for teachers, we work to get substitutes and do everything we can before canceling a class. We do not like canceling or changing, and we often teach classes at a loss to give others a chance to join. We have limits, of course, but we are not flippant or irresponsible about canceling! When things come up for students, since we have multiple sections, they can transfer from section to section. All our teachers teach the same content the same week, giving families even more flexibility!

TEACHER FEEDBACK: The back-and-forth work between a student and teacher significantly benefits a student if done well. We follow best practices in designing class time, assignments, and routines. According to Pennington Publishing, effective writing feedback (or grading) is:

• Specific, not general
• Immediate, not postponed
• Routine with a revision / feedback cycle
• Explanatory
• The right amount
• Targeted to the most critical issues
• Varied (written, audio, and video comments)
• Holding students accountable

WORKSHOP TIME: We use “workshop time” so students will work while the teacher answers questions, gets them started, and holds them accountable. In a writing class, the teacher “visits” learners on their Google Documents and watches and helps them write. The immediacy of the feedback/revision cycle with the instructor allows writers to improve rapidly. Additionally, once we started using this method in writing classes, we saw nearly a 100% completion rate in student essays!

GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS: Students need graphic organizers to help them see the structure and breakdown of a concept or process. For example, we use them to help learners understand how to write a paragraph or essay and to use the writing process. This is how they learn to develop coherent ideas. They don’t figure out how to do this magically; the graphic organizers and the intentional, explicit teaching help them learn the skills!

STUDENT MASTERY: Each class includes explicit, direct instruction with teacher modeling. Students are guided toward mastery of skills and understandings to grasp the concepts and become independent. Students are held to a high standard of academic work, including often ignored skills like the use of grammar and neatness in math.

STUDY THE BEAUTIFUL

We are surrounded by the mediocre, which is not good! We see this in expectations at some schools, the poor customer service at a store, and even architecture like in a gray, uninspiring complex of high-occupancy housing.

In contrast, we are surrounded by the beautiful, which is good! We see the beautiful in classic literature, music, and beautiful architecture like pictured here.

The mediocre demoralizes learners while the beautiful inspires.

At Lemons-Aid Learning, we study the beautiful: classic literature, artful sentence construction, art, poetry, maths, God’s hand in all of history, and God’s very creation. His creation glorifies Him, and in our study of all content areas, we learn about who God is.

We do not compromise. This means we don’t choose a graphic novel of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. We read the original play. We know how to make the complexity and beauty of classic study approachable and understandable to a modern audience. It’s more difficult, but worth the effort!

CUSTOMER SERVICE

We serve the Lord and we work hard for families. We work to give quick responses to questions, authentic and careful feedback, and to solve any conflict. As home educators ourselves, familiar with the joys and struggles of teaching our own children, we can relate! We are supporting families, equipping learners, and serving Christ. We are 100% devoted to Him and to you!

To read more about our teaching and learning methods, read our blogs, written by our teachers and staff.

The Lemons-Aid Team

Lemons-Aid teachers have a few things in common.
❤️ They love their students and value each of their unique strengths and personalities that make our classes special. Our classes can be described as fun, personal, academic, challenging, and supportive.
🤩 We work to keep learners engaged, so there is always a degree of student accountability for their attention and focus, whether that be through asking them direct questions or by using the chatbox.
💭 We know all kids can learn, but sometimes things are hard! To support students, we teach them how to develop effective thinking and learning habits that will bring them success in class and in life.
🌟 Building relationships with students so they know we care about them helps us balance the high expectations we have for them regarding their effort, work quality, and behavior. Our students are encouraged, cared for, and they achieve!

𝘿𝘼𝙉𝙄𝙀𝙇𝙇𝙀 𝙈𝙊𝙍𝙏𝙄𝙈𝙊𝙍𝙀: Science
#engaging, #passionate, #supportive, #knowledgeable, #dedicated
Danielle’s favorite book of the Bible is any of the books by Paul the Apostle, but her absolute favorite of his writings is the book of Galatians. Paul teaches that we are justified through faith, not by works. Our works should make our faith apparent, but are not what get us to Heaven. So no matter how many times we mess up and drift away from God, it is our faith that justifies us, not what we do. Danielle earned her Bachelor’s of Science in General Biology in 2010, then she went on to earn her Master’s of Science in Curriculum and Instruction in 2020. She is currently certified in grade 6-12 for science and biology. Danielle has worked in a traditional brick and mortar school for 7 years and taught online for 1 year. Most of her experience is in middle school, 6th-8th general science and high school biology. She has also taught conservation biology programs at two different zoos as a coordinator and education assistant. Mrs. Mortimore’s classroom is engaging and fun. Students feel welcomed to ask questions no matter how silly they may seem. Students are also asked questions quite often to encourage participation. Every lesson starts with an overarching question that students will answer, and instruction is hands-on and phenomena based. When Danielle is not working, she is often brainstorming on future lessons/courses. She enjoys reading fantasy fiction, playing videos games with her husband, walking their dog, and attending church.

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