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August
Content and Essential Skills
- STANDARD 1:
Students understand the processes of scientific investigation and design, conduct, communicate about, and evaluate such investigations.
1b. Use examples to demonstrate that scientific ideas are used to explain previous observations and to predict future events
1c. Ask questions and state predictions that lead to different types of scientific investigation
1d. Create a written plan for an investigation
?follow multiple-step written directions
?propose possible ways to find the answer to a question they are investigating
?suggest a simple investigation that would allow them to answer one of the questions they generate
1e. Use appropriate tools, technologies, and measurement units to gather and organize data
?use tools (for example, balance, thermometer, graduated cylinder) typical of science to gather data
?use quantitative as well as qualitative data when making observations
?set up and label bar or line graphs of individual and/or class data
?make drawing to illustrate key characteristics and label
1f. Interpret and evaluate data in order to formulate conclusions
?answer questions and describe general trends using their graph
?use evidence to generate explanations
?compare results with prediction and answer the question they are investigating
?identify things that could cause their results to differ from the rest of the class (sources of error)
Skills
Expectations
1b.explain how a particulate model of matter allowed scientists to explain phenomena such as evaporation, conservation of mass, and diffusion
1d.
- restate the question or describe the problem they are answering by doing an investigation state a prediction and support it based on prior experiences and/or science knowledge (for example, I predict _____ because _______.)
-explain the difference between a hypothesis and a prediction recognize a question that can be answered by investigation
Assessment
Ch. 1 Test - multiple choice, true false, fill in the blank, sketch, essay
Resources
Prentice Hall - Science Explorer Physical Science
Optional
September
Content and Essential Skills
- STANDARD 1:
Students understand the processes of scientific investigation and design, conduct, communicate about, and evaluate such investigations.
1b. Use examples to demonstrate that scientific ideas are used to explain previous observations and to predict future events
1c. Ask questions and state predictions that lead to different types of scientific investigation
1d. Create a written plan for an investigation
?follow multiple-step written directions
?propose possible ways to find the answer to a question they are investigating
?suggest a simple investigation that would allow them to answer one of the questions they generate
1e. Use appropriate tools, technologies, and measurement units to gather and organize data
?use tools (for example, balance, thermometer, graduated cylinder) typical of science to gather data
?use quantitative as well as qualitative data when making observations
?set up and label bar or line graphs of individual and/or class data
?make drawing to illustrate key characteristics and label
1f. Interpret and evaluate data in order to formulate conclusions
?answer questions and describe general trends using their graph
?use evidence to generate explanations
?compare results with prediction and answer the question they are investigating
?identify things that could cause their results to differ from the rest of the class (sources of error)
Skills
Expectations
1b.explain how a particulate model of matter allowed scientists to explain phenomena such as evaporation, conservation of mass, and diffusion
1d. - restate the question or describe the problem they are answering by doing an investigation state a prediction and support it based on prior experiences and/or science knowledge (for example, I predict _____ because _______.)
-explain the difference between a hypothesis and a prediction recognize a question that can be answered by investigation
Assessment
Ch. 1 Test - multiple choice, true false, fill in the blank, sketch, essay
Resources
Prentice Hall - Science Explorer Physical Science
Optional
October
Content and Essential Skills
Students learn how Newton's second law of motion explains the relationship between force, mass and acceleration.
Students examine the effects of friction and gravity on motion.
Students learn Newtons third law of motion and the law of conservation of momentum.
Skills
Explain how balanced and unbalanced forces are related.
State Newtons first law of motion and define inertia.
State Newton's second law of motion and explain how force and mass are related to acceleration.
Describe friction and identify the factors that determine the friction force between two surfaces.
Explain how mass differs from weight.
State the universal law of gravitation.
Describe the effects of gravity and air resistance on an object in free fall.
State Newtons third law of motion.
Define and calculate momentum and state the law of conservation of momentum.
Assessment
Daily Work- Friction Force
Test- Friction Force / Short answer and Essay
Daily Work- Acceleration or Falling Objects
Daily Work- Air Resistance and Falling Objects
Assessment are short answer and calculations
Resources
Prentice Hall- Physical Science / All available resources
Optional
November
Content and Essential Skills
The Student will know and understand the nature of Energy.
The Student will know and understand Energy Conversion and Conservation.
Skills
Describe the relationship between work and energy.
Define and calculate potential and kinetic energy.
List different forms of energy.
Identify and describe conversions from one type of energy to another.
State the law of Conservation of energy.
Assessment
Daily Work- The Nature of Energy
Daily Work- Kinetic and Potential Energy
Daily Work- Calculating Potential and Kinetic Energy
Test- Kinetic and Potential Energy
Daily Work- Energy Changes, Transfer of Energy and forms of energy
Test- Forms of energy and Energy Conversion
All Assessments are short answer
Resources
Textbook- Prentice Hall / Physical Science
All available resources
Optional
December
Content and Essential Skills
Student will know and understand what work is.
Student will know and understand what power is.
Student will know the difference between work and power.
Student will know how work and power are related.
Skills
Define and Calculate Power
Compare Energy and Power
Define Work
Identify when work is done on an object
Calculate the work done on an object
Assessment
Daily Work- Work and Power
Daily Work- Identify and Calculate Work
Daily Work- Calculating Power
Test- Work and Power
All assessments are short answer
Resources
Textbook- Prentice Hall / Physical Science
All available resources
Optional
January
Content and Essential Skills
Student will know and understand mechanical advantage and efficiency of a simple machine.
Student will know and understand the similarities and difference between the six types of simple machine.
Student will be able to describe the parts of the six simple machines and their practical use.
Students will be able to manipulate each machine for greater efficiency.
Skills
Explain what machines do and how they make work easier.
Identify the difference between actual and ideal mechanical advantage.
Calculate the efficiency of a machine
Describe the six types of simple machines.
Calculate the ideal mechanical advantage of four types of simple machines.
Define compound machines.
Assessment
Daily work- Mechanical Advantage and Efficiency
Daily work- Simple Machines
Daily work- levers
Test- Levers
Daily work- Pulleys
Test- Pulleys
Daily work- Wheel and Axle
Test- Wheel and Axle
Daily work- Inclined Plane
Test- Inclined Plane
All assessments are short answer
Resources
Textbook- Prentice Hall / Physical Science
All available resources
Optional
February
Content and Essential Skills
Student will know and understand the structure of an atom.
Student will know and understand the difference and similarities between two atoms.
Student will understand the organization of the periodic table.
Student will know and the characteristics of each family and the similarities and differences between them.
Skills
Describe the structure of an atom and define protons, neutons and electrons.
Explain the role of valencd electrons in forming chemical bonds.
List the information in the periodic table and describe how it is organized.
Compare the valence electrons in a period and in a family and explain how they influence the properties of elements.
Assessment
Daily Work- Inside the Atom
Daily Work- Organizing the elements
Daily Work- Identifying unknown elements.
Test- Elements and the Periodic Table
All assessment are short answer.
Resources
Textbook- Prentice Hall / Physical Science
All available resources
Optional
March
Content and Essential Skills
Student will know the difference and similarities between metals, nonmetals and metalloids.
Students will know the location of metals, nonmetals and metalloids on the periodic table.
Student will know and understand chemical reactions.
Student will know and understand the law of conservation of mass.
Student will know the difference between a balanced and unbalanced equation.
Student will know the rules for balancing an equation.
Student will know and understand how chemical reactions are controlled.
Skills
Describe physical and chemical properties of metals.
Identify and describe different groups of metals, and compare the properties of the various families of metals.
Locate nonmetals and metalloids in the periodic table.
Compare the physical and chemical properties of nonmetals with those of metals, and describe the properties of metalloids.
Explain that the production of new substances having different properties shows that a chemical reaction has occurred.
Compare endothermic and exothermic reactions
Explain how chemical bonds change during chemical reactions.
Describe the information conveyed in a chemical equation.
Apply the principle of conservation of mass to chemical reactions.
Identify and describe three classes of chemical reactions.
Explain that every chemical reaction requires activation energy to get started.
List the factors that control the rate of chemical reactions.
Assessment
Daily Work- Metals
Daily Work- Nonmetals and metalloids
Test- Metals, Nonmetals, and Metalloids
Daily work- Observing chemical reactions and writing chemical equations.
Test- Balancing equations
Daily Work- Controlling Chemical Reactions
Test- Controlling Chemical Reactions
All assessment are short answer
Resources
Textbook- Prentice Hall / Physical Science
All available resources
Optional
April
Content and Essential Skills
Student will know and understand suspension, solutions and colloids.
Students will know and understand how solutes affect the freezing and boiling points of a solvent.
Students will know and understand concentration of a substance and how it is calculated.
Students will know and understand the solubility of a substance and the factors that affect it.
Skills
Define and compare solutions, suspensions, and colloids.
Explain what happens to particles of a solute when a solution forms.
Describe how solutes affect the freezing and boiling points of solvents.
Explain how concentration may be described and calculated.
Identify the factors that affect solubility of a substance.
Assessment
Daily Work- Understanding Solutions
Test- Solutions
Daily Work- Concentration and Solubility
Daily Work- Solubility of Various
Test- Concentration and Solubility
Resources
Textbook- Prentice Hall / Physical Science
All available materials.
Optional
May
Content and Essential Skills
The student will know and understand the meaning of pressure and how it is calculated.
The student will know and understand the difference in pressure changes with altitude and depth.
The student will be able to identify and explain examples of balanced pressure
The student will know and understand buoyant force and its' effects.
The student will know and understand Archimedes principle.
The student will know and understand the effects of density on objects that float or sink.
The student will know and understand Bernoulli's principle.
The student will know and be able to explain how Bernoulli's principle applies to flight.
Skills
Define and calculate pressure
State how pressure changes with altitude and depth
Identify and explain examples of balanced pressures.
Define the buoyant force and its effect
Sate Archimedes' principle
Explain how the density of an object determines whether it floats or sinks.
State Bernoulli's Principle
Explain the application of Bernoulli's Principle to flight
Assessment
Daily Work- Pressure
Test Pressure
Daily Work- Floating and Sinking
Test- Floating and Sinking
Resources
Textbook- Prentice Hall / Physical Science
All available resources
Optional
