S07 Essential Skills
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Science Essential Skills for Level 7
First Quarter:
Students will:
Measuring Matter:
- Explain what matter is
- Identify metric prefixes;
- Use conversion of measurements units in Lab situations;
- Use tools for linear measurement when appropriate
- Describe how to measure the mass of matter
- Explain relationship and difference between mass and weight;
- Use tools that are appropriate for measurement of mass and weight;
- Describe how to measure the volume of matter
- Define Volume and introduce math process for calculating volume;
- Describe how to measure the density of matter
- Define Density and introduce math process for calculating density.
The Nature of Force
- Introduce and define Force
- Relationship between Force and Pressure
- Describe forces and how unbalanced forces change an object's motion
- Describe how friction affects motion
- List the factors that affect and do not affect friction
- Explain how Newtons's first law allows them to predict motion
- Explain how the inertia of an object affects motion
Second Quarter:
Students will:
The Nature of Force:
- Explain how Newton's second relates force, mass and acceleration
- Explain how Newton's third law relates action/reaction pairs forces
- Describe how Newton's laws work together
- Describe how mass and distance affect gravity
Describing and Measuring Motion:
- Describe an object's position and motion
- Calculate an object's speed
- Describe an object's velocity
- Explain how acceleration is related to velocity
- Calculate acceleration
- Set up graphs of speed and acceleration
The Nature of Energy
- Define energy
- Explain difference between Kinetic and Potential energy
- Illustrate difference between Kinetic and Potential energy
- Identify different forms of Kinetic and Potential Energy
- Demonstrate conversion of Kinetic to Potential and Potential to Kinetic
- Demonstrate how to calculate kinetic and potential energy
- Explain the law of conservation of energy
Work and Power
- Recognize how work and energy are related
- Define work and introduce math process for calculating work
- Recognize how force and work are related
- Identify how moving objects do work
- Define power and introduce math process for calculating power
- Explain how power relates to work and time
- Explain how power relates to energy and time
- Apply math process for calculating work and power in lab situation
Simple Machines
- Define machine
- Explain how machines help people do work
- Identify and differentiate between simple machines
- Describe how six simple machines change the size or direction of a force
- Define mechanical advantage and introduce math process for calculating mechanical advantage for simple machines
- Define efficiency and introduce math process for calculating efficiency for simple machines
- Recognize how simple machines can be combined
Third Quarter:
Students will:
Inside the Atom
- Recognize where atoms of some common elements are found and how they are named
- Describe atomic structure and how that structure determines and element's identity
Organizing the elements
- Describe how the periodic table is organized
- Identify how properties of elements are shown by the periodic table
Metal, Nonmetals and Metalloids
- Classify elements as metals, nonmetals and metalloids
- Identify location of metals, nonmetals and metalloids on the periodic table
- Compare and contrast metals, nonmetals and metalloids
Chemical Bonds and Compounds
- Describe how compounds are made from combinations of atoms
- Explain how chemical formulas represent compounds
- Explain how electrons are involved in chemical bonding
- Describe what the different types of chemical bonds are
- Determine how chemical bonds affect structure
- Describe how metal atoms form chemical bonds with one another
- Analyze how ionic and covalent bonds influence substances' properties
Fourth Quarter:
Students will:
Chemical reactions alter arrangements of atoms
- Recognize evidence of chemical changes and describe how these changes occur
- Identify three types of chemical reactions
- Describe how the rate of a chemical reation can be changed
- Explain why total mass does not change in a chemical reaction
- Recognize how a chemical equation represents a chemical reaction
- Outline how to balance a simple chemical equation
- Describe how energy changes in chemical reaction
- Explain how some chemical reations release energy
- Explain how some chemical reations absorb energy
Forces in Fluids
- Explain how pressure is determined
- Describe how forces act on objects in fluids
- Describe pressure changes in fluids
- Explain how fluids apply forces to objects
- Describe how the motion of a fluid affects the pressure it exerts
- Explain how forces are transmitted through fluids
Waves
- Explain how forces cause waves
- Explain how waves tranfer energy
- Classify wave types
- Learn how to measure amplitude,wavelength and frequency
- Calculate a wave's speed
