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August
Content and Essential Skills
1. What are the relationships between science and technology?
2. What are the topics studied in Physical Science?
3. Distinguish a problem from an exercise.
4. Compare hypotheses, theories and scientific laws.
5. Give examples of new technology, materials, and computer graphics.
Skills
Compare and contrast pure science and technology.
- Discuss some of the topics covered in Physical Science.
- Distinguish between problems and exercises.
- Evaluate approaches to solving problems.
- Compare and contrast hypothesis, theory and scientific law.
- Discuss the ways technology has mad e movie special effects more realistic.
- Understand the importance of following guidelines in doing experiments.
- Define and contrast independent variable, and dependent variable.
- Understand laboratory safety rules.
Assessment
1. Study Guides
2. Reinforcement study Guides
3. Vocabulary
4. Transparencies
5. Chapter review
6. Chapter Test
Resources
1. Textbook Physical Science by Glencoe
2. Internet for current events and information
Optional
September
Content and Essential Skills
1. What are the relationships between science and technology?
2. What are the topics studied in Physical Science?
3. Distinguish a problem from an exercise.
4. Compare hypotheses, theories and scientific laws.
5. Give examples of new technology, materials, and computer graphics.
6. Design an experiment and explain the control and variable.
7. What is lab safety and do you use it?
8. Work with the standards of measurement, as a decimal system and being used by the scientific community and other countries.
9. What are the prefixes and base units for length, mass, time, and temperature.
10. What are the relationships between length, volume, mass, and density.
11. Display the use of three types of graphs and the specific uses of each.
Skills
1. Compare and contrast pure science and technology.
2. Discuss some of the topics covered in Physical Science.
3. Distinguish between problems and exercises.
4. Evaluate approaches to solving problems.
5. Compare and contrast hypothesis, theory and scientific law.
6. Discuss the ways technology has mad e movie special effects more realistic.
7. Understand the importance of following guidelines in doing experiments.
8. Define and contrast independent variable, and dependent variable.
9. Understand laboratory safety rules.
10. Define standard of measurement.
11. Identify the need for standards of measurement.
12. Name the prefixes used in SI and indicate what multiple of then each represents.
13. Identify SI units and symbols for length, volume, mass, density, time, and temperature.
14. Define derived unit.
15. Convert a measurement among related SI units.
16. Identify three types of graphs and explain the correct use of each type.
17. Distinguish between dependent and independent variables.
18. Interpret graphs.
19. Analyze the advantages and disadvantages of universal use of SI measurements.
20. Give examples of SI units already commonly used in the United States.
Assessment
1. Study Guides
2. Reinforcement study Guides
3. Vocabulary
4. Transparencies
5. Chapter review
6. Chapter Test
Resources
1. Textbook Physical Science by Glencoe 2. Internet for current events and information.
Optional
October
Content and Essential Skills
1. Apply the concept of an objects speed as to its change in position
2. Describe instantaneous speed, constant speed, average speed, and distance-time graphs.
3. Compare speed and velocity.
4. Describe acceleration as a rate of change in velocity.
5. Discuss seat belts and acceleration in a car crash, form an opinion on mandatory seat belt laws.
6. Discuss Newton's first law of motion.
7. Understand an objects weight and the operation of a scale
8. Develop the understanding of Newton's second law of motion, in relationship to falling objects and air resistance.
9. Develop the concept of projectile motion and circular motion.
10 Discuss centripetal acceleration and force, and weightlessness.
11. How is launching artificial satellites related to science and technology.
12. How are artificial satellites used.
13. Develop Newton's third law of motion asit relates ot momentum, and the Law of Conservation of Momentum.
Skills
1. Define speed as a rate.
2. Perform calculations involving speed, time, and distance.
3. Interpret distance-time graphs.
4. Compare and contrast speed, velocity, and acceleration.
5. Calculate acceleration.
6. Analyze the motion that takes place in a car crash.
7. Evaluate the effects of wearing seat belts during a car crash.
8. State an informed opinion about whether laws should require people to wear seat belts.
9. Recognize different examples of forces.
10. Identify cause-and-effect relations between force and changes in velocity.
11. Give examples of the effects of inertia.
12. State Newton’s first law of motion.
13. Give examples of the effects of gravity.
14. Relate gravitational force to mass and distance.
15. Distinguish between mass and weight.
16. Explain how force, mass, and acceleration are related.
17. Compare the rates at which different objects fall.
18. Observe the effects of air resistance.
19. Explain why things that are thrown or shot follow a curved path.
20. Compare motion in a straight line with circular motion.
21. Define weightlessness.
22. Explain how satellites are placed into orbit around Earth.
23. Give examples of how satellites can be used.
24. Analyze action and reaction forces.
25. Calculate momentum.
26. Explain conservation of momentum.
Assessment
1. Study Guides
2. Reinforcement Study Guides
3. Vocabulary
4. Transparencies
5. Chapter Review
6. Chapter Test
Resources
1. Textbook Physical Science by Glencoe
2. Internet for current events and information
3. Lesson Plans
Optional
November
Content and Essential Skills
1. Discuss kinetic and potential energy.
2. introduce the transfer of energy with motion.
3. What is he relationship between temperature and the average kinetic energy?
4. Discuss the difference between thermal energy and heat.
5. Introduce Thermal Pollution and the different points of view as the different regulations.
6. Use specific heat to determine changes in thermal energy.
7. Discuss three types of thermal energy transfer, conduction, convection, and radiation.
8. Contrast conductors and insulators as to energy transfer.
9. Discuss three major types of home heating systems as to energy conservation and thermal transfer.
10. Introduce solar heating methods.
11. What are heat engines that change thermal energy into mechanical energy.
12. Discuss internal and external combustion engines, refrigerators, and heat pumps.
13. Introduce the available energy resources of the ocean.
Skills
1. Distinguish between kinetic and potential energy.
2. Recognize that energy is conserved when changing from one form to another.
3. Compare the scientific meaning of work with its everyday meaning.
4. Recognize the difference between the motion of an object and the motion of the particles that make up the object.
5. Contrast heat and temperature.
6. Explain what determines the thermal energy of a sample of matter.
7. Identify some cause and effects of thermal pollution.
8. Discuss possible solutions for thermal pollution problems.
9. Define specific heat.
10. Calculate changes in thermal energy.
11. Compare and contrast the transfer of thermal energy by conduction, convection, and radiation.
12. Differentiate between conductors and insulators.
13. Explain how insulation affects the transfer of energy.
14. Describe three types of conventional heating systems.
15. Explain how solar energy can be used to heat buildings.
16. Explain how solar energy can be used to heat buildings.
17. Explain the differences between passive and active solar heating systems.
18. Describe how internal combustion engines and external combustion engines work.
19. Explain how a heat mover can transfer thermal energy in a direction opposite to that of its natural movement.
20. Explain how differences in ocean temperatures can be used to operate a heat engine that changes thermal energy to mechanical energy.
21. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of ocean thermal energy conversion.
Assessment
1. Study Guides
2. Reinforcement study Guides
3. Vocabulary
4. Transparencies
5. Chapter review
6. Chapter Test
Resources
1. Textbook Physical Science by Glencoe
2. Internet for current events and information
3. Lesson Plans
Optional
December
Content and Essential Skills
1. Introduce simple machines and types.
2. Develop the idea of mechanical advantage.
3. Classify simple machines, and categories in to levers and incline plans.
4. Introduce the concept of bionics and it's development of brain-to-computer interfaces.
5. Develop the concept of a compound machine and efficiency and power.
6. Why do we use machines?
7. What are simple machines?
8. How are machines affecting society?
9. What is a compound machine?
Skills
1. Explain how machines make work easier.
2. Calculate mechanical advantage.
3. Describe the six types of simple machines.
4. Calculate the ideal mechanical advantage for different types of simple machines.
5. Explain what the science of bionics involves.
6. Contrast two methods of using electrical signals to trigger motion of a limb or other bodily process.
7. Recognize the simple machines that make up a compound machine.
8. Calculate the efficiency of a machine.
9. Describe the relationship among work, power, and time.
Assessment
1. Study Guides
2. Reinforcement study Guides
3. Vocabulary
4. Transparencies
5. Chapter review
6. Chapter Test
Resources
1. Textbook Physical Science by Glencoe
2. Internet for current events and information.
3. Lesson Plans
Optional
January
Content and Essential Skills
1. What is a transverse waves?
2. What are the parts of a wave?
3. Identify the relationship among frequency, wavelength and velocity.
4. What is a compressional wave?
5. What is the difference between frequency and pitch and intensity and loudness.
6. How does the Doppler affect work and explain an example?
7. How is ultrasonic technology used in the medical field on soft tissue and fetal development?
8. What is the difference between music and sound?
9. Introduces the electromagnetic spectrum and discuss each type of radiation.
10. What is the spectrum of light as it refers to color?
11. What is meant by transparent, translucent, and opaque object?
12. How are pigments used and developed.
Skills
1. Sketch a transverse wave and identify its characteristics.
2. Discuss the relationship between the frequency and wavelength in a transverse wave.
3. Using the relationship among wavelength, frequency, and velocity, find one variable when two are given
4. Describe the transmission of sound through a medium.
5. Recognize the relationships between intensity and loudness and frequency and pitch.
6. Illustrate the Doppler effect with a practical example.
7. Explain how sound waves can be used to create images of organs inside the body.
8. Describe some of the uses of ultrasound technology in medicine.
9. Distinguish between music and noise.
10. Describe why different instruments produce sounds of different quality.
11. Explain two types of wave interference.
12. Contrast electromagnetic waves with other kinds of waves.
13. Describe the arrangement of electromagnetic waves on the electromagnetic spectrum.
14. Explain at least one application of each type of electromagnetic wave.
15. Describe the differences among opaque, transparent, and translucent materials.
16. Explain how you see color.
17. Explain how incandescent and fluorescent bulbs work.
18. Analyze the advantages and disadvantages of different light sources.
19. State and give an example of the law of reflection.
20. Explain how refraction is used to separate white light into the colors of the spectrum.
30. Describe how diffraction and interference patterns demonstrate the wave behavior of light.
Assessment
1. Study Guides
2. Reinforcement study Guides
3. Vocabulary
4. Transparencies
5. Chapter review
6. Chapter Test
Resources
1. Textbook Physical Science by Glencoe
2. Internet for current events and information.
3. Lesson Plans
Optional
February
Content and Essential Skills
1. Is there a difference between incandescent and florescent bulbs and why?
2. How would identify and energy-conscious consumer?
3. Is there a difference between reflection and refraction?
4. Diffraction and interference patterns as they apply to wave properties of light.
5. Introduce the optics of plane, concave, and convex mirrors.
6.. Finding virtual and real images form reflections threw illustrations.
Skills
1. Explain how an image is formed in three types of mirrors.
2. Identify examples and uses of plane, concave , and convex mirrors.
3. Describe the types of images formed with convex and concave lenses.
4. Cite examples of how these lenses are used.
5. Explain how lenses are used to correct vision.
6. Compare refracting and reflecting telescopes.
7. Explain how a camera creates an image.
8. Describe the development and repair of the Hubble Space Telescope.
9. Discuss the goals and uses of the Hubble Space Telescope.
10. Describe polarized light and the uses of polarizing filters.
11. Explain how a laser produces coherent light and how it differs from incoherent light.
12. Apply the concept of total internal reflection to the uses of optical fibers.
13. Describe the effects of static electricity.
14. Distinguish between conductors and insulators.
15. Recognize the presence of charge in an electroscope.
16. Explain the occurrence of lightning in terms of induction and static discharge.
17. Evaluate the positive and negative aspects of lightning-induced forest fires.
18. Describe how static electricity is different from current electricity.
19. Explain how a dry cell is a source of electricity.
20. Conceptually and mathematically relate potential difference, resistance, and current.
21. Sketch a series and a parallel circuit, and list applications of each type of circuit.
22. Recognize the function of circuit breakers and fuses.
23. Explain and calculate electrical power.
24. Calculate the amount of electrical energy in kilowatt-hours.
Assessment
1. Study Guides
2. Reinforcement study Guides
3. Vocabulary
4. Transparencies
5. Chapter review
6. Chapter Test
Resources
1. Textbook Physical Science by Glencoe
2. Internet for current events and information
3. Lesson Plans
Optional
March
Content and Essential Skills
1. How is vision affected by concave and convex lenses?
2. How do the optics of telescopes, microscopes and cameras work?
3. Present the Hubble Telescope and how it works, and what it has taken to get it to work.
4. Applications of the use of light including Popularized light, lasers and fiber optics.
5. Investigate the causes and effects of static electricity, the behavior of conductors and insulators, and the use of an electroscope.
6. What is lighting, why does it happen and how.
7. What due lighting and forest fires have in common?
8. Introduce the Mathematics of electric current as to resistance, and potential difference.
9. Illustrate circuits as to series, parallel and use diagrams to explain.
10. Present power an energy by using calculations.
Skills
1. Explain how a camera creates an image.
2. . Describe the development and repair of the Hubble Space Telescope.
3. Discuss the goals and uses of the Hubble Space Telescope.
4. Describe polarized light and the uses of polarizing filters.
5. Explain how a laser produces coherent light and how it differs from incoherent light.
6. Apply the concept of total internal reflection to the uses of optical fibers
7. Describe the properties of magnets.
8. Define the region of force around a magnet.
9. Model magnetic behavior using domains.
4. Explain the magnetic effects of a current in a wire.
5. Compare and contrast ammeters and voltmeters.
6. Describe the function of an electric motor.
7. Describe how a generator produces an electric current using electromagnetic induction.
8. Distinguish between alternating current and direct current.
9. Explain how a transformer can step up or step down the voltage of an alternating current.
10. Describe the characteristics of superconductors.
11. Consider various applications of superconductivity.
Assessment
1. Study Guides
2. Reinforcement study Guides
3. Vocabulary
4. Transparencies
5. Chapter review
6. Chapter Test
Resources
1. Textbook Physical Science by Glencoe
2. Internet for current events and information.
3. Lesson Plans
Optional
April
Content and Essential Skills
1. What are the characteristics of magnets?
2. How are magnetic fields used in real life?
3. How is a electric current produced and how does it affect a magnetic field?
4. What is a superconductor?
Skills
1. Describe the properties of magnets.
2. Define the region of force around a magnet.
3. Model magnetic behavior using domains.
4. Explain the magnetic effects of a current in a wire.
5. Compare and contrast ammeters and voltmeters.
6. Describe the function of an electric motor.
7. Describe how a generator produces an electric current using electromagnetic induction.
8. Distinguish between alternating current and direct current.
9. Explain how a transformer can step up or step down the voltage of an alternating current.
10. Describe the characteristics of superconductors.
11. Consider various applications of superconductivity.
Assessment
1. Study Guides
2. Reinforcement study Guides
3. Vocabulary
4. Transparencies
5. Chapter review
6. Chapter Test
Resources
1. Textbook Physical Science by Glencoe
2. Internet for current events and information.
3. Lesson Plans
Optional
May
Content and Essential Skills
1. The kinetic theory of matter explains why solids, liquids, gases and plasma behave differently.
2. How does the kinetic theory apply to the changes of state?
3. How do pressure, volume and temperature relate when applied to gases?
4. What do Archimedes, Pascal, and Bernoulli have to do with fluids and how are the fluids affected?
5. What physical concept allows for flight?
6. How are skyscrapers and towers built?
7. What is the strongest geometric form?
Skills
1. Describe the four states of matter.
2. Use the kinetic theory of matter to explain the characteristics of solids, liquids, and gases.
3. Explain the thermal expansion of matter.
4. Describe how people use and pollute water.
5. Discuss how people can save water and stop pollution.
6. Interpret state changes in terms of the kinetic theory of matter.
7. Account for the energy of the heats of fusion and vaporization in state changes.
8. Explain how a gas exerts pressure on its container.
9. State and explain how the pressure of a container of gas is affected when the volume is changed.
10. Explain the relationship between the temperature and volume of a gas.
11. Students research and apply concepts of flight such as, thrust, lift, weight, drag, and Bernoulli's Principle, by building model airplanes. A film titled "Understanding Flight" was also shown.
Assessment
1. Study Guides
2. Reinforcement study Guides
3. Vocabulary
4. Transparencies
5. Chapter review
6. Chapter Test
Resources
1. Textbook Physical Science by Glencoe
2. Internet for current events and information
3. Lesson Plans
Optional
