S13 Curriculum Map
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August
Content and Essential Skills
- Lab safety, Scientific notation, significant digits.
Skills
- Students will be able to define and apply the scientific method.
- Students will understand basic laboratory safety procedures.
- Students will demonstrate basic laboratory techniques.
Assessment
Teacher made experiments and homework
Resources
Textbook and laboratory manuals
Optional
September
Content and Essential Skills
- Estimation, Scientific notation, Precision and accuracy, Unit conversions, Vectors, Scalars, Reference frames, Average speed and average velocity, Mass and weight, Density, Vector equations, Forces in equilibrium, Structure of matter, Temperature, Linear velocity and average velocity, Average acceleration, Friction, Torque, Motion graphs, and Newton's laws of motion.
Skills
- State and perform calculations using fundamental SI units.
- Perform arithmetic operations using scientific notation and proper use of significant digits.
- Distinguish between accuracy and precision.
- Perform calculations using vectors and scalars.
- Determine the relationship between heat and temperature.
- Solve problems using friction (kinetic and static).
- Apply Newton's laws of motion to solving various types of problems.
Assessment
Laboratory experiments, quizzes, homework, and teacher-made exams
Resources
Textbook, personally developed worksheets and labs
Optional
October
Content and Essential Skills
- Work, power, and energy, Instantaneous velocity, Instantaneous acceleration, Free body diagrams, Elevator problems, Static equilibrium, Simple machines, efficiency, Sliding block problems, Bodies in equilibrium, Constant acceleration, and Heat and specific heat.
Skills
- Compare and contrast work and power.
- Develop the mathematical relationship between work, power and energy.
- Solve problems involving instantaneous velocity and acceleration.
Assessment
Laboratory experiments, quizzes, homework, and teacher-made exams
Resources
Textbook, personally developed worksheets and labs
Optional
November
Content and Essential Skills
- Momentum, Derivatives, Area under a curve problems, Center of mass, Freely falling bodies, Radians, Angular speed and acceleration, Fluid pressure, Relationship between density, weight, and pressure, Fluids at rest, Pascal's principle, Inclined planes, and Gravitational theory
Skills
- Apply and solve various physics equations
Assessment
Laboratory experiments, quizzes, homework, and teacher-made exams
Resources
Textbook, personally developed worksheets and labs
Optional
December
Content and Essential Skills
- Gravitational potential energy, Kinetic energy, Conservation of mechanical energy, Conservation of momentum, Snell's Law, Ideal Gas Law, and Two-body tension problems
Skills
- Apply and solve various physics equations
Assessment
Laboratory experiments, quizzes, homework, and teacher-made exams
Semester exam
Resources
Textbook, personally developed worksheets and labs.
Optional
January
Content and Essential Skills
- Conservation of momentum, Snell's Law, Ideal gases, Combined gas law, Two-body tension problems, Colors of light, Wavelength, Circular Motion, Archimedes' Principle, Electric charge, Electric current, Voltage, Ohm's Law, Resistivity, Pressure and volume, Temperature and Kinetic energy, Phase changes, Wave motion, Sound waves
Skills
- Apply and solve various physics equations
Assessment
Laboratory experiments, quizzes, homework, and teacher-made exams.
Resources
Textbook, personally developed worksheets and labs.
Optional
February
Content and Essential Skills
- Snell's Law, Ideal Gas Equation, Gas Laws, Two-body Tension Problems, Color and Light, Wavelength of Light, Circular Motion, The Right-Hand Rule, Archimedes' Principle, Electric Charge, Electric Current, Voltage, Ohm's Law, Resistivity, Pressure and Volume, Temperature and Kinetic Energy, Liquids and Solids, Phase Changes
Skills
- Solve various styles of physics problems.
- Develop and conduct an independent research project.
Assessment
Laboratory experiments, quizzes, homework, and teacher-made exams.
Resources
Textbook, personally developed worksheets and labs.
Optional
March
Content and Essential Skills
- Wave Motion, Sound Waves, Hooke's Law, Elastic Potential Energy, Electric Power, Tension Problems with Friction, Mechanical Waves, Superposition Principle, Wave Reflection, Speed along a String, Projectile Motion, Motion of Center of Mass, Centripetal Force, Centripetal Acceleration, Kirchhoff's Laws, Conservative Forces, Kinetic Energy, Third Method to Solve for Uniform Motion.
Skills
Apply and solve various physics equations.
Assessment
Laboratory experiments, quizzes, homework, and teacher-made exams.
Resources
Textbook, personally developed worksheets and labs.
Optional
April
Content and Essential Skills
- Circuit Analysis, Vibrating Systems, Circular Motion, Plane Mirrors, Concave Parabolic Mirrors, Equivalent Resistance, Rotational Inertia, Circular Unbanked Tracks, Two Parallel Resistors, Ideal Fluids, Flow Rate, Continuity Equation, Convex Mirrors
Skills
Apply and solve various physics equations.
Assessment
Laboratory experiments, quizzes, homework, and teacher-made exams.
Resources
Textbook, personally developed worksheets and labs.
Optional
May
Content and Essential Skills
- Ideal Fluids, Flow Rate, Continuity Equation, Moment of Inertia, Exponential Equations, Capacitors, Thermal Expansion, Phase Change of Water, Bernoulli's Equation
Skills
Solve various styles of physics problems.
Develop and conduct an independent research project.
Assessment
Laboratory experiments, quizzes, homework, and teacher-made exams.
Resources
Textbook, personally developed worksheets and labs.
Optional
