Sep. 2 -- Welcome

HW:  Print the 2 pages from the following webpage: http://expedioscientiam.net/school/resources/what_not_to_do_600.pdf

        Fill in page 2 with descriptions of everything being done wrong in the diagram of the "what no to do" science lab.

HW:  Sign course outline

 

Sep. 4 -- Lab: Water Displacement (Volume)

HW: Create & complete data table to record your measurements from today's lab.

 

Review of today's lesson:

Reading the mensiscus to find volume:	How to find the volume of a solid using water displacement:

 

What is the volume of the solid found in the following diagram? 

 

Sep. 5 -- Plan lab: Massing Sand & Water

HW: Create data table for lab

 

Sep. 10 -- Lab: Mass of Sand & Water

Tonight's homework will teach you about density in order to prepare you for the lab next class.

HW: 1. Go to the following site: http://www.edinformatics.com/math_science/density.htm about density of solids.

            Read & do the activity presented. Show all calculations and answers on a sheet of looseleaf to hand in next class.

        2. Go to the following site: http://www.edinformatics.com/math_science/dens_liquid.htm about density of liquids.

            Read & do the activity presented. Show all calculations and answers on a sheet of looseleaf to hand in next class.

 

Sep. 15 -- Lab: Density & Buoyancy

* the Pepsi vs. Diet Pepsi video above may help you answer the analysis questions in this lab.

HW: Finish lab handout (density table)

 

Sep. 17 -- Physical & Chemical Changes

HW: click here

 

Sep. 25 -- Lab: Physical & Chemical Changes

 

Sep. 30 -- Waste Management Research Project

Video on Left: Landfill / Dump                                                   Video on Right: Incinerator

 

Oct. 1 -- Research Period

HW: waste management research notes 

 

Oct. 3 -- Review Mixtures & Solutions + Waste Management Research Notes DUE

Mixtures explanation

Separation techniques: sedimentation, decantation, filtration, distillation

HW: finish "classifying matter" handouts from class

 

Oct. 8 -- Lab: Solubility + Waste Management Rough Draft DUE

Information about solutions & solubility: http://www.chem4kids.com/files/matter_solution.html

HW: finish rough draft of waste management project if not done 

 

Oct. 14 -- Periodic Table + Waste Management Final Project DUE

Information about the periodic table: http://www.chem4kids.com/files/matter_solution.html

HW: finish final draft of waste management project if not done

 

Oct. 16 -- Periodic Table & Atoms, Molecules & Compounds

HW: finish today's handouts by searching the keywords (in bold) at http://www.chem4kids.com/map.html

 

Oct. 17 -- Families & Elements of the Periodic Table

HW: finish today's handouts using http://www.chem4kids.com/map.html & http://www.chemicalelements.com/

 

 

Oct. 22 -- Atoms & Molecules

HW: "Gold Dust Kid" handout

 

Oct. 28 -- Atoms, Elements Molecules & Compounds

More information: http://www.saskschools.ca/curr_content/science9/chemistry/lesson7.html

HW: "Photosynthesis is the process in which plants convert sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into food (sugars and starches), oxygen and water" (definition from: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/plants/glossary/indexp.shtml).

Here is the equation for the chemical reaction that occurs when photosynthesis takes place:

6 CO₂ + 6 H₂O + light energy → C₆H₁₂O₆ + 6 O₂

On looseleaf, rewrite the equation for photosynthesis given above.

For each side of the equation (left side is to the left of the arrow & right side is to the right of the arrow), write down the number of atoms, elements, molecules and compounds.

 

Oct. 30 -- Test: Making content for "matter game"

HW: finish handouts (Material world crossword + living things brainstorm)

 

Oct. 31 -- Plan "matter game"

 

Nov. 5 -- Construct "matter game" (due at end of period)

 

Nov. 12 -- Cellular Components: Animal & Plant

HW: MRS GREN is an acronym that helps you remember the 7 characteristics of living things: movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, & nutrition.

Read the following webpage: http://sambal.co.uk/mrsgren.html

Answer the following questions:

1. Explain how a human exhibits all 7 characteristics of living things

2. Explain how a flower exhibits all 7 characteristics of living things

3. Non-living things can exhibit some of the 7 characteristics, but will not exhibit all 7. For each of the 7 characteristics name one non-living thing that exhibits one of the characteristics.

 

(http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/plants/cell/)

(http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/animals/cell/)

 

Nov. 17 -- Comparison of animal & plant cells + Microscopes

bring coloured pencils next class for the lab

 

Nov. 24 -- Lab: Comparing animal & plant cells under the microscope

HW: Colour your drawings of the cells.

Label any visible cell parts.

On a piece of looseleaf state which cell is the animal cell and which is the plant cell. Justify how you made your decision using what we've learned in calss.

 

Nov. 27 -- Lab: Composition of a Rock

HW: Complete the lab handout

Missed the lab? Here's the makeup lab:

Read the first section of this website: http://www.geography4kids.com/files/earth_rocktypes.html and answer the following questions:

1. What is the difference between a rock and a mineral?

2. What are rocks composed of?

 

Dec. 1 -- Osmosis & Diffusion

Diffusion:

http://www.biosci.ohiou.edu/introbioslab/Bios170/170_3/170_3.htm

http://www.biosci.ohiou.edu/introbioslab/Bios170/diffusion/Diffusion.html

Osmosis:

http://www.tvdsb.on.ca/westmin/science/sbi3a1/Cells/Osmosis.htm

http://www.biologycorner.com/resources/osmosis.jpg

HW: Write a definition for each of diffusion and osmosis. For each, draw a diagram to illustrate the concept.

 

Effects of Osmosis on Animal & Plant Cells:

This first video shows the effect of salt water on a plant. When surrounded by salt water the plant cells begin to lose water in order to balance out the high levels of salt around them.

This second video shows the effect of providing tap water to a dehydrated lettuce leaf. The leaf has lost water over time (dehydrated) and so has a higher concentration of salt than the water that is added. The added water begins to enter the leaf's cells in order to restore a balance between water and salt concentrations.

 This photo shows the effect of different solutions on animal & plant cells.

The first diagram is a hypotonic solution (lower salt concentration outside the cell & higher salt concentration inside the cell) resulting in water entering the cell & causing it to swell.

The second diagram is an isotonic solution (equal salt concentration outside & inside the cell) resulting in water entering & leaving the cell in equal amounts & causing no change.

The third diagram is a hypertonic solution (higher salt concentration outside the cell & lower salt concentration inside the cell) resulting in water leaving the cell & causing it to shrivel up.

(http://kentsimmons.uwinnipeg.ca/cm1504/Image130.gif)

 

Dec. 2 -- Lab: Osmosis in Elodea

HW: Complete diagrams from lab & answer analysis questions

Makeup lab:

Use the following two photographs to make your observations diagrams & then complete the rest of the handout as usual:

Elodea leaf in distilled water:

http://www.wlu.ca/galleries_photo.php?g_id=8&gp_id=5605

Elodea leaf in salt water:

http://www.wlu.ca/galleries_photo.php?g_id=8&gp_id=5608

 

Dec. 5 -- Osmosis & Diffusion

HW: Watch the following powerpoint presentation on rocks & minerals: http://www.provoprimaryblog.com/wp-content/blogpix/rocks.swf

Either print & fill out the last slide, or recopy & answer the questions from the last slide onto a piece of looseleaf. 

 

Dec. 10 -- Lab: Hardness of Minerals

HW: Using a mineral identification key

 

Dec. 12 -- Identifying Minerals

HW: Rock Type Notes

 

Dec. 15 -- Identifying Rocks

HW: The Rock Cycle

 

Dec. 18 -- The Rock Cycle

 

Jan. 7 -- Review

 

Jan. 9 -- Exam: Lab exam (C1 & C3)

 

Jan. 12 -- Exam: Lab exam (C1 & C3)

 

Jan. 15 -- Exam: Lab exam (C1 & C3) NOTE CHANGE OF DATE

 

Jan. 20 -- Exam: Theory exam (C2 & C3) NOTE CHANGE OF DATE

 

Jan. 22 -- Exam: Theory exam (C2 & C3)

 

Jan. 23 -- Rocks & Soil and Erosion & Weathering

HW:

a) Print (or redraw) the following image: http://www.dorlingkindersley-uk.co.uk/static/clipart/uk/dk/earth/image_earth012.jpg 

b) Read through the following site: http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schooladventures/soil/down_dirty.html 

On the image you printed in step "a", do the following: 

c) Label each layer of soil with its name (must be hand-written)

d) Write a description of each layer (must be hand-written)

For more soil information, click on some of the tabs like "recipe for soil", "name that soil", "field guide", & "soil safari" on the website from step "b".

 

Jan. 28 -- Erosion (continued) 

 

Feb. 2 -- Mountain Formation 

 

Feb. 4 -- Evolution & Natural Selection

HW: Read the following article: http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20090114/Note2.asp 

Write a paragraph explaining, in your own words, how Gobies provide an example of evolution.

 

Feb. 5 -- Intro: Reproduction

 

Feb. 12 -- Asexual Reproduction

HW: Run a Google Image Search for the following phrases:

"hydra budding"

"yeast budding"

"coral polyp"

Print one of the images you find for each phrase, with the phrase written above the image.

 

Feb. 17 -- Sexual Reproduction: Plants

HW: #1. List the 3 forms of sexual reproduction found in the plant kingdom.

#2. Print (or draw) the following diagram. For each stage (A, B, C, D, E) of fertilization, write a summary of what is occuring.

Fertilization in flowers:

 

Feb. 19 -- Term 2 Awards Assembly

 

Feb. 20 -- Sexual Reproduction: Plants

HW: Draw the following diagram BY HAND! and label all the parts of the flower's reproductive structures.

 

Feb. 25 -- Sexual Reproduction: Animals

HW:

1. Find (either online or in a dictionary at home) and write the definition of "gestation period".

2. Use the table of gestation periods found here to answer the following questions in full sentences (with the question in the answer):

a) Which mammal has the shortest gestation period?

b) Which mammal has the longest gestation period?

c) Which bird has the shortest gestation period?

d) Which bird has the longest gestation period?

e) Which mammal(s) has the gestation period that is closest to that of humans?

f) Which mammals have a gestation period that is equivalent to one year or longer?

 

Extra Reading of Interest:

Animal Reproduction

Mating & Fertilization

Mating on Land

Reproduction in Birds

Reproduction in Birds 2

Reproduction in Birds 3

Reproduction in Mammals

Gestation and Birth

Care of Offspring

Ways of Growing

 

Mar. 9 -- Homework Catchup

 

Mar. 11 -- Human Reproduction

 

Mar. 12 -- Lab: Gametes (Sex Cells) Under the Microscope - day 1

 

Mar. 17 -- Lab: Gametes (Sex Cells) Under the Microscope - day 2

 

Mar. 20 -- Video: Cloning & Population

 

Mar. 24 -- Situational Problem - Introduction & Brainstorming

Mixtures explanation

Separation techniques: sedimentation, decantation, filtration, distillation

 

Mar. 25 -- Situational Problem - Do lab portion

 

Mar. 30 -- Situational Problem - Newspaper article writeup

 

Apr. 2 -- Simple Machines 

HW: For each of the 7 simple machines (pulley, lever, screw, inclined plane, gears, wedge, wheel & axle) take research notes (by researching on the web) on the following:

a) a diagram of the general form of the machine

b) definition of machine

c) explain what type of work the machine does

d) an example of how the machine is used in real-life

 

Apr. 6 -- Review Situational Problem

 

Apr. 7 -- Simple Machines

 

Apr. 14 -- Introduce Rube Goldberg Project

HW: Watch these 2 videos about photoysnthesis:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7lh4q_photosynthesis-song-by-peter-weathe_tech

& http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7lh5m_photosynthesis-video-by-peter-weath_tech

Read this website about photosythesis: http://www.realtrees4kids.org/sixeight/letseat.htm

Answer the following questions about photosynthesis in full sentence form on looseleaf:

1.      Describe photosynthesis in your own words.

2.      How does photosynthesis benefit a plant?

3.      Describe 2 ways in which animals (including humans) benefit from plants performing photosynthesis.

4.      Explain where, in the plant, photosynthesis takes place.

5.   What are the inputs (ingredients) and outputs (results) of photosynthesis (use both chemical symbols and word names).

  

Apr. 17 -- Lab: Flower Reproductive Structures 

HW: Read the following website: http://www.worsleyschool.net/science/files/photosynthesis/page.html  

and answer the following questions: 

1. a) Write the chemical equation for the photosynthesis reaction using chemical symbols. 

b) Re-write the chemical equation for the photosynthesis reaction using the names of each chemical. 

2. Write a definition of "cellular respiration". 

3. a) Write the chemical equation for the "cellular respiration" reaction using chemical symbols. 

b) Re-write the chemical equation for the "cellular respiration" reaction using the names of each chemical. 

4. In which cellular structure does respiration take place?

 

Apr. 21 -- Levers

HW: Take the quiz found at http://www.worsleyschool.net/science/files/lever/quiz.html and write your answers on looseleaf in full sentences that include the question in each answer. 

 

Apr. 22 -- Earth Day Trivia

HW: Write out your personal action for the different environmental problems listed in the Earth Day Trivia 

 

Apr. 28 -- Rube Goldberg Project

HW: Create a list of 5 ideas for tasks that your Rube Goldberg machine could accomplish.

 

 

 

May 1 -- Rube Goldberg Project

HW: Create a rough sketch of your machine

 

May 5 -- Rube Goldberg Project

HW: Solar System Questions

 

May 6 -- Rube Goldberg Project (due May 21st)

HW: Comets

 

May 11 -- Review: Material World

HW: Finish the review questions that were started in class. Use your class notes or the internet in order to find the answers.

 

May 14 -- Review: Living World

HW: Complete the Living World Review Questions

 

May 20 -- Review: Living World

HW: Complete the Living World Review Questions

 

May 21 -- Rube Goldberg Project DUE

HW: Complete the Earth & Space Review Questions

 

END OF YEAR EVALUATIONS

 

The overall theme of the exam is Eutrophication.

To watch the introductory video shown in class click here:

http://www.montereyinstitute.org/courses/AP%20Environmental%20Science/course%20files/multimedia/lesson78/lessonp.html?showTopic=1 

 

 

PROCESS OF EUTROPHICATION

 

Lab Exam: May 26, May 29

 

Technology Exam: June 2, June 3

 

Theory Exam: June 8, June 11