TERM 1 Y8 SCIENCE GUIDLINES FOR MAKING STUDY NOTES

The following headings (1, 2, 4, 6, and 7) should be in your notebook. To make a good set of study notes, you should condense the learning that you have in your notebook for each of these headings.

In your study notebook put each of these heading at the top of a page. Use the guidelines for each heading below to make your study notes.Some headings (3, 5) are missing because they relate to the EEI we did this term.

Use your notes to make the study notes, do not go to the internet unless desperate.

  1. Sections of a scientific report(1/2 page)
  • Definitions for Observation, Inference, independent variable, dependant variable, Fair test, controlled variables.
  • Gives examples of an observation and an inference
  • Explain what makes a test “unfair”?
  1. Particle Model(1 page)
  • Definitions for Solid, liquid, gas
  • Draw a labelled diagram (or describein words) of the processes of Freezing, Melting, Boiling/Evaporation, Condensation.
  • State the main points of the particle model
  • Use the particle model to describe a solid in terms of particle movement and spaces between the particles. Do the same for a liquid and a gas. (You could do a table if you want)
  • Use the particle model to describe why an increase in temperature (increase in Kinetic energy) causes (a) a solid to melt and (b) a liquid to boil
  1. Physical and Chemical properties(1/3 page)
  • Definitions for Physical properties and chemical properties and give examples of each.
  • Definitions for Physical Change and Chemical Change and give examples of each
  1. Periodic Table(1 page)
  • Write out the names and symbols for the first 20 elements on the Periodic table.
  • Draw a rough sketch of a periodic table and label areas where metal are found, and areas where non-metals are found.
  • On your sketch of the periodic table label an area where you find very reactive metals, an area where you find very reactive non-metals, an area where you find non-reactive non-metals.
  1. Elements and Compounds(1/2 page)
  • Write definitions for atom, nucleus, proton, neutron, and electron. Draw an label a lithium atom.
  • Write definitions for elements, compound, and mixture, and give examples of each.
  • Explain in sentences how to tell which elements are in a compound and how many atoms of each elements there are.