Physical Science Curriculum Map

Course Understandings / Essential Questions / Assessments / Course Knowledge/Skills
First Quarter
Students will understand:
  1. Science contains organized methods of gathering, communicating, and analyzing information about the natural world and scientific phenomena.
  1. People in the scientific community work collaboratively to determine how scientific knowledge and technology should be used appropriately to explore and understand the natural world and solve problems.
  1. Forces can act upon an object to change the position, direction, and/or speed of its motion.
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  • What are the steps that members of the scientific community use to solve problems?
  • Why is a uniform system of measurement used to represent data within the scientific community?
  • How do technological problems create a demand for new scientific knowledge, and what steps are taken toward those technical solutions?
  • How are the forces acting on an object related to its motion?
  • What is the relationship between motion, velocity, and acceleration?
/ DIAGNOSTIC:
  • Pretest/Posttest – Metric System Measurement, the Nature of Science, and Science, Technology, and Society, Motion Acceleration and Forces, and the Laws of Motion
FORMATIVE:
  • Warm-up and Cool-down Questions
  • Inquiry Activities:
  1. Using Technology
  2. Observing Inertia
  • Lab:
  1. Metric Mania Station Lab
  2. Measuring “G” with a Stopwatch
  3. Gravity and Air Resistance
  • Reinforcement Worksheets
  • Class Discussion
  • Chapter Exams:
  1. Chapter 1: The Nature of Science (Metric Measurement)
  2. Chapter 2: Science, Technology, and Society
  3. Chapter 3: Motion, Acceleration, and Forces
  4. Chapter 4: The Laws of Motion
BENCHMARK:
  • Study Island Assignments – relevant to applicable content
SUMMATIVE:
  • Summative Quarterly Exam
/ 3.2.P.A6; 3.2.P.B7; and 3.2.12.A6:
  • Examine the status of existing theories
  • Evaluate experimental information for relevance and adherence to science processes.
  • Judge that conclusions are consistent and logical with experimental conditions.
  • Interpret results of experimental research to predict new information, propose additional investigable questions, or advance a solution.
  • Communicate and defend a scientific argument.
3.4.12.A1: Compare and contrast the rate of technological development over time.
3.4.12.A2: Describe how management is the process of planning, organizing, and controlling work.
3.4.12.A3: Demonstrate how technological progress promotes the advancement of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
3.4.12.B1: Analyze ethical, social, economic, and cultural considerations as related to the development, selection, and use of technologies.
3.4.12.B2: Illustrate how, with the aid of technology, various aspects of the environment can be monitored to provide information for decision making.
3.4.10.B4: Recognize that technological development has been evolutionary, the result of a series of refinements to basic invention.
3.4.12.C3: Apply the concept that many technological problems require a multi-disciplinary approach.
3.4.12.E1: Compare and contrast emerging technologies of telemedicine, nanotechnology, prosthetics, and biochemistry as they relate to improving human health.
3.2.10.B1:
  • Analyze the relationships among the net forces acting on a body, the mass of the body, and the resulting acceleration using Newton’s Second Law of Motion.
  • Apply Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation to the forces between two objects.
  • Use Newton’s Third Law to explain forces as interactions between bodies.
  • Describe how interactions between objects conserve momentum.
3.2.P.B1:
  • Differentiate among translational motion, simple harmonic motion, and rotational motion in terms of position, velocity, and acceleration.
  • Use force and mass to explain translational motion or simple harmonic motion of objects.
  • Relate torque and rotational inertia to explain rotational motion.
3.2.12.B1: Analyze the principles of rotational motion to solve problems relating to angular momentum and torque.
3.2.P.B6:PATTERNS, SCALE, MODELS, CONSTANCY/CHANGE:
Use Newton’s laws of motion and gravitation to describe and predict the motion of objects ranging from atoms to the galaxies.
3.2.12.B6: CONSTANCY/CHANGE: Compare and contrast motions of objects using forces and conservation laws.
Second Quarter
Students will understand:
  1. Energy can be transferred between objects and/or can be converted into different forms.
  1. Energy is conserved (Law of Conservation of Energy).
  1. Heat energy is transferred between objects or regions by the process of convection, conduction, or radiation.
  1. Technological design is a creative process that anyone can do which may result in new inventions and innovations.
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  • How is energy transferred between objects and converted into different forms?
  • Why are changes in matter accompanied by changes in energy?
  • How would you explain and apply technological design and problem solving methods in the development of inventions and innovations?
/ DIAGNOSTIC:
  • Pretest/Posttest – Energy, Work and Machines, and Heat and States of Matter
FORMATIVE:
  • Warm-up and Cool-down Questions
  • Inquiry Activities:
  1. Bouncing Balls
  2. Using Simple Machines
  3. Comparing Thermal Conductors
  • Lab:
  1. The Energy of a Pendulum
  2. Density of a Liquid
  3. Convection in Gases and Liquids
  • Project: Invention of the Century
  • Reinforcement Worksheets
  • Class Discussion
  • Chapter Exams:
  1. Chapter 5: Energy
  2. Chapter 6: Work and Machines
  3. Chapter 9: Heat and States of Matter
BENCHMARK:
  • Study Island Assignments – relevant to applicable content
SUMMATIVE:
Summative Quarterly Exam / 3.2.10.B2:
  • Explain how the overall energy flowing through a system remains constant.
  • Describe the work-energy theorem.
  • Explain the relationships between work and power.
3.4.10.C2: Analyze a prototype and/or create a working model to test a design concept by making actual observations and necessary adjustments.
3.2.10.B6: PATTERNS, SCALE, MODELS, CONSTANCY/CHANGE: Explain how the behavior of matter and energy follow predictable patterns that are defined by laws.
3.4.12.C2: Apply the concept that engineering design is influenced by personal characteristics such as, creativity, resourcefulness, and the ability to visualize and think abstractly.
3.4.10.D1: Refine a design by using prototypes and modeling to ensure quality, efficiency, and productivity of a final product.
3.4.10.D2: Diagnose a malfunctioning system and use tools, materials, and knowledge to repair it.
3.4.10.D3: Synthesize data, analyze, trends, and draw conclusions regarding the effect of technology on the individual, society, and the environment.
3.2.10.B3:
  • Explain how heat energy will move from a higher temperature to a lower temperature until equilibrium is reached.
  • Analyze the processes of convection, conduction, and, radiation between objects or regions that are at different temperatures.
3.2.C.B3:
  • Describe the law of conservation of energy.
  • Explain the difference between an endothermic process and an exothermic process.
3.2.12.B3: Describe the relationship between the average kinetic molecular energy, temperature, and phase changes.
Third Quarter
Students will understand:
  1. Waves carry energy from one location to another without the transfer of matter.
  1. Waves, such as sound and light, interact with matter by reflection and/or refraction, which can result in changes in wavelength and frequency.
  1. Electricity is the result of converting one form of energy into another and the flow of electrons via a conductor.
  1. Magnetism and electricity are related to one another: a magnet is surrounded by a magnetic field that exerts a force on other magnets; likewise, a current in a wire is also surrounded by a magnetic field.
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  • How do waves transfer energy, and why is such energy transfer relevant to every-day life?
  • How are features of waves, such as frequency, wavelength, speed, and amplitude related?
  • How is the flow of electrons through a material affected by factors such as the voltage difference and resistance of the material?
  • What does the force between two magnets depend on; furthermore, how is a magnetic force created by an electric current?
/ DIAGNOSTIC:
  • Pretest/Posttest –Waves, Sound and Light, Electricity, and Magnetism
FORMATIVE:
  • Warm-up and Cool-down Questions
  • Inquiry Activities:
  1. Observing Wavelength
  2. Comparing Intensity
  3. Mirrors, Lenses, and the Eye
  4. Investigating Battery Addition
  5. Electricity in Everyday Life
  6. Induction in an Aluminum Can
  • Lab:
A.Wave Speed and Tension
B.Measuring Wave Properties
C.Sound Waves Station Activity
D.Spectroscopy Lab
E.Creating Electromagnets
  • Reinforcement Worksheets
  • Class Discussion
  • Chapter Exams:
  1. Chapter 10: Waves
  2. Chapter 11: Sound and Light
  3. Chapter 13: Electricity
  4. Chapter 14: Magnetism
BENCHMARK:
  • Study Island Assignments – relevant to applicable content
SUMMATIVE:
Summative Quarterly Exam / 3.2.10.B5:
  • Understand that waves transfer energy without transferring matter.
  • Compare and contrast the wave nature of light and sound.
  • Describe the components of the electromagnetic spectrum.
  • Describe the difference between light and sound waves.
3.2.P.B5:
  • Explain how waves transfer energy without transferring matter.
  • Explain how waves carry information from remote sources that can be detected and interpreted.
  • Describe the causes of wave frequency, speed, and wavelength.
3.2.12.A2: Explain how light is absorbed or emitted by electron orbital transitions.
3.2.12.B5:
  • Research how principles of wave transmissions are used in a wide range of technologies.
  • Research technologies that incorporate principles of waved transmission.
3.2.10.B4:
  • Describe quantitatively the relationships between voltage, current, and resistance to electrical energy and power.
  • Describe the relationship between electricity and magnetism as two aspects of a single electromagnetic force.
3.2.P.B4:
  • Explain how stationary and moving particles result in electricity and magnetism.
  • Develop qualitative and quantitative understanding of current, voltage, resistance, and the connections among them.
  • Explain how electrical induction is applied in technology.
3.2.12.B4: Describe conceptually the attractive and repulsive forces between objects relative to their charges and the distance between them.
Fourth Quarter
Students will understand:
  1. The energy present in an energy resource is transformed into other forms of energy that are used by humans.
  1. Chemistry is the study of matter and the changes it undergoes.
  1. Periodic trends in the properties of atoms allow for the prediction of physical and chemical properties.
  1. Chemical bonding occurs as a result of attractive forces between particles.
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  • Considering both renewable and non-renewable energy resources, how is energy (chemical, thermal, or mechanical) converted into usable electrical energy?
  • What are the difference between pure substances and mixtures?
  • What patterns in the properties of the elements contribute to the layout of the periodic table?
  • What factors determine the types of chemical bonds that form between particles?
/ DIAGNOSTIC:
  • Pretest/Posttest –Energy Sources, Classification of Matter, Properties of Atoms and the Periodic Table, and Chemical Bonds
FORMATIVE:
  • Warm-up and Cool-down Questions
  • Inquiry Activities:
  1. Designing an Efficient Water Heater
  2. Sorting for the Environment
  3. Playing Cards and the Periodic Table
  4. Bond with a Partner
  • Lab:
  1. Solar Heating
  2. Observing Physical and Chemical Changes
  3. Chromatography Color Burst
  • Reinforcement Worksheets
  • Class Discussion
  • Chapter Exams:
  1. Chapter 16: Energy Sources
  2. Chapter 18: Classification of Matter
  3. Chapter 19: Properties and of Atoms and the Periodic Table
  4. Chapter 22: Chemical Bonds
BENCHMARK:
  • Study Island Assignments – relevant to applicable content
SUMMATIVE:
Summative Quarterly Exam / 3.3.12.A4:
  • Classify Earth’s internal and external sources of energy such as, radioactive decay, gravity, and solar energy.
  • Relate the transfer of energy through radiation, conduction, and convection to global atmospheric processes.
3.4.12.E2: Compare and contrast the technologies of biotechnology, conservation, bio-fuels, and ecosystems as they relate to managing Earth’s resources effectively.
3.4.10.E3: Compare and contrast the major forms of energy: thermal, radiant, electrical, mechanical, chemical, nuclear, and others.
3.4.12.E3: Compare and contrast energy and power systems as they relate to pollution, renewable, and non-renewable resources, and conservation.
3.2.10.A1:
  • Predict properties of elements using trends of the periodic table.
  • Identify properties of matter that depend on sample size.
  • Explain the unique properties of water (polarity, high boiling point, ability to form hydrogen bonds, high specific heat) that support life on Earth.
3.2.C.A1:
  • Differentiate between physical properties and chemical properties.
  • Differentiate between pure substances and mixtures; differentiate between heterogeneous and homogeneous mixtures.
3.2.12.A1:
  • Compare and contrast the colligative properties of mixtures.
  • Compare and contrast the unique properties of water to other liquids.
3.2.10.A2:
  • Compare and contrast different bond types that result in the formation of molecules.
  • Explain why compounds are composed of integer ratios of elements.
3.2.C.A2: Explain how atoms combine to form compounds through both ionic and covalent bonding.
3.2.10.A3:Describe phases of matter according to the kinetic molecular theory.
3.2.C.A3:
  • Describe the three normal states of matter in terms of energy, particle motion, and phase transitions.
  • Indentify the three main types of radioactive decay and compare their properties.
  • Describe the process of radioactive decay by using nuclear equations and explaining the concept of half-life for an isotope.
  • Compare and contrast nuclear fission and nuclear fusion.
3.2.10.A4:
  • Explain the difference endothermic and exothermic reactions.
  • Identify the factors that affect the rates of reactions.