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Lusitano Science 9 Calendar (redirected from FrontPage)

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Date  Assignment Due  In Class Homework
Sept. 7 
  • None 
  • Welcome 
  • Introductions
  • How do candles burn? 
  • None 
Sept. 10 or 11 
  • None 
  • Observation vs. Inference
  • Get Textbooks 
Sept. 12 or 13 
  • Scienceography
  • Expectations Signature
  • Syllabus Signature 
  • What is Science? (starts with questions, leads to discoveries)
  • None 
Sept. 14 
  • None 
  • "Big Ideas" of Physical Science 
    • Time and Space
    • Matter and Change
    • Forces and Motion
    • Energy 
  • Copy or attach all your notes from this week into your lab notebook 
Sept. 17 or 18 
  • All notes should be either attached or copied into lab book 
  • "Big Idea" Group Presentations
  • More on hypotheses
  • Independent and Dependent Variables 
  • Class Notes 

In your science journal, answer these questions:

1. What is the difference between independent, dependent, and control variables?

2. Suppose you want to see how running affects your pulse.

a. What is your hypothesis?

b. Identify the types of variables.

c. Explain how you can test this. 

Sept. 19 or 20 
  • Two questions listed above, in science journal. 
  • Applying what we've done so far (mini-experiment: observations, hypothesis, identify variables)
  • Writing a conclusion 
  • Class Notes 
Sept. 21 
  • Vocab Mini-quiz 
  • Turn in Science Journals 
  • Quiz: Answers
  • Measuring with the Metric System 
  • none
Sept. 24 or 25 
  • none
  • Measure an object in metric units. Convert that measurement to all prefixes. (You should have seven measurements.)  
Sept. 26 or 27 
  • Object measurements  
  • Write a paragraph explaining to a 7th grader how to convert a measurement from centimeters to kilometers. 
  • Quiz Friday: Draw the stairway to metric prefixes and know base units for distance, time, volume, and mass.  
Sept. 28 
  • Quiz!
  • Paragraph 
  • More work with conversions 
Oct. 1 or 2 
  • None 
Oct. 3 or 4 
  • None 
  • Data Tables and Graphing
  • Mass-Volume Relationships 
  • Quiz on Friday: conversions 
Oct. 5 
  • Quiz today 
  • Finish mass-volume graphs 
Oct. 8 or 9 
  • Mass volume graphs 
  •  
Oct. 10   
  • Finish the gummy bear lab (data table, analysis, conclusion) 
Oct. 15 or 16
  • Gummy Bear Lab Due (in your science journal) 
Oct. 17 or 18 
  • Density worksheet 
  •  
Oct. 19 
  • Quiz 
  • Quiz: Density 
  • The atom 
  • Write three scientific questions with the format "How does (IV) affect (DV)? Identify the variables. Write Hypotheses for each. 
Oct. 22 or 23 
  • Scientific Questions 
  • Review for Test: Review worksheet 
Oct. 24 or 25 
  • Review for Test 
  • Study for Test 
Oct. 26 
  • Review Worksheet Due 
  • Unit 1 Test 
  • No homework 
Oct. 29 or 30   
Oct. 31 or Nov. 1 
  • Atomic Number Table Workshet 

 

  • Periodic Table name tag: Make a name tag for yourself using the boxes from the periodic table for as many letters as you can! You must have at least four elements.  
Nov. 2 
  • Atomic Number Quiz
  • Periodic table name tag 
  • Bring Lab Book Mon/Tues 
Nov. 5 or 6 
  • Bring Lab Book 
Nov. 7 
  • Lab Analysis Questions 

 

  • Conclusion of metals/nonmetals activity 
  • Elements revealed! 
Nov. 13 or 14 
Nov. 15 or 16 
  • Word Splash (green worksheet) 
  • Vocab definitions: Three column: word, definition, example (or picture or sentence)  
Nov. 19 or 20 
  • No homework: Happy Thanksgiving! 
Nov. 26 or 27 
  • None 
 
Nov. 28 or 29   
Dec. 3 or 4 
  • Lab notebook with Phase Changes Lab  
Dec. 5 or 6 
Dec. 7 
  • Quiz 
  • Presentations 
 
Dec. 10 or 11   
  • Juno assignment (Go to Jupiter Grades, click "Juno" tab on left side, then log in and complete "unit 2 indicators." If you have problems, see me by Thursday. 
Dec. 12 or 13  
  • Review 
  • Finish Review worksheet (if you don't finish in class, due Friday) 
 
Dec. 14
  • Juno Assignment 
  • Unit 2 Test 
  • no homework 
Dec. 17 or 18
  • none 
  • Work on retake prep 
Dec. 19 or 20  
  • Periodic Table activity  
 
Jan. 8 or 9  
  • Finish periodic table activity: dot structures, bohr model 
  • Notes 
  • Read p. 158-161, do p. 164 #1-3, 6-8 
  • p. 164# 1-3, 6-8 if you didn't finish in class  
Jan. 10 or 11
  • p. 164# 1-3, 6-8 if you didn't finish in class 
  • Notes: Predicting ions
  • Ionic Bonds 
  • Do the following activities on the computer. Write down the answers as you go (just the letter), and have me sign off that you got over 80%.  You may share a paper, but you must switch who writes the answer. 
  • Activity 1
  • Activity 2 
  • Activity 3 
  • Lewis Dot Structures and Ions worksheet 
  • Lewis dot structures and ions worksheet if you didn't finish in class 
Jan. 14 or 15
  • Lewis structures/Ion worksheet 
  •  
Jan. 16 or 17
  • Activities 1 and 2 if you did not finish in class 
Jan. 18
  • Balancing equations practice 
  • How to Balance an Equation:
  1. Count atoms on both sides
  2.  Figure out where the Law of Conservation of Matter is false. (Which atoms do not have the same amount on the right and left side?)
  3. Change coefficients to fix this problem. Start with the side that has fewer atoms. 
  4. Repeat steps 1-3 until the Law of Conservation of Matter is true! 
Jan. 22 or 23
  • Entire worksheet Due (bonus question optional)
  • Types of chemical reactions 
    • Synthesis (Zinc and iodine)
      • Two things become one 
    • Decomposition (elephant toothpaste)
      • One thing turns into two 
    • Single Displacement (Zinc and copper chloride)
      • one element switches places 
    • Double DIsplacement (Silver Nitrate and Cobalt chloride)  
      • two elements switch places 
  • Activity 1 
  • Activity 2 
Jan. 24 or 25
Jan. 28
  • Test 
 
Jan. 29 or 30  
  • Last day of the semester! 
  • Retakes (must be done today!) 
 

 

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