COURSE DESCRIPTION

Science 10 is a course designed to introduce the academically inclined student to chemistry, physics, biology and climate.  There are four units in this course and each unit has a different emphasis. 

The program of studies can be found at

http://www.education.gov.ab.ca/k%5F12/curriculum/bySubject/science/science10.pdf

COURSE EXPECTATIONS 

·        Attendance is mandatory and will have a profound effect on your mark.

·        Any student absent unexcused, the day of quizzes or tests will be given a zero on the particular quiz or test.

·        Any student missing a test or quiz (excusable absence) must make arrangements to write the missed test on the day that

they return to school.  These must be written on your own time, NOT during class time.

·        It is the student’s responsibility to retrieve any missing assignments, notes, etc, from a fellow classmate or from their teacher if they are absent.

·        Homework not completed by the due date will be docked 20% per day.  No assignments will be accepted after THREE DAYS or if the assignment has been returned to the class.

·        Assignments will be due the next day.

  No food, candy, chips etc. in this lab.

 Textbook: Science 10 Focus

ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION

Assessment and evaluation will consist of daily assignments, quizzes, laboratory assignments, and unit tests.

§Extra Help:  Mondays After School 3-4pm

COURSE OUTLINE

Labs: Labs are very important to the understanding of science and are only done once due to the time for set up, large size of the class and cost of materials. If a student misses a lab they will still be responsible to know the material cover but will missed the hands on experience. Labs are not posted on google classroom.

Homework: Student usually have 10 to 30 minutes to work on any assignments each day it is important that they keep up and finish anything they did not complete in class at home as we will be building on what we learned that day in the next lesson.

Daily reviews:

In the first 15-30 minutes of class students are given review questions from the lesson the day before. It this time the students write and answer the questions then we go over the answers.

Weekly review quizzes:   The last day of each week students will have a review quiz of what we did that week. The quizzes are composed of the daily review question form that week and a bonus question from the material we learned the day before.

Projects : Some units have a project that will be due the day of the unit test. Most projects will be assigned at the beginning of each unit other will be assigned mid unit.

Extra Help: Is available Mondays after school from 2:49 to 3:30

Cell Phones: Students must adhere to school’s electronic policy. policy

Calculators: A TI30 or higher is required to do the calculations in class. It is important that student use the same model calculator in class as they do on quizzes or test as different models have different operations to get the correct answer.

Test Dates: These are subject to change but usually only change by a day or two

Science 10                                                                          

Chemistry Test                  Oct 3rd                        

Physics Test                      Nov 5th             

Biology Test             Dec 4th           

Environmental Sci Test Jan  9th             

Practice Test             Jan 12th            

Final                                  TBA             

Retakes do not happen students will get a chance to replace one test mark, if they get a higher mark on their practice final in June.

Marks

Total Mark

Class Mark 75%

Final 25%

Class Mark

Units

Chemistry 25%

Physics 25%

Biology 25%

Environmental Science 25% 

With in each unit

Tests            60%

Quizzes       5%

Labs         15%

Project         15%

Assignments   5%

Formative    0%

Parent Teacher Interviews 

Nov 19th and 20th