In this unit, the students will learn basic chemistry concepts while understanding how energy is transferred through living things.
Guiding Questions:
How do food molecules compare to each other?
What do organisms do with food?
Where does the energy in food come from?
How is food used for energy?
In this unit, the students will learn basic physics concepts about force, motion, and energy through many hands on experiences.
Guiding Questions:
Why determines how fast or high something goes?
What makes objects stop?
Why do some objects keep going?
What is energy? Can it convert forms? is it transferred from one object to another?
Classwork: 30%
You are forming knowledge, not mastered yet
Usually 2 pts (2 - complete, 1 - partially done, 0 - incomplete)
Examples: Homework, book work, short response, discussion participation
Test Grades: 70%
You are showing what you know - Level of Mastery
Graded for accuracy
Quiz, Test