2018-19 Applied Science

Weeks 17-18

• • For the last two weeks of school we will finish out our unit on sound by talking about interference!

  • End of the year survey

  • Notes

    • Interference notes -- Where is the best place to sit in the movie theater?

      • Interference Link

  • Labs

    • Interference Lab

    • Where is that sound coming from?

      • In this lab we are going to match structure with function. We want to know how the human ear allows us to determine where sounds are coming from.

        • • Smarter Every Day video

  • Practice

    • Interference practice

    • Animal Hearing

    • Breaking the sound barrier reading

  • Links:

    • • How do we hear?

        • • • https://www.cochlear.com/in/home/understand/hearing-and-hl/how-hearing-works

            • https://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/how-do-we-hear

      • How do speakers work?

Weeks 15-16

• Once we finish testing our earthquake towers we are going to start talking about sound waves!

• Notes

  • Sound waves notes

• Practice

  • Sound Wave Graphing Practice

Labs

• • Sound Waves Lab

    • Tone Generator Website

      • Graphical Analysis Download

• Videos

  • Veritasium Ruben's Tube

    • • 2D pyro board - Ruben's Tube

  • Bat echolocation

Weeks 13-14

• Now that we have used earthquake evidence to find tectonic plates and map their motion, we are going to start thinking about how we locate earthquakes using triangulation.

• Notes

  • Finding earthquakes notes

• Labs

  • Earthquake building challenge

    • Testing rubric

• Practice

  • Locating the epicenter of earthquakes

  • Plotting earthquake epicenters

  • Identifying earthquake magnitudes

    • Magnitude Scale

• Videos and Animations

  • S and P waves

  • Plate Boundaries Animation

  • S and P waves traveling through Earth

  • Earthquake-proofing buildings

Weeks 11-12

• For the next couple of weeks we will be starting a new unit on Earth Science, beginning with the composition of the Earth!

• Notes

  • Composition of the Earth notes

  • Plate Boundary notes

• Practice

  • Mapping plate tectonics and understanding hotspots

• Videos

  • 1989 San Francisco Earthquake documentary

  • NDT Falling into a black hole

  • The tsunami everyone sees coming

Weeks 8-10

• We'll be looking at chemical reactions this week by looking at how we can write balanced chemical equations and starting to model how chemical reactions occur.

• Labs

  • • Inquiry into the Iodine Clock Reaction

• Practice

  • • Classification of Matter

    • Balancing Chemical Equations and a bit of Review

    • Black Hole Reading

      • • Black hole discovery video

• Notes

• • Balanced Chemical Equations

  • Rates of Reaction notes

Weeks 6-7

• During these two weeks we will build on our knowledge of atomic emission spectra and dive into the world of ionic compounds. This will take us into Spring Break!

• Labs

  • • Fireworks, Bohr Models, and Knowing what we Cannot See

    • Single Replacement Lab

• Practice

  • • Balancing charge and predicting products!

• Notes

• • Ionic Compounds and Single Replacement reactions notes

Weeks 4-5

• We are going to continue our investigation into the atom by talking about the HAM... That is the History of the Atomic Model!

• Labs

  • History of the Atomic Model assignment

    • • Mr. Gonzales needs beautiful posters for his classroom next year and needs your help!

      • We will be presenting our posters in the H.A.M. poster walk!

• Practice

  • Rutherford Platforms - These platforms will help us model the experiment Ernest Rutherford conducted that ultimately disproved JJ Thomson's Plum Pudding atomic model.

    • • PhET simulation of Plum Pudding and Rutherford atomic models.

• Notes

  • How do we know what we know??

Weeks 2-3

• We are pivoting our scientific investigations into the world of Chemistry! Our goal for these two weeks is to get an insight into the structure of an atom, learn how the Periodic Table was made, and discuss why it is so useful!

• Notes

  • Atomic Structure Notes

• Labs

  • Building an Atom

    • Build an Atom Link! - click this one

• Practice

  • Isotopes Guided Learning

  • Understanding the Periodic Table - Alien Activity!

  • Periodic Table Reading

Weeks 20-1

• For these two, shorter weeks we will be using our new skills to conduct a scientific investigation into pendulums!

• Labs

  • Pendulum Activity

Weeks 17-19

• Notes

  • What is Science? Notes

• Labs

  • Investigating Relationships: Pressure and Temperature

  • Making the Ideal Gas Law

    • Simulation Link

  • Mystery Tubes Worksheet

• Practice

  • Organizing Data - Hot Air Balloon

  • NASA Twins Reading

  • What Science IS Reading

Weeks 13-16

• Notes

  • Organizing Data

• Labs

  • Investigating Relationships: Pressure and Volume

• Practice

  • Organizing Data GL

  • Applied Science At Home! - Show one of these demonstrations to a friend, family member, or pet, over the break and you can make one missing assignment go away! Make sure to fill out one of the boxes on the last page to get full credit :)

Weeks 10-12

• Notes

  • Using the Force

  • What's the Matter?

• Labs

  • Newton's Skateboard Lab

  • It's Just a Phase Lab

    • Graphical Analysis link

• Practice

  • May The Force(s) Be With You

Weeks 7-9

• Notes

  • Using Your Data To Make Predictions

  • Measurement Notes

• Labs

  • Spaghetti Lab Day 1 and 2

  • How Many M&Ms Are In The Jar?

• Practice

  • Sig Figs and Measurement

  • Measuring Volume Reading

    • Reading Questions and Mini-Lab

Weeks 5-6

• Notes

  • How am I seeing this!?

  • Your Eye is a Pinhole Camera

• Labs

  • Are you seeing this!?

    • PhET simulation for "Are you seeing this!?"

  • Camera Obscura

• Practice

  • Science of Rainbows Reading Questions

    • Science of Rainbows Reading

Weeks 3-4

• Notes

  • Wrap-up Water is Sticky?

  • How do we smell chemical compounds?

• Labs

  • Guess the Smell

  • Why Does It Smell Like That In Here?

  • Decoding Origami

    • Yoda

    • Dog

    • Elephant

    • Pikachu

    • Heart

• Practice

  • The Smell of Garbage--Reading and Questions

Week 2

• Notes

  • Water is Sticky?

• Labs

  • Water and Acetone

• Practice

  • TBA

Week 1

• • • We will spend some time getting familiar with the classroom. We will use the Science Room Scavenger Hunt to find some important and useful things around the room and will spend some time talking about some important safety features!

    • Applied Science Syllabus and Safety Contract--Please read through these, sign them and return by Monday of next week.

First Day of School Questions--We'd like to get to know you a bit!

First Day of School Lab