Updated Oct 13 2009

Week One Sept 8 to 11 / Feb 1 to 8

• Course introduction see ROE on home page.
• What is science, what did you do last year etc, see intoductory note
• Properties of matter, qualitave and quantitative, with examples.
• worksheets
• Properties of Matter  
• Physical and chemical changes and properties; worksheets.   Note #3
  
• A list of physical properties, make sure you ask if you do not know any of these terms or do some investigation on your part.
• Sample multiple choice quiz for you to try.

Week Two Sept 14 to 18 / Feb 11 to 15

• Take up Fridays work sheets and review concepts.
• Test on Wednesday
• Reading exercise on energy drinks page 12 & 13 from work book
• An experimental investigation of physical, chemical changes
  How a lab report should be written, Page 8 & 9 of your work book
  Making obsevations and drawing a conclusion from these observations.
  1. what happens when sugar is mixed with alcohol, water, and sulfuric acid?
  2. what hppens when the metals aluminium and calcium are put in water?
• What do you know about chemistry?
• Lab equipment, how many of these do you know; it seems like most of you didn't know too many of these. Make sure your lsit is completed
• test returned on Thursday
• Mass on Friday
• How chemical compounds are named, Reading labels for ingredients
• The WHMIS label as found on a chemical bottle

Week Three Sept 21 to Sept 25 / Feb 18 to 22

• WHMIS symbols and Household Hazard Symbols
• Brand names, common names, & the chemical name. (with formulas)
• Chemical Tests for hydrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide & water
  Hand in your observations.
  Worksheet goes with this experiment, note provided, with questions; due Wednesday. Some students didn't hand in or complete.
• WHMIS lab; an experimental look at chemical hazards and cautions; worksheet provide with you the student filling in the observations as the experiments are done.
  Note: this is an intresting and fun lab; completely safe if directions are followed. See pages 26 & 27
• Language of chemistry pages 21, 22, 23, 24, 25.
• Chemical formulas; how does the name translate into a chemical formula: binary compounds; eg. calcium bromide CaBr₂
• Mixtures and Compounds  
• Quiz at the end of the week - Friday. Make sure your notes are complete and you are prepared for this quiz.

Week Four Sept 28 to Oct 2 / Feb 25 to Feb 29

• Collect the WHMIS demonstration lab
• Collect work book to mark pages 21 to 25
• A look at brand names versus common names in common headache remidies (4 of them). Chemical names of these compounds was written on the board.
• Identifying three unknow liquids using the physical property of density & a verification using a chemical property: combustion.
  Lab to be handed in immediately upon completion. Done on Tuesday.
  Math issues to be reviewed the next day.
• Classifying chemicals & WHMIS pages 26 & 27
• Reactions of acid with egg shells, calcium carbonate, marble chips (In work book pages 28 & 29) To be handed in upon completion.
• Invible ink activity, did not work all that well.
• Small review quiz from work book
• Solution chemistry: terms of reference, dilute, concentrated, saturated, unsaturated, solvent, solute Page 44 & 45
• Review: how to spot a chemical change over a physical change. page 48, 49, 50
• Test on this material

Week Five Oct 5 to Oct 9 / March 3 to March 6

• Books collect & marked
• Flammable Combustible? what's the difference? An introduction to Flash Point as found on a MSDS.
• MSDS project. Worksheet given out on this. Due on Wednesday Oct 14. Will check on Wednesday to see how you are proceding.
• A quick review of physical chemical changes page 40, to 43 in workbook.
• A quick look at soltions and solution terminolgy, Pages 44 & 45 workbook
  Simple experiment page 46 & 47. Handed in after lab is done. page 51 What Type of Change Is It?
• Experiment to show the difference between a physical and chemical change. Page 50 to 53.
• Factors that effect reaction rates; four labs to show these effects
  Note given out on the five factors
  See Rate of Change in work book begining page 56
• Lab to look at the factors affecting reaction rates
• Work book activity Friday Pages to be completed and then marked on Tuesday. To see mark look on the INTERNET.
• Test on the above topic, reaction rates.

Week Six Oct 12 to 16 / March 10 to March 14

1. sodium in hot and cold water (temperature)
2. zinc in dilute and concentrated acid (concentration)
3. Catalytic reaction of starch to sugar (Benedict's solution)
• Initial progress reorts this week Oct 14, No suprises since you can check your marks on the Internet, just Click Here
• Catalysts and Inhibitors Page 69
• Chapter review
• Start of the second Unit Ecology this week Starts page 180
  List your initial impressions of Living Together. In the eanimal plant world (non-human) this is called ecology. If the human is deamed an animal then it interacts with its enevironment and becomes part of the ecology of the ecosystem.
• Introduction to Ecology Friday. Many new terms will be introduced in this unit. Your glossary or dictionary may be viewed at Just click on the birdnest.
  Or for the ministry glossary of science terms Click Here

Week Seven Oct 19 to 23 / April 21 to April 25

The Biology Unit: Ecology

This unit will make extensive use of the work book with written notes and many work sheets.
Several group projects will be completed; endangered species, food chain, and biome study.

Introductions to the terms and concepts of ecology. To assist in your studies a series of notes, slide show and web diagrams are made available for your viewing. Just click on this link Emphasis will be placed on maintaining a note book.

• Monday's note is an intoduction to the study of ecology
  Terms introduce: biosphere, ecology, ecosystem, communities, populations, biotic, abiotic, and most importantly levels of biological organization
  Populations page 184 & 185
  Counting populations page 186 &187
• Tuesday: Notes on interpersonal relationships, survival, populations, habitat, niche. Hand out note on characteristics of ecosystems with work sheets.
• Wednesday: Feeding relationships between predator-prey and parisite-host.
  Bird and animal project assigned; due next Wednesday
• Thursday: Food chains and food webs
  Ecology terms puzzle
  
• Note on energy flow and a food web
• Terms: autotrophs, heterotrophs, deutritivores (detritivores), trophic levels, biomass,
• A look at food pyramids
• Note on Survial
• Bioamplification; concentration of toxic substance as you go up a food chain
• Working with food webs
• Trophic Levels: a worksheet
• Web of Life, the video & worksheet

Week Eight Oct 26 to Oct 30/ April 28 to May 2

• Quiz on building &/or using food webs/chains; Relationships in Ecosystems, a Pre-Test, Test to follow.
• Start of the Biome project; 11 groups studying these biomes
  1. tundra
  2. boreal forest
  3. grassland
  4. temperate deciduous forest
  5. Great Lakes
  6. East coast aquatic biome
  7. West coast aquatic biome
  8. Desert
  9. Mountain Alpine
  
  Biome project outlines may be found at

• Map to colour on North American biomes.
• Candian biomes and Land Environments
• Cycles in Nature: Overhead diagram & Internet notes
  
  

• Classification of Communities worksheet
• Worksheet on the cycles: water carbon and nitogen with a summative worksheet called "Cycles"

Week Nine Nov 2 to Nov 6 / May 5 to May 9

• Case study: Pesticides & Should we Interfere with Natural Cycles?
• Quiz Tuesday on Last two days work: The Cycles and Pesticides.
• Note making on Populations
  Drawing a population histogram
• Quiz on populations: Monitoring Changes in Population and Limits of Population
• Biome project is due on Friday of this week, not to be handed in but checked for details. LI>Introduction to soils and soil types; here's a diagram that outlines soil horizons: a board copied note.
• Tuesday and Wednesday in library to do research on your assigned biome
• Soil discussion with copied notes

Week Ten Nov 9 to Nov 13 / May 12 to 16

• Start of Biome presentation Make sure you read the marking rubrics.
• Quiz on soils with HW quiz to follow
• Acid rain and deposition. Text book. Quiz to follow
• Text book use & Hand out: Endanger Species and Extinction
  

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Week Eleven Nov 16 to 20 / May 20 to 23

• Eco notebooks due this week, lates will NOT be accepted!
• Final late biome projects due this week
• Difference between climate and weather
• Components of weather analysis
• Source of all the Earth's energy ---> the sun and how this energy is dispersed throughout the Earth
  Reflection and absorption of energy, new terms: heat sink and albedo
• Heat transfer: Radiation, convection and conduction
  
• Experiments to show convection in fluids (gases and liquids) and conduction in solids.
• Using a heat lamp as a source of radiation, the black can was heated to a higher temperature in a fixed time frame, over the silver can.
  Black, a darker colour radiates heat faster than the silver colour, why? the air inside the can became hotter faster.
• Energy per unit area; why its cold in the winter

Week Twelve Nov 23 to Nov 27 / May 26 to May 30

Week Thirteen Nov 30 to Dec 4 / June 2 to June 6

Electricity

Week Fourteen Dec 7 to Dec 11 / March 25 to March 28

Week Fifteen Dec 14 to 18 / March 31 to April 4

Week Sixteen Jan 4 to Jan 8 / April 7 to April 11

Science and the Media

Week Seventeen Jan 11 to Jan 15 / April 14 to 18

Week Eighteen Jan 18 to Jan 22 / June 9 to June 13

This is the last week of lessons.

• Final culminating activity to be handed in this week
  

Final Culminating Activity

This assignment is worth 10% of your final mark.

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