Updated Sept 8 2009

• Dynamics
• Electricity & Magnetism
• Energy Transformation
• Pneumatics & Hydraulics

  Kinematics Motion

  

  Week One Sept 8 to 11 / Feb 1 to 8

  • Outline of what is on the Web Site
  • ROE & student expectations
  • Literacy test this week
  • Outline of four basic concepts of the motion unit:
    1. Slopes positive and negative, rise over run etc.
    2. Solving mathematical equations; make sure you have your formula sheet.
    3. Problem analysis. How to set up & answer properly a motion word problem; see Internet note
    4. Drawing lines and angles. This is the basics of vectors
  • Lego road to show positive and negative motion
  • Plotting graphs and reading information from them; extrapolation and interpolation.
  • Distance - Time graphs worksheet Internet
  • Position - Time worksheet Internet K/U category assessment.
  • Problem solving using my system os scheme of problems analysis, let the problem solve itself. A taught lesson on the board using examples.
  • "Working with Equations" (5 questions). Over the weekend, to be handed in.

  Week Two Sept 14 to 18 / Feb 11 to 15

  • "Working with Equations" to be handed in on Monday, answers are on the Internet.
  • Practice Motion Problems, another problem solving exercise.
    Handed in Tuesday.
  • Two motion experiments:
    1. Using a yellow toy bulldozer, motion measurements are collected.
    2. Rolling a ball down the hall, distance and a time is measured.
    
    These are lab reports with subsequent write ups to be handed in.
  • Data is tabulated in a chart, graphs are draw and slopes determined.
  • Watch for homework quizzes this week.
  • Working with distance, time data to determine velocity. Complete discussion of Motion Formula Sheet
  • Working with velocity time data to determine acceleration; what is acceleration?
  • Working with areas under curves; what does the area under a velocity time graph mean?
  • Acceleration work sheets.

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

  • Introduction to scalars and vectors. Drawing vector diagrams and using the scaled diagram to solve vector type problems.
    Lego road to intoduce one dimensional vectors, example used was displacement.
  • Difference between distance & displacement.
    Difference between speed and velocity.
  • A protractor and ruler is essential to do this work.
  • Measuring angles and recording them in the proper vector notation derived from compass points.
  • Vector diagrams in two dimensions. Recording magnitude and direction with proper units.
  • Vector addition in two dimensions. Protractor is a must!
  • Assignment from Friday handed in today
  • Vector quizzes, Monday and Tuesday, Wednesday homework quiz from text book questions.
  • Small end of unit test; velocity, acceleration, graphing and vector analysis.

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

  • Factors that effect reaction rates; four labs to show these effects
    Note given out on the five factors

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

  • Take home assignment given out on Thursday Opps! You didn't get it.

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

  Thanksgiving is this week
  
• Thursday: Food chains and food webs
  Ecology terms puzzle
  

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

Dynamics Forces & Mechanical Systems

• Web of Life, the video & worksheet

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

• 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

• Soil discussion with copied notes

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

• Introduction to weather; Canada's climate & "What do you Know about Weather"

Week Eleven Nov 16 to 20 / May 20 to 23

• Layers of the atmosphere

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

• Collection of weather data for your assigned city; marked daily.
• A page of definitions to be completed.

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

• Cloud study; different types

Energy Transformations

• What can be measured

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

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

Pneumatic & Hydraulic Systems

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

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

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

• Final 10% culminating activity to be handed in this week
  
• Note on the different types of precipitation. <
• The year in review, done Jan 21 & 22

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Your Exam Format SCH 4C1 Period 1