Assignments

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 * __ Scientific Method Take Home Lab __**

=__**Summative Test - Chemistry:**__=
 * Finding the protons, neutrons, electrons
 * Drawing an atom
 * Protons, neutrons, electrons, isotopes, Periodic Groups
 * Periodic Group Properties
 * Periodic Table Groups and Periods
 * Acids and Bases
 * Qualitative and Quantitative
 * Metals/Nonmetals/Metalloids
 * Vocabulary words given
 * Mendeleev
 * Patterns of the Periodic Table
 * Number of Atoms in Chemical Formula
 * Intro to Law of Conservation of Mass
 * Elements

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=__Extra Credit Homework Project - Speed:__=
 * Materials needed: a random object, tape measure, watch
 * Take any object in your home.
 * Create a track and measure it.
 * Calculate the speed of an object from point A to point B.
 * Draw a graph (distance vs. time) of your object.
 * This will replace your lowest test grade

=__**Summative Test - Physics:**__= Test on Motion, Speed, Slope and Newton's Laws
 * Distance vs. Time Graphs
 * Velocity vs. Time Graphs
 * Acceleration - Graph, Units of Measurement,
 * Calculate Acceleration
 * Calculate Speed and Average Speed
 * Speed, Average Speed, Instantaneous Speed
 * Balancing Equations
 * Law of Conservation of Mass
 * Newton's First Law
 * Inertia - Application of Concept
 * Forces: Friction, Air Resistance Friction, Gravity, Balanced, Unbalanced
 * Units of Measurement for Distance, Time, Velocity and Acceleration
 * Graphing Data (how to plot points on a distance vs. time graph)
 * Measurement
 * What mass is measure in.
 * Measurement with a ruler and graduated cylinder.
 * Constant Velocity

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=__**1st Nine Weeks Test:**__=

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=__Electromagnetic Spectrum In Class Project:__=

=__Extra Credit Grade or Possible Science Fair Project:__= Build One These Power Generators: Solar Oven, Wind Turbine, Hydrogenerator [] []

=__**Design a Solar Powered Object Class Project:**__=
 * Bring in items you could use to build your solar powered object
 * We will be designing and building these things during class
 * [[file:Electromagnetic Spectrum Project.docx]]

__ **Summative Test - Electricity, Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources, Electromagnetic Spectrum** __ This is a list of **topics, key** **words** and **skills** you should familiarize yourself with. If you feel you have inadequate notes, find someone’s to copy.

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 * Currents
 * Simple Circuit (how to build one)
 * What is needed to generate electricity?
 * Electron’s role in electricity
 * Similarities of magnets and batteries
 * Mains power supply compared to batteries
 * Explain what transformers do
 * Direct and alternating currents
 * How electricity makes it to your house? (power plant, junction box joins wires together, transformers, transmission lines)
 * Symbols for a simple circuit
 * Explain how hydroelectric power works (water supply, penstock, turbine, generator, copper wire, electromagnets, transformers, transmission lines)
 * Justify why hydroelectric power might be a good alternative to nonrenewable resources like coal, geothermal and natural gases.
 * Renewable Resources (hydroelectric power, solar, nuclear and wind)
 * Nonrenewable Resources (coal, natural gas, geothermal)
 * Fossil Fuels (non-renewable)
 * The Power Grid
 * Solar Power (photovoltaic cells, inverters, storage batteries)
 * Justify why hydroelectric power might be a good alternative to non renewable resources like coal, geothermal and natural gases.
 * Electromagnetic Spectrum (radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, x-rays, gamma rays)
 * Know characteristics of the different waves in the EM Spectrum
 * Transverse wave

=__Incredible Cell Project__=

__ **Comparing Selective Breeding to Genetic Engineering** __

=**__2nd Nine Weeks Test__**= Flashcards: media type="custom" key="26405108"

=Project - Plate Tectonics=

=__**Life and Earth Science Summative Test**__= This is a list of **topics, key** **words** and **skills** you should familiarize yourself with. If you feel you have inadequate notes, find someone’s to copy. [|Flashcards] - [|Plate Tectonics, Cellular Respiration, Fungi, Viruses] Login: bdjh99@gmail.com Password: herrington1
 * **Viruses**
 * How We Catch A Virus
 * Symptoms
 * Common Viruses: Cold, Flu, Rabies, Pneumonia, Chicken Pox, AIDS
 * **Fungi**
 * Conditions needed to grow
 * Spores
 * What they feed on: glucose
 * How spores are transported
 * The role of fungi in nature: Decomposers and Recyclers
 * Traits: Eukaryotic with cell walls, heterotrophs with similar means of feeding, spores for reproduction
 * Yeast - Unicellular
 * **Cellular Respiration**
 * Products of Cellular Respiration: Carbon Dioxide, Water, Heat Energy
 * Formula for Cellular Respiration: [|C6H12O6] + 6 [|O2] → 6 [|CO2] + 6 [|H2O] + Energy
 * How yeast breaks down sugars: enzymes
 * **Unicellular Organisms**
 * Bacteria
 * How they multiply: Duplication of chromosomes, then division of cells
 * Insulin: How it's made using bacteria
 * Cleaning up oil with bacteria
 * **Lithosphere/Asthenosphere**
 * Label the Layers of the Earth
 * Convection Currents: How they make the plates move
 * Sea floor spreading
 * Convergent, Divergent, Transform boundaries
 * Subduction Zone (convergent)
 * San Andreas Fault: transform fault
 * Himalayas: convergent boundary
 * Thickness of crust: 25 miles thick
 * Thickness of mantle: 1700 miles thick
 * Density of oceanic crust compared to continental (oceanic is more dense)
 * **Volcanoes**
 * Hot Spots
 * Hawaii
 * Not at plate boundaries
 * Convergent Boundaries/Subuction Zones
 * Sea floor spreading
 * Vocabulary: Magma, lava, vent, lahar, pyroclastic flow, tephra, magma chamber, Ring of Fire, crater, Caldera
 * How Volcanoes Erupt: Gases separate from the molten rock in the crust and create pressure and force that pushes the magma upward during an eruption.
 * Predicting a Volcano's Eruption:
 * Releasing of gases like carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide
 * Earthquakes
 * Dormant
 * Active
 * Shield Volcanoes - Hawaii
 * **Earthquakes and Volcanoes**
 * Seismograph
 * S-Wave
 * P-Wave
 * Earthquakes Predict Volcanoes