Mr. Brooks' Physical Science Class

Schedule & HW for Past Weeks

Schedule & HW
Handouts
Links
Course & Teacher Info

Scroll down to find the schedule you are looking for.  Schedules are in chronological order.

DATES
SCHEDULE - Unit 2 (MATTER)  [07-08]
HOMEWORK
9/24-9/25
1. Classifying Matter - hierarchy diagram
2. Lab - Separating Mixtures  (wrap it up next class)
none
9/26-9/27
1. Finish Lab - Separating Mixtures
2. NOTES - 2.1  (Elements, Cmpds, Mixtures)
3. Activity - Pure Substance or Mixture?
Finish Lab: "Separating Mixtures"   (if not done in class)
9/28-10/1
1. Finish NOTES - Elements, Cmpds, Mixtures
2. Mini-Lab - "Pure Substance or Mixture?"
3. DEMOS & Notes - Physical & Chemical Properties
1. Finish Mini-Lab  "Pure Substance or Mixture?"
2. Wkst - "Physical vs. Chemical Properties"  (only this one side)
10/2-10/3
1. Finish DEMOS & Notes - Phys. & Chem. Changes
2. Lab - "Name that Change"
1. Lab - "Name that Change"
2. Wkst - "Questions about Changes in Matter"  (to get you thinking.... don't worry if you don't know the RIGHT answer.  Just write what you think and why.)
10/4-10/5
(SUB here on 10/4)
1. Lab - PDB Lab    (Phase Changes)
 
1. Lab - "PDB Lab"  (Be sure to follow the guidelines for making a good GRAPH!)
10/8-10/9
1. Thinking Activities - Phases & Phase Change Graph
2. Debrief PDB Lab
3. NOTES - Phases & Phase Changes
4. DEMOS
5. Practice - Wkst
1. Wkst - "Phase Changes"
2. EC Opportunity - Cold Bottle & Wet Quarter Activity
3. Start studying notes for Quiz/Test on Friday / Monday
10/10-10/11
1. Check HW
2. Discuss PreAssessment Questions - Phase Changes in Real World
3. Lab - Conservation of Mass
4. Practice - Wksts
5. Review / Practice Wksts / Questions?
1. STUDY for Quiz / Test next class
2. Wkst - "Review for Ch 2 Test"
10/12-10/15
1. Quiz / Test - Unit 2
2. Cookie Lab (start) - Introducing the Periodic Table
none
 
Schedule is subject to change. 
 
Print

DATES
SCHEDULE - Unit 3 (Atoms & Per. Table)
HOMEWORK
10/16-10/17 (Early dismissal on 10/17)
-Finish Cookie Lab  (DEBRIEF)
-History of Periodic Table
-NOTES - Stucture of Atom
-Wkst - "Atomic Structure"
1. Wkst: "Atomic Structure"
2. STUDY FOR QUICK QUIZ
3. Finish Cookie Lab (if not done during class)
10/18-10/19
(Career Fair on 10/18)
-Check HW
-Review Atomic Structure
-Quick Quiz - Atomic Structure & reading Per. Table
-Bohr Models
---Teach & Practice
---Start Bohr Model Per. Table
1. Bohr Model Periodic Table
2. Study NOTES 
10/22-10/23
-Review Bohr Models & Discuss PATTERNS you observed in your Bohr Model Per. Tables
-Ions & Valence electrons (NOTES)
-Families of Elements in the Periodic Table (research & present)
-Wkst - "Charting Oxidation #s"
1. Wkst - "Charting Oxidation #s"
10/24-10/25
-Check HW
-Rutherford's Gold Foil Experiment  (How the model of the atom has changed over time)
-Law of Reflection & determining shape of a hidden mirror by indirect observation
-Lab - Indirect Observation
 
1. Finish Lab - "Indirect Observation"  (if not done in class)
10/29-10/30
-Debrief Lab - "Indirect Observation"
-Isotopes
---- NOTES
---- Finding average age of class
---- Start Wksts (2 isotope wksts)
-Lab:  Bean Lab
 
 
1. Finish Bean Lab  (if not done in class)
2. Wksts -
--- "Isotopes or Different Elements"
--- "Isotopes & Average Atomic Mass"
10/31-11/1
-Wkst:  "Parts of an Atom"
-Review for Test
-Lewis Structures (starting next unit)
1. Review Wkst
2. STUDY FOR TEST NEXT CLASS!!
11/5-11/6
-Test - Atoms & Periodic Table
-FRAME (Comparing Types of Bonds)
--
 
Schedule is subject to change. 
 
Print

DATES
SCHEDULE - Unit 4 (Bonding - Naming & Writing Formulas)
HOMEWORK
11/5-11/6
-Test - Atoms & Periodic Table
-Intro to Types of Bonds
-FRAME (Comparing Types of Bonds)
-nothing
11/7-11/8
-Go over Test
-Types of Bonds (Ionic, Covalent, Polyatomic)
-Drawing Bonds (Ionic & Covalent)
 
-Wkst Packet:  "How Atoms Combine"   (pages 2 & 3 of packet with Lewis Structure NOTES on the front page)
11/9-11/12
-Review
-Self-Assessment  (Are you keeping up?)
-Formula Mania  (Activity to practice with writing ionic & polyatomic formulas)
-Ionics: 
-----Formulas  (balancing charges)
-----Naming

--

11/13-11/14
-Review Ionics
-Transition Metals in Ionic Compounds
-Bonds with POLYATOMIC IONS
-----Formulas
-----Naming
-Quick Quiz - Types of Bonds & Ionic compounds
-Wkst (2-sided):  "Ionic Practice"  "Polyatomic Practice"
11/15-11/16
-Flashcards:  Ionics & Polyatomics
-Quiz:  Ionics & Polyatomics (mainly)
-Covalent Compounds
-----Formulas
-----Naming
-Work Time
-----Covalent Wksts
-----Criss-Cross
-Covalent Wkst  (2-sided)
-Criss-Cross Wkst
11/19-11/20
-Flashcards Practice: Naming & Formula writing
-Work Time:
-----Review Sheets  (all 3 types of bonds together)
-Quiz:  All 3 types of bonds
-Counting Atoms Practice  (this will lead into balancing equations)

--

11/21-11/26
-Performance Assessment (LAB):  "What is this stuff?"
-----------Identifying unknown samples

--

11/27-11/28
-Review for Test
-Review Worksheets
-Start next unit:
-----Counting Atoms
-----Types of Chemical Reactions
-Study for Test
-Review Worksheets
11/29-11/30
-TEST:  Bonding  (target date)
-Types of Reactions
-Balancing Equations
-Balancing Equations Wkst.
 
Schedule is subject to change. 
 
Print

DATES
SCHEDULE - End of Semester (Exam Review)
HOMEWORK
12/12-12/13
-Finish Acids/Bases
---Wksts
---Lab - "Indicators of pH"
 
12/14-12/17
-Review for Exam
----Study Guide
----Review Packet  (Practice Problems)
----Make Note Card to use on test
-Organize
-STUDY for exam
12/18 (SKINNIES)
-Exam Review
----Review Game  (maybe)
-STUDY FOR EXAM!!!  (Good luck)
12/19 Wed.
-Exams  (1st, 2nd, 3rd Block)
 
12/20 Thurs.
-Exams  (4th, 5th, 6th Blocks)
 
12/21 Friday
-Exams (7th & 8th Blocks)
 
 
Schedule is subject to change. 
 
Print

DATES
SCHEDULE - Heat Unit
HOMEWORK
1/3-1/4
WELCOME BACK!!!
-Performance Assessment - Cabbage Juice Lab
Lab Report - Cabbage Juice Lab   (recommended that you type it, but not required)
1/7-1/8
-Intro to Heat Unit
-Lab: Packet #1  (start it today)
none
1/9-1/10
-DEMO - Thermal Expansion
-Finish Packet #1 Lab
-Show webpage
-NOTES - Heat Unit  (START)
-Wksts:
----Temp. Scales  (B-Day only)
 
-EC Coupon on website
-Lab:  Packet #1  (if not finished in class)
-Wkst - Temp. Scales  (p. 2 of worksheet packet)   [B-Day ONLY]
1/11-1/15
-Quiz - Packet #1  (basic heat info)
-Finish Heat NOTES
-----Act out types of heat transfer
-Wksts:
-----Temp. Scales (A-Day)
-----Heat Transfer
-----Practice Heat Calculations
-Lab:  Packet #3  (Heat Gained vs. Heat Lost)   [start]
-EC Coupon:  Webpage
-Wkst - "Heat Transfer"
1/16-1/17
1.  Heat Transfer Practice
2.  Lab - "Heat Gain vs. Heat Loss"
3.  Worksheets -
              -Specific Heat Problems - "Heat"
4.  Space Shuttle Project - Background Info

1. Lab - "Heat Gain vs. Heat Loss"   (if not turned in on lab day)
2. Wkst - "Heat"  (just the side with the table and you only have to do #1-5)

1/18-1/21
1. Check HW
2. Quiz - Heat Gain vs. Heat Loss Lab
3. Shuttle Activity
Quiz over Heat Unit coming up next week (Thursday / Friday).  See me if you aren't feeling ready.
1/22-1/23
1. Shuttle Activity (finish)
2. Debrief Shuttle Activity
3. Worksheets / Review for Quiz (next class)
1. Study for Quiz over Heat Unit
2. Wkst - Calorie Wkst  (started in class)
3. Wkst -  "Practice Heat Calculations"
1/24-1/25
1. Quiz - Heat Unit
2. Calorie Worksheet - tying food energy and heat together
3. Food Lab
Finish Food Lab
1/28-1/29
1. Go over Heat Quiz
2. Debrief Food Lab
3. Challenge Problems  (Food, etc.)
4. Review for Test
-Study for Test
-Wkst
-----(2nd Block)  Quiz - Heat Gained vs. Heat Lost
-----(rest of classes)  Packet of practice problems  (p. 1-2 only)
1/30-1/31
1. Test - Heat Unit
2. Intro Discussion of Electricity  (experiences?)
none
 
Schedule is subject to change. 
 
Print

DATES
SCHEDULE - Electricity Unit
HOMEWORK
2/1-2/4
1. Go over Heat Test
2. Heat Challenge (Performance Assessment)
 
1. Lab Report - Heat Challenge
[Include 5 sections in report:  Problem, Materials, Procedure, Data (include analysis), and Conclusion]
 
2/5-2/6
1. Electrostatics  (static electricity)
----Demos
----Notes
2. Quick Assessment - Static Electricity
3. Intro to Circuits - Find 4 ways to light a bulb
-Study NOTES - Static Electricity
-EC:  Pop Can Challenge  (due next class)
2/7-2/8
1. Finish Electrostatics
2. NOTES & Practice Problems:  Charge & Current  (I = q/t)
3. Wkst - "I = q/t Problems"
4. Van de Graaf Generator
Wkst - "I = q/t Problems"
2/11-2/12
1. Quick Quiz - Intro to Circuits
2. NOTES - Series & Parallel Circuits
3. Lab - Intro to Series & Parallel Circuits
-Study Notes
2/13-2/14
1. Electricity VOCAB and OHM'S LAW (V=I*R)
2. Lab - Ohm's Law
3. Practice math w/ Ohm's Law

---

2/15-2/18
1. Debrief Lab - Ohm's Law Lab
2. NOTES - Voltage, Current, Resistance & Circuits (Series & Parallel)
3. Lab - Intro to Series & Parallel Circuits
-Ohm's Law Packet  (V = I * R)
2/19-2/20
1. Practice Math (V=I*R and I=q/t)
2. Lab - Circuit Challenges
3. Work Time
-Wkst: "Electricity Calculations Quiz"  (just as a worksheet... not a quiz grade)
2/21-2/25
1. Quiz - Current Electricity
2. More Complex Circuits
3. Power & Safety  (Notes & Demos)
 
---
2/26-2/27
WRAP-UP UNIT & REVIEW:
1. Complex Circuits
2. Safety Demos
3. Power Practice Problems (P=I*V)
4. AC / DC - Notes & Demo
5. Review & Study Guide
-Study Guide Problems
-STUDY for Test (next class)
 
-Extra Credit Worksheets
2/28-3/3
1. Test - Electricity
2. Start Light Unit
---
 
Schedule is subject to change. 
 
Print

DATES
SCHEDULE - Light Unit
HOMEWORK
3/4-3/5
 
1. NOTES - Waves
2. Lab - Light Stations
3. Reflection Packet
 
Reflection Packet
 
3/6-3/7
1. Review Waves
2. Correct Reflection Packet
3. DEMOS - Refraction
4. Refraction Packet
-Refraction Packet
-(2nd BLOCK ONLY) Reflection Packet
3/8-3/11
1. Correct Refraction Packet
2. Refraction Review
3. Speed of Light Packet
Speed of Light Packet (if not done in class)
3/12-3/13
1. Electromagnetic Spectrum
2. COLOR LAB
3. Work Time -
    a. Color Packet
    b. Eye Packet
1. Color Packet
2. Eye Packet
3. Color Lab (if not finished in class)
3/14 (SKINNIES)
1. Correct HW Packets
2. Color - How do we see different colors?
3. The Human Eye
NONE!

Have a GREAT Spring Break!
SPRING BREAK!!!
---------------
---------------
3/24 (SKINNIES)
1. Refresher - Light
2. Video - "Light & Optics"
3. Intro to Lenses
1. Lens Packet
(You could also start studying for your Light Test.  Use your study guide.)
3/25-3/26
1. Correct Lens Packet
2. Lenses
----Mini-Lab
----Discussion
3. Review for Test
---
3/27-3/28
Light TEST!
--
 
3/31-4/1
--
 
---
 
Schedule is subject to change. 
 
Print

DATES