Essential Standards
PSc.1.1: Understand motion in terms of speed, velocity, acceleration and momentum.
PSc.1.1.1: Explain motion in terms of frame of reference, distance, and displacement.
Free-Fall Laboratory
Golf Range
Shoot the Monkey
PSc.1.1.2: Compare speed, velocity, acceleration and momentum using investigations, graphing, scalar quantities and vector quantities.
PSc.1.2.1: Explain how gravitational force affects the weight of an object and the velocity of an object in freefall.
Free-Fall Laboratory
Golf Range
Shoot the Monkey
PSc.1.2.2: Classify frictional forces into one of four types: static, sliding, rolling, and fluid.
Inclined Plane - Sliding Objects
PSc.1.2.3: Explain forces using Newton?s three laws of motion.
Atwood Machine
Fan Cart Physics
PSc.2.1: Understand types, properties, and structure of matter.
PSc.2.1.2: Explain the phases of matter and the physical changes that matter undergoes.
PSc.2.1.3: Compare physical and chemical properties of various types of matter.
Density Experiment: Slice and Dice
PSc.2.2: Understand chemical bonding and chemical interactions.
PSc.2.2.4: Exemplify the law of conservation of mass by balancing chemical equations.
Balancing Chemical Equations
Chemical Equations
PSc.2.2.6: Summarize the characteristics and interactions of acids and bases.
Titration
pH Analysis
pH Analysis: Quad Color Indicator
PSc.2.3: Understand the role of the nucleus in radiation and radioactivity.
PSc.2.3.1: Compare nuclear reactions including alpha decay, beta decay and gamma decay; nuclear fusion and nuclear fission.
PSc.2.3.2: Exemplify the radioactive decay of unstable nuclei using the concept of half-life.
PSc.3.1: Understand the types of energy, conservation of energy and energy transfer.
PSc.3.1.1: Explain thermal energy and its transfer.
PSc.3.1.2: Explain the law of conservation of energy in a mechanical system in terms of kinetic energy, potential energy and heat.
Air Track
Energy Conversion in a System
Energy of a Pendulum
Inclined Plane - Sliding Objects
Roller Coaster Physics
PSc.3.1.3: Explain work in terms of the relationship among the applied force to an object, the resulting displacement of the object and the energy transferred to an object.
PSc.3.2: Understand the nature of waves.
PSc.3.2.2: Compare waves (mechanical, electromagnetic, and surface) using their characteristics.
PSc.3.2.4: Illustrate the wave interactions of reflection, refraction, diffraction, and interference.
Basic Prism
Refraction
Sound Beats and Sine Waves
PSc.3.3: Understand electricity and magnetism and their relationship.
PSc.3.3.1: Summarize static and current electricity.
PSc.3.3.2: Explain simple series and parallel DC circuits in terms of Ohm?s law.
PSc.3.3.4: Explain magnetism in terms of domains, interactions of poles, and magnetic fields.
Correlation last revised: 3/29/2018