(Framing Text): Co-Requisite - Characteristics of Science

P.SCSh3: Students will identify and investigate problems scientifically.

P.SCSh3.b: Develop procedures for solving scientific problems.

Estimating Population Size

P.SCSh3.c: Collect, organize and record appropriate data.

Diffusion
Effect of Environment on New Life Form
Pendulum Clock

P.SCSh5: Students will demonstrate the computation and estimation skills necessary for analyzing data and developing reasonable scientific explanations.

P.SCSh5.d: Express appropriate numbers of significant figures for calculated data, using scientific notation where appropriate.

Unit Conversions 2 - Scientific Notation and Significant Digits

P.SCSh6: Students will communicate scientific investigations and information clearly.

P.SCSh6.d: Participate in group discussions of scientific investigation and current scientific issues.

Diffusion

P.SCSh8: Students will understand important features of the process of scientific inquiry.

P.SCSh8.a: Scientific investigators control the conditions of their experiments in order to produce valuable data.

Diffusion
Effect of Environment on New Life Form
Pendulum Clock
Sight vs. Sound Reactions

(Framing Text): Co-Requisite - Content

P.SP1: Students will analyze the relationships between force, mass, gravity, and the motion of objects.

P.SP1.c: Compare graphically and algebraically the relationships among position, velocity, acceleration, and time.

Distance-Time Graphs
Free-Fall Laboratory
Golf Range
Shoot the Monkey

P.SP1.e: Measure and calculate the magnitude of gravitational forces.

Pith Ball Lab

P.SP1.f: Measure and calculate two-dimensional motion (projectile and circular) by using component vectors.

Golf Range
Shoot the Monkey
Uniform Circular Motion

P.SP1.g: Measure and calculate centripetal force.

Uniform Circular Motion

P.SP2: Students will evaluate the significance of energy in understanding the structure of matter and the universe.

P.SP2.b: Explain how the instability of radioactive isotopes results in spontaneous nuclear reactions.

Nuclear Decay

P.SP3: Students will evaluate the forms and transformations of energy.

P.SP3.a: Analyze, evaluate, and apply the principle of conservation of energy and measure the components of work-energy theorem by

P.SP3.a.1: describing total energy in a closed system.

Air Track
Energy Conversion in a System
Inclined Plane - Sliding Objects

P.SP3.a.2: identifying different types of potential energy.

Energy Conversion in a System
Energy of a Pendulum
Inclined Plane - Sliding Objects
Roller Coaster Physics

P.SP3.a.3: calculating kinetic energy given mass and velocity.

Air Track
Inclined Plane - Sliding Objects

P.SP3.a.4: relating transformations between potential and kinetic energy.

Energy Conversion in a System
Energy of a Pendulum
Inclined Plane - Sliding Objects
Roller Coaster Physics

P.SP3.d: Compare and contrast elastic and inelastic collisions.

2D Collisions
Air Track

P.SP4: Students will analyze the properties and applications of waves.

P.SP4.b: Experimentally determine the behavior of waves in various media in terms of reflection, refraction, and diffraction of waves.

Basic Prism
Longitudinal Waves
Refraction
Ripple Tank

P.SP4.c: Explain the relationship between the phenomena of interference and the principle of superposition.

Ripple Tank
Sound Beats and Sine Waves

P.SP4.d: Demonstrate the transfer of energy through different mediums by mechanical waves.

Longitudinal Waves

P.SP5: Students will evaluate relationships between electrical and magnetic forces.

P.SP5.b: Determine the relationship among potential difference, current, and resistance in a direct current circuit.

Advanced Circuits
Circuit Builder
Circuits

P.SP5.c: Determine equivalent resistances in series and parallel circuits.

Advanced Circuits
Circuit Builder
Circuits

P.SP5.d: Determine the relationship between moving electric charges and magnetic fields.

Electromagnetic Induction
Magnetic Induction