S9-12:7: Students demonstrate their ability to explain data by

S9-12:7.1: Considering multiple variables when interpreting mathematical analysis.

Determining a Spring Constant

S9-12:9: Students demonstrate their understanding of Properties of Matter by

S9-12:9.1: Explaining the states of a substance in terms of the particulate nature of matter and the forces of interaction between particles.

S9-12:9.1.a: Substances (elements, compounds) differ from one another based on their physical, chemical and nuclear properties.

Mystery Powder Analysis

S9-12:12: Students demonstrate their understanding of the States of Matter by

S9-12:12.1: Investigating the interactions between atoms or molecules within a system (e.g., hydrogen bonding, van der Waals forces, fluorescent light, stars).

S9-12:12.1.a: Solids, liquids and gases differ in distance and angles between atoms or molecules and the energy that binds them.

Bohr Model of Hydrogen
Bohr Model: Introduction
Dehydration Synthesis
Phase Changes

S9-12:12.1.b: Plasma is another state of matter composed of electrons and positive ions that have been separated by collisions at very high temperatures.

2D Collisions
Element Builder

S9-12:13: Students demonstrate their understanding of the Properties of a Gas by

S9-12:13.1: Quantitatively determining how volume, pressure, temperature and amount of gas affect each other (PV=nRT) in a system.

S9-12:13.1.a: There are specific relationships that exist between volume, pressure, temperature and amount of gas (moles).

Boyle's Law and Charles' Law

S9-12:15: Students demonstrate their understanding of Chemical Change by

S9-12:15.1: Using chemical equations and information about molar masses to predict quantitatively the masses of reactants and products in chemical reactions.

S9-12:15.1.a: The numbers of atoms of the reactants of any chemical reaction are the same as the numbers of atoms of the products of that chemical reaction.

Balancing Chemical Equations
Chemical Equation Balancing
Covalent Bonds
Element Builder
Limiting Reactants

S9-12:17: Students demonstrate their understanding of Nuclear Change by

S9-12:17.1: Comparing the transmission and penetration effects of alpha, beta and gamma radiation.

S9-12:17.1.a: Gamma radiation may also be produced.

Nuclear Decay

S9-12:19: Students demonstrate their understanding of the predictability of Motion by

S9-12:19.1: Using a quantitative representation of how distance and velocity change over time for a free falling object.

Freefall Laboratory
Uniform Circular Motion

S9-12:19.2: Using a quantitative representation of the path of an object which has horizontal and free fall motion (i.e., football, bullet).

S9-12:19.2.a: Motion is predictable; a falling object increases speed in a predictable pattern as it falls.

Freefall Laboratory

S9-12:19.2.b: Motion is predictable; projectile motion combines a uniform horizontal motion and free-fall motion simultaneously.

Freefall Laboratory
Golf Range!

S9-12:21: Students demonstrate their understanding of Force by

S9-12:21.1: Investigating quantitatively the acceleration as either the mass of the system or the force accelerating the mass is changed (e.g., cart with variable weights on horizontal table attached to a string with weights).

S9-12:21.1.a: If an unbalanced force acts on an object it will accelerate; the acceleration is proportional to the net force and inversely proportional to the mass of the object. (Newton’s Law F=ma) (e.g., A vehicle accelerates more slowly when it’s full of passengers.)

2D Collisions
Atwood Machine
Fan Cart Physics
Freefall Laboratory
Inclined Plane - Simple Machine
Inclined Plane - Sliding Objects
Roller Coaster Physics
Uniform Circular Motion

S9-12:22: Students demonstrate their understanding of Gravitational Force by

S9-12:22.1: Determining quantitatively how gravitational force changes when mass changes; or when distance changes.

S9-12:22.1.a: The force of gravity is a universal force of attraction between two objects and is proportional to the product of the masses of those two objects and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between objects. (i.e., F = G m 1 m 2/d squared).

Gravitational Force

S9-12:26: Students demonstrate their understanding of Electromagnetic Forces by

S9-12:26.1: Giving examples and explaining the wave nature of electromagnetic energy (refraction, diffraction, etc.) and describing and explaining the particle nature of electromagnetic energy (photoelectric effect, Compton effect).

S9-12:26.1.a: Electromagnetic energy has both wave and particle properties.

Bohr Model of Hydrogen
Bohr Model: Introduction
Photoelectric Effect

S9-12:42: Students demonstrate their understanding of the Patterns of Human Health/Disease by

S9-12:42.1: Explaining the effect of unique viral diseases on the cells of the human immune system (e.g., retroviruses).

S9-12:42.1.g: Some viral diseases, such as AIDS, destroy critical cells of the immune system.

Virus Life Cycle (Lytic)