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Course overview
Welcome to Online Science 10!
This course is designed to prepare students for success in their future through the exploration of different Science disciplines.  Emphasis will be given to equip students with the skills and understandings required for success on the WASL.  At the same time this course will cover topics, hands on experiments and simulations in Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Earth Science giving students a broad background that will assist them in future Science courses. 


Essential Questions

Essential Understandings

How do the ideas of position, distance, speed, velocity and acceleration affect your daily life?
What information can you get from graphs and tables having to do with speed, time and position?
Where do you see forces affecting your daily life?
How can forces affect your motion?
How do machines improve society?
How do machines make our work seem easier?
How do you know that a chemical reaction is happening?
What are some ways that we benefit from chemical reactions?
Why would we want to change the speed of a reaction?
What are some ways that we benefit from nuclear reactions or decay?
In what ways are living organisms the same or different from one another?
What is the “code of life,” and how does it operate?
What mechanisms ensure genetic continuity within species?
What are the mechanisms of natural selection, and how do they operate?
How does the evolutionary process contribute to the biological diversity found in nature?
What properties and other factors determine star types, and how id data about star properties obtained?
What types of energy and matter transformations occur in stars?
What types of events occur in the life cycle of stars?
What is the universe?
How did the universe begin?
What is currently happening in the universe?

 

 

  • The idea of motion and what affects motion is a framework for our daily lives
  • Machines make our daily work seem easier

 

  • Chemical reactions occur constantly in your body and in your world
  • Chemists can change the rate of a reaction; these changes affect our daily life
  • Radiation is normal in nature; many nuclear reactions benefit mankind

 

  • DNA carries the code that determines the characteristics/traits of an organism
  • The diversity of organisms on Earth is a direct result of biological evolution.  Natural selection is the mechanism that results in differential survival of organism due to heritable variations in populations.

 

 

  • The sun, and other stars, have distinct properties that determine their feature, and they undergo predictable life cycles.
  • The structure, pattern, formation and evolution of the universe involve interactions between cosmic matter and energy

In each area, students will know:
1. Physics/ Forces and Motion
-How to read and plot data on a position time graph
-How to read and plot data on a speed vs. time graph
-How to read and plot data on a velocity time graph
-How to determine the speed of an object from a position time graph
-How to solve speed, distance, and time word problems
-How to know if an object is accelerating from a graph
-How forces come in pairs and act upon an object
-How the net forces acting on an object changes the motion and direction an object travels
-How the motion of an object changes with balanced or unbalanced forces acting upon it
-How machines make work seem easier
2. Chemistry/ Chemical Reactions
-How to balance a chemical reaction
-How to classify different chemical reactions
-How we benefit from chemical reactions
-How to determine if a reaction is eno or exothermic
-How you can change the rate of a chemical reaction
-How to determine the half life of a nuclear reaction
-How to write and solve equations describing alpha, beta and gamma decay
-How alpha particles, beta particles and gamma rays are different
3. Life Science/ Biology
- How DNA replicates
-How DNA codes for proteins
-How proteins serve several functions in organisms
-How genes, chromosomes and DNA relate
-How characteristics are passed from parents to offspring
-How to determine possible offspring characteristics
-How to define natural selection and the evidence that supports Darwin’s theory
-How humans have played a role in the selection of species
4. Earth Science/ Cosmology
-How stars generate energy
-How stars evolve
-How we measure distances inside and outside of the solar system
-How the composition of stars can be determined
-How we can use the surface temperature and brightness of a star to gain information
-How to read and plot data on an H-R diagram
-How the universe began and the evidence that supports the theories
-How and in what direction the galaxies are moving
Scope, Sequence and Pacing


1st Semester

 

 

Quarter 1: Physics/ Forces and Motion

 

 

 

Unit 1: Scientific Method

1 week

 

Unit 2: Forces

3 weeks

 

Unit 3: Work

1 weeks

 

Unit 4: Motion

4 weeks

Quarter 2: Chemistry/ Chemical Reactions

 

 

 

Unit 5: Chemical Reaction Types and Balancing Chemical Equations

3.5 weeks

 

Unit 6:Practical Chemical Reactions

1 week

 

Unit 7: Reaction Rates

1.5 weeks

 

Unit 8: Nuclear Reactions

3 weeks

2nd Semester

 

 

Quarter 3:Life Science/Biology

Unit 1: DNA

3 weeks

 

Unit 2: Genetics, Heredity and Inheritance

3 weeks

 

Unit 3: Evolution and Natural Selection

3 weeks

Quarter 4: Earth Science/ Cosmology

 

 

 

Unit 11: The Sun and Other Stars

5 weeks

 

Unit 12: Cosmology

4 weeks

 

Course Policies
Course Materials

  • SASinSchool (provided by SVL)
  • United Streaming (provided by SVL)
  • Kitchen materials and equipment for simple labs

Grading Policy
100-90*           A
89-80               B
79-70               C
69-65               D
64-Below         F
*Note: All grades .5 and higher will be rounded up to the next grade.  Example: 89.7 = 90 (A)
Academic Integrity:
It is the responsibility of the student to uphold the highest in academic integrity. Students in this course will be expected to comply with the official Spokane District 81 Policy regarding Academic Integrity. It is the assumption of the instructor that all work is done by the student.
District Computer/Network Usage:
Careful and ethical use of computing resources is the responsibility of every user. Students will be held to a stand of accountability for how they use computers. The official District Acceptable Use Policy is found here (PDF).

Make-up Exam Policy
Although most timelines for work in this course will be flexible, there will be deadlines for some items.  When an assignment or test is due by a certain time, there may be extenuating circumstances that will require an extension.  Such extensions must be requested in writing.  Make-up exams and assignments need to be arranged through communication between the student and teacher.