Physical+Science

Physical Science BHS Grade 9

__Inquiry Task #1__: For your grade / course, identify the "generic" inquiry-based skills you currently employ with your students. Competencies: Knowledge : Students will demonstrate mastery of content knowledge covered in Physical Science. Science Depth of Knowledge: Level1: Recall and Reproduction

Laboratory / Inquiry: Students will use the process of scientific inquiry to collect, organize, and analyze data, information, and observations to develop valid conclusions. Science Depth Of Knowledge: Level 2: Skills and Concepts and Level 3: Strategic Thinking Inquiry Skills: Formulating Questions and Hypothesizing, Planning and Critiquing Investigations, Conducting Investigation and Evaluating Explanations

Problem Solving: Students will use problem solving skills to model, evaluate, and make predictions about systems. Science Depth Of Knowledge: Level 2: Skills and Concepts and Level 3: Strategic Thinking Inquiry Skills: Formulating Questions and Hypothesizing, Planning and Critiquing Investigations, Conducting Investigation and Evaluating Explanations

__Inquiry Task #2__: List the units that currently are taught in which inquiry skills appear. Q1: Scientific Processes / Inquiry Composition, States and Changes in Matter
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Q2: Motion Forces Machines

Q3: Energy and Its Conservation Work and Power Electricity and Magnetism

Q4: Electromagnetic Spectrum Indirect Measurement Solar System Universe, Scale and Origins

__Inquiry Task #3__: Brain-storm ideas for how your current units or activities can be made more inquiry-based. Specific Major Inquiry Tasks By Quarter:  Q1 - Alka-Seltzer Lab - Students design a controlled experiment, or investigation to test a hypothesis regarding the reduction of mass in a dissolving alka seltzer tablet.  Q2 - Car and Ramp Investigation - Students design a lab to test speed as a function of either height/angle of ramp, or displacement from the top of the ramp. Emphasis on data collection and experimental design.  Q3 - Circuitry Design  Q4 - Scale Model of the Solar System  <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;"> <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;">http://www.education.nh.gov/instruction/assessment/necap/science.htm <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;"> <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;"> <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;">

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