©2010-2011 Red Wagon Tutorials
Physical Science
Assignment Supplement
2010-2011 School Year
Mr. Rosenoff’s Class
A. Steps for Success
These are the steps taken by successful students last year for
completing the required Module work. Please
note: these are the steps I am suggesting you take also!
As per classroom policy, any assignment submitted is assumed to be
supervised and proctored by the student's parent.
First Week:
1.
Read the assigned reading indicated in your syllabus, including labs,
before coming to class.
2.
Answer the On Your Own
questions when you come to them. (These
are not turned in. They are for your
benefit. The answers are at the end of
your Module.)
3.
Attend Class: ask questions about reading assignment and labs. Participate, listen and learn.
4.
Perform the labs included in the week’s reading. Write the required informal lab report for
each lab completed.
5.
Place them in your notebook for safe keeping. (If you are doing the optional microscope experiments
these should be completed also.)
Second Week:
1.
Read the assigned second reading, including labs, before coming to
class.
2.
Answer the On Your Own questions
when you come to them. (Again, do not
turn these in.)
3.
Attend Class: ask questions about reading assignment and labs. Participate, listen, and learn.
4.
Perform labs included in the week’s reading. Write the required informal lab reports. (If you are doing the optional microscope
experiments these should be completed also.)
5.
Answer the Study Guide
questions at the end of the module.
(This is an open book assignment.
I have provided you an example of a completed assignment below.)
6. Parents use your Solutions Manual to correct your
student’s Study Guide answers.
7. Have the student
correct any error they may have made in the Study
Guide assignment.
Third Week:
1.
Overlap week. You will need to
begin the next Module in your book during this week. Follow the steps above.
2.
Ask questions in class about your Study
Guide grade. I will give you a
review for your Module Test during class this week. If you miss class this week, you will need to
listen to the class recording for Test prep assistance.
3.
Take the online Module Test by
the date indicated in your syllabus.
This assignment is closed book
and closed notes. The Module Test will be forwarded to me
automatically once you click on “Finished”
on the Student
Portal site.
4.
Parents
MUST sign the bottom of the test and be present during the testing session.
Fourth Week:
1.
Ask questions in class about your Module
Test grade and your finished experiment reports.
2.
Continue on with next Module work.
B. Assignment Guidelines
1. Formal Experiment
Reports MUST BE
2. Formal Experiment
Report assignment requirements are outlined in detail in your 2010-2011 Assignment Supplement. Remember, I expect physical science students to have had one
year prior practice writing experiment reports.
I do allow revisions of the experiment report during first semester and
will tell your student how to improve their assignment before
resubmission. During second semester, I
will grade the formal experiment report as received. If you plan to use graphs or other graphics as part of
your report Observations section, YOU MUST E-
3. Module Tests are taken
online through the Student
Portal site: http://www.redwagontutorials.com/php/.
Module Test assignments
4. All Test assignments,
except your semester exams, must be completed within 60 minutes of logging onto
the Student Portal site. Semester exams must be completed within 90
minutes. After 60 or 90 minutes,
depending on the assignment, the Student Portal
WILL DISCONNECT YOU
5. Upon submission of any
assignment through the Student
Portal, the Portal site
will forward a copy to my e-mail address and forward a receipt copy to your
e-mail address of record on the site. IT
IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO OBTAIN A RECEIPT FROM THE PORTAL COMPUTER
6. Students must be
disciplined enough to submit required work on time. As per course policy, I will
deduct 10% per day from the score received on the assignment on all late work, including the Parent Notebook Report, unless the lateness results from
personal illness, family emergency, or computer problem of a non-reoccurring
nature. In these instances, I will grant
full points. A schedule for the course,
providing due dates for all assignments for the entire year, has been posted
online. If you are leaving on vacation or some other personal choice
holiday, please adjust your study schedule to submit the assigned work before
leaving. I will always accept an
assignment early. I am available during
my office hours to help you complete assignments before the due date, when and
if necessary, during the school year.
7. All class assignments
are due by 6:00 PM, Eastern Time, on the date indicated
in the Schedule I have posted online.
The Student
Portal time
stamp on your work is the final authority on whether something is submitted on
time or not. NOTE:
8. Students
should keep hard copies of all their work (labs, study guides, tests,
etc.), not just computer saved work.
Doing so will allow the student to keep a good portfolio of their class
assignments should they be asked to demonstrate their work at some later
date. Please note, I do not maintain copies of a student's work beyond
the end of the school year. I will maintain a copy of a student's final
semester grades for seven years beyond the end of our class together.
C. Study Guide Assignment
The following is an example of the completed Study Guide
assignment. (You do not have to word process
this assignment. I highly suggest your
student write the answers in complete sentences as complete sentence structure
will be required on the Test or Exam.)
As per classroom policy, any assignment submitted is assumed to be
supervised and proctored by the student's parent.
Mr. Biology Bugs
Biology
Module 1 Study Guide
Answers to #1
a. Metabolism is the process by which a living organism
takes energy from its surroundings and uses it to sustain itself, develop, and
grow.
b. Photosynthesis is the process by which a plant uses the energy of sunlight
and certain chemicals to produce its own food. Oxygen is often a
by-product of photosynthesis.
c. Herbivores are organisms that eat plants exclusively.
d. Carnivores are organisms that eat only organisms other than plants.
e. Omnivores are organisms that eat both plants and other organisms.
f. Producers are organisms that produce their own food.
g. Consumers are organisms that eat living producers and/or other consumers for
food.
h. Decomposers are organisms that breaks down the dead remains of other
organisms.
i. Autotrophs are organisms that are able to make their own food.
j. Heterotrophs are organisms that depend on other organisms for food.
k. Receptors are special structures or chemicals that allow living organisms to
sense the conditions of their surroundings.
l. Asexual reproduction is reproduction accomplished by a single organism.
m. Sexual reproduction is reproduction that requires two organisms, a male and
a female.
n. Inheritance is the process by which physical and biological characteristics
are transmitted from the parent (or parents) to the offspring.
o. A mutation is an abrupt and marked difference between offspring and parent.
p. A hypothesis is an educated guess that attempts to explain an observation or
answer a question.
q. A theory is hypothesis that has been tested with a significant amount of
data.
r. A scientific Law is a theory that has been tested by and is consistent with
generations of data.
s. Microorganism is a living creature that is too small to see with the naked
eye.
t. Abiogenesis is the theory that, long ago, very simple life forms
spontaneously appeared through random chemical reactions.
u. A prokaryotic cell is a cell that has no distinct, membrane-bound
organelles.
v. A eukaryotic cell is a cell with distinct, membrane-bound organelles.
w. Species are a unit of one or more populations of individuals that can
reproduce under normal conditions, produce fertile offspring, and are
reproductively isolated from other such units.
x. Binomial nomenclature is naming an organism with its genus and species name.
y. Taxonomy is the science of classifying organisms.
2. The four criteria for life: (1) All life forms contain
deoxyribonucleic acid, which is called
3. The carnivore is a heterotroph and a consumer. Carnivores do not eat
plants.
4. If a living organism's tentacles were cut off in an accident,
it would not be able to survive long because it no longer has the ability to
sense and respond to changes in its surrounding environment. Its
receptors (tentacles) were destroyed and therefore no longer able to sense the
conditions of the environment.
5. The parent and off springs will
reproduce sexually.
6. The statement is wrong because science cannot prove anything.
The best science can say is that all known data support a given statement.
7. The scientific method represents the best conclusions that
science has to offer, but they are nevertheless not completely reliable. The
scientific method cannot be proven and is limited. The scientific method starts
out with a person making observations. Observation allows the scientist to
collect data. Once enough data has been collected, the scientist forms a
hypothesis to explain those observations or to answer a question. The person
(often with the help of others) then designs experiments to test the
hypothesis. After the hypothesis has been tested by a significant amount of
data and is consistent with all of it, then it becomes theory. After more
testing with generations of data, the theory could become a scientific law.
8. The story of spontaneous generation illustrates the
limitations of science because it proves that scientific laws are not 100%
reliable. Because it is impossible to fully test a scientific law, and because
laws are tested by experiments that might be flawed, scientific laws are not
necessarily true. All 1900 years of executing the scientific method resulted in
a law that was clearly wrong. Thus, putting too much faith in scientific laws
and theories will end up getting you in trouble, because many of the laws and
theories in science today will eventually be shown to be wrong.
9. A wise person should place his/her faith in the Bible because it is %100
reliable and infallible.
10. The theory of abiogenesis is another example of the idea of spontaneous
generation. Abiogenesis is a theory that states that life sprang from
non-living chemicals eons. If you look at the track record of spontaneous
generation throughout the course of human history, it is safe to conclude that
at some point, the version of spontaneous generation known as abiogenesis will
also be shown to be quite wrong. We now know that this law is wrong.
11. The classification groups in order are: Kingdom, Phylum,
Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species.
12. This organism belongs to the kingdom Animalia.
13. This organism belongs to kingdom Monera.
14. 1. macroscopic, proceed to key 3
3. heterotrophic, proceed to key 5
5. decomposer, kingdom Fungi
D. Informal Laboratory Report
format
The
experiments in this course are designed to be done as you are reading the text.
I recommend that you keep a notebook of these experiments. This notebook serves
two purposes. First, as you write about the experiment in the notebook, you will
be forced to think through all of the concepts that were explored in the
experiment. This will help you cement them into your mind. Second, certain
colleges might actually ask for some evidence that you did, indeed, have a
laboratory component to your physical science course. The notebook will not
only provide such evidence but will also show the college administrator the
quality of your physical science instruction. I recommend that you perform the
experiments in the following way:
·
When
you get to an experiment, read through it in its entirety. This will allow you
to gain a quick understanding of what you are to do.
·
Once
you have read the experiment, start a new page in your laboratory notebook. The
first page should be used to write down all of the data taken during the
experiment. What do I mean by “data”? Any observations or measurements you make
during the experiment are considered data. Thus, if you see an organism during
an experiment, you need to either describe it or draw it. If you measure the length
of something during the experiment, that is part of the experiment's data and
should be written down. In addition, any data analysis that you are asked to do
as a part of the experiment should be done on this page.
·
When
you have finished the experiment and any necessary analysis, write a brief
report in your notebook, right after the page where the data and calculations
were written. The report should be a brief discussion of what was done and what
was learned. You should not write a step-by-step procedure. Instead, write a
brief summary that will allow someone who has never read the text to understand
what you did and what you learned.
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PLEASE
OBSERVE COMMON SENSE SAFETY PRECAUTIONS! The experiments in this course are no more dangerous than most normal,
household activity. Remember, however, that the vast majority of accidents do
happen in the home. Chemicals used in the experiments should never be
ingested; hot beakers and flames should be regarded with care; and all
experiments should be performed while wearing eye protection such as safety
glasses or goggles. |
E. Formal Laboratory
Report Format
Standard six-step, typewritten formal laboratory write-up should
include the following: (You do not have
to follow this format for your penciled, handwritten, laboratory notebook. There is information on how to prepare an
informal lab notebook report included above.)
You are required to produce one formal report per quarter. I will allow your student to revise the first
two while they learn, but the last two will be graded as received.
Name
Date
Title of the Experiment
A. Purpose
You must tell what the experiment is about and what area it will
test. Background on the area is
expected. (In other words, provide
details about what is being experimented on.)
You must use your textbook and two outside resources preparing your
report background. You must also include a statement of what the
experiment hope to show and why this topic is of interest. You must also include a hypothesis statement
in the standard “If, then” format for scientific research work. First person pronouns are not used in
scientific writing.
B. Equipment
Provide a complete list of equipment necessary to conduct the experiment. Equipment should be listed in a 1, 2, 3, 4,
5, etc., fashion down the page.
C. Procedure
Provide a complete list of the procedure used. Procedure should be
written in a cookbook fashion and be numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc., fashion down
the page.
D. Observations
Provide a detailed, objective report of observations -- what was seen, heard,
felt, tasted, smelled -- when the experiment was performed. Charts and
graphs which provide detail are encouraged, but these do not take the place of
the narrative observations.
E. Conclusions
Provide analysis of the experiment: try to explain what was seen, heard, felt,
tasted, or smelled while the experiment was happening. Be sure to provide ways that the experiment
could be improved if the experiment was done again and any ideas for further
research the experiment might have generated.
Note: there are ALWAYS ways to improve how an experiment is done and
ideas further research generated.
F. Bibliography
If you seek help from someone or quote facts from a book,
internet source, or other media you should include them in bibliography in
using the format I provide. You are required
to research two outside resources other than your textbook and use them in the
background of your report. Additionally,
you must cite your textbook and me as a “class source” or “personal interview”
on every lab report.
The completed Word document of the formal experiment report
should be printed and saved to your student’s notebook. The completed and spell-checked Experiment
Report is then copy/pasted into the assignment template on the Student Portal submission site. An example of a completed Physical Science
experiment follows. Please note -- I expect you as incoming
physical science students to be able to produce a quality lab report similar to
the one below:
Christie W.
09/21/08
Atoms and Molecules
A. Purpose: The purpose
of this experiment is to allow the experiment to gain a greater understanding
of how atoms and molecules bond and break. This will be accomplished through
the viewing of the reaction between electricity and water containing baking
soda.
An atom is the smallest particle that comprises a chemical
element. An atom consists of an electron cloud that surrounds a dense nucleus.
This nucleus contains positively charged protons and electrically neutral
neutrons, whereas the surrounding cloud is made up of negatively charged
electrons. When the number of protons in the nucleus equals the number of
electrons, the atom is electrically neutral; otherwise it is an ion and has a
net positive or negative charge. An atom is classified according to its number
of protons and neutrons: the number of protons determines the chemical element
and the number of neutrons determines the isotope of that element. The concept
of the atom as an indivisible component of matter was first proposed by early
Indian and Greek philosophers. In the 17th and 18th centuries, chemists
provided a physical basis for this idea by showing that certain substances could
not be further broken down by chemical methods. During the late 19th and the
early 20th centuries, physicists discovered subatomic components and structure
inside the atom, thereby demonstrating that the 'atom' was not indivisible. The
principles of quantum mechanics were used to successfully model the atom.
Relative to everyday experience, atoms are minuscule objects
with proportionately tiny masses. More than 99.9% of an atom's mass is
concentrated in the nucleus, with protons and neutrons having about equal mass.
In atoms with too many or too few neutrons relative to the number of protons,
the nucleus is unstable and subject to radioactive decay. The electrons
surrounding the nucleus occupy a set of stable energy levels, or orbitals, and
they can transition between these states by the absorption or emission of
photons that match the energy differences between the levels. The electrons
determine the chemical properties of an element, and strongly influence an
atom's magnetic properties. (Wikipedia)
A molecule is the smallest unit of a substance that shows all
the chemical properties of that substance. A molecule is a group of atoms that
are bound tightly together by strong chemical bonds called covalent bonds.
Every molecule has a definite size. If a molecule is broken up into its atoms
or into smaller groups of atoms by chemical processes, these pieces will not
behave like the original molecule. A molecule can contain atoms of the same
element or atoms of different elements. A substance made up of molecules that
include two or more different chemical elements is called a molecular compound.
An example of a molecular compound is water. Water is made of molecules that
contain two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. See also Atom.
Many substances on Earth are made of
molecules. Millions of molecules join together to make up the cells in humans
or in any other plant or animal. The food we eat, the air we breathe, the
clothes we wear, and the wood, paint, and carpeting that we use in homes are
all made of molecules. Millions of different molecules exist in nature or can
be made by chemists. The nature of each molecule depends on the atoms that it
contains and how they link to each other. For example, the oxygen that animals
require is made of molecules that have two oxygen atoms bound together. If one
oxygen atom binds to a carbon atom, the molecule is instead the poisonous gas
carbon monoxide.
Scientists study molecules and their
structures so they can better understand why substances behave the way they do.
For example, molecular structure helps explain why water boils at a high
temperature. Scientists and manufacturers also use their knowledge of molecules
and molecular structures to make substances with desirable properties.
Plastics, for instance, are laboratory-made substances that consist of enormous
molecules containing thousands of atoms. By manipulating the molecular
structure of plastics, chemists have created materials that stretch better,
resist fading, or can be used in microwave ovens without melting. Similarly,
pharmaceutical chemists use their knowledge of molecular structure to develop
new drugs that more effectively ease pain or fight disease. The discovery of
the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), the molecule that contains the genetic
blueprint for living organisms, opened the door to tremendous advances in
medicine and industry. Knowledge of the structure of DNA has enabled physicians
to understand and treat certain genetic diseases (MSN Encarta). Thus, molecules
compose a very important branch of scientific study.
This experiment hopes to show, through the reaction of
electricity and water containing baking soda, that molecules and atoms exist
and can be viewed breaking and bonding in a home setting, providing the
experimenter with knowledge concerning the nature of both atoms and molecules.
Atoms and molecules comprise a vast area of scientific research,
and therefore prove to be very important to study, in that most all of creation
hangs on these two elements. The understanding of these elements, then, is
indispensable, for scientists cannot hope to greatly understand our world if a
comprehension of atoms and molecules is not gained.
Hypothesis: If baking soda is placed in the cup of water and the
wire and battery successfully conduct electricity into it, and the molecules in
the water break down into hydrogen and oxygen, then bubbles will be seen rising
from the ends of the wires, and a greater understanding of molecules and atoms will
be gleaned by the experimenter.
B. Equipment:
1. A small cup or glass
2. Tap water
3. Baking soda
4. A 9-volt battery
(Cannot be an electrical outlet or a flashlight battery)
5. Two 9-inch pieces of
insulated copper wire
6. Scissors
7. Electrical tape
(Masking tape will work too, but not as well)
8. A stirring spoon
9. Eye protection
C. Procedure:
1. Fill the small glass ¾
full of tap water
2. Add a teaspoon of
baking soda and stir vigorously
3. Use scissors to strip
about a quarter of an inch of insulation off of both ends of the wire. The best
way to do this is to squeeze the scissors around the wire just until the
resistance from the wire is felt, then stop squeezing. Do this while several
times while rotating the wire after every cut. This will produce the desired
results. Make sure that there is at least ¼ inch of wire sticking out both
ends.
4. Connect the exposed
end of one wire to one of the two terminals on the battery. Do this by laying
the wire over the terminal and then pressing it down. Secure it to the terminal
with a piece of tape. It need not look pretty, but the bare wire needs to be
solidly touching one terminal and not in contact with the other terminal.
5. Repeat step four with the other wire and the other battery terminal.
Do not allow the bare ends of these wires to touch each other!
6. Immerse the wires in
the baking soda/water solution that is in the small glass so that the bare end
of each wire is completely submerged. It doesn’t matter how much of the
insulated wire is immersed; just make sure that the entire bare end of each
wire is fully submerged. Once again, do not allow the ends to touch each other.
7. Look at the bare ends of the wires as they are submerged in
the baking soda/water solution. If everything is set up right, bubbles should
come up from both ends of the wires. If bubbles are not seen, the cause is most
likely a lack of good contact between the wires and the battery terminals. Try
pressing the ends of the wire hard against the terminals to which they are
taped. If bubbles come from the submerged end of the wire, then the contact
between the wire and the battery was the problem. If not, the battery might be
dead. Try another one.
8. Once things are going
well, spend some time observing what’s going on. Notice that bubbles are
forming on both wires. That’s an important point that should be written down in
the laboratory notebook belonging to the experimenter.
9. Allow the experiment
to run for about ten minutes. After that time, pull the wires out of the
solution and look at the bare ends. One of the wires should not look very
different from when the experiment was started. It might be darker than what is
was, but that should be it. The end of the other wire should be different,
however. Note the color of that wire in lab notebook.
10. If the experiment was
successfully run for ten minutes, the water should be slightly colored
differently. Note this color also.
11. Note which terminal,
positive or negative, the different color wire was attached to. Note this also.
12. Clean up. Disconnect
the wires from the battery, dump out the water, wash glass and sink thoroughly,
and pick up any other mess that might have occurred during experimentation.
D. Observations:
1. The copper wire and
9-volt battery took a very long time to procure, as these two elements are not
common in the experimenter’s household.
2. Once these elements
and the cup of baking soda/water are in place, the experimenter places the
wires on their respective terminals, securing them with electrical tape.
3. The wires are placed
in the water concoction. In doing so the experimenter makes sure that the wire
ends do not come in contact with one another.
4. The experimenter notes
that the wire connected to the negative terminal gives off many tiny bubbles,
while the wire connected to the positive terminal gives off fewer, larger
bubbles.
5. The experimenter
wonders if the end giving off more bubbles will be the end that discolors most
noticeably.
6. Bubbles continue to
pour from both ends as the ten minutes tick by.
7. Even after three
minutes the positive end begins to discolor to green, a sign that the copper is
oxidizing.
8. After the ten minutes
are up, the experimenter removes the wires from the water.
9. The results surprise
the experimenter. Although the negative end gave off more bubbles, the positive
end is the one that changed color.
10. The water did not
discolor noticeably, and the experimenter concludes that this is because the
glass of water contains too much water for the small amount of electricity and
the limited resources to influence the large amount of water contained in the
glass.
11. The wire is examined,
scratched, and then disposed of, and the rest of the mess is put away.
E. Conclusions:
The above hypothesis was confirmed, in that the baking soda was
placed in the cup of water and the wire and battery successfully conducted
electricity into it, and the molecules in the water broke down into hydrogen and
oxygen, and as a result bubbles were seen rising from the ends of the wires,
and a greater understanding of molecules and atoms was gleaned by the
experimenter. In the experiment, the copper wire that was used is actually
billions of copper molecules that have been formed into a wire shape. When
these were attached to the battery, electricity began flowing through the wires
because the wires conduct electricity. Then, when the ends were placed in the
water, the electricity began to break the water molecules down into hydrogen
and oxygen, which then began to bubble up to the surface of the water. The
reason that the end of the wire connected to the positive end turned
greenish-blue is because the copper atoms in the wire interacted with the
carbon molecules in the baking soda and the water molecules, creating a copper
hydroxycarbonate.
This experiment could have been improved by using a smaller
amount of water, as there was too much used in this experiment. This will allow
for the discoloration due to the chemical reactions to be better viewed and
understood. Using a smaller glass would fix this problem.
Ideas for further research were generated by the discoloration
of one end of the wire. It would be interesting to note exactly why the
positive end was discolored while the other end stayed the copper color. This
could be achieved by looking into the many resources available on this topic.
F. Bibliography:
"Molecule," Microsoft® Encarta® Online Encyclopedia
2008
© 1997-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
Domain: http://encarta.msn.com/
Document:
encyclopedia_761563983/Molecule.html
Rosenoff, Steven.
Classroom Lecture. October 12,
2008
Wikipedia contributors, "Atom," Wikipedia, The Free
Encyclopedia
Domain:
http://en.wikipedia.org/
Document: wiki/Atom
Wile, Dr. Jay L. Exploring Creation with Physical Science, 2nd
Edition. Apologia Educational Ministries, Inc. 2007
An example of lab report grading criteria follows:
A. Purpose
(10 points possible) (10 points earned)
You must include the following five
paragraphs (minimum) and present them in this sequence:
Para 1 - What the
experiment is about: the objective
Para 2 - Background information on the experiment from your textbook and two
other sources. You may need more than one paragraph here, which is okay
Para 3 - What the experiment hopes to show
Para 4 - Why this topic is of interest to science
Para 5 - A hypothesis statement in the proper "If, then" format
SUPERIOR (I will include comments in all capitals
here. Please note: I am not shouting at your student! I am simply trying to set my comments apart
from the template information. Remember:
no personal pronouns can be used in your lab report!)
B. Equipment (5 points possible) (5 points
earned)
You may copy/paste this from the online
textbook, but you must make the following changes to the textbook list:
1. Provide
a complete list of equipment necessary to conduct the experiment. If you
substituted or changed anything, please list it here also.
2. Equipment should be listed in a 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc., fashion down the
page; not in the A, B, C, D, etc., fashion used in your textbook.
PERFECT.
C. Procedure (5 points possible) (5 points earned)
You may
copy/paste this from the online textbook, but you must make the following
changes to the textbook list:
1. Provide
a complete list of the procedure used. If you change any, be sure to note
it.
2. Procedures should be written in a cookbook fashion
3. Procedures must be numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc., down the page, use a,
b, c, d, etc. for sub-items
PERFECT.
D. Observations (10 points
possible) (10 points earned)
1. Provide
a detailed, objective report of observations -- what you saw, heard, felt,
tasted, smelled, etc -- when the experiment was performed. (Charts and
graphs which provide detail are encouraged. These MUST be e-mailed as an
attachment to me as stated in your assignment guidelines.) A numbered
list of observations works well here: a well-detailed list may be as many as 10
observations or more long. You can also provide me with a narrative of
your observations in paragraph form if you desire.
GREAT
E. Conclusions (10 points possible) (10 points earned)
You must include:
1. An analysis of the data
2. Ways to improve the experiment
3. Ideas the experiment generated for further research
OUTSTANDING.
F. Bibliography (10 points possible) (10 points earned)
You must include the following four
citations in alphabetical order:
Cit 1 - A
reference for me as a class lecture or interview note in proper format as given
in examples
Cit 2 - A reference for your textbook in proper format as given in examples
Cit 3 - A reference for your first outside resource
Cit 4 - A reference for your second outside resource
WONDERFUL BIBLIOGRAPHY
ASSIGNMENT GRADE: 50/50 100% Excellent.
As per stated policy, any assignment submitted is assumed to be supervised
and proctored by the student's parent.
F. Laboratory Notebook
Requirements
Please note: If you live in
cold weather environments, you should plan for collection or completion of some
labs that can only be done during warm weather when these conditions
exist. You may need to accomplish some
experiments when weather permits before
the due date, which may require you to complete these experiment during summer. Experiments 2.3 and 15.1 requires a sunny window, Experiments
7.1 and 8.2 are weather observation labs, 11.3 requires lots of space outside,
and 14.4 requires outside activity.
Students should keep hard printed copies of all their work (labs,
study guides, tests, etc.), not just computer saved work. I would divide the notebook into sixteen
sections, one for each Module of the Wile’s text. Doing so will allow the student to keep a
good portfolio of their class assignments should they be asked to demonstrate
their work at some later date. Please note, I do not maintain copies of a
student's work beyond the end of the school year. I will maintain a copy
of a student's final semester grades for seven years beyond the end of our
class together. Please note that some
of the experiments require long periods of time to complete. As I do not set the lab schedule in your home
school, you will need to look ahead and adjust your lab time accordingly. I require a Parent Report Summary to be submitted
at the end of first and second semesters which states how many of the required
experiments have been completed by your student. The
student should have the following completed and in his or her notebook for each
semester listed:
First Semester:
Experiment 1.1
Experiment 1.2
Experiment 1.3
Experiment 2.1
Experiment 2.2
Experiment 2.3
Experiment 3.1 – Formal Report Required
Experiment 3.2
Experiment 4.1
Experiment 4.2
Experiment 4.3
Experiment 4.4
Experiment 4.5
Experiment 4.6
Experiment 5.1
Experiment 5.2
Experiment 5.3
Experiment 6.1
Experiment 6.2
Experiment 6.3
Experiment 6.4
Experiment 7.1 – Formal Report Required
Experiment 8.1
Experiment 8.2
Parent Experiment Summary -- Due 1/28/2011
Second Semester:
Experiment 9.1
Experiment 9.2
Experiment 9.3
Experiment 10.1
Experiment 10.2
Experiment 10.3
Experiment 10.4
Experiment 11.1 – Formal Report Required
Experiment 11.2
Experiment 11.3
Experiment 12.1
Experiment 12.2
Experiment 12.3
Experiment 14.1 – Formal Report Required
Experiment 14.2
Experiment 14.3
Experiment 14.4
Experiment 14.5
Experiment 15.1
Experiment 15.2
Experiment 15.3
Experiment 15.4
Experiment 15.5
No assigned lab work due for Module 16.
Parent Experiment Summary -- Due
05/27/2011
G.
Module Tests and Exams
Module Tests and Semester Exams are taken online through the Student Portal site. Module Tests and Semester Exams
All Module Test assignments must be completed within 60 minutes
of logging onto the Student
Portal site. Semester exams must be completed within 90
minutes. After 60 or 90 minutes,
depending on the assignment, Student
Portal WILL DISCONNECT
YOU
