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Physical Science Course Description:
8th grade Physical Science is a full-year course that investigates the fundamentals of Physics and Chemistry. Physical science is a branch of natural science that studies non-living systems, in contrast to life science. This course focuses on providing students with hands-on activities connecting with real world experiences to create opportunities for individual and group discovery through cooperative experiential learning, internet research, laboratory investigation and projects-based learning.
Physical Science Course Outline:
Students should expect to find the curriculum rigorous and engaging as the course will include collaborative work, project-based learning. Throughout this school year, students will learn about:
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Force and Motion
- Newton's Law of Motion
- Speed and Velocity
- Acceleration
- Measuring Speed and Velocity
- Friction
- Mass and Weight
- Gravitational Force
- Buoyant Forces
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Kinetic and Potential Energy
- Forms of Energy
- Potential Energy in Systems
- Electromagnetic Forces
- Magnetic Forces
- Electric Forces
- Simple Circuits
- Electromagnetism
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Waves
- Introduction to waves
- Wave properties
- Types of Waves
- Wave Interactions
- Sound Waves
- Light Waves
- Properties of Light Waves
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Matter
- Properties of matter
- Physical Properties
- Calculating volume or regular/irregular objects
- Matter of Density
- Chemical Changes
- The Motion of Particles
- Heat, Temperature, and State Changes
- State of Matter
- Solid, liquids and Gases
- Molecular structure
- Thermal Energy Transfers and conductivity
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Chemical Reactions
- Elements
- Compounds
- Atoms
- Periodic table
- Groups Families
- Introduction to Atomic Bohr Models
- Identifying Chemical Reactions
- Properties changes in chemical reactions
- Atoms and Molecules in Chemical Reactions
- Balancing Chemical Equations
- Introductions to Acid and Bases
- pH balance
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