COURSE LEARNING TOOLS

2023-2024 Course Syllabus	The syllabus will tell you what you need to know to be successful.
Assignment Board	Our Assignment Board is where you can find our calendar of learning events.
	We will be using Google Classroom as our Learning Management System (LMS). It will help us to organize our lesson details and e-materials.
	Thrillshare will be used for class announcements and messaging me. Click on the Log in with Google button to use it.
Other Essential Apps	PhET Interactive Simulations App Graphical Analysis Progressive Web App

COURSE COMPETENCIES

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to satisfy the following Wisconsin Standards for Science Disciplinary Core Ideas. (NOTE: Engineering, Technology, and the Application of Science DCI will also be covered, but are not listed in detail.) Our most essential standards are highlighted in bold.

• Standard SCI.PS1: Students use science and engineering practices, crosscutting concepts, and an understanding of matter and its interactions to make sense of phenomena and solve problems.
  • SCI.PS1.A.h, Structures and Properties of Matter
    The sub-atomic structural model and interactions between electric charges at the atomic scale can be used to explain the structure and interactions of matter, including chemical reactions and nuclear processes. Repeating patterns of the periodic table reflect patterns of outer electrons. A stable molecule has less energy than the same set of atoms separated; one must provide at least this energy to take the molecule apart.
  • SCI.PS1.B.h, Chemical Reactions
    Chemical processes are understood in terms of collisions of molecules, rearrangement of atoms, and changes in energy as determined by properties of elements involved.
  • SCI.PS1.C.h, Nuclear Processes
    Nuclear processes, including fusion, fission, and radioactive decays of unstable nuclei, involve release or absorption of energy.
• Standard SCI.PS2: Students use science and engineering practices, crosscutting concepts, and an understanding of forces, interactions, motion and stability to make sense of phenomena and solve problems.
  • SCI.PS2.B.h, Types of Interactions
    Attraction and repulsion between electric charges at the atomic scale explain the structure, properties, and transformations of matter, as well as the contact forces between material objects.
• Standard SCI.PS3: Students use science and engineering practices, crosscutting concepts, and an understanding of energy to make sense of phenomena and solve problems.
  • SCI.PS3.A.h, Definitions of Energy
    Systems move towards more stable states.
  • SCI.PS3.B.h, Conservation of Energy and Energy Transfer
    The total energy within a system is conserved. Energy transfer within and between systems can be described and predicted in terms of energy associated with the motion or configuration of particles (objects).
• Standard SCI.PS4: Students use science and engineering practices, crosscutting concepts, and an understanding of waves and their applications in technologies for information transfer to make sense of phenomena and solve problems.
  • SCI.PS4.A.h, Wave Properties
    The wavelength and frequency of a wave are related to one another by the speed of the wave, which depends on the type of wave and the medium through which it is passing. Waves can be used to transmit information and energy.
  • SCI.PS4.B.h, Electromagnetic Radiation
    Both an electromagnetic wave model and a photon model explain features of electromagnetic radiation broadly and describe common applications of electromagnetic radiation.