Updated Oct 13 2009

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Week One Sept 8 to 11 / Feb 1 to 8

• Opening comments with introduction to Website and navigation; a must for every student.
• Introduction to course material, expectations, assessment and evaluation techniques. Hand out page & on the web site (see ROE)
• Chemistry notes may be found at for all the note references listed below!
• Review of grade nine: Atomic theory:  Note #1 and #
  1. Proton, electron, & neutron
  2. Isotopic nomenclature of the elements Note to be found at
  3. Determining the number of neutrons in the nucleus
  4. Bohr structure of the electron shells
  5. Introduction to ions, how there are formed
  6. Rows, periods, families grouping of the periodic table
  7. For a note on the above topics
     Just click on the beaker to go to the note
• Identifying laboratory equipment used in chemistry
• Two useful notes may be found at
  
  1. Mixtures and Compounds  
  2. Properties of Matter  
• Physical and chemical changes and properties; worksheets.   Note #3
  Examples looked at: viscocity and ductility (physical)
  i) Methane + oxygen,    ii) green strip    aluminum + sulfur (chemical)
• Classifying of compounds or chemicals
• Chemicals: how to describe and reasons for studying chemistry Two exercises to be completed, click on the green beaker above and its the fourth and fifth note.
• Matter Work Sheet  Note # 5 Hand in on Monday
• Household Chemicals as found in various locations in the household. Introduction to hazard symbols  Note # 8
• Sample multiple choice quiz for you to try.

Week Two Sept 14 to 18 / Feb 11 to 15

• Test near the end of the week, Friday; physical chemical changes and experiment observations.
• What to look for in a chemical reaction. See note #9
• Physical and chemical properties and reactions and Lab experiments to show physical chemical reactions (For proper lab behavior see ROE  Laboratory Rules at the bottom of the page.)
  1. copper sulfate in water
  2. magnesium and vinegar (page 71)
  3. reaction of sucrose and fructose with Benedict's solution. Which one is chemical?
  4. reaction of aluminum metal and calcium metal with water. Which one is chemical?
  5. hydrogen and oxygen
  Worksheet for this lab at  Note # 7.    Should be done on Tuesday
  Lab report to be haned in (comm & inq marks)

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• Periodic table: metals nonmetals, losers and gainers
• Chemical families based on columns; four that you should know
  alkali metals, alkaline earth metals, halogens & noble or inert gases
  How this ties in with valence numbers.
  This was done as a board note followed by a worksheet with answers on the Answer Page at . Make sure you select the corresponding answer set.
• Introduction to valence numbers and reading them off the periodic table See note # 10
• MSDS project; to be handed in next Wednesday. Internet project with each student being assigned a compound to research.

Week Three Sept 21 to Sept 25 / Feb 18 to 22

• Chemical nomenclature: binary compounds
  Developing the concept of criss crossing valence values.
• Criss-crossing valence values to write the proper formula for an ionic univalent compound; worksheet given out.
• Uni & divalent elements.
• Quiz on binary compounds this week. Friday
• Uni & divalent elements.
• divalent atoms and how to use in nomenclature, use of Roman numerals
  Work sheets given out with answers on the Net
• Nobel gases and diatomic gases
• Testing for gases, a lab activity;   Worksheet with questions. Types of reactions and chemical safety. Hand in Thursday.
  1. hydrogen
  2. oxygen
  3. carbon dioxide
  4. water vapour
  comparisons made to methane
• MSDS project to be handed in this Wednesday
• Making a molecular compound in the lab: carbon (charcoal) is burned in air and the gas is collected and tested with limewater.
• Introduction to molecular compounds; two non-metals joining together by sharing electrons
  Diatomic gases and prefix method of naming non-metal molecular compounds.
• Quiz at the end of the week

Week Four Sept 28 to Oct 2 / Feb 25 to Feb 29

• Law of Concervation of Mass: reaction of coper wire (coiled) with a solution of silver nitrate
  A single displacement reation. Handed in immediately on completion.
• Introduction to balaancing equation using Duplo blocks & beam balance.
• Introduction to chemical reactions
  Key terms: reactant, product, endothermic, exothermic, synthesis, decomposition, combustion, single and double displacement, catalyst
  gas or precipitate forms usually means a reaction has occured, either a single or double replacement.
• Five types of reactions: Duplo demonstation.
  Chemical reaction types; 5 of them
  1. Synthesis
  2. Decomposition
  3. Single displacement
  4. Double displacement
  5. Combustion
• Word to skeleton to balanced.
• Work sheets on balancing & reaction types ; test on Friday
• Chemical equations: word, skeleton, and balanced
  Why equations are to be balanced, recognizing when an equation is balanced, and how to balance
• Test on Friday: Language of chemical equations, balancing equations, reaction types, & the experiments done this week

Week Five Oct 5 to Oct 9 / March 3 to March 6

• Text book questions
• Lab done to look at the different types of chemical reactions
  observations, balanced equations and reaction types are required
  • magnesium + oxygen
  • hydrogen & oxygen
  • heating potassium chlorate (gas test)
  • barium nitrate + sodium sulfate
  • an iron nail in blue copper sulfate solution
  • zinc added to concentrates hydrochloric acid (gas test)
  • vinegar (acetic acid) is added to baking soda (sodium hydrogen carbonate) (gas test - limewater)
• A quick look at rates of reactions. Several work sheets were handed out. Four factors that affect rates of reaction.
• Reaction rate experiment: sodium thiosulfate reacts with hydrochloric acid. The reaction is timed at different temperatures. A graph was plotted, an inverse expontential curve
• Introduction to acids & bases; the three theories; the first one is the one you must know!
• A look at acid and bases: (last topic in this unit) you are to make short note: propeties chemical and physical
• Indicators in the lab: a look at bromthymol blue, methyl orange, and phenolphthalien and limtmus & pH paper
  The pH scale
• A neutralization lab: 0.1 M NaOH with 0.1 M HCl with phenolthalein as the indicator.
• Work sheets given out on acids and bases.

Week Six Oct 12 to 16 / March 10 to March 14

• How acids and bases are chemically produced
  1. A metal (magnesium) is reacted with oxygen producing an oxide. The oxide is dissolve in water producing a base. Tested with bromthymol blue
  2. A nonmetal (sulfur)is reacted with oxygen and the gas produced (a nonmetallic oxide) is dissolved in water producing an acid. Tested with bromthymol blue.
• A note and explination of pH and hydrogen ion concentration
  
• Review for Thursday'stest
  Unit One Chemistry test, Acid & Bases will be emphasised.
  Want to know what is on this test? Just look at what has been covered; its all there! or for a quick review
• Start of the second Unit Ecology this week

  The Biology Unit: Ecology

  

  This unit will make extensive use of the text book.
  

• Introduction to Ecology
• Introductions to the terms and concepts of ecology. To assist in your studies a series of notes, slide show and web diagrams are made available for your viewing. Just click on this link

Week Seven Oct 19 to 23 / April 21 to April 25

• Introduction to Ecology Friday. Many new terms will be introduced in this unit. Your glossary or dictionary may be viewed at Just click on the birdnest.
  Or for the ministry glossary of science terms Click Here
• Monday's note is an intoduction to the study of ecology
  Terms introduce: biosphere, ecology, ecosystem, communities, populations, biotic, abiotic, and most importantly levels of biological organization
• Tuesday: Notes on interpersonal relationships, survival, populations, habitat, niche. Hand out note on characteristics of ecosystems with work sheets.
• Wednesday: Feeding relationships between predator-prey and parisite-host.
  Bird and animal project assigned; due next Wednesday
• Thursday: Food chains and food webs
  Ecology terms puzzle
  Several group projects will be completed; endangered species, food chain, and biome study.
  Emphasis will be placed on maintaining a note book.
  • Parents night this week Thursday PD Friday Students may work on project if research material is present.
  • Note on energy flow and a food web
  • Terms: autotrophs, heterotrophs, deutritivores (detritivores), trophic levels, biomass,
  • A look at food pyramids
  • Note on Survial
  • Bioamplification; concentration of toxic substance as you go up a food chain
  • Working with food webs
  • Trophic Levels: a worksheet
  • Web of Life, the video & worksheet

  Week Eight Oct 26 to Oct 30/ April 28 to May 2

  • Quiz on building &/or using food webs/chains; Relationships in Ecosystems, a Pre-Test, Test to follow.
  • Start of the Biome project; 11 groups studying these biomes
    1. tundra
    2. boreal forest
    3. grassland
    4. temperate deciduous forest
    5. Great Lakes
    6. East coast aquatic biome
    7. West coast aquatic biome
    8. Desert
    9. Mountain Alpine
    
    Biome project outlines may be found at

  • Map to colour on North American biomes.
  • Candian biomes and Land Environments
  • Cycles in Nature: Overhead diagram & Internet notes
    
    

  • Classification of Communities worksheet
  • Worksheet on the cycles: water carbon and nitogen with a summative worksheet called "Cycles"

  Week Nine Nov 2 to Nov 6 / May 5 to May 9

  • Case study: Pesticides & Should we Interfere with Natural Cycles?
  • Quiz Tuesday on Last two days work: The Cycles and Pesticides.
  • Note making on Populations
    Drawing a population histogram
  • Quiz on populations: Monitoring Changes in Population and Limits of Population
  • Biome project is due on Friday of this week, not to be handed in but checked for details. LI>Introduction to soils and soil types; here's a diagram that outlines soil horizons: a board copied note.
  • Tuesday and Wednesday in library to do research on your assigned biome
  • Soil discussion with copied notes

  Week Ten Nov 9 to Nov 13 / May 12 to 16

  • Start of Biome presentation Make sure you read the marking rubrics.
  • Quiz on soils with HW quiz to follow
  • Acid rain and deposition. Text book. Quiz to follow
  • Text book use & Hand out: Endanger Species and Extinction
    Page 15 #1, 2         Page 19 #1, 2, 3
  • Introduction to weather; Canada's climate & "What do you Know about Weather"

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  Week Eleven Nov 16 to 20 / May 20 to 23

  Climate

  
  • Eco notebooks due this week, lates will NOT be accepted!
  • Final late biome projects due this week
  • Difference between climate and weather
  • Components of weather analysis
  • Source of all the Earth's energy ---> the sun and how this energy is dispersed throughout the Earth
    Reflection and absorption of energy, new terms: heat sink and albedo
  • Heat transfer: Radiation, convection and conduction
    
  • Experiments to show convection in fluids (gases and liquids) and conduction in solids.
  • Using a heat lamp as a source of radiation, the black can was heated to a higher temperature in a fixed time frame, over the silver can.
    Black, a darker colour radiates heat faster than the silver colour, why? the air inside the can became hotter faster.
  • Energy per unit area; why its cold in the winter
  • Layers of the atmosphere

  Week Twelve Nov 23 to Nov 27 / May 26 to May 30

  • Collection of weather data for your assigned city; marked daily.
  • A page of definitions to be completed.
  • A look at air pressure.
    Factors that affect air pressure with respect to weather
    what does pressure have to with weather?

  Week Thirteen Nov 30 to Dec 4 / June 2 to June 6

  • Several small quizzes this week
  • A discussion of your weather collected data. Couldn't be done, too few did this activity.
  • Cause of winds and air current cells; Hadley, Ferell, and Polar cells
  • The jet stream
  • Types of winds; local and global
  • Cloud study; different types

  The Physics Unit Light, Optics & Color

  

  This unit has mathamatics in it. A calculator and ruler are an absolute must. Protractor for measuring angles is also needed.

  • What can be measured
  • Rounding-off and significant digits;
  • Math skills review
  • Density experiment graphing and slopes. (Density of lead worksheet)

  Week Fourteen Dec 7 to Dec 11 / March 25 to March 28

  • Literacy test this week
  • Outline of four basic concepts of the motion unit:
    1. Slopes positive and negative, rise over run etc.
    2. Solving mathematical equations; make sure you have your formula sheet.
    3. Problem analysis. How to set up & answer properly a motion word problem; see Internet note
    4. Drawing lines and angles. This is the basics of vectors
  • Lego road to show positive and negative motion
  • Plotting graphs and reading information from them; extrapolation and interpolation.
  • Distance - Time graphs worksheet Internet
  • Position - Time worksheet Internet K/U category assessment.
  • Problem solving using my system os scheme of problems analysis, let the problem solve itself. A taught lesson on the board using examples.
  • "Working with Equations" (5 questions). Over the weekend, to be handed in.

  Week Fifteen Dec 14 to 18 / March 31 to April 4

  • "Working with Equations" to be handed in on Monday, answers are on the Internet.
  • Practice Motion Problems, another problem solving exercise.
    Handed in Tuesday.
  • Two motion experiments:
    1. Using a yellow toy bulldozer, motion measurements are collected.
    2. Rolling a ball down the hall, distance and a time is measured.
    
    These are lab reports with subsequent write ups to be handed in.
  • Data is tabulated in a chart, graphs are draw and slopes determined.
  • Watch for homework quizzes this week.
  • Working with distance, time data to determine velocity. Complete discussion of Motion Formula Sheet
  • Working with velocity time data to determine acceleration; what is acceleration?
  • Working with areas under curves; what does the area under a velocity time graph mean?
  • Acceleration work sheets.

  Week Sixteen Jan 4 to Jan 8 / April 7 to April 11

  • Introduction to scalars and vectors. Drawing vector diagrams and using the scaled diagram to solve vector type problems.
    Lego road to intoduce one dimensional vectors, example used was displacement.
  • Difference between distance & displacement.
    Difference between speed and velocity.
  • A protractor and ruler is essential to do this work.
  • Measuring angles and recording them in the proper vector notation derived from compass points.
  • Vector diagrams in two dimensions. Recording magnitude and direction with proper units.
  • Vector addition in two dimensions. Protractor is a must!

  Week Seventeen Jan 11 to Jan 15 / April 14 to 18

  • Assignment from Friday handed in today
  • Vector quizzes, Monday and Tuesday, Wednesday homework quiz from text book questions.
  • Small end of unit test; velocity, acceleration, graphing and vector analysis.

  Week Eighteen Jan 18 to Jan 22 / June 9 to June 13

  This is the last week of lessons. Exams start next week Jan 25 2010
  • Final 10% culminating activity to be handed in this week
    
  • Note on the different types of precipitation.
  • Reading a weather map;
    three different kinds and being able to identifying the weather map symbols.
    
    Your final hand in assignment.
  • Weather test, Wednesday & Thursday.
  • The year in review, done June 16 & 17
  

  Final Culminating Activity

  This assignment is worth 10% of your final mark.

  To view this assignment just follow the clouds

  Your Exam Format for 2P1 Period 1

  There are three sections to this exam
  1. Multiple choice 60 of them
  2. Matching Columns; one for each strand, done on Scantron
  3. Short answers write in space provided, a page or section for each Unit

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  Exam Review in Two Parts

  1. Review #1 from the 2D1 exam review Click Here

  2. Final Exam Review V2 Click Here

  Exams Starts June 18. Your exam is on June 19 Thursday AM
  In room ???