Galva High School and Stark County High School
Integrated Science Curriculum
Year 2: Theme - Fantastic VoyagesVIII. Motion Unit (SI, Chs. 23, 24)
A. The physics of motion
B. Structures of birds and planes
- Velocity & acceleration
- Lecture: Velocity & acceleration
- Activity: "Speed & acceleration" (MPS, pp. 13-16)
- Minilab: "What does acceleration feel like?" (SI, p. 701)
- Investigation: "Propelling a cart" (SI, p. 704)
- Types of force
- Lab: "The ball drop" (HOGSA, p. 76)
- Minilab: "What's the weight?" (SI, p. 713)
- Activity: "Congressional friction" (handout)
- Newton's Laws of Motion
- Lecture: Newton's laws
- Demos: Newton's laws
- Investigation: "Propelling a cart" (SI, p. 704)
- Forces of flight
- Lecture: Lift, thrust, drag, & gravity
- Minilab: "How can you get a lift? (SI, p. 718)
- Investigation 1: "Take-off" (SL, p. 9.2)
- dInvestigation 2: "Forces of flight" (SL, p. 9.9)
- Lab: "How can forces cause motion?" (SI, p. 163)
- Investigation: "How does air drag depend on the falling object?" (SI, p. 716)
- Flight - Putting it all together
- Minilab: "How can you control the flight of a paper airplane?" (SI, p. 740)
- Activity: Control surfaces (handout)
- Activity: Airplane models - balsa wood airplanes (handout)
C. Flight in plants
- Minilab: "What are some adaptations of birds?" (SI, p. 733)
- Activity: "Observing the characteristics of feathers" (handout)
- Lab 39: "Comparing bird bones and mammal bones" (SI Lab)
- Minilab: "What are some flying styles of birds?" (SI, p. 747)
- Investigation 3: "Lightening the load" (SL, p. 9.17)
D. Physics of space flight
- Minilab: "Make your own maple seed" (SI, p. 754)
- Investigation: "How can seeds use flight to disperse?" (SI, p. 756)
E. Performance assessment: Design your own spacecraft
- Electromagnetic spectrum
- Lecture: Electromagnetic spectrum
- Minilab: "What information can you get from space?" (SI, p. 765)
- Demo: "Electromagnetic receiver" (MP, p. 544)
- Activity/Demo: "Catching the . . ." (MP, p. 548)
- Demo: "Remote control emissions" (GP, p. 616)
- Demo: "Soda can receiver/detector" (GP, p. 622)
- Demo: Global positioning system
- Rocket power
- Minilab: "The balloon rocket" (SI, p. 780)
- Investigation: "How does the rocket nozzle affect its . . . ?" (SI, p. 786)
- Activity: Two-stage model rockets
- Activity: Space exploration debate