Ready-To-Use Physical Science Activities for Grades 5-12

by Handwerker, Mark J.

• ISBN13: 9780130291134
• ISBN10: 0130291137
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-07-01
• Publisher: Pearson P T R

Summary

A series designed to help educators teach scientific concepts and develop students' appreciation and understanding of the work done by generations of curious scientists. All books in the series emphasize the "process" of science and offer a variety of exciting hands-on experiences that relate science to students' everyday lives.Each volume provides 15 uniformly formatted teaching units covering 15 major topics in particular areas of science. Each ready-to-use unit contains: -- A Teacher's Classwork Agenda for the Week and Content Notes for Lecture and Discussion -- A reproducible Fact Sheet to introduce students to important content vocabulary and concepts in that unit -- Four 40-to-50 minute Lesson Plans -- Four reproducible Journal Sheets for student use in taking notes and recording lab activity data -- A reproducible 15-minute Review QuizThe complete library includes 300 tested lessons and over 600 reproducible fact sheets, worksheets, homework assignments, and review quizzes organized into five volumes.

Table of Contents

About This Resource	iii
Suggestions for Using These Science Teaching Units	v
Using the Scientific Method	1	(14)
Studying Populations: Means, Medians, and Modes	15	(14)
Measuring in Metric	29	(14)
Micro to Macro: Introduction to Scientific Notation	43	(14)
Measuring Length, Area, and Volume	57	(14)
Measuring Mass, Volume, and Density	71	(14)
Speed, Velocity, and Acceleration	85	(14)
Sir Isaac Newton and the Laws of Motion	99	(14)
Galileo, Newton, and the Law of Gravity	113	(14)
Archimedes and Bernoulli: Fluid Pressure	127	(14)
Force, Work, and Simple Machines	141	(14)
Machine Efficiency and Power	155	(14)
Energy	169	(14)
Electromagnetism	183	(14)
Static and Current Electricity	197	(14)
APPENDIX	211
Extra Journal Sheet	213
Grade Roster	214
How to Calculate Your Grade Point Average	215
Using Current Events to Integrate Science Instruction Across Content Areas	216