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Tutorial and pizza at noon ||  || Review ||  || Earthquakes and Volcanoes
 * **Date** || **Activities and notes** || **Homework assigned** ||
 * June 20 || Thursday - 1-4pm ||  ||
 * June 19 || Wednesday - After Math Exam
 * June 14 || Practice Exam for Marks ||  ||
 * June 12 || Review - Teams and Tournaments? Make Cheat Sheet ||  ||
 * June 10 || **Quest -(Small Test)**
 * June 6 || Review for Quest


 * [|From Ministry of Education Website:]**


 * Practice Exams From McGraw Hill:**

|| Homework: Text p538-539 - 2-10, 13-18, 21. 23 || Plates and boundaries Homework: Read TB Section 12.2. Do reading checks p522, 526 Workbook p 218, 219 ||  || (Sorry about the big file) ||  || Free Fall of different objects ||   || Text p 405#2, 3, 7, 9, 10 A) A rock thrown up at 15m/s. How long to reach maximum height? B) A rock thrown up at 20m/s. What is its velocity after 5 seconds? || Use the 'moving man' demo || p396 activity 9-2B p400 #1-6 || graph data from last day || p377 #19, 24 || Quiz Go outside and do constant velocity times || p375#1-3, 6-10, 12, 13 || 8-2B || p370 in text - practice problems || Go over terms: position, constant velocity, uniform motion p355 - Activity 8-1D || Hmwk: Textbook p361 - ALL || Sample writeup template || Hand in lab || Velocity = Dist / Time Design and Perform a Lab To Determine the Speed of Cars (Find Speed of 10 Cars) Start with purpose, hypothesis, procedure inside Create a Chart for Taking observations Space for Calculations Conclusions || Questions on Velocity ||
 * Study Guides - Extra Practice - Don't do all, but choose topics you need help with...**
 * June 4 || Quiz - Boundaries || p537 - All ||
 * May 31 || Take up homework
 * || Geology - Powerpoint Intro, Convection Demo - Small Tank, food colouring, Pangea activity || WB p 210-212 ||
 * || Test ||  ||
 * || Review - Jeopardy?
 * || Gravity, V-t Graphs, Review
 * FYI Marks have changed. Radioactivity tests were entered incorrectly by Mr W. I have re-entered them. ** ||  ||
 * May 16 || Ticker Timer Lab
 * May 14 || Acceleration due to gravity || Do WB p174, 176
 * May 8 || Acceleration - Basics
 * May 2 || Graphing rules, line of best fit,
 * April 30 || Review homework
 * April 26 || **Calculating Slope and Velocity**
 * April 24 || **Motion Sensor demo - Slope, position and qualitative descriptions**
 * April 22 || Perform Car Speed Measurement Lab outside
 * April 18 || **Physics**
 * April 16 || ==**TEST ON CHAPTER 7 (Radioactivity)**==
 * Remember - Bring a cheat sheet!!!! - MAX 1 PAGE**
 * - I will give stickers for competed cheat sheets**


 * When it comes to nuclear reactions you are only allowed one example of each of the following:**
 * Fission
 * Fusion
 * Alpha decay
 * Beta decay
 * Gamma decay

**If you need help, I will be available Monday during lunch and after school in room 406.**
Here are the answers to all the workbook problems of Chapter 7 Below is the review package And here are the answers ||  || Nuclear Power BIll Nye - Nuclear Power || Workbook read p. 137-139 complete p. 142-143 Textbook p. 325 #1-4, 7-10 || Carbon dating Intro Nuclear Power [] || Workbook p. 140-141 Textbook p. 325 #6 || Half-life Half-life Lab || Textbook p. 311 #1-3,6,7,10 Lab 7-2A || Radioactive Decay -Alpha -Beta -Gamma || Workbook p. 123-128 || || No homework!! I hope everyone has a wonderful spring-break!! See you in April :-) ||
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 * April 12 || Review Class
 * April 10 || Nuclear Reactions
 * April 8 || Quiz - Isotopes, Radioactive Decay, Half-life
 * April 4 || Review Homework
 * April 2 || Isotopes - Naming
 * Mar 14 || Radioactivity & Isotopes
 * Mar 12 || ==**TEST ON CHAPTERS 5 & 6**==

**Remember - Bring a cheat sheet!!!! - MAX 1 PAGE BACK AND FRONT**

 * - I will give stickers for competed cheat sheets**


 * I strongly suggest writing out the diatomic elements (** H 2 N 2 O 2 F 2 Cl 2 Br 2 I 2** ) **


 * As before, you are allowed drawings and diagrams, and definitions. **

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 * When it comes to types of reactions you are only allowed one example of each of the following:**
 * Synthesis
 * Decomposition
 * Single Replacement
 * Double Replacement
 * Neutralization
 * Combustion
 * Acid + metal
 * Metal + Oxide
 * Non-metal + Oxide ||  ||
 * Mar 11 || ===**Here is some more review material. This is the answers to the Chapter 5 & 6 review in your textbook (pages 252-253 & 282-283)**===
 * Mar 8 || ==Review Package==

Below are the solutions to the Review Package (including the added questions from 6.1)
||  || Alka Seltzer Competition
 * Mar 6 || Chemical Reaction Rates - What changes a reaction rate?
 * 1) Temperature
 * 2) Surface Area (flour fire demo)
 * 3) Concentration
 * 4) Presence of a catalyst (demo - saved for next day)

|| Workbook p. 116-119 || Lab - Comparing Chemical Reactions || Complete Lab for next day. || Practice problems || Workbook p. 105-110 || Organic Chemistry Chemical model activity || T extbook p.251 #3,4,6,7,11 Workbook p.99-101 || Acids & Metals (hydrogen test demo) Metal/Non-metal Oxides + Water Acids & Carbonates (vinegar + baking soda demo) || QUIZ Next Day Textbook p.243 #1-8 Workbook p.91 #1 & p.94 Complete Worksheet (BLM 2-27) || Workbook p.92-93 || || Textbook p.233 #1, 13-15 Workbook p.87 (#1 & 2) ||
 * Please look over the following notes if you missed the class!!**
 * Mar 4 || Quiz - Types of Reactions
 * Feb 28 || Types of Reactions
 * 1) Synthesis
 * 2) Decomposition
 * 3) Single-Replacement
 * 4) Double-Replacement
 * 5) Neutralization
 * 6) Combustion (demo)
 * Feb 26 || Quiz - Neutralization, Acid/base + Oxide, Acid + metals
 * Feb 22 || Review
 * Feb 20 || Neutralization || Textbook p.243 #9,10
 * Feb 18 || Indicator Lab || Indicator Lab due Wednesday, Feb 20 ||
 * Feb 17 || Acids and Bases - properties and identifying
 * Monday - Short Quiz** on Acid and Bases
 * Feb 11 || ==**Test on Chapter 4 (Chemical Basics)**==

**Remember that you can bring a one page cheat sheet including the following:**

 * **Definitions**
 * **A labelled picture of the features of the periodic table (families, periods, number of shells, number of valence electrons etc)**
 * **A list of all of the diatomic elements (see link below)**
 * [|Have No Fear Of Ice Cold Beer]

**One Example Each of:**
Covalent Molecules Ionic Molecules ||  || Multivalent, polyatomic FeNO3 +KI Bunsen Burners || Practice Problems P190, 191, 193 || Ionic Bonding Naming - simple, || All Practice Problems p187, 188 || Chemical Reactions Valence Shell Ions (and bohr diagrams) Ionic Bonding vs Covalent Bonding Lewis Diagrams (Ionic vs Covalent) ||  || Review periodic table Bohr Diagrams + Modified Bohr Diagrams Calcium Balloon ||  || Here are some practice quizzes for your test. Please let other people in the class know so they can practice too! ||  || ||   || Human influence on ecosystems: Wetlands, bogs, Barry's bog activity? Bill Nye Wetlands || Read Section 3.2 Do two reading checks. || Do Succession Activity in Text Read Thru Text on at a time on Flooding, Tsunamis, Drought, Insect infestations, Read p 120 Text or Workbook ||  || [|Student Video on Succession] [|Mt St Helens 30 Years Later] [|University Lecture on Succession] Notes on other things that change landscapes Activity on Succession from Text ||  || Movie - Galapagos || Write reflections about video: Include words **isolation, change, natural selection, Darwin, Beaks, Shells, Niche, Adaptation, Breeding, Unique Characteristics** || Review video games [|Ed Burtynsky - Manufactured Landscapes] Mr Birsan Video? Game? ||  || Intro to Evolution - What is it? What is mechanism? [|Natural Selection Made Easy] [|Bill Nye Evolution and Life] [|Salamander adaptations in action (intro to activity)] [|Adaptation Game -Change the environment and see what mutations benefit] [|More difficult game where you have to survive changes to environment] [|Cool game from predator's perspective] [|Simulation of you as a scientist watching natural selection in finches] ||  || Take up hmwk Quiz on Nutrient Cycles Notes on Bioaccumulation Game - Have students Make Parts from Activity 2-3A (Spread Stickers Through Class) || workbook p33 p34 || Learn how to use charts for phosphorus cycle Video:[|The Nitrogen cycle]-Video: [|The Phosphorous cycle] - ||  || Brainstorm - What things absorb Carbon and CO2 from atmosphere? What things release CO2 into atmosphere? Video:[|The Carbon Cycle]- Photosynthesis, Cellular respiration Learn How to Use Science 10 Booklets || Workbook p24-26 || Do Activity 2-1B (make energy pyramids) Relate energy to numbers of top predators and vegetarianism Biosphere II intro - Design your own - Present Video [] [] || Read p68-86.Do ALL reading checks on those pages || Simple Food Chain Game Food Web Game - With String Make Energy Flow Posters with handout (circle groups and categorise trophic levels, plus consumer/producer/decomposer categories) Notes and relate energy pyramid to advantages of eating vegetables, photosynthesis esp diagram p63 ||  || Read 2.1 Do reading check p59, p64 Copy diagram on p 61. Add your own organisms. ||  || Show youtube videos: [] [] Come up with ways to support biodiversity || Study for test || Biodiversity Bill nye food web ||  || Ecosystems ppt - Biotic components Relationships, Niches, Competition, Predation (air tight ecosystems, ecosystem field trip?) || **wkbk p 12,13** || Ecosystems ppt - Up to abiotic components || **p10, 11 in workbook** || Quiz on Biomes Read 1.2 || **reading check p 38 and 39** || Presentations || p33 - 1-1 Review questions || Biomes Powerpoint continued - Adaptations Planet earth - overview program || Quiz Workbook p4 || Read textbook p 8-10. Do activity 1-1A - Brainstorm to decide factors affecting location of biomes Biomes Powerpoint || Reading Check p 12, 15 Practice problems p13 || Popsicle Sticks (Safety scenarios) Safety posters ||  || Come up with list of safety rules WHMS review – Why does it exist? Overhead - copy and complete - guess Textbooks - tell about workbooks || Draw one safety rule. Due next class. || Seating plan Intro yourself Interview partner and introduce Course outline Grade 9 vocab guessing game Slide Show Textbooks and covers || None ||
 * **Simple Ionic Naming**
 * **Multivalent Ionic Naming**
 * **Polyatomic Ionic Naming**
 * **Covalent Naming**
 * **A Word Equation**
 * **A Balanced Chemical Equation**
 * **A Bohr Diagram of a neutral atom, negative ion and positive ion**
 * **A Lewis Diagram of a neutral atom, negative ion and positive ion**
 * **A Lewis Diagram of a covalent molecule**
 * **A Lewis Diagram of an ionic compound** ||  ||
 * Feb 7 || ==Solutions To Review Package==
 * [[file:Solutions BLM 2-14.jpg|Review Package Last Page Part 1]]**
 * [[file:Solutions BLM 2-15.jpg|Review Package Last Page Part 2]]** ||  ||
 * Feb 5 ||  || Activity p181 ||
 * Feb 1 || Review Lab, Review Chemical Equations, Covalent Molecules, Conservation of Mass ||  ||
 * Jan 30 || Chemical Equations ||  ||
 * || Burning Splint Test, Glowing Splint, CO2 goes out.
 * || Lab - Determining Ionic Compounds in Solution ||  ||
 * Jan 16 || Magnesium Ribbon Quiz
 * Jan 14 || Quiz
 * Jan 9 || Quiz
 * || Review the atom
 * Jan 7 || Test Chapters 2, 3
 * DATA BOOKLET**
 * Dec 18 || Presentations ||  ||
 * Dec 14 || Review ||  ||
 * Dec 12 || Present research on human influence on ecosystems in Vancouver/BC ||  ||
 * Dec 10 || Work on presentations ||  ||
 * Dec 6 || Computer Lab - Work on Presentations about human influence on ecosystems in Vancouver/Lower Mainland/BC:
 * Dec 4 || Succession: Competition
 * Nov 28 || Review Succession in Text
 * Nov 22 || Share reflections from video
 * Nov 20 || Presentation about Darwin
 * Nov 16 || Take up homework.
 * Nov 14 || Presentation about Bioremediation and reducing the effects of chemical pollution
 * Nov 6 || Christian's Presentation on Nutrient Cycles and his Fish Tank
 * Nov 1 || Do activity 2-2C || Finish Activity ||
 * Oct 31 || Go over nutrient cycles - Nitrogen and Phosphorus
 * Oct 29 || Nutrient Cycles Continued
 * Oct 25 || Nutrient Cycles
 * || Producer, Consumer, Decomposer Game
 * Oct 16 || **Test on Chapter 1**
 * Oct 12 || Teams and Tournaments activityMake Summary (Cheat) Sheet ||  ||
 * Oct 10 || Talk briefly about biodiversity
 * Oct 5 || Symbiosis game
 * Oct 3 || Take up hmwk
 * Oct 1 || Take Up Homework
 * Sep 27 || Finish presentations
 * Sep 25 || Time to finish posters
 * Sept 21 || Adaptations: Marooned in a different biome - three most important plant, animal, human adaptations || Workbook p6, p7 ||
 * Sept 19 || Finish Planet Earth Video (Biome Video - no) || Hmwk: Climatographs Sheet ||
 * Sept 17 || Biomes Guess Powerpoint
 * September 13 || Collect money for workbooks and posters
 * September 11 || Workbooks
 * September 7 || Safety scategories overhead
 * September 5 || **Day 1 -** Intro