Science 1: essential interactions
Series: Science: essential interactions.
Grades: 9 10 11 12
ENC#: ENC-024576
Publisher: Centre Pointe Learning
Date: 2001
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Subjects:
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Chemistry. Earth. Earth science. Ecosystems. Educational issues. Heat. Life Science. Physical Science. Physics. Space sciences. | | Integrated/interdisciplinary approaches |
Resource Type:
Textbooks.
Abstract:
This textbook, first in the ESSENTIAL INTERACTIONS series, offers readings, laboratory experiences, activities, and extended projects that integrate life, physical, Earth, and space sciences. This series explores science in the context of the real world through hands on activities that engage students in investigations, research, and discussion of scientific issues in society. This book includes investigations of pure substances and mixtures, heat and temperature, and building structure and strength, along with the Earth's crust and interactions within the ecosystem. The text also features a section to build skills such as teamwork, manipulation of scientific equipment, and the creation of an experimental design. Design challenges are included within each unit. An example challenge is to design and build a system that either removes solid particles from water, sorts recyclable materials, or separates particles in stony soil by size. Sets of design criteria are included for each of the three choices. (Author/LEB)
Table of Contents:
Unit 1. Pure substances and mixtures
Overview
Getting started: What are things made of?
1. Inquiry investigation: classifying substances
2. Pure substances and mixtures
3. Inquiry investigation: filtering mechanical mixtures
4. Inquiry investigation: Are all solvents alike?
5. How do solutions form?
6. Case study: flaky baking
7. Inquiry investigation: the rate of dissolving
8. Saturated or unsaturated?
9. Inquiry investigation: solubility and saturation
10. Inquiry investigation: separating mixtures
11. Using gases
12. Products from raw materials
13. Design investigations: concrete for construction
14. Inquiry investigation: sovents in the laundry
15. The importance of water
16. Testing water quality
17. Inquiry investigation: How hard is the water?
18. Household hazardous waste
19. Explore an issue: cleaning up our water
20. Career profile: wetlands preservation
21. Water additives
Design challenge: design and build a system that separates or purifies materials
Summary
Review
Unit 2. Heat
Overview
Getting started: thinking about heat and temperature
1. Inquiry investigation: identifying temperatures
2. Inquiry investigation: heating and cooling
3. Measuring temperature
4. Case study: temperature and the tomato
5. Temperature, heat, and the particle theory
6. Inquiry investigation: ice to water to steam
7. The particle theory and changes of state
8. Inquiry investigation: heat and convection
9. Heat and weather patterns
10. Design investigation: heat and conduction
11. Career profile: at the scene of the crime
12. Inquiry investigation: radiation
13. Heat and the water cycle
14. Heating homes
15. Explore an issue: wasting heat
16. Inquiry investigation: controlling heat transfer
17. Inquiry investigation: heating various liquids
18. Comparing heat capacities
19. Inquiry investigation: using mechanical ways to produce heat
20. Producing heat
21. Case study: heat pollution
22. Solar heating
Design challenge: design and build a device that controls or uses heat
Summary
Review
Unit 3. Structural strength and stability
Overview
Getting started: designing products
1. The life cycle of a product
2. Product testing
3. Forces and motion
4. Stability
5. Case study: stabilizing the Tower of Pisa
6. Career profile: Building sets for television
7. Explore an issue: planned obsolescence
8. Forces and structures
9. Inquiry investigation: applying force
10. Loads
11. Design investigation: determining factor of safety
12. Tension, compression, torsion, and shear
13. Choosing structures
14. Finding stability in symmetry
15. Inquiry investigation: a stronger beam
16. Design investigation: a stronger structure
17. Strengthening structures
18. Design investigation: getting under foot
19. Case study: fasteners and function
20. Design investigation: designing a childproof container
21. Making bridges
22. Design investigation: bridging the gap
Design challenge: design and build a structure for everyday life
Summary
Review
Unit 4. The Earth's crust
Overview
Getting started: where do rocks come from?
1. Earth: a layered planet
2. Minerals: building blocks of rocks
3. How minerals are mined and processed
4. Inquiry investigation: mining chocolate chips
5. Explore an issue: mining for minerals
6. Erosion and weathering
7. Learning about soil
8. Inquiry investigation: components of soil
9. Soil and plant growth
10. Case study: farming and the soil
11. Erosion: carving the landscape
12. Inquiry investigation: mountains to molehills
13. Mountains to rock
14. Fossils: rock's timekeepers
15. Case study: drifting continents
16. Moving plates
17. Inquiry investigation: earthquakes, volcanoes, and mountain ranges
18. Career profile: cracking the secrets of the Earth's crust
19. Design investigation: preparing for earthquakes
20. Mountains from rocks
21. Igneous and metamorphic rocks
22. Volcanoes: mountains from magma
Design challenge: design and build a model for using the Earth responsibly
Summary
Review
Unit 5. Interactions within ecosystems
Overview
Getting started: environmental issues
1. Bear necessities
2. The organization of life
3. Case study: adaptations for survival
4. A landfill ecosystem
5. Inquiry investigation: what belongs in a landfill?
6. Cycling of matter
7. Microbes in ecosystems
8. Inquiry investigation: nutrient recycling and plant growth
9. Career profile: field biologist
10. Ecological pyramids
11. Case study: pesticides: poisons in the food chain
12. The water cycle
13. Case study: choosing a waste disposal site
14. Rethinking before recycling
15. Explore an issue: garbage and the community
16. Acid in the water cycle
17. Inquiry investigation: environmental models
18. The carbon cycle
19. Case study: solutions for global warming
20. Case study: succession
21. Logging old growth forest
Design challenge: design and build a solution to the landfill problem
Summary
Review
Unit 6. Skills handbook
Safety in science
Process of scientific inquiry
A. Process of scientific inquiry
B. Asking a question
C. Predicting and hypothesizing
D. Identifying variables and controls
E. Designing an inquiry investigation
Process of design
A. The proble solving cycle
B. Identifying a problem
C. Selecting the best alternative
D. Planning a prototype
E. Building a prototype
F. Testing and evaluating a prototype
G. Patents, trademarks, and copyrights
Researching
A. Research skills
B. Interviewing and survey skills
C. Critical thinking
Using equipment in science
A. Using the microscope
B. Working with scales and balances
C. Using other scientific equipment
D. Using technology equipment
E. Fabrication techniques
Observing and recording data
A. Obtaining qualitative data
B. Obtaining quantitative data
C. Scientific and technical drawing
D. Creating data tables
Analyzing results
A. The need to graph
B. Reading a graph
C. Constructing graphs
D. Using math in science
E. Reaching a conclusion
F. Reflecting on your work
Communicating
A. Writing a report
B. Creating a design folder
C. Multimedia presentations
D. Exploring an issue
Study skills
A. Setting goals and monitoring progress
B. Good study habits
C. Using your computer effectively
D. Working together
E. Graphic organizers
Pricing Information:
 | Description: 1 text (hardbound) | Cost: $49.95 | ISBN: 978-1-930799-00-4 | |
Publisher:
Centre Pointe Learning Contributor(s):
| Authors: Deborah White; Stephen Haberer; Bob Ritter; Alan J Hirsch; Jim Wiese; Ted Gibb; Steven White; Nancy Dalgarno Alldred. |
Specifications:
1 text (416 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.)
Record Created: 05/28/2002 Last Modified: 06/01/2005
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