Physics – Grade 12

District 2853

Month

Content

Performance Standards Addressed

Skills for Student Achievement

Assessment

 

September

·         Motion in One Dimension

Physical Science D-2

 

 

·         Displacement, Velocity, Acceleration

·         Gravitational Acceleration

·         Tests

·         Labs

·         Written Exercises

·         Practicums

September and October

·         Motion in Two Dimensions

Physical Science D-2

Physical Science C-9

·         Vectors and vector operations

·         Projectile Motion

·         Tests

·         Labs

·         Written Exercises

·         Practicums

October

·         Forces and Laws of Motions

Physical Science D-1,2

Physical Science C-9

·         Changes in motion

·         Describe Newton’s 3 laws of motion

·         Describe friction and problems involving friction

·         Tests

·         Labs

·         Written Exercises

·         Practicums

November

·         Work, Energy, Power

 

 

·         Momentum and Impulse

Physical Science C-1,2,9

Physical Science D-2

 

 

 

·         Describe work, kinetic and potential energy and power

·         Laws of conservation of energy

 

·         Describe momentum

·         Law of conservation of momentum

·         Elastic and inelastic collisions

·          

·         Tests

·         Labs

·         Written Exercises

·         Practicums

December

·         Simple Machines

 

 

·         Rotational Motion

 

 

 

 

·         Describe types and uses of simple machines

·         Mechanical Advantages and efficiencies

 

·         Describe circular motion, moments of inertia, torque

·         Tests

·         Labs

·         Written Exercises

·         Practicums

December to January

·         Thermodynamics

 

·         Describe relationship between heat and work

·         Describe loss or gain of heat in thermal processes

·         Describe the efficiencies of heat engines

·         Describe entropy

·         Describe Laws of Thermodynamics

·         Tests

·         Labs

·         Written Exercises

·         Practicums

January

·         Waves and Simple Harmonic Motion

 

·         Describe simple harmonic motion

·         Describe types and parts of waves

·         Tests

·         Labs

·         Written Exercises

·         Practicums

February

·         Sound

 

·         Describe sound, intensity, frequency and resonance

·         Discuss harmonics, Laws of Strings, Doppler effect

·         Tests

·         Labs

·         Written Exercises

·         Practicums

March

·         Light

Physical Science C-8

·         Describe light characteristics, reflection, mirrors, color and polarization

·         Describe refraction, diffraction and interference

·         Describe uses of mirrors, lenses, and lasers

·         Tests

·         Labs

·         Written Exercises

·         Practicums

April

·         Static Electricity, electric forces and fields

Physical Science C-3

·         Identify types of electric charges, electric fields, and electric forces

·         Tests

·         Labs

·         Written Exercises

·         Practicums

April and May

·         Electric Energy, circuits, types of current

Physical Science C-3,4

·         Identify electric potential energy, potential difference, capacitance

·         Identify current, and types of circuits

·         Calculate resistance, amperage, voltage

·         Tests

·         Labs

·         Written Exercises

·         Practicums

May

·         Magnets and magnetic fields

·         Electromagnetism

Physical Science C-4

·         Identify and explain types of magnetism

·         Identify relationship between electricity and magnetism

·         Tests

·         Labs

·         Written Exercises

·         Practicums