Welcome to Academic Integrated Physical Science

We will be covering the following topics this year: electricity and magnetism, energy and earth resources, basic chemistry and polymers, energy transfer, and geology.

Check out the embedded tasks that we will complete this year in preparation for the CAPT. 

Solar Cooker

Energy Uses in Connecticut

Synthetic Polymers Lab

Synthetic Polymers STS

Acid Rain

Connecticut Brownfield Sites
 

See the attached file for the course syllabus and expectations.

The focus of Integrated Physical Science is energy, the forms and how we use it.  The final project is the construction of a solar cooker.  The following picture of the solar panels at Hancock Shaker Village show how solar energy can be used.

Solar energy is also being used at North Elementary.  The following link shows the amount of electricity being produced. http://beta.mypvpower.com/dashboard/419

The following website is great practice in finding the numbers of protons, neutrons, and electrons.  http://education.jlab.org/elementmath/index.html

Use this website to test your knowledge of the arrangement of the periodic table.

http://www.learner.org/interactives/periodic/box_interactive.html

This game will really test your knowledge of the periodic table.

http://www.abpischools.org.uk/activescience/module5/home.html

Go to the following link to study about ionic bonding

http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/asset/lsps07_int_ionicbonding/

and the next link to study covalent bonding

http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/asset/lsps07_int_covalentbond/

The next two websites are good practice in bonding.  The first site is practice in creating compounds with ionic bonds and the second in turning a formula into a model of the compound.

http://www.chemfiles.com/flash/formulas.html

http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/build-a-molecule

The following is a simulation of measuring pH

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/E22/E22.html

The next two websites are for you to view and discuss

http://www.whoi.edu/science/B/people/kamaral/plasticsarticle.html

http://extension.missouri.edu/p/wm2