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Day 1:
a) Go over classroom procedures, the dos and don'ts in the science room
b) Outline what is required of the students
c) Go over the class syllabus
d) Give the graphing rules and draw a graph meeting all criteria (click
here for online graphing rules)
e) Begin construction of a journal (15pg of loose-leaf stapled together
with colored cover complete with name).
Day 2:
a) Look at SI units and how they were derived
b) Identify the inherent faults that existed in original units of measure
Day 3:
a) Review scientific notation - assign questions related to the skill
b) Introduce 1-step dimensional analysis - assign questions related to
the skill (click
here for the conversion sheet)
Day 4:
a) Introduce 2-step dimensional analysis - assign questions related to
the skill
Day 5:
a) Introduce conversions with dimensional analysis that use more than
metric conversions (standard/imperial to metric) - assign questions related to
the skill
Day 6:
a) Look at the components of a laboratory write-up
b) Identify under which laboratory write-up headings information should
be organized
c) Enforce the importance of both quantitative and qualitative data
d) Introduce procedure for the density lab
Day 7:
a) conduct the density lab
Day 8:
a) as a group, construct a formal lab write-up for the density lab.
Day 9: Unit test
