YEAR 9 LESSON OUTLINE 2014
TERM 1: CHEMICAL REACTIONS
Week
1
2
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4
Lesson outline
Pre Test
Atomic Model including mass
 Model of atoms – nucleus, protons, neutrons and electrons
 Comparing the mass and charge of protons, neutrons and electrons.
 Historical development of atomic models.
 Investigate work of Rutherford, Pierre and Marie Curie.
Reactions Introduction
Identify reactants and products in chemical reactions
 What are reactions?
 Introduce basic word equations including reactants and products.
 Rearrangement of atoms in chemical reactions.
 Role of energy in reactions.
 Conservation of mass
Endothermic & Exothermic
 What are they?
 Investigate different reactions to classify them as exo or endo.
 Examples
Acids and Bases
Background
 What are acids? (with mention of hydrogen ions)
 What are bases? (with mention of hydroxide ions)
 Compare properties.
 pH
Acids + Metals
 What occurs? Products?
 Examples
Acids + Carbonates
 What occurs? Products?
 Examples
Acids + Bases
 What occurs? Products?
 Examples
Book
Suggested resources
Ch. 1.1
pp. 5
Pre Test
Ch. 3.1
pp. 69
PRAC: Conservation of Mass - pp.74.
Ch. 3.1
pp. 68
Ch. 2.5
pp. 56
Ch. 3.2
pp. 77 - 79
PRAC: Testing Household Chemicals
PRAC: Red Cabbage Indicator – pp. 62
PRAC: Green Eggs – pp. 63
PRAC: pH Column – pp.63
PRAC: Make Hydrogen – pp. 83
PRAC: Evaluating Antacids – pp.84
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CAT
CAT in staff drive.
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Vinegar Titration
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Combustion Reactions
 What are they?
 Role of oxygen.
 Compare combustion with oxidation reactions.
Effects of combustion on the environment
Reactions of Life
 Photosynthesis
 Respiration
 Comparison between photosynthesis and respiration.
 Role in biological processes
Alpha, Beta & Gamma Particle Radiation
How α, β & γ radiation are released from unstable atoms (keep it simple).
Post Test
Ch. 3.1
pp. 70 -71
PRAC: Conservation of mass in combustion
reactions – pp. 75
PRAC: Cracker Combustion – pp.76
Ch. 3.3
pp. 85 -89
PRAC: Looking at Stomata – pp.91
*PRAC: Testing leaves for starch – pp.92
*PRAC: Respiring plants – pp. 93
*Pracs require a few days of incubation.
Ch. 1.3
pp. 22 -23
TERM 2: ECOSYSTEMS
Week
1
2
Lesson outline
Pre Test
Ecosystems
 What are the different types of ecosystems?
Factors influencing organisms
Abiotic and biotic factors
 What are abiotic factors?
 What are biotic factors?
Factors influencing organisms
Structural, behavioural and functional adaptations
 What are they?
 Examples
Interactions between organisms
Competition
 What?
 Examples
Predation
 What?
 Examples
Mutualism
 What?
 Examples
Commensalism
 What?
 Examples
Parasitism
 What?
 Examples
Energy flow through ecosystems
Producers and consumers
 What is a producer?
 What is a consumer?
Book
Suggested resources
9.1
pp. 281-281
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Pre Test
9.1
pp. 286 - 287
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PRAC: Temperature and activity – pp. 289
9.1
pp. 284-285
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Videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSmL2F1t81Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFkdiCQxbyg
Body Snatchers
9.2
pp.290 - 291
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Food chains
 What is a food chain/what does it show?
 Constructing a food chain
Food webs
 What is a food web/ what does it show?
 Constructing a food web
Energy flow through ecosystems
Identifying producers, consumer and order of consumers (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.)
 Identifying producers and consumers on a food chain and food web
 Identifying order of consumers on a food chain and food web
Decomposers and recycling of matter
 What is matter?
 What is a decomposer?
 Why is it important for decomposers to recycle matter?
Energy flow in ecosystems
 Energy flow through food chains and food webs
 Energy loss in food chains and food webs
Energy flow through ecosystems
Pyramids of biomass
 What is biomass?
 What is a pyramid of biomass?
 How do pyramids of biomass help ecologists to understand the
productivity of an ecosystem?
Human impact on ecosystems
Chemical pesticides
 What are they?
 What impact do they have on ecosystems?
Chemical pollution
 What is it?
 What impact does it have on ecosystems?
Human impact on ecosystems
Introduced species
 What are they?
 What impact do they have on ecosystems?
9.2
pp. 292 - 293
9.2
pp. 293
9.3
pp. 304
PRAC: Detergents and plants – pp. 311
pp. 307
9.3
pp. 305
VIDEO: Cane Toads – An unnatural history
Fire
pp. 306
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What impact did the aboriginal method of hunting - firestick
farming - have on the ecosystem in the Western Desert?
 What impact can controlled burning have on an ecosystem?
Habitat Destruction
Overcropping
Pollution
 Consider the impacts of humans from a range of perspectives.
Natural impacts on ecosystems
Bushfires
 What impact do they have?
Drought
 What impact does it have?
Floods
 What impact do they have?
CAT
 Ecosystem Modelling
CAT in staff drive.
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6
Factors affecting population size
Biodiversity
 What is biodiversity?
 What are the benefits of biodiversity?
 What effects does low biodiversity have on an ecosystem?
Competition
 What is competition within and between species?
 What effect can competition within and between species have on
population sizes within an ecosystem?
Loss of species
 How is a species displaced from an ecosystem?
 What effects can loss of species have on population sizes within an
ecosystem?
9.2
pp. 294
Comparing Pyramid of biomass of different
ecosystems to determine their productivity
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Factors affecting population size
Increased number of predators
 What effect can an increase of predators have on population sizes
within an ecosystem?
Environmental changes
 What environmental changes can influence population size in
terms of competition, loss of species and increased number of
predators?
 How can models help predict changes in population size due to
environmental changes such as the impact of flooding or fire on
rabbit or kangaroo populations?
Post Test
8
SPARE LESSONS (in case of interruptions)
9
URBAN WEEK
AQUARIUM EXCURSION (WORKSHEET THAT MUST BE SUBMITTED – GOES
TOWARD COURSEWORK)
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9.2
pp. 294
TERM 3: BODY COORDINATION
Week
1
2
3
Lesson outline
Book
Suggested resources
Pre Test
BODY COORDINATION: NERVOUS SYSTEM
 How does the body respond to stimuli?
Central Nervous System
 What are the components of the CNS?
 What are the external structures of the brain?
 How do these structures function in controlling and coordinating
human activity?
Peripheral Nervous System
 What are the components of the PNS?
 What is the structure and function of the motor and sensory
neuron?
 What is the function of the somatic nervous system?
 What is the function of the autonomic nervous system?
Brain Dissection
 Practical Report (AusVELS Science Enquiry).
Responding to Stimuli
Reflex Action
 What is a reflex action?
 What is a reflex arc?
CAT
 Nervous System Diseases/Disorders
7.1
pp. 225 - 228
Pre Test
Brain Overview PPT (T-Drive)
Inside the human body DVD
Whatever DVD
Illusions
L738 Epilepsy; L739 Headaches
7.1
pp. 226
Synapse PPT
PRAC: Sensitivity pp. 235
7.1
pp.231
PRAC: Reaction Times pp. 236
Reflex Arcs PPT
BODY COORDINATION: ENDOCRINE SYSTEM
Endocrine System
 What is the function of the endocrine system?
 What are hormones and how do they target cells?
 What is the function of the hypothalamus and pituitary gland?
7.2
pp. 237 - 238
CAT in staff drive.
4
5
PRAC: Model Feedback System pp. 243
L720 Endocrine System
Pearson Reader Interactive and Clips
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7
Controlling the Internal Environment
Research on body responses:
 Temperature
 Water Balance
 Blood Sugar
 Stress Response
Present the information task to class in groups (rest of class to take
notes/complete worksheet?).
Coordinated Body Systems
Metabolism
 How does metabolism occur in the human body?
 What are enzymes and why are they important?
 How do we absorb nutrients?
Getting Oxygen
 How does oxygen pass from lungs to blood?
Circulation
 What causes the heart to beat?
 What is a heart rate and how can this change?
 How do we obtain nutrients?
Removing Wastes
 How does the body remove wastes?
Interdependence of Body Systems
 How do these systems interact with each to completely coordinate
the body?
Post Test
9.2
pp. 238 - 241
9.3
pp. 224 - 249
PRAC: Enzyme Activity pp. 252
PRAC: Diffusion pp. 253
DISEASE
 What is a disease?
 What microorganisms cause disease?
 What is the difference between bacteria, viruses, fungi and
parasites?
 How ideas about disease transmission has developed since
medieval times.
8.1
pp. 259 - 260
PRAC: Growing Bacteria pp. 266
Immune System
 What is the function of the immune system?
 What are the components of the immune system?
 What are vaccines and how do they help against disease?
8.1
pp. 261 - 263
PRAC: The Milk’s Off pp. 267
8.2
pp. 268 - 272
PRAC: Growing Fungi pp. 276
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Other Sources of Infection
 What are viruses and what diseases do they cause?
 What are parasites and what diseases do they cause?
 What are fungi and what diseases do they cause?
Research Task (1 from list below)
 Carried by Mosquitoes pp. 276
 Investigate the work of Fiona Wood & Marie Stoner on artificial
skin (AusVELS)
 Safe sound levels for human and implications to health and in the
workplace & leisure (AusVELS)
Post-Test
10
SPARE LESSONS (in case of interruptions)
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TERM 4: ENERGY TRANSFER & PLATE TECTONICS
Week
Lesson outline
1
Pre Test
Energy Transfer
 Movement of energy through different mediums.
 How and why this occurs.
Transfer of Heat
 Convection, Conduction & Radiation
 Identify situations where the above occurs.
 Explain convection and conduction in regards to the particle model.
CAT
 Energy Efficient Homes
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3
Book
Suggested resources
Pre Test
Ch. 4.1
pp. 99 - 105
PRAC: Infrared radiation – pp. 160
CAT in staff drive.
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Electric Circuits
 Transfer of energy through the circuit.
 What affects the transfer of energy through a circuit?
Wave & Particle Model
 Discuss and explain model.
 How is it useful?
 Properties of waves
Waves
 Situations where energy is transferred as waves
o Sound
o Light
Post Test
PLATE TECTONICS
Moving Continents
 Continental drift
 Rifting
 Sea-floor spreading
Ch. 6.1
pp. 183 - 185
PRAC: Electroscopes – pp. 188
PRAC: How steady are you? – pp. 189
Ch. 5.1
pp. 148 – 156
PRAC: Making waves – pp. 122
Ch. 4.2
pp. 111 -116
Ch. 4.3 – 4.4
pp. 123 - 138
PRAC: Good vibrations – pp. 122
PRAC: Law of reflection – pp. 132
PRAC: Bending light – pp. 133
PRAC: Eye dissection
Ch. 10.1
pp. 316 - 320
Ice Age 4
PRAC: Magnetic stripping – pp. 322
PRAC: Convection – pp. 323
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Plate Movements
 Map of the plates
 Converging
 Diverging
 Transforming
 Role of heat & energy in plate movement
 Technology used in the mapping of continental movement
Volcanoes & Earthquakes
 Formation
 Detection
 Effects
 Relating to constructive & destructive plate boundaries
Australia and Plate History
 Development of the theory of plate tectonics.
Ch. 10.2
pp. 324 - 328
PRAC: Paper plate tectonics – pp. 332
PRAC: Types of crust – pp. 332
Ch. 10.3
pp. 333 - 338
PRAC: Model Volcanoes – pp. 341
PRAC: Seismometers – pp. 341
PRAC: Earthquakes & Buildings – pp. 342
Ch. 10.2
pp. 328 - 329