UNIT 1: Work and Machines
D: 124-128
Main Ideas:
1. How do inclined planes make work
A: 108-113
easier?
Main Ideas:
2. How do wedges make work easier?
1. Explain all the requirements for work to
3. How do screws make work easier?
be done.
2. How do you calculate work? Give
examples.
3. What is the difference between power
and work?
VOCAB: work, joule
4. How do levers make work easier?
VOCAB: lever, fulcrum, screw, wedge, inclined
plane.
E: 130-135
Main Ideas:
1. How does a wheel and axle make
B: 114-117
Main Ideas:
1. What is a machine?
2. What is the difference between
input and out force? Give an
example.
3. What is the difference between
input and output work? Give an
example.
4. Describe the 3 ways machines make
work easier?
2. How does a pulley make work
easier?
3. How does our body act as
machines?
VOCAB: compound machine, pulley, wheel
and axle
UNIT 2: Energy (Flexbook)
work easier.
VOCAB: None.
A: Chapter 8 online - Types of Energy
Main Ideas:
C: 118-121
1. Properties of kinetic energy
Main Ideas:
2. Compare and contrast elastic and
1. How do machines give a mechanical
advantage?
gravitational potential energy
3. Explain conservation of energy with
2. What makes a machine efficient?
exampels
Give an example.
VOCAB: potential energy
3. What is an ideal machine?
VOCAB: Efficiency, mechanical advantage
B: Chapter 9 online- Forms of energy
Main Ideas:
1. Explain mechanical energy with an
example
2. Explain chemical energy with an
example
3. Explain electrical energy with an
example
4.Explain nuclear energy with an
example
A: 6-10
Main Ideas:
1. Wave’s relationship to energy
2. Causation of a wave
3. Types of waves
VOCAB: wave, energy, medium, mechanical
wave, crest, trough, longitudinal wave,
compression, rarefaction
5. Explain thermal energy with an
example
6. Explain electromagnetic energy with
an example
B: 11-14
Main Ideas:
1. Amplitude of transverse and
7. Explain sound energy with an
example
longitudinal waves
2. Relationship between frequency and
8. Explain energy transformation with
examples
VOCAB: None.
wavelength
3. Wave speed
VOCAB: amplitude, wavelength, frequency
C: Chapter 10 online - Energy Resources
Main Ideas:
1. Compare and contrast nuclear
energy and fossil fuels
2. Explain the variety of renewable
energy sources
3. List ways to conserve energy
VOCAB: renewable energy, nonrenewable energy, natural
resource
C: 17-23
Main Ideas:
1. Reflection
2. Refraction
3. Constructive versus destructive
interference
4. Standing waves and resonance
VOCAB: node, antinode, resonance
UNIT 3: Waves
Waves intro
Sound waves
D: 36-39, 42-47
Main Ideas:
1. How sound waves are produced
5. X-rays and their uses
and how they travel
2. Reflection versus diffraction of
6. Gamma rays and their uses
VOCAB: radar
sound waves
3. Speed of sound
H: 90-96
4. Loudness versus pitch
Main Ideas:
5. The Doppler effect
1. Amplitude versus frequency
VOCAB: Ultrasound, infrasound, pitch,
modulation
2. Brief history of wireless
intensity, loudness
communication
E: 54-55, 60-63
3. Phone and television satellite
Main Ideas:
systems
1. Structure and function of human ear
VOCAB: Global Positioning System
2. Echolocation
3. Ultrasound technologies
Light waves
VOCAB: sonar, cochlea, eardrum, ear canal
I: 106-111
Em waves
Main Ideas:
F: 71-75
1. Compare transparent,
Main Ideas:
translucent and opaque material
1. Producing electromagnetic
2. Color and objects
waves
2. Wave versus particle model of
3. Combining color
VOCAB: Pigment
light
3. The electromagnetic spectrum
VOCAB: photon, electromagnetic wave
J: 125-128
Main Ideas:
1. Structure and function of the
human eye
G: 76-80
2. Correcting vision
Main Ideas:
1. Radio waves and their uses
2. Infrared rays and their uses
3. Visible light and its uses
4. UV rays and their uses
VOCAB: optic nerve, cones, rods, retina, pupil,
cornea, nearsighted, farsighted