Welcome
Please:
Pick up course statement,
contract for success on the front
table.
Choose a seat wisely and print
your full name on the index card
and period number
Fundamentals of Physical Science
Mrs. Kilanowski
Room 505 (1st and 2nd) or 607 (4th)
1st QTR; Week 1; Day 1
Schedule Check
In order to be in this class you
must:
• Be concurrently enrolled in
Algebra 2A or 2B
• Previously taken Investigative
Science and Biology
• Be in 11th or 12th grade
1st QTR; Week 1; Day 1
Communication
Crests
1st QTR; Week 1; Day 1
• The point of this crest is for you to provide
information about yourself and to set goals for
yourself.
VIDEO
This video explains
what is a coat of
arms and a crest
What is Fundamental of Physical
Science - FOPS
Semester 1scientific method, physics- motion, force,
Newton’s Laws of motion, momentum,
energy, gravity, heat, magnetism, sound
and waves
Semester 2scientific method, matter, chemistry- bonding,
reactions, nuclear, organic and inorganic
chemistry
1st QTR; Week 1; Day 1
Supplies for FOPS
 Composition notebook
 College
paperfill in the following info:
On
yourruled
indexloose
cardleaf
please
 Calculator (CAN NOT USE CELL PHONE)
 Blue or black pen
 Pencil
 good attitude 
 Be willing to provide honest
feedback regarding class
activities and assessments
1st QTR; Week 1; Day 1
FLOOR TOUR
•Familiarize yourself
with 500/600 building
•Fire drill procedure
and location
1st QTR; Week 1; Day 1
COURSE STATEMENT
• Explanation of the
classroom/procedures
• Contract for success
• Student Contact Information
• Agreement to terms of the course
statement.
• Contract is DUE TUESDAY July
29th
1st QTR; Week 1; Day 1
Find Someone Who
• Let’s get to know each other by
getting a series of questions
answered by other people in the
classroom.
• Introduce your self, ask the question,
write the answer and write the name
of the person who gave you that
answer
1st QTR; Week 1; Day 1
FOPS AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Please write down this information (not the answers to them)
on a piece of paper!!!
A 1 Page Essay/letter, will be due FRIDAY AUGUST 1st
Name, Origin, Ethnicity
Parents/Guardian name and occupations
Siblings that attend or attended or will attend CHS
Future job choice and why?
What do you like or dislike about science class?
Any hobbies or interests
Sports, extra-curricular activities or groups you want
to join/are involved with at CHS
 Do you have a job and where is it!
 What a teacher can do to help me out?
 What do you want help with this year?
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1st QTR; Week 1; Day 2
Find Someone Who
• We know you need to finish the find
someone who assignment…..lets take
about 15 to get those questions answered.
• Let’s get to know each other by getting a
series of questions answered by other
people in the classroom.
• Introduce your self, ask the question, write
the answer and write the name of the
person who gave you that answer
1st QTR; Week 1; Day 1
SYMBOLS
SYMBOLS
Flex Phone 2015
JOB APPLICATION
• We are going to fill out a sample job
application so you can use it to
REALLY apply for jobs.
•PLACES THAT ARE HIRING:
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McDonalds
• Cheddars
WinCo
Harkins Theater
Kids Express in CUSD at various elementary schools
Brunchies
Rigatoni’s
1st QTR; Week 1; Day 2
Frys
REMINDERS
• Contract is due TUESDAY JULY
29th and AUTOBIO is due FRIDAY
AUGUST 1st
• Please make sure that your crest
has been turned into the basket.
• NOW…let’s get to know our lab
groups for the quarter!
• We have a challenge for your lab
group to complete.
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Where do we meet for fire drills?
When is Open House for CHS?
What is the goal for this unit?
Where do you go
for an evacuation
at CHS?
When is our 1st
assembly?
1st QTR; Week 1; Day 3
Pick up the college profile sheet
and start filling it out.
Did you read the instructions????
1st QTR; Week 2; Day 1
Working as a Group
• A picture and/or a set of instructions will
be shown to you
• As a group, decide how to arrive at an
answer and write it on the white board
• We will have a BOARD MEETING to
discuss your answers and provide the
justification for this activity
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Describe what you see……
What is this type
of writing
called?????
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How many
different ways can
you represent 5?
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What is this type
of writing
called?????
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What did we learn
STUFF TO PUT IN YOUR LAB REPORT
Qualitative Data
•Overview: Deals with
descriptions.
•Data can be observed but
not measured.
•Colors, textures, smells,
tastes, appearance, beauty,
etc.
•Qualitative → Quality
Quantitative Data
•Overview: Deals with
numbers.
•Data which can be measured.
•Length, height, area, volume,
weight, speed, time,
temperature, humidity, sound
levels, cost, members, ages,
etc.
•Quantitative → Quantity
FOPS warm-UP
•Define the following:
• Qualitative
• Quantitative
• ml
• What does this symbol stand for?
1st QTR; Week 2; Day 2
TO DO TODAY!!!
• Go over CHS handbook;
REMEMBER contract is due this
FRIDAY AUGUST 1st
• Take UNIT 1 Pre-assessment
• Grade UNIT 1 Pre-assessment
1st QTR; Week 2; Day 2
CONT….
FOPS WARM-UP
• Answer the following questions:
• Why do we have 2 lunches at CHS?
• Why do you have to show your ID during
the AIMS and ACT test?
1st QTR; Week 2; Day 3
Goal Sheet
•PURPOSE: To provide data analysis of
your abilities throughout a unit of study
• Placed in comp book for each unit
• Pre-test to determine status
• Document all the formative assessments
• Document the summative assessment
• Reflect your learning during the unit
• Please put your grade for the preassessment on your goal sheet!!
1st QTR; Week 2; Day 3 cont..
EXPERIMENT TIME!!!
• To show you how an experiment is conducted,
we will be asking 4 students from another class
to help us with the RED HAMMER experiment.
• These students have been
randomly selected and have
no idea what they
are going to be doing today,
BUT they have been told that
this is a safe environment,
where they will not be made
fun of nor hurt in anyway!
1st QTR; Week 2; Day 3 cont..
SUDSY SOAP LAB
• Make sure you have a Sudsy Soap
Lab sheet
• You will need at least two pieces of
paper in order to write up your
first lab report. 
• You will be conducting this lab with
your new lab groups!!
1st QTR; Week 2; Day 3 cont..
SOAP LAB PART II
• 100 ml of H2O
• 3 different beakers
• 1st beaker = 5 drops of soap
• 2nd beaker = 15 drops of soap
rd
• 3 beaker = 45 drops
1st QTR; Week 2; Day 3 cont..
FOPS warm-UP
• What is the IV for the Soap Lab?
• What is the DV for the Soap Lab?. 
• What remains constant throughout
the Soap Lab?
• What did you predict for this
experiment?
EXPLAIN WHY???
1st QTR; Week 2; Day 4
FRIDAY!!!
1st QTR; Week 3; Day 1
• Identify the IV in each of the listed
experiments
1. Eating breakfast increases
performance in school.
2. Hummingbirds are attracted
to the color red.
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Identify the DV in each of
the listed experiments
Check out your
WEEK 3 grades
located in the
back of the
room!!!
3. Bats locate food using sound waves.
4. iBook batteries last for 5 hours.
GIVE ONE….GET ONE
• Please pick up a give one/get one sheet
located in the front of the room.
• Under the Give one section, write down 5
statements/rules/concepts/formulas that
you remember from last year’s science
class…OR any science class!!
1st QTR; Week 1; Day 2
1st QTR; Week 3; Day 2
Safety Project
• Choose 2 rules, or science concepts and
make a poster with illustrations
• Attach the poster to either a tissue box or
a paper towel roll.
• DUE DATE is Friday August 15th
1st QTR; Week 1; Day 2
1st QTR; Week 3; Day 2 cont….
How to read a meniscus
• Hundreds of kids each year die because
parents can’t read a meniscus and
they overdose or underdose their children
with medicine
You must
read the
liquid at
the curve
1st QTR; Week 1; Day 2
1st QTR; Week 3;
Day 2 cont…
FOPS WARM-UP
• Take out your Design Detective sheet
and finish up the problems.
• Are you ready for a quiz today?
ANSWER THESE:
• What is the shape of a
meniscus?
• Why is it important to
read the bottom of the
meniscus?
• How is the meniscus of
Hg different than all
other liquids?
1st QTR; Week 3; Day 3
• Pick up a LAB REPORT SHEET and
Answer these:
• How many sections are in our lab reports?
• What info goes in section 3 of our lab
reports?
• For the boat lab, what would be the IV and
DV?
• Does a lab report have to be typed?
1st QTR; Week 3; Day 4
1 QTR; Week 4; Day 1
• Answer these:
• DEFINE the IV, DV and the constants of each
experiment
• EXPERIMENT #1: CHS wants to know if having
an Elmer’s Taco cart on campus during lunch
would speed up the lunch line.
• EXPERIMENT #2: The NFL wants to know if
footballs made of different materials would
allow the quarterbacks to throw longer passes.
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CHECK YOUR WEEK 4 GRADES!!!
ALL Late work needs to be turned into
the PINK FOLDER
• WELCOME
1st QTR; Week 4; Day 2
Jeni Skeoch
High School Coordinator
Avalon School of Cosmetology
• Please pick up a guest speaker wksht
located in the back of the classroom.
Read what assignment you have to
complete for today’s presentation!
DUE DATE August 22nd
FOPS Warm-UP
• Take out your BOAT
LAB!!
• We are going to answer
any questions you have
about the lab report and
we need to decide when
is a good due date !!!
1st QTR; Week4; Day4
FOPS Warm-UP
• We are grading QUIZ #2
today!!!
• 1st hour you still have to
take the quiz
• If you have not
turned in your
safety contract and
project, please do it now!
1st QTR; Week5; Day1
• CHECK YOUR PROGRESS
REPORT GRADES!!!
• Answer these in comp book:
• How many cm in a m?
• How many g in a kg?
• How many mm in a cm?
• What is that object located
at front desk and what does
it do?
Story of Archimedes
1st QTR; Week5; Day 2
• ANSWER THESE:
• What is the formula for finding Density?
• Why is density so important in the world of
science?
• FIND THE IV, DV and list 3 CONSTANTS in
this experiment….
• Realtors wanted to know
if sales of houses are
faster if they have a pool
in the backyard.
1st QTR; Week 5; Day 3
Density
Calculations
Lecture on how to calculate
density using the D= Mass/Volume
formula
1st QTR; Week 5; Day 3 cont…
• ANSWER THE FOLLOWING IN YOUR
1 QTR; Week 6; Day 1
COMP BOOK
• What was Archimedes occupation?
• Who hired Archimedes?
• Why was Archimedes hired?
• What did Archimedes find out?
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• Did you turn in your Density
and Metric Conversion
worksheet?
EUREKA VIDEO on Density
• What is due this Friday AUG 29th?
• ANSWER THESE in your comp bk:
• What does Physics mean?
• Change 123.5 into a scientific
notation number.
• If a toy car has a density
of 110g/ml and its mass
is 300g, what would be
its volume?
1st QTR; Week6; Day 2
• Change the following to
either decimals or scientific
notation numbers
A. 2.034 X 10 2
B. 0.0056
C. 8.6 X 10 -3
D. 301
Answer these DENSITY problems:
• Find the density of a student desk that
had a mass of 1004 g and a volume of
16000 ml.
• What would be the mass of a phone if
it had a density of 70 g/ml and a
volume of 75 ml?
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What does the Gravitron ride
at the state fair & Blood
have in COMMON?
1st QTR; Week 6; Day 3; cont….
They both separate things by density
• You will find the density for 4 different
stacks of pennies.
1 QTR; Week 6; Day 3; cont….
• 5 pennies
• 10 pennies
• 15 pennies
• 20 pennies
• Then you will create a LINE graph
showing the relationship between the
mass and volume of the 4 stacks of
pennies. PLEASE DRAW THE LINE
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ON GRAPH PAPER!!!
1st QTR; Week6; Day4
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FOPS Warm-UP
Answer these in your COMP BOOK
Change 2.65m into cm.
Change 0.068kg into grams.
What is the calculation set up for
converting units in this class?
• CHECK your WEEK 6 grades
ANSWER THESE:
History of Physics Clip
1st QTR; Week 7; Day 1
• Name the physicist who
discovered how planets
move.
• What did physicist Ben
Franklin give us that we
still use today?
• Who created E= mc2 ?
• Density was discovered
by which scientist?
• You will find the density for 4 different
stacks of pennies.
1 QTR; Week 7; Day 1; cont….
• 5 pennies
• 10 pennies
• 15 pennies
• 20 pennies
• Then you will create a LINE graph
showing the relationship between the
mass and volume of the 4 stacks of
pennies. PLEASE DRAW THE LINE
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ON GRAPH PAPER!!!
• Pick up the penny article and annotate it!
YES….you will be graded on this!
• You may use whatever type of writing
utensil you need to accomplish this task.
1st QTR; Week7; Day 2
• You will find the density for 4 different
stacks of pennies.
1 QTR; Week 7; Day 1; cont….
• 5 pennies
• 10 pennies
• 15 pennies
• 20 pennies
• Then you will create a LINE graph
showing the relationship between the
mass and volume of the 4 stacks of
pennies. PLEASE DRAW THE LINE
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ON GRAPH PAPER!!!
TEST DAY
• Take out your STUDY GUIDE and we
will answer any questions you have.
• You will need your FOPS cheat
sheet, and a calculator for today’s
test.
• After completing the test,
please Pick up a SLOPE
wksht and work out the
problems
1st QTR; Week7; Day3
• What does y = mx + b equation
actually produce?
• Define each variable within
the y = mx + b equation
• Which physicist is responsible
for creating experiments
about electricity
• Define:
1st QTR; Week8; Day 3