Homework

Term 4
__Week 4__ This week we are looking at cells and small living things. Students are learning how to use a microscope. For homework over they will have a sheet with a microscope on it and they will have to name the parts and give the function for each part. On Friday we are going to build models of cells. Students have been given a booklet with information and they have to complete all the over to you questions in the booklet over the cup weekend.

__Week 2__ This week we are finishing off forces and will have a test on Friday 16th October during period 4. Tuesday we will be looking at magnetic forces and Wednesday we will be doing revision for our test. Students will be asked to complete over to you questions on magnets page 143. Questions 1 and 2 are due on Wednesday. On Wednesday we will be revising our work on forces and energy. Students are to complete all the checkpoint question for chapter 7 and checkpoint questions 1, 2 and 4 from chapter 8.

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We are continuing on with Forces this term. On Thursday October 8th we looked at electrostatic electricity. The students have been asked to explain electrostatic electricity to their families including what the van der graaf generator is.======

Term 3
Thursday September 10th We looked at friction today, the students did an experiment testing friction on different surfaces. This experiment can be found on page 133 of their text book. Students are to complete the practical report based on their experiment. They need to complete the result questions 2, 3 and one part of question 4. They also need to write a conclusion. This will be due Friday 18th September.

Tuesday September 8th Today we did some activites on Forces, there is currently no homework for science as our activities took us the whole lesson. Though I highly encourage students to discuss what they did with their parents.

Monday 31st August We have started our new unit on energy and forces. Students have already looked at sound energy and light energy. They have to come up with a creative way to teach a hearing impaired person about sound, we discussed some ideas last lesson and we will again next lesson.

Monday August 17th A reminder that Flubber assignments were due LAST Thursday, I am still missing an awful lot of these. This week is Science week and we have deviated from normal classes in order to celebrate. There will be no homework this week. Our theme for science week is space. On another note, if anyone has any empty pringle containers could they please bring them to school as we are after some for an experiment.

August 5th Today we finished our topic on What is stuff? We will be having a test on Tuesday, students are asked to know the differences and properties between a solid, liquid and a gas. They need to know and understand the particle theory which is on page 49 of their text book. They should also know definitions to the following words: pure substances, mixtures, solutions, suspensions, colloids, decanting, centrifuge, filtration, filtrate, residue, flocculation, evaporation and crystalisation, distillation, flotation, electrostatic separation, matter. They have looked at all these things in class so they are not new but revision would be helpful. Students have been set the following revision questions, pg 63 Q1 and 6, pg 210 Q1, 2, 4 and 5. If you wish to help all this information can be found in chapters 3 and 10 of their text book.

Thursday July 30th (due on Wednesday 5th August) Students are to finish their practical report on filtering a suspension. They are to complete the over to you questions on page 197 (questions 2, 6, 7 and 8). They also need to ensure they are finished their glossaries which they started on Tuesday. They will be having a test shortly and it is important they understand the important terms. Students also have a project on the movie Flubber which they watched in META this week. This project is an important assessment task for their "What is matter?" unit. They project is due on the 13th August.

Thursday July 16th (due on Wednesday 22nd July) A lot of students had trouble with this homework sheet, we discussed it in class and I have revised the due date to be Thursday 30th July. Making sense of matter worksheet. This was given out in class.

June 24th
Students have to write a story about petra the perfume particle for their holiday homework. The story should be about a page in length. It is due back first science class next term.