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|Grade 9 Physics: Active Physics 3rd Edition |

|2015-2016 Schedule |

|Full Year Schedule |

|A detailed description of each unit is contained in the teacher’s guide. The schedule may have to be adjusted if your school’s schedule necessitates. Please refer to the 2006 revised MA High |

|School Standards in Introductory Physics. These standards are posted on the science website and also on the Department of Education website at doe.mass.edu - or more directly at - |

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|Chapter |Key Concepts |# of Days |Completion Date |

| | |~50min./day | |

|1st Predictive | |Assessment |1-2 |TBD |

|Chapter 1 |Driving the Roads |Speed, velocity, acceleration, force, centripetal |33 |October 23, 2015 |

| | |force | | |

|Chapter 2 |Physics in Action |Newton’s Laws, force, momentum, center of mass, |27 |December 4, 2015 |

| | |friction, potential and kinetic energy | | |

|Chapter 4: Sec. 8 |Thrills & Chills: Work & Power |Work and power |3 |December 9, 2015 |

|Chapter 5 |Let Us Entertain You |Waves, sound, light, reflection, refraction, lenses, |23 |January 22, 2016 |

|Chapter 7 |Activity 6- Electromagnetic spectrum |Electromagnetic spectrum |3-4 |February 5, 2016 |

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| | | | |TBD |

|1st Edition |The Doppler Effect (or supplement with your |Doppler Effect |3-4 | |

|Communications 3 |own) | | | |

|2nd Predictive | | |1-2 | |

|Chapter 3 |Safety |Speed, velocity, acceleration, conservation of energy,|20 |March 11, 2016 |

| | |projectile motion. | | |

|Chapter 9 |Sports on the Moon |Universal gravitation, inertia, free fall, |20 |April 8, 2016 |

| | |conservation of energy, friction | | |

|Chapter 6 |Electricity For Everyone |Generators, fuses, series and parallel circuits, ohm’s|25 |May 24, 2016 |

| | |law, specific heat, energy transformations | | |

|Chapter 8 |Atoms on Display |Static electricity and Coulomb’s law |2 | |

|End of Course Assessment |1-2 |June 1 - 20, 2016 |

|MCAS Review |3 |May 25– May 31, 2016 |

|MCAS Exam for all 9th and 10th grade students enrolled |2 |June 1 & 2, 2016 |

|Note: Select areas of interest or importance from the remaining sections of chapters 4 and 7 to use after MCAS and before it as well, if you have time! |

|Chapter 4 continued |Thrills and Chills |Waves, frequency, wavelength, signal to noise ratio, |6 |June 14, 2016 |

| | |electricity and magnetism, circuits | | |

|Chapter 7 continued |Toys for Understanding |Electricity, motors, and AC and DC currents |5 |June 22, 2016 |

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