• Science PHYCHEM

      Scope and Sequence: 
      SCIENCE

      PHYCHEM Updated 2021

      Required High School Course, Typically Taken in Ninth Grade. Available at College Prep and Honors Level.

                         

      Science PHYCHEM

      BIG Concepts

      • GEOSCIENCE MODELING AND WEATHER
      • CLIMATE MODELS AND PREDICTIONS
      • CLIMATE CHANGE
      • HUMAN IMPACT AND NATURAL RESOURCES
      • DESIGN SOLUTIONS AROUND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
      • EARTH SYSTEMS
      • WAVE PROPERTIES
      • ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
      • ENERGY SOURCES AND PRODUCTION
      • ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM

      Skills

      • Make observations about demonstrations, experiments and phenomena.
      • Form questions and wonderings about phenomena using observations and prior knowledge.
      • Ask questions about others’ explanations.
      • Use appropriate tools to make measurements and collect numerical data.
      • Plan and conduct cause/effect investigations that are “fair tests”.
      • Explain safety and ethical impacts of science investigations and solutions.
      • Design and refine visual or physical models that explain science events.
      • Display data using visual representations, including tables and graphs.
      • Connect data to appropriate explanations.
      • Construct and defend explanations about science concepts based on evidence.
      • Communicate with others about science claims and flaws in reasoning based on evidence
      • Use appropriate science vocabulary when communicating about science events.
      • Relate the use of science and technology to both causes of societal problems and possible solutions.
      • Design multiple solutions to real-life problems, and be able to improve them based on results.

      Science How You Can Help Your Child

      • Visit together, observe together, wonder together, think together, tinker together and most importantly, talk together!
      • Be positive about science learning. Don’t ever say science (or math) is “hard”!
      • Encourage perseverance. Often in science/math there is not an answer immediately, it takes time and effort.
      • Be positive about your child being curious about the world and taking time to “figure things out” by predicting, talking, investigating, not just “learn about” by looking up an answer.
      • Encourage students to develop and test their own understandings and explanations of the world.
      • Encourage exploration of objects around the house (movement, light, sound, heat), the world outside (sky, weather, trees, yard, the earth), living things (humans, animals, plants) and technology (cars, TVs, machines).
      • Encourage use of measurement tools at home (hand lens, rulers, thermometers, scales).
      • Encourage use of math, especially statistics in solving problems and analyzing data.
      • Help your child investigate the wide variety of careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.
      • Use and visit local resources (museums, parks, family nights, science programs/events at Yale, other places).

       

      GUIDE TO NGSS FOR PARENTS, Interpretive Guide to NGSS Testing

      PHYCHEM NGSS Standards By Quarter  

       

      DETAILED GRADE BY GRADE OVERVIEW WITH NextGenerationScience Standards per Grade/Course and Quarter