The Expectations

🥽 Safety and STEM Skills

Lab equipment. Be able to identify equipment and what it's used for.
Variables. Be able to define the three types and give examples.
Observations. Understand the different types of observations made in science and give examples.
Math skills. Be able to round, convert between scientific and standard notation, and convert between different SI units.
Lab rules. Know the various rules and why they exist.

🧪 Chemistry

Identify and explain all the different trends and patterns on the periodic table that we have covered in class (atomic number, mass number, valence electrons, rows, periods, staircase, etc…)
Identify what makes up an atom (protons, neutrons, electrons) and explain what happens when a given atom gains/loses protons, neutrons, and/or electrons
Define physical and chemical properties and provide examples
Define physical and chemical changes occurring in a substance and provide examples
Draw Bohr-Rutherford diagrams for the first 20 elements
Define ionic and covalent compounds, provide examples, and explain the differences and similarities between the two
Explain what a chemical formula is and write one based on the evidence provided
Describe the contributions of Dalton, Thompson, Rutherford, etc… to the field of Chemistry

🌳 Biology

Define the four spheres of an ecosystem and discuss how they are linked together
Define ecological levels (individual, population, community, ecosystem)
Identify biotic and abiotic factors of an ecosystem.
Define various trophic levels/niches
Explain how energy flows in an ecosystem (food chains, webs, pyramid of numbers)
Explain different parts of the water/carbon/oxygen/nitrogen cycles
Define and explain the relationship between photosynthesis and respiration
Discuss human impact on ecosystems
Primary and secondary succession
Sustainability of ecosystems
Human impacts on ecosystems

⚡️ Physics