Science activities

I was hoping to do a practical today, but couldn't book a room where the gas worked. Try these activities looking at what we've covered so far this year -

• Physics skate park - What types of energy can you see?
• Thingdom - What gets randomly given to offspring when the things reproduce?
• There are lots of good activities on this link, try whatever you like.
• In this game, you have to build a city that saves energy.
• In Pandemic, you play as a disease and have to infect everybody in the world!
• There are also lots of activities here to do with the human body.

You can also watch any of the videos posted in this site if you want to.

Energy

Today we're going to be starting the next assignment topic - energy.  Answer the following in your books:

1. What is energy?
2. Name two different types of energy:
3. Can energy ever be created or destroyed? What can happen to it?
4. What happens to the atoms in this metal bar when you heat it?
5. What is the chemical energy in the methane being converted to here? Try and name two types of energy:                                                                                   
6. What does  a sankey diagram look like?
7. For a light bulb (at the bottom of this page), what is most of it's energy transferred to?
8. Use the activity on this link, explaining when the skater has the most potential energy and when they have the most kinetic energy.

Physics P3 and P4

Today we'll be finishing and printing the powerpoint from yesterday.  Once Mr. Cole has checked yours, you can print it and put it in a plastic pocket with your name on the assignment sheet.

Next, answer these questions in your books about the bubbles for tomorrow.

1. What is methane?
2. What two elements make it up? Use the picture below to help:
3. Watch the video below.  What are the three sides of the fire triangle here?
4. Is the explosion here exothermic or endothermic?
5. Use the bottom of the link from question 4 to explain what happens when you add sodium hydroxide to hydrochloric acid.
6. Why can water absorb a lot of heat? 
7. Why do you think it will be important to cover your hands in water tomorrow before holding burning methane bubbles?                                                                                               

Physics P3 and P4

Today we're starting the first assignment for physics.  You will need to work in a powerpoint, which we will print off later. Questions 1, 2, and 3 are for P3, 4 and 5 are for P4.

1. Find a good image for the electromagnetic spectrum, and copy it into the middle of your slide. Find something like the ones below with different waves labelled would be good:                                                                                        
2. Use this link to briefly explain what 5 of the waves are used for, eg. 'microwaves are used for cooking.' Write these in text boxes with lines to where the waves are in the spectrum.
3. Copy and complete this sentence - Radio waves have a high wavelength and a low frequency, while gamma rays have a high                and a             wavelength. Use this page to help if you aren't sure.
4. Use this page to explain what types of ionizing radiation there are, and what it can do to cells in our bodies.
5. Explain what makes up the three types of ionizing radiation, using a table like this one:

   Radiation:	Made of:
   Alpha
   Beta
   Gamma



6. 
   

P3 Chemistry assignment

Make a table to summarize the  first 20 elements of the Periodic Table. Use these headings:

Element                     Symbol            Atomic number            Mass number            Electronic structure

1. Hydrogen 
2. Helium  
3. Lithium 
4. Beryllium 
5. Boron 
6. Carbon 
7. Nitrogen 
8. Oxygen 
9. Fluorine 
10. Neon 
11. Sodium 
12. Magnesium 
13. Aluminium 
14. Silicon 
15. Phosphorous 
16. Sulphur 
17. Chlorine 
18. Argon 
19. Potassium
20. Calcium

Use this link to help you, the atomic number is the one on the top for each element and the mass number is the one on the bottom.

Chemistry Assignment

Today we are going to finish off the table that we started last week with the flame tests. Use the links below to fill in the rest of the boxes.

1. For conducting electricity, none of the chemicals will as solids because they are all metals joined to non-metals. This means that you can write 'no' in every box for conducting electricity. 
2. For melting points, use this link for compounds starting with A-K, and this one for the rest.
3. For dissolving in water (also called solubility), use the table on this link to say 'yes' or 'no' for each compound.
4. For P2, you need to draw a graph of the copper wire experiment we did last week. It should look this the one below, with the length of wire on the bottom and the current on the side: If you don't have results from last week, use the table below the graph:        

Current (amps)	Length of wire (cm)
2	5
1.7	15
1.4	20
.8	25
.4	30
.1	35