PORT COLBORNE HIGH SCHOOL
COURSE OUTLINE University Physics-SPH-3U
Assessment and Evaluation Statement:
Our goal is for each student to achieve and demonstrate a high level of understanding and learning in this course. Please be aware that
most of your marks will be coming from a small number of critical tasks completed throughout the semester. In order to be successful, it is very important that you participate in all of the activities in this course.
Practice for Learning:
You will be given ample opportunity to learn and practice the key expectations of this course. The daily activities taking place allow you to build on the knowledge required to be successful. You will use self, peer and teacher assessments for these activities which will allow you to maximize your learning and your mark. You will be given feedback by your teacher that will allow you to submit your very best work for each of these critical tasks. You must participate in the feedback process; critical tasks will not be evaluated unless you have followed the process set up by your teacher.
Evaluation of Learning:
Most of your marks will come from critical tasks that take place towards the end of a unit, after you have had the opportunity to master the expectations. Critical tasks will usually include an activity that connects your learning to life after high school (e.g. research reports, laboratory investigations, multi-media presentations). Where appropriate, it may take the form of a written test.
Mark Break Down:
Formative and Summative 70%
Evaluations
End of Course Performance 10%
Task
Final Exam 20%
Learning Skills:
These include: works independently, teamwork, organization, work habits/homework and initiative. These skills are important to your success as a student. They are not specifically part of your marks, but are recorded separately on your report card.
Unit Description
KINEMATICS
Analyse technologies that apply concepts related to kinematics, and assess the technologies’ social and environmental impact; investigate,
in qualitative and quantitative terms, uniform and non-uniform linear motion, and solve related problems; demonstrate an understanding of uniform and non-uniform linear motion, in one and two dimensions.
Critical Tasks
Motion Lab Tests and Quizzes
FORCES
Analyse and propose improvements to technologies that apply concepts related to dynamics and Newton’s laws, and assess the technologies’ social and environmental impact; investigate, in qualitative and quantitative terms, net force, acceleration, and mass, and solve related problems; demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between changes in velocity and unbalanced forces in one dimension.
Critical Tasks
Use simulation software to prove Newton's laws Force Lab Quizzes Unit test
ENERGY and SOCIETY
Analyse technologies that apply principles of and concepts related to energy transformations, and assess the technologies’ social and environmental
impact; investigate energy transformations and the law of conservation of energy, and solve related problems; demonstrate an understanding of work,
efficiency, power, gravitational potential energy, kinetic energy, nuclear energy, and thermal energy and its transfer (heat).
Critical Tasks
Use simulation software to prove laws of conservation of energy. Heat lab, Unit test
Waves and Sound
Analyse how mechanical waves and sound affect technology, structures, society, and the environment, and assess ways of reducing their negative effects; investigate, in qualitative and quantitative terms, the properties of mechanical waves and sound, and solve related problems; demonstrate an understanding of the properties of mechanical waves and sound and of the principles underlying their production, transmission, interaction, and
reception.
Critical Tasks
Unit test. Use simulation software to understand energy transmission. Research paper on technological applications of waves in science and society.
Sound labs
ELECTRICITY and MAGNETISM
Analyse the social, economic, and environmental impact of electrical energy production and technologies related to electromagnetism, and propose ways to improve the sustainability of electrical energy production; investigate, in qualitative and quantitative terms, magnetic fields and electric circuits, and solve related problems; demonstrate an understanding of the properties of magnetic fields, the principles of current and electron flow, and the operation of selected technologies that use these properties and principles
to produce and transmit electrical energy.
Critical Tasks
Unit test Electricity laboratory Magnetism Laboratory Tests and Quizzes
End of Course Performance Task
The performance task will be worth 10% of the student's final mark
Final Evaluation
The final assessment task is a proctored two hour exam worth 20% of the student's final mark.
COURSE OUTLINE University Physics-SPH-3U
Assessment and Evaluation Statement:
Our goal is for each student to achieve and demonstrate a high level of understanding and learning in this course. Please be aware that
most of your marks will be coming from a small number of critical tasks completed throughout the semester. In order to be successful, it is very important that you participate in all of the activities in this course.
Practice for Learning:
You will be given ample opportunity to learn and practice the key expectations of this course. The daily activities taking place allow you to build on the knowledge required to be successful. You will use self, peer and teacher assessments for these activities which will allow you to maximize your learning and your mark. You will be given feedback by your teacher that will allow you to submit your very best work for each of these critical tasks. You must participate in the feedback process; critical tasks will not be evaluated unless you have followed the process set up by your teacher.
Evaluation of Learning:
Most of your marks will come from critical tasks that take place towards the end of a unit, after you have had the opportunity to master the expectations. Critical tasks will usually include an activity that connects your learning to life after high school (e.g. research reports, laboratory investigations, multi-media presentations). Where appropriate, it may take the form of a written test.
Mark Break Down:
Formative and Summative 70%
Evaluations
End of Course Performance 10%
Task
Final Exam 20%
Learning Skills:
These include: works independently, teamwork, organization, work habits/homework and initiative. These skills are important to your success as a student. They are not specifically part of your marks, but are recorded separately on your report card.
Unit Description
KINEMATICS
Analyse technologies that apply concepts related to kinematics, and assess the technologies’ social and environmental impact; investigate,
in qualitative and quantitative terms, uniform and non-uniform linear motion, and solve related problems; demonstrate an understanding of uniform and non-uniform linear motion, in one and two dimensions.
Critical Tasks
Motion Lab Tests and Quizzes
FORCES
Analyse and propose improvements to technologies that apply concepts related to dynamics and Newton’s laws, and assess the technologies’ social and environmental impact; investigate, in qualitative and quantitative terms, net force, acceleration, and mass, and solve related problems; demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between changes in velocity and unbalanced forces in one dimension.
Critical Tasks
Use simulation software to prove Newton's laws Force Lab Quizzes Unit test
ENERGY and SOCIETY
Analyse technologies that apply principles of and concepts related to energy transformations, and assess the technologies’ social and environmental
impact; investigate energy transformations and the law of conservation of energy, and solve related problems; demonstrate an understanding of work,
efficiency, power, gravitational potential energy, kinetic energy, nuclear energy, and thermal energy and its transfer (heat).
Critical Tasks
Use simulation software to prove laws of conservation of energy. Heat lab, Unit test
Waves and Sound
Analyse how mechanical waves and sound affect technology, structures, society, and the environment, and assess ways of reducing their negative effects; investigate, in qualitative and quantitative terms, the properties of mechanical waves and sound, and solve related problems; demonstrate an understanding of the properties of mechanical waves and sound and of the principles underlying their production, transmission, interaction, and
reception.
Critical Tasks
Unit test. Use simulation software to understand energy transmission. Research paper on technological applications of waves in science and society.
Sound labs
ELECTRICITY and MAGNETISM
Analyse the social, economic, and environmental impact of electrical energy production and technologies related to electromagnetism, and propose ways to improve the sustainability of electrical energy production; investigate, in qualitative and quantitative terms, magnetic fields and electric circuits, and solve related problems; demonstrate an understanding of the properties of magnetic fields, the principles of current and electron flow, and the operation of selected technologies that use these properties and principles
to produce and transmit electrical energy.
Critical Tasks
Unit test Electricity laboratory Magnetism Laboratory Tests and Quizzes
End of Course Performance Task
The performance task will be worth 10% of the student's final mark
Final Evaluation
The final assessment task is a proctored two hour exam worth 20% of the student's final mark.