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Electricity can be easy to understand - if you choose the right starting point!To make the science of electricity intuitive, you will begin with energy. From here, you can learn a fruitful model of simple electric circuits, developed from ground up. This approach is highly pictorial: you will represent electric potential (Volts) and electric current (Amps) with simple diagrams. Then you can use these diagrams to analyze electric circuits. When the time comes to introduce algebra and equations, you will already have know something about V, I, R and P from your diagrams. Parents and teachers, you get one half of the book! We provide solid pedagogical supports, recipes, and methods of presentation.Every Student Exercise has a corresponding Parent-Teacher Guide - to help you teach your own child about electricity. Using pencil-and-paper exercises, your student will develop a fruitful model of simple electric circuits. Every exercise uses meaningful and powerful diagrams that work the way that kids actually think. Because this unit involves fundamental forces and concepts, it is placed first in the series of four strands. It should be taught before chemistry.The Electricity unit is subdivided into four sections, approximately one week each.Static electricity and the electrical structure of matterCharacteristics of electric current, and development of a model of current, potential, resistance and powerMathematical treatment of series and parallel circuitsProjects that are either an application of the model or an extensions of the model.At the end of sections 1 - 3 is a thorough quiz

Bring IntuitivChemistry with you into your senior high school chemistry class!In Table Manners, you were introduced to a civilized conversation with the Ross Periodic Table. You will love to continue the discussion in Table Talk! The same three simple concepts you cultivated in Table Manners are now directed at the more difficult problems in senior high school chemistry. The Ross Periodic Table is a pedagogical model of the periodic table - a periodic table designed for learning.Both books maintain a consistent approach that brings all of these chemical phenomena under your students' intuitive understanding. You will gain a level of fluency that is simply not possible using other approaches. Teachers and parents both know that personal competency is the only reliable foundation upon which to build a student's self-esteem and confidence.Compatible with the emerging consensus on the nature of science.Works with, not against, students' natural cognitive growth.Integrates language with learningInformed by over thirty years of international research into how students learn science, the IntuitivChemistry books directly challenge the everyday misconceptions that students bring to your classroom. In six sets of two page exercises, your students will cover these advanced chemistry topics.Oxidation and reduction (which are dynamic processes) and the concept of oxidation states (which are static properties)The essential concepts of redox reactions, including reactions between elemental metals and non-metals, between elemental non-metals and non-metals, and between covalent molecular compounds.Hydrocarbons and other compounds containing oxygen and nitrogen, the oxidation states of the atoms in such molecules, and redox reactions among organic compounds.Electron potential energy, and how it explains the energetics of the combustion of non-metals, metals, and hydrocarbons.Molecular polarity - the dipolarity of water, alcohols, and carbonyl groupsWhat makes non-metal oxides acidic? Why are metal oxides basic? What governs the strength of the oxy-acids? As in all of the IntuitivScience series, diagrams are the most important mode of learning. We are all visual learners. Every student exercise uses simple diagrams that are easy to learn, diagrams designed to have extraordinary power and depth. The diagrams are based upon the mental models that all of us use to make sense of the world, so they feel "intuitive." And they are tested carefully against demands of good scientific theory. You will use the Ross model of the atom, a simplified version of the atom that "works" the way that young people think.Parents and teachers, you get one half of the book! Each two-page student activity is accompanied by a two-page teacher / parent guide, so you can help your student proceed. At the end of each section is a thorough quiz.

What is the sun doing during every day? What can you see in the sky each night? This unit is a descriptive account of the contents and history of the universe, as it is pictured by scientists over the past fifty years. You will learn how four forces shape our universe. You using your understanding of the gravitational force and the electrical force to explain the brightness and color of the stars you see. As in all of the IntuitivScience series, diagrams are the most important mode of learning. You will approach understanding of the motions of the moon by making naked-eye observations over several full lunar cycles. During that time, you can build a pinhole camera to safely observe the sun. The moons of Jupiter are an instructive model of the solar system, and you can observe them with ordinary binoculars. Parents and teachers, you get one half of the book! Each two-page student activity is accompanied by a two-page teacher / parent guide, so you can help your student proceed. The whole book is divided into four major sections, each requiring a little more than one week to complete.Construction of some simple instruments to assist in observation of the earth, the sun, the moon, and time, all from your own location.Observation of the sun, the closest star. From these observations we move to an understanding of the forces that shape our sun and its behavior.Observation of the moon, and other satellites. From these observations we build an understanding of the role of gravitation in orbital motionResearch project: Things within our solar systemResearch project: Things beyond our solar systemThis time line is divided into five separate one-week blocks. You could do them in a single five-week period. Alternatively, students could extend their observations over several months, a week at a time, while studying other subjects.

Let's do more than just memorize stuff ! Once again, IntuitivScience represents introductory cell biology in a highly pictorial manner. Using very simple, easy-to-reproduce diagrams, students can quickly accomplish a solid understanding of the "how-and-why" of cellular reproduction. In this book, we explore how multicellular organisms grow, repair tissue, and pass on hereditary material. The emphasis is on the genetic information and its faithful and complete transmission between generations. We construct a simple model of the structure and role of DNA, how it is translated into protein, and how it is combined in sexual reproduction.Parents and teachers, you get one half of the book! We provide solid pedagogical supports, recipes, and methods of presentation. Every two-page Student Exercise in this book is supported by a two-page Parent-Teacher Guide, to help you teach your child about cellular reproduction. The unit itself is subdivided into four major sections. Each section will take a little more than one week to complete.Structure and function of the plant and animal cell. Basic use of the microscope to observe the plant and animal cells. This might be review for many students.The observable features of cellular reproduction, which are divided into two distinct phases. The first phase is cell reproduction, which involves the whole life cycle of one cell. The second observable phase is nuclear reproduction, which is widely known as mitosis.Reproduction at the molecular level. What's going on down there during mitosis and meiosis? What can go wrong?Laboratory activities in which students examine some forms of reproduction.At the end of each section is a thorough quiz. Your student will learn how multi-cellular organisms grow, repair tissue, and pass on hereditary material by forms of cell division and differentiation, with an emphasis on the genetic information and its faithful and complete transmission between generations. We explore the structure and role of DNA, how the cell "reads" DNA to make proteins, and how DNA damage can result in errors in those proteins. You may also investigate how people can manipulate DNA, and the societal effects of this technology.

Take your beginning chemistry students farther than you ever imagined!The Intuitive Chemistry books start with the traditional chemistry curriculum, and modify it in three unique ways.Uses the Ross model of the atom, a simplified version of the atom that "works" the way that young people think. Students can use the Ross model to make insightful explanations and accurate predictions of chemical behaviour.Rearranges the traditional curriculum to avoid confusion and build student competency. Competent students are confident students! Provides a model of science that directs the student's attention to the student's own understanding. Each experiment tests the validity of the student's own thinking.As in all of the IntuitivScience series, diagrams are an important mode of expression. Parents and teachers, you get one half of the book! We provide solid pedagogical supports, recipes, and methods of presentation.Informed by over thirty years of international research into how students learn science, the IntuitivChemistry series directly challenges the everyday misconceptions that students bring to your classroom. For each Student Exercise in this book there is a Parent-Teacher Guide, to help you teach your child about the periodic table.Your student will review the composition of matter, from sub-atomic particles to solutions and mixtures.Next, you will explore the relationship between atomic structure, chemical behaviour, and organization of the periodic table.Finally, a brief survey of the chemical behavior of the s-block and p-block elements follows.At the end of each section is a thorough quiz

Take your beginning chemistry students farther than you ever imagined!The IntuitivChemistry books will guide your student through the traditional chemistry curriculum - and make it intuitive in three unique ways.We are all visual learners. Every student exercise uses simple diagrams that are easy to learn, diagrams designed to have extraordinary power and depth. The diagrams are based upon the mental models that all of us use to make sense of the world, so they feel "intuitive." And they are tested carefully against demands of good scientific theory. You will use the Ross model of the atom, a simplified version of the atom that "works" the way that young people think. Students can use the Ross model to make insightful explanations and accurate predictions of chemical behaviour.You will follow the traditional curriculum in a slightly re-arranged order, to avoid confusion and build student competency. Competent students are confident students!We will provide you with a model of science that directs the student's attention to the student's own understanding. Each experiment tests the validity of the student's own thinking.Each two-page student activity requires students to represent chemical processes four different ways: Balanced chemical equation, word equation, Dalton diagram equation and mass equation. These four representations reinforce student understanding of chemical change. In addition, each activity requires students to use complete sentences and paragraphs to express their own thinking.The relationship between atomic structure, chemical behavior, and organization of the periodic table is extended from the Grade Nine Chemistry unit. We clearly intend this unit to anticipate and support the introduction of the mole concept in Grade 11.The unit is composed of three major sections.Decomposition and synthesis reactions, with their one-to-many and many-to-one structure, are the easiest to work with. Metals, non-metals and pH. The origins of acid and base behavior are probed here, bringing the student to single displacement and double displacement reactions.Reactions of Acids and Bases. In both metal / acid reactions and acid / base reactions, we continue to use the four representations. Emphasis is placed on naming the chemicals involved.Each two-page student exercise is linked to a two-page parent / teacher guide.At the end of each section is a thorough quiz.

So you want to predict the weather? We can do that!We are all visual learners. So, just like all of the IntuitivScience books, you will start by learning to use simple, intuitive diagrams to represent three basic theories.You are probably already familiar with the particle theory of matter.From there, you will learn to use the concept of an air parcel, to predict and explain the behaviour of air.Finally, you will build upon these two theories together to describe common weather events.Using pictorial representations of these three theories, you will learn how to calculate atmospheric pressure, energy, temperature, mass and other quantities related to weather. As you become more adept at drawing these specialized pictures of the earth's atmosphere, you will learn how to use these theoretical descriptions to explain and predict the weather around you.For all of the labs and practical activities, you will use the PEOE (Predict, Explain, Observe, and Explain) model of science investigations. After you frame your question, you will provide your best prediction, and explain your thinking, using both sentences and diagrams. When the experiment is over, you will record your observations, and then fix your earlier explanation You will use your diagrams to interpret and predict the weather.Your knowledge and understanding will be probed in Daily Quizzes.At the end of the unit, you will be given a five day independent project to demonstrate your ability to conduct your own investigation. The quality of your arguments is the most important aspect of communication in this chapter. Your arguments must consist of sentences, organized into paragraphs, and supported by diagrams or other representations.As in all of the IntuitivScience series, diagrams are an important mode of expression. The diagrams provide the student with tools to analyze the most important forces that influence Earth's weather. Every two-page student exercise uses easy-to-learn diagrams as the building blocks of understanding.Parents and teachers, you get one half of the book! Each two-page student activity is accompanied by a two-page teacher / parent guide, that provides solid pedagogical supports, recipes, and methods of presentation.The book is subdivided into three major sections. Each section will take a little more than one week to complete.Basic structure of the atmosphere and the factors that shape it. Foremost is the particle nature of the gases that make up the atmosphere, and the forces that act upon the gases. Also included is the role of water and its changes of state in the energy economy of the atmosphere.The circulation of air parcels as they absorb and release energy from the sun. This fundamental motion is simple, but can be used to explain complex events like cloud formation, chinooks, and warm and cold fronts.The effect of the spinning of Earth upon the motion of circulating air masses. The winds that we experience are shaped more by the Coriolis effect than by thermal effects. This counter-intuitive idea is one of the more difficult ideas to learn.At the end of the formal exercises, students are invited to undertake a five day structured research project on a weather event of interest to them

An investigation into environmental sustainability, this unit emphasizes the structures of ecosystems, the cycling of matter and energy within ecosystems, and the ways in which humans affect sustainability of ecosystems. Because this unit involves some outdoor investigations, it should be placed first if taught in the autumn semester, or last, if taught in the winter semester. The unit itself is divided into four sections.1.The unit begins with a brief consideration of energy and thermodynamics and the limits placed on ecosystems by the first two laws.2.Recycling matter is the focus of the second part of the unit. Students investigate the water cycle, food webs and other biotic components of ecosystems.3.Next, students are given the opportunity to investigate abiotic and biotic parameters in a local aquatic ecosystem.4.The unit concludes with a five-day performance task that will enable students to examine human affects on the sustainability of ecosystems.