Assessments:
Test date: week 13: the test will be open notebook, but you may not bring your Ilmiö book along.
Study guidance for open note tests here.
MONDAY/FRIDAY LESSONS
| Week number | Date | Lesson content | Lesson resources and links | Homework |
| 2 | 7 Jan | Heat energy Temperature Temperature scales SI Base units | Monday 8.15 notes 11.45 notes Redefining the kg More about the kg changing Friday notes | click here |
| 3 | 14 Jan | Heat transfer methods: conduction, convection and radiation | Monday notes Friday notes | click here |
| 4 | 21 Jan | Comparing heat loss from black and white surfaces | Monday 8.15 notes 11.45 notes Friday notes | Grade 9 link -Monday groups - this must be completed by Wednesday 23 Jan Friday group - this must be completed by Tuesday Jan 29. |
| 5 | 28 Jan | Foil insoles investigation | Investigation instruction sheet Report writing headings Report writing frame | Plan your investigation so you are ready to start taking results in at the start of the lesson next week. |
| 6 | 4 Feb | Foil insoles investigation | ||
| 7 | 11 Feb | Foil insoles investigation | Complete the method for the investigation and start drawing the line graphs to show the data. | |
| 8 | 18 Feb | Foil insoles investigation | Complete the investigation | |
| 9 | 25 Feb | Thermal expansion. What causes it; calculations; expansion of water | Monday notes Friday notes | Make sure all your work is up to date and no notes are missing. |
| 11 | 11 Mar | Heat capacity including calculations. Latent heat | Monday 8.15 notes 11.45 notes Friday notes | As in week 9 |
| 12 | 18 Mar | Revision lesson | Monday 8.15 notes 11.45 notes Friday notes | Study for the test |
| 13 | 25 Mar | Introduction to electricity; static and earthing | Monday notes Friday notes | When you are next in a forest, find a tree that has been struck by lightning - it will have a split in its trunk. |
| 14 | 1 April | Introduction to circuits
| Karin absent Friday example notes Link to Electricity video | No homework |
| 15 | 8 April | Modelling circuits Resistance and Ohm's law | Monday 8.15 notes Monday 11.45 notes Friday notes | No homework |
| 16 | 15 April | Circuit rules for current and voltage Home electricity consumption; kWh | Monday 8.15 notes Sample electricity bill | Try to find out how much your monthly electricity bill is, and how devices 'on standby' contribute to this. |
| 17 | 22 April | No lesson for Monday groups; Friday group, same as week 16 | Friday notes | Try to find out how much your monthly electricity bill is, and how devices 'on standby' contribute to this. |
| 18 | 29 April | Magnetism; magnetic fields, electromagnetism | Monday notes Oersted's experiment DC motor diagram Friday notes | No homework |
| 19 | 6 May | Motor effect Electromagnetic induction Transformers | Monday notes Friday notes | No homework |
| 20 | 13 May | Transformer demonstration Electricity generation and demand | Finnish national electricity grid (map) Nordic power system Finngrid data Power spikes Friday notes | No homework |
| 21 | 20 May |
TUESDAY LESSONS
| Week number | Date | Lesson content | Lesson resources and links | Homework |
| 2 | 7 Jan | Structure of the atom - revision Electrons, neutrons, protons. The Standard Model: quarks | The Particle Adventure website Animation (like 'powers of ten') Notes from the lesson | click here |
| 3 | 14 Jan | Nuclear radiaitions - alpha, beta and gamma origins | Lesson notes Useful video | |
| 4 | 21 Jan | No lesson | ||
| 5 | 28 Jan | Ionising radiation and their action on living material | Alexander Litvinenko documentary Notes | |
| 6 | 4 Feb | Half-life (not the game!) NOTE - this subject was done by student request and is not on the Finnish curriculum so will not be in the test :) | 9b notes 9a notes | |
| 7 | 11 Feb | Einstein's famous equation E=mc^2 Fusion and fission | Lesson notes | |
| 8 | 18 Feb | Nuclear power generation Problems - Chernobyl accident | Nuclear power station diagram Finland radiation map realtime Chernobyl the severe days Lesson notes | |
| 9 | 25 Feb | Basic astronomy: structure of the Solar System Milky Way and local galaxies | Lesson notes | |
| 11 | 11 Mar | Distances in astronomy - astronomical units and light years | Lesson notes | |
| 12 | 18 Mar | No lesson | ||
| 13 | 25 Mar | TEST | ||
| 14 | 1April | Black holes | Video Monster black holes | |
| 15 | 8 April | Special relativity | Video explaining it | |
| 16 | 15 April | Visiting speaker | ||
| 17 | 22 April | Second assignment | ||
| 18 | 29 April | no lesson | ||
| 19 | 6 May | Understanding the aurora | Videos: aurora from space Timelapses from Oulu area | At some point in your life, watch the aurora, especially the corona type. Be amazed. |
| 20 | 13 May | |||
| 21 | 20 May |
