Exploration Education Advanced Physical Science

The advanced version includes all of the standard version’s lessons, experiments, and projects and expands it by adding 72 lessons and three projects. It thoroughly supports all of the content standards set by the National Science Education Standards for physical science.

This general physical science course uses a hands-on approach allowing students to explore the foundational principles of physical science. Using the text and lab activities, students study forces, machines, motion, energy, electricity, magnetism, sound, light, density and buoyancy. Students will also study general chemistry concepts including the structure of matter, the periodic table, chemical bonds and reactions, mixtures and compounds and the chemistry of food and living systems. In addition, students will learn the fundamental physics concepts of the earth and solar system, thermodynamics, and fluid dynamics. Throughout this course, students discover the relationship between science and daily life. The students will gain a solid understanding of the scientific method and learn to write thorough and accurate lab write-ups.

Length of course: 36 weeks/one school year -- five lessons each week -- 50 minutes/lesson
Hours: 150 Instructional hours with 40 lab hours
Prerequisites: None
Target grades: 7th - 10th
Credit: Full year credit (if using for high school)

What's Included:

All necessary materials for the 10 projects and 144 experiments/activities
Student Logbook – advanced version
Online Access Code to the Interactive student text with 180 lessons & step-by-step experiment instructions.
Teacher’s Manual

There are a minimal number of tools and readily available household supplies that will be necessary. Below is a downloadable list of these supplies.

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