Content Objectives
This 3 – 4 week unit is designed to elevate high school students’ conceptual understanding of several interdisciplinary concepts (i.e., scale, units, and scientific notation) by solving problem sets, conducting inquiry activities using the metric system, and comparing datasets related to wavelength, frequency, and energy. The unit will begin during the first advisory period (September – November), and then will continue in the third period (April-March). Topics will follow NGSS standards (see Appendix) as well as DCPS scope and sequence. The unit is divided into three sections (i.e., base ten implementation/ unit interpretation and comparing quantities across a spectrum of the powers of ten). The unit has several objectives to assess student growth including:
- Base ten arithmetic and unit interpretation.
- Measurement precision, accuracy, and error.
- Comparing quantities using scientific notation across the EM spectrum.
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