What Your Students Need to Know Before High School: Physics
You can use any of a variety of science curriculum, or you can just do explorations and experiments that interest your students, but usually at some point homeschool teachers wonder if they have done enough. This often happens as you begin to think about the transition into high school. So, what do students need to know before they begin high school level physics?
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| Italy in the Renaissance |
So much of physics is math related once students get to the high school level, but there is much to do before they get to that level...
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| Building Big: Suspension Bridges |
Building
Magnets
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| Weather: Temperature & Wind |
Weather
Air Pressure
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| The Water Cycle: Evaporation, Condensation and Precipitation |
The Water Cycle
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| Seeing the Effect of Changing Temperature |
Temperature
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| Density, Buoyancy and Fish |
Density
Buoyancy
Crystals
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| The Difference Between Rocks and Minerals |
Geology
Rocks, Minerals and Fossils
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| Layers of the Earth Model You Can Eat |
Geological Formations
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| Viewing the Transit of Venus |
Lenses
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| Refraction |
Optics
Light
Color
Sound
Simple Machines
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Moving Energy in a Toy Car |
Energy
Weight vs. Mass
Speed
Newton's Laws
Inertia
