COURSE THEMES the "big ideas" of science from The National Science Education Standards- NSES

COURSE OUTLINE summarizes teacher/student expectations, class goals, discipline procedures, and grading for each quarter

HONOR CODE gives specific examples of what could constitute a violation of the honor code in my class

SCIENTIFIC NOTATION:  How to deal with really big or really small numbers (without having to write all the zeros).

NOTES ON GRAPHING:  interpreting graphs in science.

TRIGONOMETRY:  basic use of sine, cosine, tangent and the inverse of these

PROPORTION:  How to express direct and inverse relationships between quantities  

UNIT CONVERSION:  How to change between simple/compound units of measure  

THINKING LIKE A SCIENTIST:  Do you have the skills needed to be a good scientist?  Check it out!

	Observe for Relationships between things
	QUESTION EVERYTHING be skeptical and curious
	Hypothesize make guesses as to the causes/reasons of things
	Test Hypotheses to verify if they are
	Communicate Your Findings how language skills are important in science, especially analogies

COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS IN PHYSICS: common assumptions about the physical world that are erroneous.

FUNNY STUDENT ANSWERS TO TEST QUESTIONS: bon-a-fide hilarious answers by students to questions on tests.

PHYSICS PARADOXES:  weird contradictory phenomena in physics.

SCIENCE BLOOPERS:  funny mistakes in the history of science.

GLOSSARY:  the vocabulary and jargon of physics, includes the Greek alphabet

WORD ROOTS (ETYMOLOGY):  Greek, Latin, and other common roots to words in science.

FORMULAS OF PHYSICS:  formulas used in physics to show relationships between physical quantities.

OFTEN USED CONSTANTS:  tables of the most often used constants/values in high school physics.

UNITS AND UNIT CONVERSION:  converting from one unit to another.

	UNIT CONVERSION (Dimensional Analysis)  Conversion tables from just about everything to just about everything else.
	STANDARD UNITS AND THEIR HISTORY  The standard international units of measurement and their stories.
	USING UNITS TO FIGURE OUT A FORMULA  How to check to see if a formula is correct from the units.

CITATION OF SOURCES:  how to properly cite a reference.

SCIENCE TIME LINE:  the main events in scientific history listed chronologically.