ISS Assignments
Physical Science ISS assignments are aligned with JCCSS initiative to specifically target improvements in Literacy and Mathematics. 

Literacy Focused Science Assignments:
All links below direct you to relevant science articles. The content connects in class concepts with real world applications, controversy, careers, and more.... For each article students are EXPECTED to thoroughly read and analyze the article before any attempt to write a written response to the prompts found below. 

Instructions:Once the student has finished reading they should address EACH of the following prompts specifically and in depth. The response should reflect thought and reflection. Use the hints to help you get started, it is not possible to for your responses to be to long!!

1.] What Surprised Me? (I didn't know that!     I was shocked that....     Oh, now I get it!      Really!?     I couldn't believe.......   )

2.] What does the author think I already Know?  (I was confused by...     The author thought I knew...     I was already knowledgeable about....      I have heard of this before but/and....  )

3.] What Changed, Challenged, or Confirmed what I already know?  (I was wrong/right about...     I had to rethink or reread about...     I have always thought this way.... but the author discusses it this way....        does new information you come across in your reading fit with what you already know or believe?)

Article Links Below 

• A Cooking-As-Medicine Revolution
• Conservation of Matter During Physical & Chemical Changes
• Dwindling Freshwater Resources
• Earth's Start is full of Mysteries and Laughing Gas
• Every Wonder Why Days Get Shorter in Winter
• Grape-ling With Microwaves
• Matter and Energy: What is Matter?
• See a Black Hole for the First Time 
• The Effects of Air Pollution
• At the United Nations Youth Leaders Call for True Climate Action
• The Earth's Oceans are in Hot Water
• ​Misinformation about Climate Change on YOUTUBE
• Hey check out these "Cool Jobs: Poop Investigator 
• Meat-Eating Pitcher Plants Snack on Baby Salamanders

Mathematics Focused Science Assignments:
All links below direct you to assignments focused on skills that are essential for success in Physical Science. Assignments may target a Specific Skill, Unit Skill Sets, or Multi Unit Review/Practice.  Please Remember that a Number without a unit is meaningless. 

Instructions: Students are expected to show all work!!!! Show every single step, and keep track of any units. Calculators should NOT be allowed for use in ISS, the old-school way works just fine. 

Assignment Links Below

• Specific Skill.... Conversion Factors 
• Specific Skill.... Density   (D=m/V)
• Specific Skill.... Specific Heat (Q=mcT)
• Multi-Skill....Physical Science Review 1 units, density, states of matter
• Specific Skill.... Frequency, Energy & Wavelength 
• Specific Skill.... Differentiation of Wave Properties. 
• Specific Skill.... Periodic Table Trends 
• Specific Skill.... Frequency and Wavelength
• Multi-Skill.... Physical Science Review 2 + Specific Heat & Heating Curve
• Specific Skill... Atomic Theory Fill in the Table.