These slideshows - some are powerpoint, some are pdf - will be used in science classes.  Along with worksheets that teachers may give out, they will act as course notes for students.

Unit 1 Interactions within Ecosystems

Unit 2 Heat

Unit 3 Mixtures and Solutions

Unit 4 Earth's Crust

Unit 1 - Water Systems  

Unit 2 - Optics

Unit 3 - Fluids

Unit 4 - Cells, Tissues, Organs and Systems

Unit 1 - Atoms, Elements and Compounds

Unit 2 - Reproduction

Unit 3 - Electricity

Unit 4 - Space

  • Experiment Outline (Word)

  • Model Outline (Word)

  • Experiment Evaluation Sheet (Word)

  • Model Evaluation Sheet (Word)

  • Mrs. Power's Science Fair Resources Page

  • Students who have humans participating in their  projects in any way and are going to the Eastern Newfoundland Regional Science Fair need to complete these forms. 

    • Letter of information - Fill out this form with information about your project. (you can delete the lines if you want).  You will need enough copies to give to all your participants - you can do this in the school library.  Subjects must be given this form to read before they participate in your project.  Here is a sample of a similar form already filled out.

    • Informed consent - Make enough copies of this form to give to all your participants.  Get all your participants (and their parents if they are under 18) to sign it.  Bring all these copies and the completed YSF Form 4.1A (to your teacher for safekeeping.

    • YSF Form 4.1A Participation of Humans Low-risk Approval. Fill this form out online, print it, get your teacher to sign it and bring it to the science fair with you.

     


The Intermediate Science Program involves a study of selected topics from Earth, Environmental, Life and Physical Sciences. Each school year we begin with a field trip that incorporates the learning outcomes from the Environmental Science unit for each grade level:

 

  • Grade 9 students visit the Fluvarium where they get a first hand experience conducting water quality analysis of Nagle's Brook.
  • Grade 8 students also visit the Fluvarium to observe the interdependence between the plants and animals of our local area.
  • Grade 7 students visit the Fluvarium to  experience how a wide variety of fish and other freshwater organisms carry out the basic processes needed to stay alive.

Throughout our Science Program, students are exposed to the major products of science such as facts,  hypothesis, theories, and models. We emphasize the use of technology by designing science activities that involve the use of the Internet and various forms of electronic communication such as email and computer conferencing. Overall, our students are encouraged to think scientifically as we present them with an authentic view of the way science works.

All students are required to design, develop and present a science project. Participation in the school science fair is optional although all students are encouraged to participate. There are two types of projects:

  • An Experimental Project that requires a student to design and conduct an experiment, to answer a scientific question using the scientific method.
  • A Model Project that requires a student to construct a model, which demonstrates a scientific principle.

Each student is required to keep a Science Binder, which is used exclusively  for science materials. The goal of using the binder is to encourage good note-taking and organizational skills, and to emphasize that science cannot be learned without accumulating a body of information.

The text used in grade 7, 8 and 9 is Discovering science. Evaluation consists of term grades that are based upon student performance  on a variety of assigned tasks.

Evaluation for the science program is as follows:

  • Tests  40%
  • Quizzes 10%
  • Projects 10%
  • Scientific literacy test 10%
  • Labs 15%
  • Class assignments, activities, foldables, homework 15%

Topics covered in the grade 7 science program are:

  • Laboratory Safety and Scientific Method
  • Interactions within Ecosystems
  • Heat
  • Mixtures and Solutions
  • Earth's crust

Topics covered in the grade 8 science program are:

  • Laboratory Safety and Scientific Method
  •  Water systems
  •  Fluids
  •  Optics
  •  Cells, tissues and organs

Topics covered in the grade 9 science program are:

  • Laboratory Safety and Scientific Method
  • Space
  • Atoms, Elements and Compounds
  • Electricity
  • Reproduction
Department Head: Ms. Karen Tilley

Teachers: Mr. David Jeffers, Mrs. Beth Power, Mme Nathalie Brunet (on leave), Mme Barbara Pynn, Mr. Matthew Grant, Mr. Ryan Keats