Novare Physical Science – Digital Resources

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In this downloadable resource, you will find tools for planning the year such as a daily Lesson List and sample semester schedule. Starting about week 2 or 3, the quizzes should be administered weekly. Fall and spring semester exams are included. Weekly Review Guides are another resource to give your students to guide them as they learn to study for a mastery-based course like this one.

Also included are an answer key, a document of recommendations for teaching the book, and an experiment manual in 2 formats (one double-wide for printing out in a booklet and one single-wide for viewing on a computer screen).

These resources are suitable for use with any edition of the text. All supplemental materials are here—no other workbooks or manuals are necessary, making this an economical option. Purchasers have access to the Digital Resources for the lifetime of the product.

Included in the Digital Resources:

• Course Overview – “Recommendations for Teaching the Course” by John D. Mays
• 27 Weekly Review Guides
• 29 Quizzes
• Fall and Spring Semester Exams
• All Keys and Sample Answers
• Lesson List
• Sample Schedule for the year
• Experiment Manual (2-up for printing out as a booklet)
• Experiment Manual (1-up for displaying on a computer screen)
• Useful Links – List of free games and activities on the internet

Experiments Included

• Kinetic Energy – determine how the kinetic energy of a matchbox car varies as its mass changes
• Heat Transfer by Conduction – compare the ability of three materials (copper, aluminum, plastic cord) to conduct heat
• Electrostatic Forces – observe the effects of static electricity caused by accumulations of electric charge
• Growing Crystals – grow and observe and describe crystal formations using alum, sodium chloride, and Epsom salt
• Determining Volume – develop skill at calculating and measuring the volume of a regular solid
• Determining Density – determine the densities of several different materials and compare these densities to reference density values (aluminum, brass, carbon steel)
• Heat of Fusion – observe the effects of the heat of fusion of a substance
• Inertia and Force – use a jig with a spring that launches balls of different masses to observe how equal forces affect objects with different masses
• Observing Chemical Reactions – identify types of compounds in equations and associate chemical formulas and chemical equations with visual observations of what the compounds and reactions look like (copper sulfate, sodium hydroxide, sodium bicarbonate, hydrochloric acid)
• Refraction – measure the indices of refraction for acrylic glass and water and compare the experimental values to published reference values
• Series and Parallel Circuits – observe the behavior of resistor networks connected in series and in parallel
• Magnetic Field Strength – determine how the strength of the magnetic field around a current-carrying wire varies with the distance from the wire

Physical Science Experiment Parts List
Physical Science Special Parts Kit
Novare Physical Science Experiment Errata
Ping Pong Experiment Video
Hot Wheels Experiment Video
Observing Chemical Reactions Video

Companion Resources:

Novare Physical Science  – Textbook (Third Edition)