Welcome to the Grade 10 webpage!
***Update November 1st***
We are working on the chemistry unit. On Monday your molecule building
assignments will be due. Next, we will be completing several labs this
week. We will be scheduling our 1/2 way chemistry test soon.
***Update November 30th***
We have recently completed the chemistry unit and chemistry unit tests have
been handed back to students. Students should keep these tests and use them
for studying for the final exam. We have now begun the physics unit which
focuses on light and its properties.
***Update October 16th***
We have completed and corrected a practice test this week. Remember that
you're real Ecology Unit Test will take place on Tuesday October 20th. Use
your practice test as a guide to help you study.
***Update September 14th***
We have added our plants to our ecobottles (today) and on Wednesday we will
be adding our snails.
Please remember to bring in signed general policy sheets.
***Update September 9th***
Remember to bring the following things to class by this Friday:
1. Your ecobottle money ($3.00 per group)
2. Your signed permission form so that we can visit Cawthra Woods.
3. Your signed General Policy Sheet.
***Update August 27th***
Welcome back to Cawthra! Well done, you have already found your way to my
teacher web page. Here is a brief overview of what we will study this year in
grade ten applied science:
1. Physics - Light
2. Earth and Space science - Climate change
3. Biology - Ecology and Sustainability
4. Chemistry - Continuation of the introduction to the science of chemistry
If you want to work ahead here is a basic outline of what will be covered on
the Ecology Unit Test:
-Food webs and the labels for organisms (e.g., primary consumer, carnivore,
producer, decomposer, etc.)
- the terms from your Ecology Definitions sheet
- the effects that humans have on an ecosystem
- water use and conservation of water
- the factors that affect weed growth on our school property
- characteristics of soil and what characteristics are good for a sports
field
- the cycling of matter and why it is important
- alternative ways to fertilize a lawn
- bioaccumulation
