META24 CORE · PROJECT-BASED · SCIENCE · UPPER SCHOOL · GRADE 10 · 1 CREDIT · NGSS · PREREQ ALGEBRA 1
Chemistry
The atom and the table, matter and its states, mixtures and solutions, acids and bases, the reaction and its rate, mass conserved — the science you can hold, built in the Kitchen, the Personal Care Lab and the Stone Room. Every quarter ends in a product that is also a proof.
THE MIX · HOW MUCH OF EACH CORE SUBJECT THIS COURSE CARRIES · IN ORDER
SCIENCEMATHREADING & WRITINGTECHNOLOGY & TRADES
The squares are a picture of a course — how much of each core subject its own rooms carry, read from the rooms’ text — never a score of a student. Every course in a lab is graded to the core across the board; the squares say which columns it feeds most.
WHAT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO DO
- Use the periodic table to predict bonding and properties; read a flame test
- Measure density, read a heating curve and explain states of matter
- Separate mixtures, grow a crystal, make and break an emulsion
- Measure pH, run and rate a reaction, and prove mass is conserved
AT A GLANCE · 36 WEEKS
Q1 The atom and the table — The Flame Test
Q2 Matter and mixtures — The Lotion That Won't Split
Q3 Acids, bases, reactions — Mass Before and After
Q4 Heat and the product — Read the pH of Everything
Semester 1
WEEKS 1–18 · QUARTERS 1 AND 2The atom and the table
WEEKS 1–9THE WEEKS · THE ROOMS EACH ONE OPENS
WK 1–4The atom
The flame test; what the colour says.
WK 5–9The periodic table
Does it conduct? Metals, non-metals, and why the table is shaped that way.
THE PROJECT · WHAT THE QUARTER IS FOR
The Flame Test
The question. Why does each salt burn a different colour — and what in the atom is doing it?
The make. The Flame Test — the build on the Science Floor, in the Stone Room: the number, the count, the sheet.
The evidence. The flame-test sheet with the colours matched to the elements and explained, handed in through the Science Floor
MS-PS1-1HS-PS1-1
Matter and mixtures
WEEKS 10–18THE WEEKS · THE ROOMS EACH ONE OPENS
WK 10–13States and density
The candle’s melt plateau; the density tower.
WK 14–18Separate, dissolve, emulsify
Recover the salt; grow a single crystal; the lotion that won’t split.
THE PROJECT · WHAT THE QUARTER IS FOR
The Lotion That Won't Split
The question. Why does the lotion split — and what holds oil and water together when it doesn’t?
The make. The Lotion That Won't Split — the build on the Science Floor, in the Personal Care Lab: the number, the count, the sheet.
The evidence. The emulsion sheet with three formulations and the one that held, handed in through the Science Floor
MS-PS1-2MS-PS1-1
Semester 2
WEEKS 19–36 · QUARTERS 3 AND 4Acids, bases, reactions
WEEKS 19–27 · IN THIS OFFERINGTHE WEEKS · THE ROOMS EACH ONE OPENS
WK 19–22pH and neutralisation
Read the pH of everything; the bath-bomb reaction.
WK 23–27Change, rate, mass
Physical or chemical; speed up the fizz; mass before and after.
THE PROJECT · WHAT THE QUARTER IS FOR
Mass Before and After
The question. Mass before and after: where did the gas go — and does the balance agree?
The make. Mass Before and After — the build on the Science Floor, in the Kitchen: the number, the count, the sheet.
The evidence. The conservation sheet with the closed-system mass before and after, handed in through the Science Floor
MS-PS1-5HS-PS1-7
Heat and the product
WEEKS 28–36THE WEEKS · THE ROOMS EACH ONE OPENS
WK 28–31Heat: the three modes; why water is stubborn
Isolate all three modes; the specific heat.
WK 32–33Calories as combustion
Burn a Cheeto, boil a thimble.
WK 34–36The product
A formulated, costed product that is also a proof.
THE PROJECT · WHAT THE QUARTER IS FOR
Read the pH of Everything
The question. Read the pH of everything you would put on skin — and formulate one product inside the safe range.
The make. Read the pH of Everything — the build on the Science Floor, in the Personal Care Lab: the number, the count, the sheet.
The evidence. The pH survey and the product’s formulation sheet, handed in through the Science Floor and the Personal Care Lab
MS-PS1-2HS-PS1-5
A course is a quarter, a semester or a year — nine, eighteen or thirty-six weeks — a project a quarter. Offered as the year, a semester or a quarter, it is the same course seen through a window. A lab is a family: its year, each of its tracks as a course, and its rooms. The evidence is what a student hands in through the room; the Report reads it from there. Nothing in the catalog is a grade.
THE PASS · THIS COURSE AND EVERY OTHER ONE
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