Grade Nine – Science

Block One:: Thermodynamics

  • Week One:: Expansion, Contraction, Phase Changes
  • Week Two:: Joseph Black**, Heat v. Temperature, Calorimetry (with experiments)
  • Week Three:: James Watt, Steam Engine, Internal Combustion Engines

**JSTOR:: Isis, Vol. 25, No. 2 (Sep., 1936), pp. 372-390

Block Two:: Organic Chemistry

  • Week One:: Vitalism, Quasi-Vitalism, the Ancients, and Berzelius, traditional medicine theory
  • Week Two:: Louis Pasteur (Germ Theory…), experiments in fermentation and pasteurisation
  • Week Three:: Acids and bases, Affects of heat on organic and inorganic substances, combining elements to produce compounds (soap-making)
  • Week Four (optional)::  Additional chemical experiments

Block Three:: Geology

**using “Theory of the Earth” by James Hutton and “Principles of Geology” by Charles Lyell

Block Four:: Human Anatomy and Physiology

  • Week One:: Overview of the Ten Systems
  • Week Two:: Bones – growth and structure, Divine Proportion in the Human Body (self measurement/calculation)
  • Week Three:: Muscles and Nervous system
  • Week Four:: Circulatory System

**using “Muscles and Bones” by Charles Kovacs

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