9 Grade Science Remedial Pack

Here are the themes and assignments from which your REMEDIAL test will be built:

1. Week 1: Scientific Process (https://novenossciencelcv.wordpress.com/2016/09/12/informal-

diagnostic-investigation-follow-up/) and
(https://novenossciencelcv.wordpress.com/2016/11/27/week-28th-november-to-2nd-
december-block-2-evaluation/) and
(https://novenossciencelcv.wordpress.com/2017/05/22/week-35-22nd-26th-may-
investigating-friction/)
a. Question, hypothesis, testing the hypothesis, obtaining and treating results, making Q
a conclusion, evaluating
b. Planning, including dependent, independent and controlled variables Q
c. Investigations into woodlice turn behavior and duckweed reproduction
2. Week 3: Characteristics of living things & Cell theory
(https://novenossciencelcv.wordpress.com/2016/09/25/week-3-26th-to-30th-september/)
a. What makes something alive
Q
b. Why is a virus not a living thing? What are the characteristics of a virus?
3. Week 4: Cell organelles + Prokaryotic v Eukaryotic cells Q
(https://novenossciencelcv.wordpress.com/2016/10/03/week-4-3rd-to-7th-october/)
4. Week 5: Biological hierarchy, specialized cells, tissues and organs; cell size and size in
biology. (https://novenossciencelcv.wordpress.com/2016/10/10/week-5-cell-organelles-
biological-hierarchy-specialised-cells-and-cell-size/)
a. Understanding the biological hierarchy from molecules to biosphere Q
b. Defining cells, tissue and organs
c. Knowing some specialised plant and animal cells
d. Understanding the units of measurement in biology and how sizes of biological Q
things compare
5. Week 6: Organelles and their characteristics
(https://novenossciencelcv.wordpress.com/2016/10/10/9a-organelle-notes/)
a. Knowing and recognizing the major cell organelles:
i. Nucleus
ii. Mitochondria Q
iii. Chloroplasts
iv. Cell membrane
v. Lysosomes
6. Week 8: 5 Kingdom classification of living things Q
(https://novenossciencelcv.wordpress.com/2016/10/17/classification-of-living-organisms/)
7. Week 9: Using the microscope and drawing cells
(https://novenossciencelcv.wordpress.com/2016/10/23/using-the-microscopes-drawing-
cells/)
a. Rules for using microscope Q
 b. Differences between plant and animal cells Q
8. Week 10: Cell cycle, mitosis and cancer
(https://novenossciencelcv.wordpress.com/2016/11/07/week-9-the-cell-cycle-mitosis-and-
cell-reproduction/)
a. Drawing cell cycle Q
b. Understanding how cancer arises
9. Week 11: DNA and DNA replication
(https://novenossciencelcv.wordpress.com/2016/11/09/dna-dna-replication-homework/)
a. Knowing the basic structure of DNA
b. Semiconservative replication of DNA Q
10. Week 12: Mitosis and cell division
(https://novenossciencelcv.wordpress.com/2016/11/14/week-14th-to-18th-november-
mitosis-cell-division/)
a. Knowing the stages of mitosis and being able to model mitosis Q
b. Methods of asexual cell division
11. Week 13: Methods of asexual reproduction and differences between meiosis and mitosis
(https://novenossciencelcv.wordpress.com/2016/11/21/week-21st-to-25th-november-
reproduction-asexual-and-sexual-and-meiosis/)
a. Asexual reproduction by budding, fragmentation, spore formation, vegetative
Q
reproduction, binary fission
b. Meiosis produces haploid gametes
12. Week 15: Revision of essential ecology (using duckweed as a base) and food webs and
chains (https://novenossciencelcv.wordpress.com/2016/12/12/12th-to-16th-dec-the-
ecology-of-duckweed/)
a. What is ecology?
b. Drawing food chains and webs from given data and information Q
13. Week 16: Classification and dichotomous keys
(https://novenossciencelcv.wordpress.com/2016/12/19/week-monday-19th-to-23rd-
december-how-to-classify/)
a. Why is it necessary to classify
a. How to classify, making a dichotomous key, using characteristics Q
14. Week 17: More classification, using fingerprints
(https://novenossciencelcv.wordpress.com/2017/01/09/week-monday-9th-to-13th-jan-
classification/)
15. Week 18: Evolution and natural selection
(https://novenossciencelcv.wordpress.com/2017/01/15/week-16th-to-20th-january-
classification-takes-us-to-evolution/)
a. Knowing some of the different theories of evolution
b. Understanding how Darwin developed his theory of evolution by natural selection Q
c. Evolution of life on Earth
d. Examples of evolution by natural selection, incl. Peppered moth Q
16. Week 19: Evidence for evolution by natural selection and antibiotic resistance
(https://novenossciencelcv.wordpress.com/2017/01/23/week-23rd-to-27th-january-
antibiotic-resistance-what-is-the-evidence-for-evolution/)
a. What are some of the lines of evidence for evolution by natural selection, incl.
fossils, vestigial organs, embryology
b. How does antibiotic resistance happen? Q
17. Weeks 21 & 22: History of life on Earth
(https://novenossciencelcv.wordpress.com/2017/02/12/q2-week-1-13th-to-17th-jan-
history-of-life-on-earth/ )
a. The birth of planet Earth
b. The start of life on Earth Q
c. The major events of life on Earth
d. Making a timeline model
18. Weeks 23 & 24: The Great Fossil Find fossils as evidence of forms of life
(https://novenossciencelcv.wordpress.com/2017/02/20/weekmonday-19-to-friday-24-
january-history-of-life-on-earth-fossils/)
a. How scientists use evidence to assemble arguments
b. Collaborative science
19. Week 25: The 5 mass extinctions
(https://novenossciencelcv.wordpress.com/2017/03/05/week-6th-to-10th-march-the-5-
mass-extinctions/)
a. What caused the 5 mass extinctions? Q
b. When did the 5 mass extinctions occur?
c. The 6th mass extinction Q
20. Week 26 Block test Plate tectonics
(https://novenossciencelcv.wordpress.com/2017/03/19/week-20th-to-24th-march-plate-
tectonics-block-4-test/ )
a. On which layers of the Earth are the tectonic plates? Q
b. What are the major plates?
a. How do they move?
b. Using data to find out about tectonic movement
21. Week 27: Rock cycle and mineral cycles
(https://novenossciencelcv.wordpress.com/2017/03/26/week-27-27th-to-31st-march-rock-
cycles-and-mineral-cycles/)
a. The principle stages of the rock cycle
b. Different sorts of rock metamorphic, igneous and sedimentary Q
c. Volcanoes
d. The mineral cycles of nitrogen, carbon and phosphorous Q
22. Weeks 28, 29 and 30: The carbon cycle emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse
gases (https://novenossciencelcv.wordpress.com/2017/03/26/week-27-27th-to-31st-march-
rock-cycles-and-mineral-cycles/)
a. Understanding the steps in the cycling of carbon, without human interference Q
 Graph Q
b. Understanding how humans interfere in the carbon cycle
c. Plotting graphs from given data, about greenhouse gas emissions
d. Assembling and presenting persuasive scientific arguments
23. Week 31: Forces (https://novenossciencelcv.wordpress.com/2017/04/24/week-31-monday-
24th-to-friday-28th-april-forces/)
a. Defining and measuring force Q
b. Knowing some different types of forces, incl. gravity, magnetic, electrical, tension,
thrust and upthrust, friction, air resistance, etc
c. Balanced forces Q
d. Using knowledge about forces to construct a strong bridge
24. Week 33: Measuring forces (https://novenossciencelcv.wordpress.com/2017/05/07/week-
33-8th-12th-may-measuring-forces/)
a. Knowing the unit of measurement for forces the newton
b. Who was Isaac Newton? Q
c. Using Newton meters in the lab
25. Week 34: Measuring forces a bunch of exercises
(https://novenossciencelcv.wordpress.com/2017/05/14/week-34-15th-19th-may-
measuring-forces/)
a. Measuring forces
b. Measuring weights
c. See-saws and weighing machines
d. Kilograms and newtons
26. Week 35: Investigating friction
(https://novenossciencelcv.wordpress.com/2017/05/22/week-35-22nd-26th-may-
investigating-friction/)
a. Planning an investigation
b. Carrying out an investigation
c. Obtaining and treating results
27. Week 36a: Density (https://novenossciencelcv.wordpress.com/2017/05/28/week-36-29th-
may-2nd-june-density/)
a. Defining density Q
b. Facts about density
c. Interpreting scientific observations about density
28. Week 36b: Measuring density (https://novenossciencelcv.wordpress.com/2017/05/30/9b- Q
tuesday-30th-may/)
a. Worksheet for measurements
29. Week 37: Pressure (https://novenossciencelcv.wordpress.com/2017/06/04/week-37-5th-
9th-june-pressure/)
a. What is pressure? Q
b. Measuring pressure
c. Upthrust and siphons simple investigations which needs explanations
30. Week 38: Gravity and the solar system
(https://novenossciencelcv.wordpress.com/2017/06/12/week-38-12-16th-june-gravity/)
a. What is gravity? Q
b. What causes gravity
c. How does gravity define the structure of the solar system Q
d. Assignment: presentation about gravity for youngsters

ACTIVITIES FOR LIFTING GRADE

1. LABEL PLANT AND ANIMAL CELLS AND DIFFERENT ORGANELLES IN THOSE CELLS
https://novenossciencelcv.wordpress.com/2016/10/03/week-4-3rd-to-7th-october/
2. LABELING THE PARTS OF AN OPTICAL MICROSCOPE
3. DRAWING AND LABELING THE CELL CYCLE
https://novenossciencelcv.wordpress.com/2016/11/07/week-9-the-cell-cycle-mitosis-and-
cell-reproduction/
4. MAKING 5 LABELED DIAGRAMS TO SHOW THE SEQUENCE OF EVENTS IN MITOSIS
https://novenossciencelcv.wordpress.com/2016/11/14/week-14th-to-18th-november-
mitosis-cell-division/
5. MAKE A DICHOTOMOUS CLASSIFICATION KEY FOR ONLY THE FIRST 8 ALIENS
https://novenossciencelcv.wordpress.com/2016/12/19/week-monday-19th-to-23rd-
december-how-to-classify/
6. ASSEMBLING THE TIME-LINE FOR THE EVOLUTION OF THE PEPPERED MOTH
https://novenossciencelcv.wordpress.com/2017/01/15/week-16th-to-20th-january-
classification-takes-us-to-evolution/
7. DRAWING AND LABELING THE CARBON CYCLE
https://novenossciencelcv.wordpress.com/2017/03/26/week-27-27th-to-31st-march-rock-
cycles-and-mineral-cycles/
8. EXPLAIN HOW THE SIPHON WORKS. ACTIVITY 182.
https://novenossciencelcv.wordpress.com/2017/06/04/week-37-5th-9th-june-pressure/
9. MAKING A SIMPLE DIAGRAM OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM, SHOWING THE PLANETS AND THEIR
POSITIONS AROUND THE SUN