Summary

• Description:

  The MS Word document comprises Grade 9 Integrated Science Term 3 Schemes of Work - Comprehensive. The PDF version is also available upon your request.

  This downloadable Grade 9 Integrated Science Scheme of Work provides systematic coverage of ecology, geometrical optics, and wave physics. The scheme of work primarily uses the Comprehensive Integrated Science Grade 9 Pupil's Book and Teacher's Guide as its main learning resources, enriched with charts, PPEs, curved mirrors, slinky springs, ropes, water basins, audio speakers, and digital animations.

  The scheme is organized into the following strands and substrands:

  • The Interdependence of Life
    • Food webs
    • Effect of human activities on the environment (Habitat change, hunting and poaching)
    • Role of decomposers
  • Force and Energy
    • Curved mirrors (Types of curved mirrors, image location, characteristics of images, uses, and applications)
    • Waves (Meaning, generation, classification into longitudinal and transverse, wave parameters, wave equation, characteristics, remote sensing, and everyday applications)

  The topics covered throughout the term include:

  • Interdependence in Ecosystems: Differentiating between food chains and food webs, constructing complex food webs, exploring the consequences of habitat change and poaching, and examining nutrient recycling by decomposers.
  • Curved Mirrors and Image Formation: Exploring concave, convex, and parabolic mirrors, defining key parameters (pole, aperture, center of curvature, principal axis, focus, focal length, and focal plane), and drawing ray diagrams for various object positions.
  • Applications of Curved Mirrors: Analyzing image characteristics across multiple object positions and investigating practical devices such as solar concentrators, vehicle headlamps, shaving mirrors, dentist tools, telescopes, and driving mirrors.
  • Wave Generation and Classification: Demonstrating wave generation in nature, classifying waves into transverse and longitudinal using slinky springs, skipping ropes, water basins, speakers, and animations, and analyzing amplitude, wavelength, frequency, period, wave speed, and phase.
  • Wave Equations and Remote Sensing: Applying the wave formula (velocity = wavelength × frequency), demonstrating wave properties (straight line motion, reflection, and diffraction around objects), and exploring remote sensing processes, platforms, electromagnetic radiation transmission, and practical appliances.

  Assessment approaches include self-assessment, written tests, group presentations, question-and-answer sessions, and practical observation.

• File Size:

  43.21 KB
• Category:

  Schemes of Work
• Level:

  Grade 9
• Subject:

  Integrated Science
• Posted By:

  Caleb_Peter

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