Gizmos for Texas - Science: Physics (Essential Knowledge and Skills (Implemented Fall 2024) adopted 2020)

This correlation lists the recommended Gizmos for this state's curriculum standards. Click any Gizmo title below for more information.

P.1: : Scientific and engineering practices. The student, for at least 40% of instructional time, asks questions, identifies problems, and plans and safely conducts classroom, laboratory, and field investigations to answer questions, explain phenomena, or design solutions using appropriate tools and models.

P.1.B: : The student is expected to: apply scientific practices to plan and conduct descriptive, comparative, and experimental investigations, and use engineering practices to design solutions to problems;

P.1.D: : The student is expected to: use appropriate tools such as balances, ballistic carts or equivalent, batteries, computers, constant velocity cars, convex lenses, copper wire, discharge tubes with power supply (H, He, Ne, Ar), data acquisition probes and software, dynamics and force demonstration equipment, electrostatic generators, electrostatic kits, friction blocks, graph paper, graphing technology, hand-held visual spectroscopes, inclined planes, iron filings, lab masses, laser pointers, magnets, magnetic compasses, metric rulers, motion detectors, multimeters (current, voltage, resistance), optics bench, optics kit, photogates, plane mirrors, prisms, protractors, pulleys, resistors, rope or string, scientific calculators, stopwatches, springs, spring scales, switches, tuning forks, wave generators, or other equipment and materials that will produce the same results;

P.1.E: : The student is expected to: collect quantitative data using the International System of Units (SI) and qualitative data as evidence;

P.1.F: : The student is expected to: organize quantitative and qualitative data using bar charts, line graphs, scatter plots, data tables, labeled diagrams, and conceptual mathematical relationships;

P.1.G: : The student is expected to: develop and use models to represent phenomena, systems, processes, or solutions to engineering problems; and

P.2: : Scientific and engineering practices. The student analyzes and interprets data to derive meaning, identify features and patterns, and discover relationships or correlations to develop evidence-based arguments or evaluate designs.

P.2.B: : The student is expected to: analyze data by identifying significant statistical features, patterns, sources of error, and limitations;

P.2.C: : The student is expected to: use mathematical calculations to assess quantitative relationships in data; and

P.5: : Science concepts. The student knows and applies the laws governing motion in a variety of situations.

P.5.A: : The student is expected to: analyze different types of motion by generating and interpreting position versus time, velocity versus time, and acceleration versus time using hand graphing and real-time technology such as motion detectors, photogates, or digital applications;

P.5.B: : The student is expected to: define scalar and vector quantities related to one- and two-dimensional motion and combine vectors using both graphical vector addition and the Pythagorean theorem;

P.5.C: : The student is expected to: describe and analyze motion in one dimension using equations with the concepts of distance, displacement, speed, velocity, frames of reference, and acceleration;

P.5.D: : The student is expected to: describe and analyze acceleration in uniform circular and horizontal projectile motion in two dimensions using equations;

P.5.E: : The student is expected to: explain and apply the concepts of equilibrium and inertia as represented by Newton's first law of motion using relevant real-world examples such as rockets, satellites, and automobile safety devices;

P.5.F: : The student is expected to: calculate the effect of forces on objects, including tension, friction, normal, gravity, centripetal, and applied forces, using free body diagrams and the relationship between force and acceleration as represented by Newton's second law of motion;

P.5.G: : The student is expected to: illustrate and analyze the simultaneous forces between two objects as represented in Newton's third law of motion using free body diagrams and in an experimental design scenario; and

P.6: : Science concepts. The student knows the nature of forces in the physical world.

P.6.A: : The student is expected to: use scientific notation and predict how the magnitude of the electric force between two objects depends on their charges and the distance between their centers using Coulomb's law;

P.6.B: : The student is expected to: identify and describe examples of electric and magnetic forces and fields in everyday life such as generators, motors, and transformers;

P.6.D: : The student is expected to: analyze, design, and construct series and parallel circuits using schematics and materials such as switches, wires, resistors, lightbulbs, batteries, voltmeters, and ammeters; and

P.6.E: : The student is expected to: calculate current through, potential difference across, resistance of, and power used by electric circuit elements connected in both series and parallel circuits using Ohm's law.

P.7: : Science concepts. The student knows that changes occur within a physical system and applies the laws of conservation of energy and momentum.

P.7.A: : The student is expected to: calculate and explain work and power in one dimension and identify when work is and is not being done by or on a system;

P.7.B: : The student is expected to: investigate and calculate mechanical, kinetic, and potential energy of a system;

P.7.C: : The student is expected to: apply the concept of conservation of energy using the work-energy theorem, energy diagrams, and energy transformation equations, including transformations between kinetic, potential, and thermal energy;

P.7.D: : The student is expected to: calculate and describe the impulse and momentum of objects in physical systems such as automobile safety features, athletics, and rockets; and

P.7.E: : The student is expected to: analyze the conservation of momentum qualitatively in inelastic and elastic collisions in one dimension using models, diagrams, and simulations.

P.8: : Science concepts. The student knows the characteristics and behavior of waves.

P.8.A: : The student is expected to: examine and describe simple harmonic motion such as masses on springs and pendulums and wave energy propagation in various types of media such as surface waves on a body of water and pulses in ropes;

P.8.B: : The student is expected to: compare the characteristics of transverse and longitudinal waves, including electromagnetic and sound waves;

P.8.C: : The student is expected to: investigate and analyze characteristics of waves, including velocity, frequency, amplitude, and wavelength, and calculate using the relationships between wave speed, frequency, and wavelength;

P.8.D: : The student is expected to: investigate behaviors of waves, including reflection, refraction, diffraction, interference, standing wave, the Doppler effect and polarization and superposition; and

P.8.G: : The student is expected to: describe and predict image formation as a consequence of reflection from a plane mirror and refraction through a thin convex lens.

P.9: : Science concepts. The student knows examples of quantum phenomena and their applications.

P.9.A: : The student is expected to: describe the photoelectric effect and emission spectra produced by various atoms and how both are explained by the photon model for light;

Correlation last revised: 7/30/2024

Texas - Science: Physics

Essential Knowledge and Skills (Implemented Fall 2024) | Adopted: 2020