This ongoing course will focus on Middle School Physical Science concepts with the emphasis on real-life usage of these concepts based on the teacher’s experience as an Aviation Meteorologist and as a STEM certified Arizona teacher. The core material is based on the textbook, Physical Science 12th Edition by Bill W. Tillery (no purchase necessary) and supplemented by PowerPoint slides, and real-life examples. The focus will be on physical science concepts and not high-level math. Only basic math is needed in this course. The students will experience middle school physical science topics with personal interaction and engagement. All the concepts will be discussed based on application with emphasis on meteorology, aviation, and some military applications. This will enhance student learning to apply the concepts, retain the learning, and continue to build on the concepts going into High school.

The learning will drive student inquiry throughout this course and the students will have multiple opportunities to interact with the teacher throughout this course. Engagement is highly encouraged and enhances student learning and makes the material come alive. Additionally, a course goal is to help introduce students to see real life usage of these physical concepts, encourage exploring science related career fields especially in meteorology, aviation, or other fields of scientific study.

The first 5 minutes- Welcoming of students. Learners are welcome to ask questions and clarify understanding from the previous class. This will help to solidify and continue to build on the learning of the concepts discussed in class. However, each class is individual and distinct and not directly built on from the previous class.
The next 40 minutes the teacher will share concepts from the textbook, use PowerPoint Slides presentations, or short relevant videos to learn and explore the concepts with real world examples. Students are encouraged to discuss and ask questions to make the class more interactive. 
The last 5 minutes students will share their learning with the class, review the topic, discuss, and ask relevant and essential questions as well. Additionally, a short in class verbal quiz may be used to help review the material learned for that day. 

The topics covered during the course:
Physics
Week 1: Motion, Speed, and Acceleration   9 Jan 2024
Week 2: Friction, Falling Objects, Inertia, Free Fall   16 Jan 2024
Week 3: Newton’s 3 Laws of Motion    23 Jan 2024
Week 4: Circular Motions, Centripetal, Centrifugal, Gravity, Pressure Gradient Force, Coriolis  30 Jan 2024
Week 5: Temperature, Molecular Theory, Phases of Matter, Measuring Temperature 6 Feb 2024
Week 6: Heat Transfer, Conduction, Convection, and Radiation, Albedo, Reflection 13 Feb 2024
Week 7: Water Cycle, Evaporation, Condensation, Transpiration, Precipitation, Infiltration, Run Off, & Storage 20 Feb 2024
Week 8: Types of Clouds in the Atmosphere 27 Feb 2024
Week 9: Thunderstorms and Lightning and Impacts on Aviation and Safety  5 Mar 2024
Week 10: Frontal Systems, Cold, Warm, Stationary, Occluded, and Airmasses  12 Mar 2024
Week 11: Waves in Motion, Amplitude, Wavelength, Frequencies  19 Mar 2024
Week 12: Light and Concepts, Blackbody, Visible, Infrared, Reflection, Refraction  26 Mar 2024
Week 13: The topic of Light continued with polarization, current wave theory, and lasers  2 Apr 2024
Week 14: Concepts of Electricity, Electron charge theory, static electricity  9 Apr 2024
Week 15: Concepts of Magnetism, magnetic poles, magnetic fields  16 Apr 2024