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Science BTEC

Hi everyone, I hope you and your families are well!

For the next two weeks of lessons we are going to concentrate on the Physics units of your BTEC qualification and we will carry out research that can be used towards your Physics BTEC coursework so it is important that you save and keep safe any work that you complete. (ALL THE INSTRUCTIONS AND RESOURCES ARE WITHIN THE POWER POINT AND WORD DOCUMENTS – JUST CLICK THE ICONS)

For the third week, I have set tasks on Seneca learning that cover the information that you need to know for the Physics section of the BTEC exam. (It is a comprehension based resource which provides you with key facts and then tests your understanding with multiple choice or comprehension type questions; it is a brilliant resource as all the information is included.) There are a lot of assignments so choose the areas that you want to recap/learn about, I am not expected them all to be completed if your coursework tasks have taken you longer to complete. Just try your best!

Science BTEC

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Monday

INSERT WEBSITE

https://app.senecalearning.com/dashboard/join-class/5puwdcaajw

FOCUS

LO: To research our solar system and Universe

THIS WORK IS FOR THE WEEK

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LO: To research nuclear disasters

THIS WORK IS FOR THE WEEK

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LO: To gain/recap knowledge for the Physics part of the BTEC exam.

THIS WORK IS FOR THE WEEK

Tuesday

Wednesday

SEE MONDAY’S WORK

SEE MONDAY’S WORK

SEE MONDAY’S WORK

Thursday

Friday

SEE MONDAY’S WORK

SEE MONDAY’S WORK

SEE MONDAY’S WORK

P8 Solar system.pptx

For the next 3 weeks we will be carrying out research that will go towards your BTEC coursework so keep your work saved and secure! For this assignment you will be researching the planets, dwarf planets, comets and asteroids that make up our solar system as well looking at where we are positioned within the whole Universe. It is a Pass task and forms the basis of merit tasks.

TASK:

Watch this clip to refresh your memory of the order of the planets within our Universe. (Sing along if you want!)

Use the next slide to guide your research as well as the word document which contains some facts and figures that you can use.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=youtube+planets+song&docid=607996321812711613&mid=3E7D65ECC6104744D1383E7D65ECC6104744D138&view=detail&FORM=VIRE

This work will take three lessons to research and complete.

Unit 3c: Energy and Our Universe 

TASK:

Use the title ‘Our Solar System’

Produce a poster/power point with the title above

Draw out the order of the planets in our solar system or you can find an image if you are completing the task on a computer.

Use the data sheet/information sheet/your own research to add key facts about each planet (temperature, distance from the sun, length of day and length of year, appearance, what it is made of and any other interesting key facts.)

Find images of comets, asteroids and dwarf planets and again give a description to explain what they are and try to research some examples.

Also research the different shaped galaxies that are in the Universe giving examples and key facts about their features.

Information

document on the solar system.docx

INFORMATION SHEETS TO HELP YOU WITH YOUR RESEARCH

Data on the 8 planets to help you complete your fact cards (P8)

Name of Planet

Average Distance from Sun

Time to Spin on Axis (a day)

Time to Orbit Sun (a year)

Average Temperature

Diameter (Use for Mass of the planet)

Number of Moons

Mercury

57,900,000 km (36,000,000 miles)

59 days

88 days

-183 0C to 427 0C

(-297 0F to 800 0F)

4,878 km (3,031 miles)

None

Venus

108,160,000 km (67,000,000 miles)

243 days

224 days

480 0C (896 0F)

12,104 km (7,521 miles)

None

Earth

149,600,000 km (92,960,000 miles)

23 hours, 56 mins

365.25 days

14 0C (57 0F)

12,756 km (7,926 miles)

1

Mars

227,936,640 km (141,700,000 miles)

24 hours, 37 mins

687 days

-63 C0 (-81 F0)

6,794 km (4,222 miles)

2

Jupiter

778,369,000 km (483,500,000 miles)

9 hours, 55 mins

11.86 years

-1300 C (-202 0F)

142,984 km (88,846 miles)

66

Saturn

1,427,034,000 km (888,750,000 miles)

10 hours, 39 mins

29 years

-130 0C (-202 0F)

120,536 km (74,900 miles)

62

Uranus

2,870,658,186 km (1,783,744,300 miles)

17 hours, 14 mins

84 years

-2000 C (-3280 F)

51,118 km (31,763 miles)

27

Neptune

4,496,976,000 km (2,797,770,000 miles)

16 hours, 7 mins

164.8 years

-200 0C (-328 0F)

49,532 km (30,779 miles)

13

Information on the appearance of the 8 planets to help

you complete your fact cards (P8)

Mercury

· Mercury is a rocky planet closest to the sun.

· Mercury has no atmosphere around it to protect it from the Sun or to retain any heat when it rotates on its axis.

· The surface of Mercury is covered with craters and completely dry.  There is no possibility of life on Mercury.

Venus

· Venus is covered by clouds of water vapour and sulphuric acid and the surface cannot be seen with an ordinary astronomy telescope.

· The atmosphere on Venus is composed of carbon dioxide.  The surface is heated by radiation from the sun, but the heat cannot escape through the clouds and layer of carbon dioxide which makes it hotter than Mercury.

Earth

· It is the only planet that has an atmosphere containing 21 percent oxygen.

· It is the only planet that has liquid water on its surface.

· It is the only planet in the solar system that has life.

· As a result of the Earth’s geological activity (the volcanoes and earthquakes) the surface of the Earth has far fewer craters than the surface of planets as the craters have sunk down or been worn away by wind and rain over millions of years.

Mars

· Mars is often called ‘the red planet’ because a mineral called iron oxide that is very common on the planet’s surface which causes its surface to have a red tint.

· Mars has both North and South polar ice caps, much like Earth that are made mostly of frozen water. With so much water frozen in the ice caps of Mars, some scientists think that life could have once existed there. 

· Olympus Mons on Mars is the largest mountain in the solar system at more than 25 km high (that’s three times higher than Mount Everest).

· Valles Marineris is the largest canyon in the solar system, stretching 4,000 km across the planet’s surface.

Jupiter

· Jupiter is the first of the “gas giants” made of hydrogen, helium, methane and ammonia.

· Jupiter is the stormiest planet in the Solar System.  There is a permanent, but ever-changing whirlpool of storms, known as Jupiter’s Great Red Spot which can be seen using a telescope. 

Saturn

· The bright globe of Saturn is surrounded by rings which may be composed of ice.  Three of these rings are visible from the Earth using a telescope.

· Saturn is a gas planet and is a great ball of hydrogen and helium.

Uranus

· Most of the centre of Uranus is a frozen mass of ammonia and methane, which gives it the blue-green colour. 

· The atmosphere also contains hydrogen and helium.

· Because Uranus is lying on its side as it orbits the sun, for nearly a quarter of its orbit one pole of the planet is in complete darkness.

Neptune

· Neptune is the third largest planet in the Solar System, much smaller than the real giants, Jupiter and Saturn

· Neptune is made of gas; it is a great ball of hydrogen and helium.

Information on comets, asteroids and dwarf planets to help you complete P8.

What are Comets?

These are balls of rock, ice and dust which orbit the Sun in elliptical orbits (oval-shaped orbits, not round). They can go very close to the Sun, and then they glide across the solar system, travelling many millions of miles beyond the most distant planets before making their return to the Sun.

Comets are recognisable because of their tails. This tail is only visible when the comet is close enough to the Sun, usually when it is at about the same distance from Earth as Mars is. The tail is visible because sunlight reflects off the ice and dust particles. When seen from Earth, a comet can have the appearance of a blurred star. The tail of a comet can be up to over 1 million kilometres long! Examples of comets; Halle- Bopp, Halley and Shoemaker-Levy 9.

What are asteroids?

Asteroids are small lumps of rocks and ice which orbit the Sun like mini-planets.

Between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter is an area called the Asteroid Belt. This is where the largest collection of asteroids orbiting the Sun are. Hundreds of thousands of asteroids, none with a diameter (width) of over 1,000 kilometres (with Ceres being the biggest), and only sixteen of them over 240 km, spin around the Sun. Occasionally they collide with each other, and may, one day, in millions of years, all join together to form another Earth-sized planet.

What are dwarf planets?

Dwarf Planets tend to be much smaller than regular planets (all Dwarf Planets so far confirmed are smaller than Earth's Moon).

Dwarf Planets are also different from Planets because the path of their orbits isn't clear. Pluto’s path crosses with Neptune’s path and so it lost its title as a planet in 2006.

Types of Galaxies

The most popular types of galaxies, according to their morphology, are elliptical, spiral and irregular.

Elliptical galaxies

ned.ipac.caltech.edu

This type of galaxy is composed of old stars and doesn’t have interstellar dust or gases. For that reason they have a very low production of new stars. There are different sizes of elliptical galaxies; the larger ones are made by collision and joining together of galaxies. They have a flat shape and are ‘egg’ shaped. There is thought to be large black holes at their centres.

Spiral galaxies

Wikipedia.org

Using the catalog created by Hubble, the galaxies called spirals are made of two or more arms, giving it the spiral form. Like the stars, the spiral arms that characterize this galaxy, rotate around the center. Our solar system is located in a Spiral galaxy known as the Milky Way. Another example of a spiral galaxy is Andromeda. Some Scientists think that there is a black hole at the centre of our galaxy.

Irregular galaxies

annesastronomynews.com

These types of galaxies are composed of the galaxies that can’t be classified into an elliptical or spiral galaxy. This type doesn’t fit in a structure; they don’t possess any defined shape as they are galaxies that are still forming.

M3 Nuclear

disasters.pptx

LO: To research the impact of a nuclear disaster on the environment

Better than expected progress:

Will have compared the short and long term effects of a nuclear disaster in the immediate area.

2) Will have compared the short and long term effects of a nuclear disaster in distant areas.

Merit task (M3)

Three lessons to complete the research and write up your newspaper report. (M3)

Expected progress:

1) Will have researched key facts about a nuclear disaster including maps, diagrams, dates, key facts and accurate data.

Merit task (M3)

For the next three 3 we are going to concentrate on carrying out research that can be used towards your BTEC coursework. (So keep this work saved and safe!!!)

One unit in Physics we will cover is all about radiation and nuclear power. This is a merit task and it involves researching a nuclear disaster that has happened and the impacts that the radiation had locally and in other countries.

TASK:

Watch the two clips on the next slides (one is on the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl and one is of the nuclear disaster at Fukashima).

There will be lots of clips that you can watch on nuclear disasters to help with your research

Use slide 5 to help you structure your research on ONE of the nuclear disasters (remember to include maps, pictures, accurate dates and figures and detailed research)

Fukashimahttps://www.britannica.com/event/Fukushima-accident

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=joanna+lumley+japan+FUKASHIMA&view=detail&mid=006BA26A1C999517631F006BA26A1C999517631F&FORM=VIRE

Fukashima

Chernobyl

https://www.britannica.com/event/Chernobyl-disaster

Assignment 3a: Merit task (M3) – Nuclear disaster

Some websites that you may find helpful for extra research

http://www.oceanhealthindex.org/news/Radioactive_Fukushima_July

http://www.beachapedia.org/Radiation_From_Fukushima

https://www.livescience.com/39961-chernobyl.html

http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/safety-and-security/safety-of-plants/appendices/chernobyl-accident-appendix-2-health-impacts.aspx

TASK: You need to produce a case study on a nuclear disaster.

You need to include information on the following:

The name of the nuclear disaster

The country where it happened.

The date that the disaster happened.

The short term effects on health/environment in the area around the nuclear power station.

The long term effects in the area around the nuclear power station.

The short term effects in other countries.

The long term effects in other countries.

Any pictures, maps or diagrams to support your information.

Include the web addresses that you use for your research.

Self - Evaluation of progress

Assignment code(pass/merit/Distinction)What tasks have you completed?What do you still need to complete next lesson?Guidance needed to progress further LO Achieved

Grade achievedUnit 3a: M3