Science Tutor Barcelona

At the international schools in Barcelona the students who are in middle school and 9th and 10th grade do science class.  Science class is a mix of biology, physics and chemistry.  For this reason AE Teaching focuses on being the best science tutor in Barcelona.  The three class units generally cover:

Physics:

The physics unit generally covers force, motion and energy.

  1. define and use the terms: distance, displacement, speed, velocity, acceleration, vector quantity, non-vector quantity
  2. calculate speed, velocity or acceleration given appropriate data
  3. interpret graphs of:
    1. distance vs. time
    2. displacement vs. time
    3. speed vs. time
    4. velocity vs. time

Also, student will need to learn and understand Newtons three laws of motion.

In the Biology unit students will cover:

Heredity and Evolution

Students must learn: How are characteristics passed from one generation to the next, and how do changes in these characteristics over long periods of time lead to evolution?

Heredity

  1. define and use the terms: heredity, gene, allele
  1. state that hereditary information for an organism is passed down from one or more parent organisms in large DNA molecules called chromosomes.
  1. differentiate between:
    1. the genotype and phenotype of an organism.
    2. the terms homozygous and heterozygous
    3. dominant and recessive genes.

Finally in the chemistry unit at science tutor Barcelona we do:

Chemical Processes

Students need to answer: What happens at the microscopic and macroscopic levels when chemicals react with one another?

Atomic Structure and Bonding

  1. define and use the terms: valence electron, chemical bond, ion, cation, anion, molecule, compound
  1. state that atoms are composed of smaller particles called protons, neutrons and electrons.
  1. describe each subatomic particle (from #2) in terms of location, charge and mass.
  1. determine the number of protons, electrons and valence electrons in an atom of an element using the periodic table
  1. state what forces cause chemical bonding.
  1. predict and illustrate (using Lewis structure models) ionic bonding and covalent bonding, including:
    1. the type of bonding that will occur (ionic or covalent)
    2. the number of electrons transferred and the charge on the ions (ionic)
    3. the number of pairs of electrons shared (covalent)
    4. the ratio of cations to anions (ionic) or number of atoms in a molecule (covalent)
    5. the formula and name of the compound created
  1. describe the properties of ionic and covalent compounds.

Science Tutor Barcelona