2: Compare and classify the reproduction and heredity of organisms.
2.a: Differentiate between sexual and asexual reproduction.
Cell Division
2.b: Determine how traits are used to classify individual inherited patterns.
Chicken Genetics
Evolution: Mutation and Selection
Microevolution
Mouse Genetics (One Trait)
Mouse Genetics (Two Traits)
Natural Selection
3: Explore how changing resources will influence the regulation and behavior of organisms.
3.b: Investigate, compare/contrast ways organisms adapt to their environment.
Evolution: Mutation and Selection
Natural Selection
4: Explore how different populations determine the formation of an ecosystem.
4.a: Compare/contrast the roles among producers, consumers, and decomposers in a food web.
Food Chain
4.b: Manipulate resources and other factors (living and nonliving) that promote and limit growth of populations in an ecosystem.
Rabbit Population by Season
5: Explore the unique characteristics and adaptations of organisms.
5.b: Propose and relate environmental changes and the adaptive characteristics that influence the extinction of a species.
Human Evolution - Skull Analysis
Natural Selection
6: Model the structure of the Earth system past and present.
6.c: Analyze fossils as indicators of how life and environmental conditions have changed.
Human Evolution - Skull Analysis
7: Investigate the Earth in relation to the solar system.
7.a: Demonstrate how the Earth's motion influences the day, year, phases of the moon, and eclipses.
2D Eclipse
3D Eclipse
Moon Phases
Moonrise, Moonset, and Phases
Solar System Explorer
7.c: Demonstrate how the tilt of the Earth's axis and Earth's revolution around the sun create the seasons.
Seasons Around the World
Seasons in 3D
Seasons: Earth, Moon, and Sun
Seasons: Why do we have them?
8: Investigate structure, properties, and changes of matter.
8.a: Analyze properties such as density, boiling point, and solubility of a substance.
Density Experiment: Slice and Dice
Density Laboratory
Density via Comparison
Determining Density via Water Displacement
Solubility and Temperature
8.b: Record and interpret physical and chemical changes using everyday substances.
Density Experiment: Slice and Dice
Freezing Point of Salt Water
8.d: Demonstrate the ability to use simple measuring devices using metric and English units.
Stoichiometry
9: Evaluate the effect of force on the motion of an object.
9.a: Analyze, measure, and graph the motion of an object.
Distance-Time Graphs
Fan Cart Physics
10: Examine the transfer of energy in many different forms.
10.a: Observe and manipulate energy as potential or kinetic.
Air Track
Energy of a Pendulum
Inclined Plane - Sliding Objects
Period of a Pendulum
Potential Energy on Shelves
Roller Coaster Physics
Simple Harmonic Motion
10.b: Investigate forms of energy such as heat, sound, light, or electricity.
Calorimetry Lab
Sound Beats and Sine Waves
Correlation last revised: 1/20/2017