1: Earth and Space Sciences

1.D: Identify that the lithosphere contains rocks and minerals and that minerals make up rocks. Describe how rocks and minerals are formed and/or classified.

1.D.1: Describe the rock cycle and explain that there are sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks that have distinct properties (e.g., color, texture) and are formed in different ways.

Rock Classification
Rock Cycle

2: Life Sciences

2.A: Explain that the basic functions of organisms are carried out in cells and groups of specialized cells form tissues and organs; the combination of these cells make up multicellular organisms that have a variety of body plans and internal structures.

2.A.1: Explain that many of the basic functions of organisms are carried out by or within cells and are similar in all organisms.

Cell Structure
Paramecium Homeostasis

2.A.3: Identify how plant cells differ from animal cells (e.g., cell wall, chloroplasts).

Cell Energy Cycle
Cell Structure
Photosynthesis Lab

2.B: Describe the characteristics of an organism in terms of a combination of inherited traits and recognize reproduction as a characteristic of living organisms essential to the continuation of the species.

2.B.5: Describe that in asexual reproduction all the inherited traits come from a single parent.

Cell Division
Microevolution
Natural Selection

2.B.6: Describe that in sexual reproduction an egg and sperm unite and some traits come from each parent, so the offspring is never identical to either of its parents.

Chicken Genetics
Mouse Genetics (One Trait)
Mouse Genetics (Two Traits)

2.C: Explain how energy entering the ecosystems as sunlight supports the life of organisms through photosynthesis and the transfer of energy through the interactions of organisms and the environment.

2.C.8: Describe how organisms may interact with one another.

Food Chain
Interdependence of Plants and Animals

3: Physical Sciences

3.A: Relate uses, properties and chemical processes to the behavior and/or arrangement of the small particles that compose matter.

3.A.1: Explain that equal volumes of different substances usually have different masses.

Density Experiment: Slice and Dice
Density Laboratory
Density via Comparison
Determining Density via Water Displacement

3.A.3: Describe that in a physical change (e.g., state, shape, size) the chemical properties of a substance remain unchanged.

Density Experiment: Slice and Dice
Freezing Point of Salt Water

3.A.4: Describe that chemical and physical changes occur all around us (e.g., in the human body, cooking, industry).

Density Experiment: Slice and Dice
Freezing Point of Salt Water

3.C: Describe renewable and nonrenewable sources of energy (e.g., solar, wind, fossil fuels, biomass, hydroelectricity, geothermal and nuclear energy) and the management of these sources.

3.C.7: Describe how electric energy can be produced from a variety of sources (e.g., Sun, wind, coal).

Advanced Circuits