Common Core Basics

This correlation lists the recommended Gizmos for this textbook. Click any Gizmo title below for more information.

1: Human Body and Health

1.2: Digestive, Respiratory, Excretory and Circulatory Systems

Circulatory System
Digestive System

1.4: Health and Disease

Disease Spread

2: Life Functions and Energy Intake

2.1: Flowering Plants

Flower Pollination
Growing Plants
Photosynthesis Lab
Pollination: Flower to Fruit

2.2: Respiration

Cell Energy Cycle

3: Ecosystems

3.1: Ecosystems

Coral Reefs 1 - Abiotic Factors
Coral Reefs 2 - Biotic Factors
Forest Ecosystem
Plants and Snails
Pond Ecosystem
Prairie Ecosystem

3.2: Carrying Capacity

Food Chain
Rabbit Population by Season

3.5: Environmental Issues

Energy Conversions
Greenhouse Effect
Household Energy Usage
Water Pollution

4: Foundation of Life

4.1: The Cell

Cell Division
Cell Energy Cycle
Cell Structure

4.2: Simple Organisms

Paramecium Homeostasis

5: Heredity

5.1: Genetics

Building DNA
DNA Fingerprint Analysis
Human Karyotyping
Inheritance
Mouse Genetics (Two Traits)

5.2: Genotypes and Phenotypes

Chicken Genetics
Mouse Genetics (One Trait)

6: Evolution

6.1: Biological Evolution

Evolution: Mutation and Selection
Evolution: Natural and Artificial Selection
Human Evolution - Skull Analysis
Microevolution
Natural Selection
Rainfall and Bird Beaks

6.2: Common Ancestry and Cladograms

Dichotomous Keys

7: Energy

7.1: Energy

Trebuchet

7.2: Waves

Longitudinal Waves
Ripple Tank
Waves

7.3: Electricity and Magnetism

Charge Launcher
Circuit Builder
Coulomb Force (Static)
Pith Ball Lab

7.4: Sources of Energy

Energy Conversions

8: Work, Motion, and Forces

8.1: Newton's Laws of Motion

Fan Cart Physics
Gravity Pitch
Sled Wars

8.2: Forces and Machines

Gravitational Force

9: Chemical Properties

9.3: Compounds and Molecules

Element Builder

9.4: Chemical Reactions and Solutions

pH Analysis

9.6: Chemical Equations

Balancing Chemical Equations
Chemical Equations
Limiting Reactants

10: Earth and Living Things

10.1: Cycles of Matter

Building Pangaea
Earthquakes 1 - Recording Station
Earthquakes 2 - Determination of Epicenter
Plate Tectonics
Rock Cycle

11: Earth

11.1: Geology

Building Pangaea
Earthquakes 1 - Recording Station
Earthquakes 2 - Determination of Epicenter
Plate Tectonics
Rock Cycle

11.2: Oceanography

Ocean Mapping

11.3: Meteorology

Coastal Winds and Clouds
Hurricane Motion
Relative Humidity
Water Cycle
Weather Maps

12: The Cosmos

12.3: The Milky Way and the Solar System

Beam to Moon (Ratios and Proportions)
Comparing Earth and Venus
Orbital Motion - Kepler's Laws
Solar System
Solar System Explorer
Weight and Mass

12.4: Earth and the Moon

2D Eclipse
3D Eclipse
Beam to Moon (Ratios and Proportions)
Eclipse
Moonrise, Moonset, and Phases
Ocean Tides
Penumbra Effect
Phases of the Moon
Tides

Content correlation last revised: 3/9/2016