Learning Standards
12.A.2a: Describe simple life cycles of plants and animals and the similarities and differences in their offspring.
12.A.2b: Categorize features as either inherited or learned (e.g., flower color or eye color is inherited; language is learned).
12.B.2a: Describe relationships among various organisms in their environments (e.g., predator/prey, parasite/host, food chains and food webs).
Forest Ecosystem
Prairie Ecosystem
12.C.2a: Describe and compare types of energy including light, heat, sound, electrical and mechanical.
12.D.2a: Explain constant, variable and periodic motions.
Distance-Time Graphs
Free Fall Tower
12.D.2b: Demonstrate and explain ways that forces cause actions and reactions (e.g., magnets attracting and repelling; objects falling, rolling and bouncing).
Force and Fan Carts
Free Fall Tower
12.E.2a: Identify and explain natural cycles of the Earth's land, water and atmospheric systems (e.g., rock cycle, water cycle, weather patterns).
12.E.2b: Describe and explain short-term and long-term interactions of the Earth's components (e.g., earthquakes, types of erosion).
12.F.2a: Identify and explain natural cycles and patterns in the solar system (e.g., order of the planets; moon phases; seasons as related to Earth's tilt, one's latitude, and where Earth is in its yearly orbit around the sun).
Comparing Earth and Venus
Gravity Pitch
Solar System
Summer and Winter
Correlation last revised: 5/10/2018