SPI 0707.1: All living things are made of cells that perform functions necessary for life.

SPI 0707.1.1: Identify and describe the function of the major plant and animal cell organelles.

Cell Structure
RNA and Protein Synthesis

SPI 0707.1.3: Explain the basic functions of a major organ system.

Circulatory System
Digestive System

SPI 0707.3: Matter and energy flow through the biosphere.

SPI 0707.3.1: Compare the chemical compounds that make up the reactants and products of photosynthesis and respiration.

Cell Energy Cycle

SPI 0707.3.2: Interpret a diagram to explain how oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged between living things and the environment.

Plants and Snails

SPI 0707.4: Plants and animals reproduce and transmit hereditary information between generations.

SPI 0707.4.2: Match flower parts with their reproductive functions.

Pollination: Flower to Fruit

SPI 0707.4.3: Describe the relationship among genes, chromosomes, and inherited traits.

Human Karyotyping
Mouse Genetics (One Trait)
Mouse Genetics (Two Traits)

SPI 0707.4.4: Interpret a Punnett square to predict possible genetic combinations passed from parents to offspring during sexual reproduction.

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

SPI 0707.7: Major geologic events that occur over eons or brief moments in time continually shape and reshape the surface of the Earth, resulting in continuous global change.

SPI 0707.7.1: Use a table of physical properties to classify minerals.

Density Experiment: Slice and Dice
Mineral Identification

SPI 0707.7.2: Label a diagram that depicts the three different rock types.

Rock Classification

SPI 0707.7.3: Identify the major processes that drive the rock cycle.

Rock Cycle

SPI 0707.7.5: Recognize that lithospheric plates on the scale of continents and oceans continually move at rates of centimeters per year.

Plate Tectonics

SPI 0707.7.6: Describe the relationship between plate movements and earthquakes, mountain building, volcanoes, and sea floor spreading.

Earthquakes 1 - Recording Station
Plate Tectonics

SPI 0707.11: Objects move in ways that can be observed, described, predicted, and measured.

SPI 0707.11.1: Differentiate between the six simple machines.

Ants on a Slant (Inclined Plane)
Levers
Pulleys
Wheel and Axle

SPI 0707.11.2: Determine the amount of force needed to do work using different simple machines.

Ants on a Slant (Inclined Plane)

SPI 0707.11.4: Identify and explain how Newton?s laws of motion relate to the movement of objects.

Force and Fan Carts

SPI 0707.11.5: Compare and contrast the different parts of a wave.

Ripple Tank

SPI 0707.11.6: Differentiate between transverse and longitudinal waves in terms of how they are produced and transmitted.

Longitudinal Waves

Correlation last revised: 9/16/2020

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