State Performance Indicators
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 0707.3.1: Compare the chemical compounds that make up the reactants and products of photosynthesis and respiration.
SPI 0707.3.2: Interpret a diagram to explain how oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged between living things and the environment.
SPI 0707.4.2: Match flower parts with their reproductive functions.
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 0707.7.1: 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.
SPI 0707.7.3: Identify the major processes that drive the 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.
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 0707.11.1: 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.
SPI 0707.11.5: Compare and contrast the different parts of a wave.
SPI 0707.11.6: Differentiate between transverse and longitudinal waves in terms of how they are produced and transmitted.
Correlation last revised: 9/16/2020