S.1: Physical Science

S.1.GLE.2: Atoms may stick together in well-defined molecules or be packed together in large arrays. Different arrangements of atoms into groups compose all substances

S.1.GLE.2.RA: Relevance and Application:

S.1.GLE.2.RA.1: Different arrangements of atoms provide different properties.

Element Builder

S.1.GLE.2.N: Nature of Science:

S.1.GLE.2.N.1: Use models and/or electronic media to show and understand how molecules are made of atoms.

Element Builder

S.1.GLE.3: The physical characteristics and changes of solid, liquid, and gas states can be explained using the particulate model

S.1.GLE.3.N: Nature of Science:

S.1.GLE.3.N.1: Use models and technology tools to help visualize what is happening at the molecular level during phase changes.

Phases of Water

S.1.GLE.3.N.2: Understand and apply the difference between scientific laws, theories and hypotheses.

Temperature and Sex Determination - Metric

S.1.GLE.4: Distinguish among, explain, and apply the relationships among mass, weight, volume, and density

S.1.GLE.4.IQ: Inquiry Questions:

S.1.GLE.4.IQ.1: Which of the following is the best recommendation for a person trying to lose weight and why?

S.1.GLE.4.IQ.1.c: Go to the Moon.

Beam to Moon (Ratios and Proportions)

S.1.GLE.4.N: Nature of Science:

S.1.GLE.4.N.1: Calculate the density of a sample, predict its ability to float or sink in a liquid of known density, design and perform the experiment, and justify discrepancies in the experimental outcome.

Density Experiment: Slice and Dice
Density Laboratory

S.1.GLE.4.N.3: Select proper tools to measure the mass and volume of an object and use appropriate units.

Weight and Mass

S.2: Life Science

S.2.GLE.1: Changes in environmental conditions can affect the survival of individual organisms, populations, and entire species

S.2.GLE.1.IQ: Inquiry Questions:

S.2.GLE.1.IQ.1: How do ecosystem changes affect biodiversity?

Coral Reefs 1 - Abiotic Factors
Coral Reefs 2 - Biotic Factors

S.2.GLE.1.IQ.2: How does biodiversity contribute to an ecosystem?s equilibrium?

Coral Reefs 1 - Abiotic Factors
Coral Reefs 2 - Biotic Factors

S.2.GLE.1.N: Nature of Science:

S.2.GLE.1.N.1: Ask testable questions and make a falsifiable hypothesis about how environmental conditions affect organisms, populations, or entire species and design a method to find the answer.

Coral Reefs 2 - Biotic Factors
Food Chain

S.2.GLE.1.N.3: Use models and technology tools to show what might happen to individuals, populations, and species as environmental conditions change.

Food Chain

S.2.GLE.2: Organisms interact with each other and their environment in various ways that create a flow of energy and cycling of matter in an ecosystem

S.2.GLE.2.IQ: Inquiry Questions:

S.2.GLE.2.IQ.1: How do different ecosystems cycle matter differently?

Cell Energy Cycle
Pond Ecosystem

S.2.GLE.2.IQ.2: What ?jobs? do organisms do to facilitate the flow of energy and cycling of matter?

Cell Energy Cycle
Food Chain
Pond Ecosystem

S.2.GLE.2.N: Nature of Science:

S.2.GLE.2.N.1: Scientists work from the assumption that the universe is a single system in which the basic rules are the same everywhere ? that energy follows the same rules in an ecosystem as it does in physic?s experiments.

Inclined Plane - Sliding Objects

S.2.GLE.2.N.3: Create and evaluate models that show how interactions create a flow of energy and a cycling of matter in an ecosystem.

Food Chain

S.3: Earth Systems Science

S.3.GLE.1: Complex interrelationships exist between Earth?s structure and natural processes that over time are both constructive and destructive

S.3.GLE.1.IQ: Inquiry Questions:

S.3.GLE.1.IQ.1: How do forces inside Earth and on the surface build, destroy, and change Earth?s crust?

Plate Tectonics

S.3.GLE.2: Water on Earth is distributed and circulated through oceans, glaciers, rivers, ground water, and the atmosphere

S.3.GLE.2.IQ: Inquiry Questions:

S.3.GLE.2.IQ.1: How is water cycled on Earth?

Water Cycle

S.3.GLE.3: Earth?s natural resources provide the foundation for human society?s physical needs. Many natural resources are nonrenewable on human timescales, while others can be renewed or recycled

S.3.GLE.3.IQ: Inquiry Questions:

S.3.GLE.3.IQ.2: How can natural resources be identified and classified?

Mineral Identification