S-HS-PS-1: analyze atomic structure and electric forces.

Element Builder

S-HS-PS-2: examine nuclear structure, nuclear forces, and nuclear reactions (e.g., fission, fusion, radioactivity).

Nuclear Decay

S-HS-PS-6: examine the transfer of electrons or hydrogen ions between reacting ions, molecules, or atoms.

Dehydration Synthesis
Electron Configuration
Ionic Bonds

S-HS-PS-7: investigate factors (e.g., temperature, catalysts) affecting reaction rates.

Collision Theory
Phase Changes
Relative Humidity

S-HS-PS-8: investigate forces and the effects of forces on the motion of objects.

Uniform Circular Motion

S-HS-PS-9: investigate gravitational and electromagnetic forces.

Freefall Laboratory
Golf Range!

S-HS-PS-10: examine how energy is transferred (e.g., collisions, light waves) and recognize that the total energy of the universe is constant.

2D Collisions
Energy Conversion in a System

S-HS-PS-11: distinguish between types of energy (e.g., kinetic energy, potential energy, energy fields).

Energy of a Pendulum

S-HS-PS-12: examine how everything tends to become less organized and less orderly over time (e.g., heat moves from hotter to cooler objects).

Calorimetry Lab

S-HS-PS-13: investigate energy transfer caused when waves and matter interact (e.g., atoms and molecules can absorb and emit light waves).

Bohr Model of Hydrogen
Bohr Model: Introduction
Herschel Experiment
Photoelectric Effect

S-HS-PS-14: investigate electrical energy and conductivity through matter.

Heat Transfer by Conduction

S-HS-ESS-1: examine internal and external sources of energy.

Nuclear Decay

S-HS-ESS-2: examine how internal sources of energy propel crustal plates across the face of the globe.

Nuclear Decay
Plate Tectonics

S-HS-ESS-3: examine how external sources of energy produce winds and ocean currents.

Coastal Winds and Clouds

S-HS-ESS-5: recognize that the Earth contains a fixed amount of each stable chemical atom or element.

Element Builder

S-HS-ESS-6: analyze Earth’s chemical reservoirs and recognize that each element can exist in several reservoirs (e.g., carbon in carbon dioxide reservoirs and carbonate reservoirs).

Element Builder
Interdependence of Plants and Animals
Photosynthesis Lab

S-HS-ESS-7: investigate how Earth’s internal and external sources of energy drive geochemical cycles (e.g., carbon moving from carbon dioxide reservoirs to carbonate reservoirs).

Interdependence of Plants and Animals
Nuclear Decay
Photosynthesis Lab
Rock Cycle
Water Cycle

S-HS-ESS-9: investigate how to estimate geologic time (e.g., observing rock sequences, radioactive dating).

Half-life

S-HS-ESS-12: describe the formation of the stars.

H-R Diagram

S-HS-ESS-13: examine stars (e.g., energy production, formation of elements).

H-R Diagram

S-HS-LS-1: investigate cell structures, their functions (e.g., chemical reactions), and how DNA guides their functions.

Building DNA
Cell Structure
Paramecium Homeostasis

S-HS-LS-2: investigate cell regulation, differentiation, and how the process of photosynthesis provides a vital connection between the Sun and energy needs of living systems.

Cell Energy Cycle
Interdependence of Plants and Animals
Photosynthesis Lab

S-HS-LS-4: investigate encoding and replication of genetic information.

Building DNA

S-HS-LS-5: examine how species change over time.

Human Evolution - Skull Analysis

S-HS-LS-6: examine diversity of organisms and biological classification.

Human Evolution - Skull Analysis

S-HS-LS-7: investigate the cycle of atoms (e.g., carbon) and molecules (e.g., nitrogen, carbon dioxide, oxygen) within the biosphere.

Cell Energy Cycle
Dehydration Synthesis
Greenhouse Effect
Interdependence of Plants and Animals
Photosynthesis Lab

S-HS-LS-8: analyze energy flow through ecosystems.

Food Chain
Interdependence of Plants and Animals

S-HS-LS-9: examine interrelationships and interdependencies of organisms in ecosystems and the factors that influence the interactions between organisms.

Food Chain
Interdependence of Plants and Animals

S-HS-LS-10: explore how human activities alter ecosystems.

Food Chain
Rabbit Population by Season
Water Pollution

S-HS-LS-12: investigate photosynthesis, cellular respiration, and the energy relationships among them.

Cell Energy Cycle
Interdependence of Plants and Animals
Photosynthesis Lab

S-HS-LS-13: analyze the flow of matter and energy through and between living systems and environments.

Food Chain

S-HS-LS-14: investigate behavioral responses to internal changes and external stimuli.

Human Homeostasis

S-HS-AC-7: use science to investigate natural hazards and human-induced hazards.

Water Pollution

S-HS-AC-11: investigate advances in science and technology that have important and long- lasting effects on science and society (e.g., Newtonian mechanics, plate tectonics, germ theory, medical and health technology).

Plate Tectonics