1: Compare and contrast structure and function in living systems.

1.a: Compare and contrast plant and animal cells through investigations.

Cell Structure

1.b: Describe the process of respiration and the use of its products.

Cell Energy Cycle
Interdependence of Plants and Animals

2: Explore the processes of the reproduction and heredity of organisms.

2.a: Distinguish genes as sections of DNA molecules that carry the genetic code for inherited traits.

DNA Fingerprint Analysis
Evolution: Mutation and Selection
Human Karyotyping
Microevolution
Natural Selection

2.b: Examine the concepts of homozygous and heterozygous traits.

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

2.c: Explain mitosis and relate it to an organism's growth and repair processes.

Cell Division

3: Determine how organisms co-exist in their environment.

3.a: Demonstrate that cells interact with their environment.

Cell Structure
Paramecium Homeostasis

4: Explore how environmental factors of population influence the formation of an ecosystem.

4.a: Describe the process of photosynthesis and the use of its products.

Cell Energy Cycle
Interdependence of Plants and Animals
Photosynthesis Lab

4.b: Design an experiment in plant behavior to include responses to water, gravity, and light.

Photosynthesis Lab

4.c: Investigate and research environmental concerns of the land, water, and air.

Water Pollution

4.d: Analyze the importance of biological diversity in communities and ecosystems.

Evolution: Mutation and Selection
Food Chain

5: Examine survival strategies of organisms over many generations.

5.a: Apply concepts of adaptation by analyzing how organisms are classified into groups and subgroups.

Evolution: Mutation and Selection
Human Evolution - Skull Analysis
Natural Selection

5.b: Research animal adaptations and behaviors as related to survival strategies.

Evolution: Mutation and Selection
Natural Selection
Rainfall and Bird Beaks

5.c: Explain how natural and man-made pressures cause extinction.

Natural Selection

6: Explore the composition and changes of the Earth system.

6.b: Research and explain how crustal movements result in earthquakes, volcanoes, mountain formation, etc.

Earthquake - Determination of Epicenter
Earthquake - Recording Station
Plate Tectonics

6.d: Identify how forces such as erosion and deposition create landforms.

Rock Cycle

6.e: Research landforms and fossils specific to Mississippi.

Human Evolution - Skull Analysis

7: Explain the causes of lunar phases, eclipses, and Earth's seasons.

7.a: Distinguish between radiating objects (the sun and the stars) and reflecting objects (the planets and their moons).

Laser Reflection

7.b: Characterize lunar phases in terms of their appearance, their visibility at a given time of day or night, and their progression through time.

Moon Phases
Moonrise, Moonset, and Phases

7.c: Illustrate the relationship between lunar phases and the phase angle between the sun and the moon as seen from Earth.

Moon Phases
Moonrise, Moonset, and Phases

7.d: Illustrate the alignments of the Earth, the moon, and the sun, which give rise to solar and lunar eclipses and explain why these eclipses do not occur every month.

2D Eclipse
3D Eclipse

7.e: Explain how the position of the earth in relation to the sun has an effect on seasonal weather changes.

Seasons Around the World
Seasons in 3D
Seasons: Earth, Moon, and Sun
Seasons: Why do we have them?
Solar System Explorer
Tides

8: Investigate chemical and physical properties of matter.

8.a: Determine and measure experimentally: boiling point, melting point, density, and solubility.

Colligative Properties
Density Experiment: Slice and Dice
Density Laboratory
Density via Comparison
Determining Density via Water Displacement
Freezing Point of Salt Water
Phase Changes
Solubility and Temperature

8.b: Demonstrate understanding that chemical and physical properties determine a substance's identity.

Mystery Powder Analysis

8.c: Compare common metals, nonmetals, and metalloids by name, symbol, and characteristics.

Electron Configuration
Element Builder
Nuclear Decay

8.e: Relate density to mass and volume.

Density Experiment: Slice and Dice
Density Laboratory
Density via Comparison
Determining Density via Water Displacement

9: Investigate motions and forces.

9.a: Using SI units, measure and graph the motion of an object by its position, direction of motion, and speed.

Atwood Machine
Distance-Time Graphs
Distance-Time and Velocity-Time Graphs
Fan Cart Physics
Uniform Circular Motion

9.b: Investigate Newton's Laws of Motion.

2D Collisions
Air Track
Atwood Machine
Fan Cart Physics
Uniform Circular Motion

9.c: Using the scientific method, design an experiment to test how different types of surfaces affect friction.

Roller Coaster Physics