Priority Academic Student Skills
B.1.1: Matter has physical properties that can be measured (i.e., mass, volume, temperature, color, texture, and density). Physical changes of a substance do not alter the chemical nature of a substance (e.g., phase changes of water and/or sanding wood).
Density Experiment: Slice and Dice
Measuring Volume
Mineral Identification
C.2.1: Living systems are organized by levels of complexity (i.e., cells, tissues, organs, and/or systems).
Cell Structure
Circulatory System
Digestive System
C.2.2: Specialized structures perform specific functions at all levels of complexity (e.g., leaves on trees and wings on birds).
Digestive System
Pollination: Flower to Fruit
C.3.1: Characteristics of an organism result from inheritance and from interactions with the environment.
Inheritance
Mouse Genetics (One Trait)
Mouse Genetics (Two Traits)
C.3.2: Reproduction is essential for species survival. Individual organisms with certain traits are more likely to survive and produce offspring.
Evolution: Mutation and Selection
Evolution: Natural and Artificial Selection
Rainfall and Bird Beaks
C.4.1: Living organisms strive to maintain a constant internal environment (i.e., temperature regulation).
Human Homeostasis
Paramecium Homeostasis
C.4.2: Living organisms have physical and/or behavioral responses to external stimuli (e.g., hibernation, migration, plant growth).
D.5.1: Global patterns of atmospheric movement influence local weather such as oceans' effect on climate.
D.6.1: Most objects in the solar system are in regular and predictable motion. Those motions explain such phenomena as the day, the year, phases of the moon, and eclipses.
2D Eclipse
3D Eclipse
Comparing Earth and Venus
Moonrise, Moonset, and Phases
Phases of the Moon
Solar System Explorer
D.6.2: Seasons result from variations in the amount of the sun’s energy hitting the surface, due to the tilt of the earth’s rotation on its axis and the length of the day.
Seasons in 3D
Seasons: Earth, Moon, and Sun
Seasons: Why do we have them?
Summer and Winter
Correlation last revised: 2/10/2015