Standards of Learning
ES.3.a: maps (bathymetric, geologic, topographic, and weather) and star charts;
Building Topographical Maps
Hurricane Motion
Ocean Mapping
Reading Topographical Maps
Weather Maps
ES.3.d: location by latitude and longitude and topographic profiles.
Building Topographical Maps
Ocean Mapping
Reading Topographical Maps
ES.4.b: sun-Earth-moon relationships (seasons, tides, and eclipses);
2D Eclipse
3D Eclipse
Seasons Around the World
Seasons in 3D
Seasons: Earth, Moon, and Sun
Seasons: Why do we have them?
Tides
ES.4.c: characteristics of the sun, planets, their moons, comets, meteors, and asteroids; and
ES.4.d: the history and contributions of the space program.
ES.5.b: uses of minerals.
ES.6.a: igneous (intrusive and extrusive);
Rock Classification
Rock Cycle
ES.6.b: sedimentary (clastic and chemical); and
Rock Classification
Rock Cycle
ES.6.c: metamorphic (foliated and unfoliated) rocks.
Rock Classification
Rock Cycle
ES.7.a: fossil fuels, minerals, rocks, water, and vegetation;
ES.7.d: making informed judgments related to resource use and its effects on Earth systems; and
ES.8.b: processes (faulting, folding, volcanism, metamorphism, weathering, erosion, deposition, and sedimentation) and their resulting features; and
ES.8.c: tectonic processes (subduction, rifting and sea floor spreading, and continental collision).
ES.9.b: development of karst topography;
Building Topographical Maps
Reading Topographical Maps
ES.9.d: identification of other sources of fresh water including rivers, springs, and aquifers with reference to the hydrologic cycle;
ES.9.e: dependence on freshwater resources and the effects of human usage on water quality; and
ES.10.a: traces or remains of ancient, often extinct, life are preserved by various means in many sedimentary rocks;
Rock Classification
Rock Cycle
ES.10.b: superposition, cross-cutting relationships, index fossils, and radioactive decay are methods of dating bodies of rock;
ES.10.d: rocks and fossils from many different geologic periods and epochs are found in Virginia.
Human Evolution - Skull Analysis
ES.11.a: physical and chemical changes (tides, waves, currents, sea level and ice cap variations, upwelling, and salinity concentrations);
Freezing Point of Salt Water
Tides
ES.11.d: features of the sea floor (continental margins, trenches, mid-ocean ridges, and abyssal plains) reflect tectonic processes; and
ES.11.e: economic and public policy issues concerning the oceans and the coastal zone including the Chesapeake Bay.
ES.13.b: prediction of weather patterns;
ES.13.c: severe weather occurrences such as tornadoes, hurricanes, and major storms; and
ES.14.b: the origin of stars and star systems;
ES.14.c: stellar evolution;
BIO.2.b: scientific explanations of the development of organisms through time (biological evolution);
Human Evolution - Skull Analysis
BIO.2.c: evidence supporting the germ theory of infectious disease;
BIO.3.a: water chemistry and its impact on life processes;
BIO.3.d: the capture, storage, transformation, and flow of energy through the processes of photosynthesis and respiration.
Cell Energy Cycle
Interdependence of Plants and Animals
Photosynthesis Lab
BIO.4.c: similarities between the activities of a single cell and a whole organism; and
Cell Structure
Paramecium Homeostasis
BIO.4.d: the cell membrane model (diffusion, osmosis, and active transport).
BIO.5.a: how their structures and functions vary between and within the kingdoms;
BIO.5.b: comparison of their metabolic activities;
Cell Energy Cycle
Interdependence of Plants and Animals
Photosynthesis Lab
BIO.5.c: analyses of their responses to the environment;
BIO.5.d: maintenance of homeostasis;
Human Homeostasis
Paramecium Homeostasis
BIO.5.f: how viruses compare with organisms.
BIO.6.a: cell growth and division;
BIO.6.c: cell specialization;
Evolution: Mutation and Selection
BIO.6.d: prediction of inheritance of traits based on the Mendelian laws of heredity;
Evolution: Mutation and Selection
Microevolution
Natural Selection
BIO.6.e: genetic variation (mutation, recombination, deletions, additions to DNA);
Evolution: Mutation and Selection
BIO.6.f: the structure, function, and replication of nucleic acids (DNA and RNA);
Building DNA
RNA and Protein Synthesis
Virus Life Cycle (Lytic)
BIO.6.g: events involved in the construction of proteins;
BIO.6.h: use, limitations, and misuse of genetic information; and
Chicken Genetics
Mouse Genetics (One Trait)
Mouse Genetics (Two Traits)
BIO.7.a: structural similarities in organisms;
Human Evolution - Skull Analysis
BIO.7.b: fossil record interpretation;
Human Evolution - Skull Analysis
BIO.7.d: examination of biochemical similarities and differences among organisms; and
BIO.8.a: evidence found in fossil records;
Human Evolution - Skull Analysis
BIO.8.b: how genetic variation, reproductive strategies, and environmental pressures impact the survival of populations;
Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium
Microevolution
Natural Selection
BIO.8.c: how natural selection leads to adaptations;
Evolution: Mutation and Selection
Natural Selection
Rainfall and Bird Beaks
BIO.8.e: scientific explanations for biological evolution.
Human Evolution - Skull Analysis
BIO.9.a: interactions within and among populations including carrying capacities, limiting factors, and growth curves;
BIO.9.b: nutrient cycling with energy flow through ecosystems;
CH.2.a: average atomic mass, mass number, and atomic number;
Electron Configuration
Element Builder
Nuclear Decay
CH.2.b: isotopes, half lives, and radioactive decay;
CH.2.c: characteristics of subatomic particles as to mass and charge;
CH.2.d: families or groups;
Covalent Bonds
Electron Configuration
Ionic Bonds
CH.2.e: series and periods;
CH.2.f: trends including atomic radii, electronegativity, shielding effect, and ionization energy;
CH.2.g: electron configurations, valence electrons, and oxidation numbers;
Covalent Bonds
Dehydration Synthesis
Electron Configuration
Element Builder
Ionic Bonds
CH.3.b: balancing chemical equations;
Balancing Chemical Equations
Chemical Equation Balancing
CH.3.d: bonding types (ionic, covalent);
CH.3.e: reaction types (synthesis, decomposition, single and double replacement, oxidation-reduction, neutralization, exothermic and endothermic); and
CH.3.f: reaction rates and kinetics (activation energy, catalysis, degree of randomness).
CH.4.b: stoichiometric relationships;
CH.4.d: gas laws;
CH.4.e: solution concentrations;
CH.5.a: pressure, temperature, and volume;
CH.5.b: vapor pressure;
CH.5.c: phase changes;
Freezing Point of Salt Water
Phase Changes
CH.5.d: molar heats of fusion and vaporization;
CH.5.e: specific heat capacity; and
CH.5.f: colligative properties.
Colligative Properties
Freezing Point of Salt Water
PH.2.c: the slope of a linear relationship is calculated and includes appropriate units;
Determining a Spring Constant
Direct and Inverse Variation
Slope - Activity B
PH.2.e: analysis of systems employs vector quantities utilizing trigonometric and graphical methods.
PH.5.a: linear motion;
Atwood Machine
Distance-Time Graphs
Distance-Time and Velocity-Time Graphs
Fan Cart Physics
Inclined Plane - Sliding Objects
PH.5.b: uniform circular motion;
PH.5.c: projectile motion;
PH.5.d: Newton's laws of motion;
2D Collisions
Air Track
Atwood Machine
Fan Cart Physics
Uniform Circular Motion
PH.5.e: gravitation;
Atwood Machine
Freefall Laboratory
Gravitational Force
Inclined Plane - Sliding Objects
PH.5.f: planetary motion; and
Orbital Motion - Kepler's Laws
Solar System Explorer
PH.5.g: work, power, and energy.
Inclined Plane - Simple Machine
Pulley Lab
PH.6.a: kinetic and potential energy;
Air Track
Energy of a Pendulum
Inclined Plane - Rolling Objects
Inclined Plane - Simple Machine
Inclined Plane - Sliding Objects
Period of a Pendulum
Potential Energy on Shelves
Roller Coaster Physics
Simple Harmonic Motion
PH.6.b: elastic and inelastic collisions; and
PH.7.a: density and pressure;
Density Experiment: Slice and Dice
Density Laboratory
Density via Comparison
Determining Density via Water Displacement
PH.7.c: Archimedes' principle of buoyancy;
Density Laboratory
Density via Comparison
Determining Density via Water Displacement
PH.8.b: efficiency of systems.
Inclined Plane - Simple Machine
PH.9.a: wave characteristics (period, wavelength, frequency, amplitude and phase);
Earthquake - Determination of Epicenter
Photoelectric Effect
Sound Beats and Sine Waves
PH.9.b: fundamental wave processes (reflection, refraction, diffraction, interference, polarization, Doppler effect); and
Doppler Shift
Ray Tracing (Lenses)
Refraction
PH.9.c: light and sound in terms of wave models.
PH.10.a: the properties and behaviors of radio, microwaves, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, X-rays, and gamma rays; and
PH.10.b: current applications based on the wave properties of each band.
PH.11.a: application of the laws of reflection and refraction;
Laser Reflection
Ray Tracing (Lenses)
Refraction
PH.11.b: construction and interpretation of ray diagrams;
Ray Tracing (Lenses)
Ray Tracing (Mirrors)
PH.11.c: development and use of mirror and lens equations; and
Laser Reflection
Ray Tracing (Mirrors)
PH.11.d: predictions of type, size, and position of real and virtual images.
Laser Reflection
Ray Tracing (Mirrors)
PH.12.a: inverse square laws (Newton’s law of universal gravitation and Coulomb’s law); and
2D Collisions
Air Track
Coulomb Force (Static)
Gravitational Force
Orbital Motion - Kepler's Laws
Pith Ball Lab
Tides
PH.13.a: Ohm’s law;
PH.13.b: series, parallel, and combined circuits; and
PH.13.c: circuit components including resistors, batteries, generators, fuses, switches, and capacitors.
PH.14.a: wave/particle duality;
Bohr Model of Hydrogen
Bohr Model: Introduction
Photoelectric Effect
Ray Tracing (Lenses)
Refraction
PH.14.f: nuclear physics;
PH.14.i: radioactivity.
Correlation last revised: 10/30/2009