Unit A Understanding Living Things
Chapter 1 : Cells, Genetics, and Heredity
Chapter 1 : Cells, Genetics, and Heredity
- Draw both a plant and animal cell-label all parts and color
- Draw both mitosis and meiosis-label all parts and color
- Make both a plant and animal cell using jello or corn syrup, plums, mandarin orange pieces, beans, peas etc. and a ziploc bag
- Make a Punnet chart
- Outline each section of the chapter and complete the study guide
- Make a classification chart using beans
- Use the bean chart that was made in the classification section to describe how you made the subdivisions
- Outline each section of the chapter and complete the study guide
- Standards: SC7, SC4, SC8, SC 3
- Goals: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.5, 1.8, 2.3, 3.1 3.3
Unit B Living Things Grow and Respond
Pumpkin Caper Pictures of this activity are located on Student page
Chapter 1: Plant Growth and Responses
Pumpkin Caper Pictures of this activity are located on Student page
Chapter 1: Plant Growth and Responses
- Experiment with germinating seeds
- Experiment with plants response to light, touch, gravity, etc.
- Outline chapter and complete study guide
- Identify mosses and gymnosperms
- Leaf project- click for rubric
- Experiment with reproduction of gymnosperms and angiosperms
- Experiment with dissecting a flower
- Draw a picture of the flower and all the parts-label each part and color
- Experiment with dicotyledon and monocotyledon with Lima bean and corn seed
- Outline chapter and complete study guide
- Identify various groups of invertebrates
- Compare and contrast: sponges, mollusks, arthropods, and echinoderms
- Investigate Cnidarians and worms
- Experiment with worms and discover why they come to the surface after a hard rain
- Outline chapter and complete study guide
- Compare and contrast: fish and amphibians
- Design a Habitat for a vertebrate click for rubric
- Outline chapter and complete study guide
- Standards:SC 3, SC1 SC4
- Goals: 1.3, 1.8, 1.2, 1.5, 3.3, 3.5
Unit C The Living Planet
Chapter 1: Ecosystems--Characteristics and Cycles
Chapter 1: Ecosystems--Characteristics and Cycles
- Outline chapter and complete study guide
- Di-sect owl pellets
- Draw and label a food chain
- Draw and label a food web
- Compare and contrast the food chain and food web
- Outline chapter and complete study guide
- Design a Ocean animal habitat click for rubric
- Map the ocean floor
- Outline chapter and complete study guide
- Figure it Out project
- Experiment with air pressure
- Design and construct a weather station
- Outline chapter and complete study guide
- Standards: SC 4,SC 7, SC 5, SC 1
- Goals: 1.8, 1.6, 2.1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
Unit D : Cycles in Earth and Space
Chapter 1: Movement of Earth's Crust
Chapter 1: Movement of Earth's Crust
- Draw the Earth's layers
- Experiment with Plate tectonics
- Locate Earthquakes and map them
- Complete outline of chapter and study guide
- Investigation Properties of Minerals
- Experiment with wheat bread/white bread show how sedimentary rock is formed and then can be changed into metamorphic rock.
- Experiment with Mining and Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Complete outline of chapter and study guide