Standards
1.M.1: Understand structure and properties of matter.
1.M.1.1: Understand structure and properties of matter.
1.M.1.1.1: Describe properties of elements and their relationship to the periodic table.
1.M.1.1.1.a: Explain atoms and their base components (protons, neutrons, and electrons) as a basis for all matter.
Bohr Model of Hydrogen
Bohr Model: Introduction
Electron Configuration
Element Builder
Nuclear Decay
1.M.1.1.1.b: Read and interpret the periodic table, recognizing the relationship of the chemical and physical properties of the elements to their position on the periodic table.
1.M.1.1.1.c: Recognize that the historical development of atomic theory demonstrates how scientific knowledge changes over time, and how those changes have had an impact on society.
Bohr Model of Hydrogen
Bohr Model: Introduction
Element Builder
1.M.2: Understand chemical and physical changes.
1.M.2.1: Describe and analyze chemical and physical changes.
1.M.2.1.1: Analyze the effects of various factors on physical changes and chemical reactions.
1.M.2.1.1.a: Describe how transformations among solids, liquids, and gases occur (change of state).
Freezing Point of Salt Water
Phase Changes
1.M.2.1.1.b: Identify factors that can influence change of state, including temperature, pressure and concentration.
Colligative Properties
Freezing Point of Salt Water
Phase Changes
1.M.2.1.1.c: Describe chemical reactions in terms of reactants and products.
1.M.2.1.1.d: Describe the factors that affect the rate of chemical reactions.
1.M.2.1.1.e: Recognize examples that show when substances combine or break apart in a chemical reaction, the total mass remains the same (conservation of mass).
Balancing Chemical Equations
Chemical Equation Balancing
Limiting Reactants
1.F.1: Understand fundamental forces, their forms, and their effects on motion.
1.F.1.1: Describe fundamental forces and the motions resulting from them.
1.F.1.1.1: Describe and explain the effects of multiple forces acting on an object.
1.F.1.1.1.c: Describe the forces acting on an object, based on the motion of that object.
2D Collisions
Air Track
Atwood Machine
Fan Cart Physics
Uniform Circular Motion
1.F.1.1.2: Recognize that gravity is a universal force.
1.F.1.1.2.a: Describe the relationship of mass and distance to gravitational force.
1.E.1: Understand energy, its transformations, and interactions with matter.
1.E.1.1: Explain and analyze the interaction of energy and matter.
1.E.1.1.1: Describe differences and similarities between kinds of waves, including sound, seismic, and electromagnetic, as a means of transmitting energy.
1.E.1.1.1.a: Recognize that waves of all kinds have energy that can be transferred when the waves interact with matter.
Bohr Model of Hydrogen
Bohr Model: Introduction
Photoelectric Effect
1.E.1.1.1.b: Apply the concepts of frequency, wavelength, amplitude and energy to electromagnetic and mechanical waves.
Photoelectric Effect
Sound Beats and Sine Waves
1.E.1.1.2: Describe and analyze examples of conservation of energy.
1.E.1.1.2.a: Recognize that heat energy is a by-product of most energy transformations.
Calorimetry Lab
Cell Energy Cycle
Phase Changes
Photoelectric Effect
1.E.1.1.2.b: Describe ways in which energy can be transferred, including chemical reactions, nuclear reactions, and light waves.
Energy Conversion in a System
Nuclear Decay
1.E.1.1.2.c: Explain the difference between potential and kinetic energy.
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
1.E.1.1.2.d: Analyze the flow of energy through a system by applying the law of conservation of energy.
Energy Conversion in a System
Energy of a Pendulum
Inclined Plane - Sliding Objects
2.O.1: Understand the characteristics, structure, and functions of organisms.
2.O.1.1: Describe the characteristics, structure, and functions of organisms.
2.O.1.1.1: Describe, explain, and compare the structure and functions of cells in organisms.
2.O.1.1.1.a: Describe how biological systems can maintain equilibrium (homeostasis).
Human Homeostasis
Paramecium Homeostasis
2.O.1.1.1.b: Identify unique structures in cells from plants, animals, and prokaryotes.
2.O.1.1.1.c: Identify cell organelles and state how their activities contribute to a particular type of cell carrying out its function.
Cell Structure
Paramecium Homeostasis
2.O.1.1.1.d: Explain the role of the cell membrane in cell transport.
2.O.1.1.1.e: Distinguish between active and passive transport, including diffusion and osmosis, explaining the mechanics of each.
2.O.1.1.1.f: Describe photosynthesis as a chemical process and part of the carbon cycle.
Cell Energy Cycle
Interdependence of Plants and Animals
Photosynthesis Lab
2.O.1.1.1.g: Explain how the development of tools and technology, including microscopes, has aided in the understanding of cells and microbes.
Cell Structure
Paramecium Homeostasis
2.H.1: Understand the transmission of traits in living things.
2.H.1.1: Understand the transmission of traits in living things.
2.H.1.1.1: Explain laws of heredity and their relationship to the structure and function of DNA.
2.H.1.1.1.a: Describe the structure of DNA and the way that DNA functions to control protein synthesis.
2.H.1.1.1.b: Recognize and understand the differences between meiosis and mitosis in cellular reproduction.
2.H.1.1.1.c: Recognize that changes in DNA (mutations) and anomalies in chromosomes create changes in organisms.
Evolution: Mutation and Selection
2.H.1.1.1.d: Apply concepts of inheritance of traits, including Mendels laws, Punnett squares, and pedigress, to determine the characteristics of offspring.
Chicken Genetics
Evolution: Mutation and Selection
Microevolution
Mouse Genetics (One Trait)
Mouse Genetics (Two Traits)
Natural Selection
2.H.1.1.1.e: Recognize the existence of technology that can alter and/or determine inherited traits.
Microevolution
Natural Selection
2.D.1: Understand the relationships among living things and between living things and their environments.
2.D.1.1: Explain and analyze the interdependence of organisms in their natural environment.
2.D.1.1.1: Describe and analyze the effect of species, including humans, on an ecosystem.
2.D.1.1.1.a: Predict outcomes of changes in resources and energy flow in an ecosystem.
2.D.1.1.1.b: Explain how humans and other species can impact an ecosystem.
2.D.1.2: Describe and analyze diversity of species, natural selection, and adaptations.
2.D.1.2.1: Analyze how living things have changed over geological time, using fossils and other scientific evidence.
2.D.1.2.1.a: Recognize that, over time, natural selection may result in development of a new species or subspecies.
Evolution: Mutation and Selection
Natural Selection
2.D.1.2.1.b: Recognize that natural selection and its evolutionary consequences provide an explanation of the fossil record as well as an explanation for the molecular similarities among varied species.
Evolution: Mutation and Selection
Human Evolution - Skull Analysis
Natural Selection
2.D.1.2.1.c: Explain how biological evolution can account for the diversity of species developed over time.
Human Evolution - Skull Analysis
2.D.1.2.1.d: Explain the relationship between genetics, mutations, and biological evolution.
Evolution: Mutation and Selection
Human Evolution - Skull Analysis
2.D.1.2.1.e: Explain how our understanding of evolution has changed over time.
Human Evolution - Skull Analysis
3.D.2: Understand changes occurring within the lithosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere of the Earth.
3.D.2.1: Explain and analyze changes occurring within the lithosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere of the Earth.
3.D.2.1.1: Analyze the relationship between global energy transfer and climate.
3.D.2.1.1.c: Describe how differential heating of the Earths surface, atmosphere, and oceans produces wind and ocean currents.
3.D.2.1.2: Analyze evidence of ongoing evolution of the Earth system.
3.D.2.1.2.a: Describe methods of determining ages of rocks and fossils.
Human Evolution - Skull Analysis
3.D.2.1.2.d: Describe how earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, mountain building, and continental movements result from slow plate motions.
Earthquake - Determination of Epicenter
Earthquake - Recording Station
Plate Tectonics
3.S.1: Understand the Earth's place in the solar system and the universe.
3.S.1.1: Explain relationships among the Earth, sun, moon, and the solar system.
3.S.1.1.1: Explain how mass and distance affect the interaction between Earth and other objects in space.
3.S.1.1.1.a: Recognize that the suns gravitational pull holds the Earth and other planets in their orbits, just as the planets' gravitational pull keeps their moons in orbit around them.
Moon Phases
Moonrise, Moonset, and Phases
Orbital Motion - Kepler's Laws
Solar System Explorer
Tides
3.S.1.1.1.b: Explain that the force of gravity between Earth and other objects in space depends only upon their masses and the distances between them.
Gravitational Force
Orbital Motion - Kepler's Laws
Tides
Correlation last revised: 1/20/2017