Physical Science
| Organization and Development of Living Organisms | Brain Pop & Bill Nye (watch) |
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| Identify and/or describe patterns in the hierarchical organization of organisms, from atoms to molecules, to cells, to tissues, to organs, to organ systems, to organisms. | cell organization | |||
| Identify, describe, and/or explain the components of cell theory. | SEE MOVIE BELOW |
| Describe how cells undergo similar processes to maintain homeostasis. | Kahn Academy – Osmosis & Diffusion
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| Compare and/or contrast the structure and/or function of major organelles of plant and animal cells. | Brain Pop – Cell Structures Bill Nye Cells |
Kahn Academy – Parts of a cell What did Shaggy eat? |
Cell Inspector – Practice identifying organelles Mixed up cells activity |
cell wall, cell membrane, nucleus, cytoplasm, chloroplasts, mitochondria, and vacuoles Plant cell diagram Animal cell diagram Plant & Animal cells compared |
| Identify and/or describe the general functions of the major systems of the human body. | Brain Pop: Circulatory system Bill Nye Blood and Circulation — Brain pop: how joints work Brain pop: Bone structure Bill Nye Bones and Muscles — Brain pop: Respiratory System Bill Nye Respiration — Brain Pop: Immune system Bill Nye Germs — Brain Pop: Digestion Bill Nye digestion — Bill Nye Brain |
SEE MOVIE BELOW | Human Body Quiz/Game Amazing Human Body |
How the body works) Cyber Anatomy Human Anatomy Human body digestive respiratory circulatory (human heart, How the heart works) reproductive excretory immune nervous musculoskeletal |
| Identify and/or describe how the major systems of the human body interact to maintain homeostasis. | homeostasis – the tendency of a cell, organism, or population to maintain internal stability. | |||
| Identify, compare, and/or contrast the types of infectious agents that affect the human body. | Brain Pop: Immune system Bill Nye Germs |
infection, detection, protection |
| Diversity and Evolution of Living Organisms | Brain Pop & Bill Nye (watch) |
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| Analyze and/or describe how and/or why organisms are classified. | Dichotomous Key Choose the Eastern & Central United States Trees Key | |||
| The characteristics used to classify organisms | Kahn Academy – Taxonomy & the Tree of Life | A Touch of Class | classifying life | |
| Classification of organisms | Brain Pop – 6 Kingdoms | domains – Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya kingdoms – Eubacteria, Archaea, Protist, Fungus, Plant, and Animal |
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| binomial nomenclature | SEE MOVIE BELOW | A universal system of naming and classifying organisms based on similarities, each organism has two names: a genus and a species. In order for an organism to be specifically identified, it must have both a genus and species name. |
| Identify and/or explain ways in which genetic variation and environmental factors contribute to evolution by natural selection and diversity of organisms. | Kahn Academy – Natural Selection & the Owl Butterfly | Adaptation game | ||
| Identify and/or explain ways in which fossil evidence is consistent with the scientific theory of evolution. | Kahn Academy – Introduction to Evolution and Natural Selection | |||
| Identify and/or explain how a species’ inability to adapt may contribute to the extinction of that species. | ||||
| Fossil evidence (progressions over time/evolution from earlier species and/or the idea that not all species alive today were alive in the past) | Bill Nye Fossils | Life has a history tour | Fossil evidence |
| Heredity and Reproduction | Brain Pop & Bill Nye (watch) |
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| Describe and/or explain that every organism requires a set of instructions that specifies its traits. | Kahn Academy – DNA DNA videos SEE MOVIE BELOW |
| Identify and/or explain that hereditary information (DNA) contains genes located in the chromosomes of each cell and/or that heredity is the passage of these instructions from one generation to another. | Brain Pop – Heredity Bill Nye Genes |
Kahn Academy – Intro to Heredity | Where did you get those genes? | What is a chromosome? |
| Use Punnett squares and pedigrees to determine genotypic and phenotypic probabilities. | Kahn Academy – Punnett Square Fun | Punnett Square Practice | ||
| Compare and/or contrast general processes of sexual and asexual reproduction (mitosis and meiosis) that result in the passage of hereditary information from one generation to another. | Brain Pop – Mitosis | Kahn Academy – Mitosis Kahn Academy – Meiosis Mitosis movie mitosis song |
Asexual reproduction & Mitosis Sexual reproduction & Meiosis |
| Interdependence | Brain Pop & Bill Nye (watch) |
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| Compare and/or contrast relationships (and common examples) between organisms, such as mutualism, predation, parasitism, competition, and commensalism. | SEE MOVIE BELOW | Simulation Interdependence & adaptations |
Relationships |
| Describe and/or explain the roles of and relationships among producers, consumers, and decomposers in the process of energy transfer in a food web. | Bill Nye Food web | SEE MOVIES BELOW | Food Chain Game Sorting Game Producer, Consumer & Decomposer game |
primary, secondary, and tertiary consumers Decomposers & Scavengers |
| Identify and/or describe various limiting factors in an ecosystem and their impact on native populations. | Brain Pop: Ecosystems | SEE MOVIE BELOW |
| Matter and Energy Transformations | Brain Pop & Bill Nye (watch) |
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Games & Activities (try this out) |
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| Explain that living systems obey the Law of Conservation of Mass and the Law of Conservation of Energy. | SEE MOVIE BELOW | Energy games Energy games 2 |
types of energy |
| Describe and/or explain the general processes of photosynthesis or cellular respiration. | Brain Pop – Photosynthesis & Respiration | Kahn Academy – Respiration
SEE MOVIE BELOW |
Photosynthesis animation Photosynthesis interactive Photosynthesis virtual lab Respiration virtual lab |
* use word equations for photosynthesis & respiration Photosynthesis information Photosynthesis explained |
| Describe how matter and energy are transferred in the carbon cycle. | Carbon Cycle Diagram Carbon Cycle game Calculate your Carbon footprint click (in the home, on the road etc.) |
Where is the carbon? | ||
| Describe the role of light, carbon dioxide, water, and/or chlorophyll in the process and products of photosynthesis. | Brain Pop – Photosynthesis & Respiration | Kahn Academy – Photosynthesis | What is photosynthesis? |
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