Science
Unit 1
- Earth history
- Earth changes through plate tectonics (earthquake and volcano activity)
- Rock evidence of Earth changes due to forces
- Locations of earthquake and volcano activity
- Earth changes through physical and chemical weathering
- Natural resources and their importance and uses
- How living things affect the physical characteristics of their region
- Hazards that result from natural processes or extreme natural events
Unit 2
- Plant manufacture of food
- Populations of organisms
- Food chains and food webs
- Plant and animal structures that support growth, reproduction, and behavior
- Plant and animal relationships in an ecosystem
- Plant and animal adaptation and survival
- Human interaction with the environment
- Animal structures specialized to take in and process information
Unit 3
- Definitions of energy
- Movement and transfer of energy
- Law of Conservation of Energy
- Conductors and insulators
- Relationship between energy and forces
- Energy in chemical processes
- Electrical circuits
- Energy and fuels from natural resources
Unit 4
- Magnets and magnetic forces
- Electricity and magnetism; electromagnetic radiation
- Safe use of electricity
- Wave properties and motions
- Transfer of digitized information
- Properties of water
- Changes in state of matter (evaporation, melting, condensation, freezing)
- Water cycle
- Floating and sinking