Curriculum Scope & Sequence – Science
Grade: 7 – Life Science
Text: Life Science by Glencoe/McGraw Hill
General Goals:
To develop the following skills:
- Use various units and combined units of measurement, as well as demonstrate the appropriate use of different measurement devices
- Identify the characteristics of living things
- Investigate Linnaean classification
- Describe basic plant and animal cell structure and function
- Identify the structures and functions of organisms and compare the varying levels of complexity
- Demonstrate an understanding of the basic principles of genetics and heredity
- Demonstrate an understanding of the structure and function of the major human body systems
- Demonstrate an understanding of basic principles of genetics and heredity
- Investigate the relationship between organisms and their environment
This understanding/skill will be demonstrated by receiving passing scores on formal assessments, daily work and lab activities for each respective area.
Goals By Term
Term 1: Chapters 1-2: Review and study scientific method, microscopes, measurement, SI units, characteristics of life, cellular structure, viruses, and heredity
Term 2: Chapters 4, 5, 7, 8: Meiosis, mitosis, genetics, classification, and bacteria
Term 3: Chapters 9-11: Protists, fungi, and plants
Term 4: Chapters 13-16: Animals and human body systems
Additional Information:
Ecology is an optional study (Chapters 17-20).
Grade: 8 – Earth Science
Text/Materials Used: Earth Science: the Challenge of Discovery by Snyder, Mann, Ludwig, Brecht and Stasik (1991); Computer Lab Programs: Explorer, MS Word
General Goals:
To develop the following skills:
- Demonstrate an understanding of stellar bodies as well the characteristics of the planets and their motions
- Use their understanding of the composition and dynamics of the Earth’s crust, given a set of known geologic conditions, to predict future geologic activity
- Demonstrate an understanding of the causes and impacts of weather
- Explain the different parts and process in the water cycle
- Compare and contrast a variety of energy resources available to man
This understanding/skill will be demonstrated by receiving passing scores on formal assessments, daily work and lab activities for each respective area.
Goals By Term
Term 1: Chapters 2-4: Matter, minerals, and rocks
Term 2:
Chapters 5-6: Earth’s energy and mineral resources, views of earth
Chapters 17-18: Climate and ocean motion
Term 3:
Chapter 19: Oceanography
Chapter 7: Weathering and soil
Chapter 14: Geologic time
Chapter 10: Plate tectonics
Term 4:
Chapter 11-13: Earthquakes, volcanoes, clues to earth’s past
Debate Creation vs. Evolution
Grade: 9 – Physical Science
Text: Physical Science by Glencoe/McGraw Hill
General Goals:
To develop the following skills:
- Apply the scientific method and use the SI units
- Describe displacement, velocity, acceleration, and force
- Relate work, power, and energy to each other
- Analyze electrostatics, electricity, and magnetism
- Describe the nature and properties of waves as applied to sound and electromagnetic radiation
- Relate the nature of light, mirrors, and lenses
- Classify matter based on its properties
- Explain chemical bonds and analyze chemical reactions
- Describe acidic and basic solutions and organic compounds
This understanding will be demonstrated by receiving passing scores on formal assessments, daily work and lab activities for each respective area.
Goals By Term
Term 1: Chapters 1-2: Review and study the scientific method, measurements, SI system, motion, and graphing
Term 2: Chapters 3-4: Forces and energy
Term 3: Chapters 15-17, 19: Classification of matter, atomic structure, elements, and the periodic table
Term 4: Chapters 20-14: Chemical Bonding, chemical reactions, solutions, acids and bases, and organic compounds
Grade: 10 – Biology
Text: Modern Biology by Holt, Rinehart, and Winston
General Goals:
To develop the following skills:
- Describe the structure and function of cell organelles
- Compare and contrast processes involved in cell homeostasis
- Compare and contrast the roles of organic compounds in cells
- Demonstrate an understanding of cellular energy processes
- Explain the process of protein synthesis
- Demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between genetic processes, heredity and mutation
- Explain the basic levels of organization in bioecology
- Describe basic plant structures and their functions
- Identify animal structures and their functions and compare them at varying levels of complexity
- Demonstrate an understanding of the major forms of bacteria, viruses and protozoa
This understanding/skill will be demonstrated by receiving passing scores on formal assessments, daily work and lab activities for each respective area.
Goals By Term
Term 1: Chapters 1-8: Review scientific method, microscope, biochemistry, cellular structure, homeostasis and transport, photosynthesis, respiration and cell division (meiosis and mitosis)
Term 2: Chapters 9-16: Genetics, DNA, RNA, protein systhesis, evolution,and classification
Term 3: Chapters 18-19 and selected portions of 24-33: Ecology, classification, microbiology (archaebacteria, eubacteria, and protista), and plants
Term 4: Chapters 34, 39, 41-45, 46-51: Animals and human biology
Grade: 10-11 – Chemistry
Text: Chemistry Heath
General Goals:
To demonstrate the following skills:
- Compare states of matter and be able to describe it using symbols and formulas
- Explain the properties of gasses and relate them to the gas laws
- Explain the structure of the atom
- Compare and contrast the elements of the periodic table
- Compare and contrast acids and bases
- Describe how chemistry relates to the fields of thermodynamics and electricity
- Describe the important chemicals involved in organic chemistry
This understanding/skill will be demonstrated by receiving passing scores on formal assessments, daily work and lab activities for each respective area.
Goals By Term
Term 1: Units 1-5: Introduction, descriptions of matter, chemical reactions and equations, molar relationships, and stoichiometry
Term 2: Units 6-10: Gases and their properties, predicting gas behavior, composition of the atom, nuclear chemistry, and electrons in atoms
Term 3: Units 11-15: Periodic table, metals, chemical bonding, solutions, and thermodynamics
Term 4: Unit 16-22: Reaction rates, reaction equilibrium, acids and bases, electrochemistry, chemical analysis, organic chemistry, and chemistry of life
Grade: 11-12 – Physics
Text: Physics Heath (1992)
General Goals:
To develop the following skills:
- Explain and demonstrate how displacement, velocity, and acceleration are related to the physical world using Newton’s Laws of Motion
- Relate work, power and energy as well as distinguish between different forms of energy
- Understand the properties and behavior of fluids
- Explain wave theory and how it relates to the properties of sound, light, and optics
- Relate electrostatics and electricity
- Explain the relationship between electricity and magnetism
- Compare and contrast different forms of electromagnetic radiation, including X-rays and gamma rays
- Explain the Atomic Theory and relate this to an understanding of the atom and nuclear energy
This understanding/skill will be demonstrated by receiving passing scores on formal assessments, daily work and lab activities for each respective area.
Goals By Term
Term 1: Chapters 1-6: Simple motion, volocity and acceleration, vectors, bodies in free fall, forces, and Newton’s laws of motion
Term 2: Chapters 7-12: Work, power & energy, thermal energy, fluids, properties and behavior of waves, production and properties of sound, and the interference of sound waves
Term 3: Chapters 13-17: Light rays and reflection, curved mirrors, refraction of light, lenses and their applications, light and color
Term 4: Chapters 18-27: Electrostatics, current electricity, electric circuits, magnetism, electromagnetism, electromagnetic induction, investigation of new rays, investigation of the atom, investigations of the nucleus, and nuclear energy
