Unit 1 – Exploring Science
This unit covers the various branches of science, basic science and metric system vocabulary, the scientific
method, tools used in science, the microscope, and safety rules and symbols for science. It also includes a lab on chemical
color.
Unit 2 – Science and Nature
This unit discusses food webs and chains, the history of life on Earth, evidence of evolution, forest, land, and
water biomes, cycles in nature and time, organisms and the environment, and conservation.
Unit 3 – The Nature of Life, Cells, and Classification of Organisms
This unit discusses five basic life processes, the basic needs and the chemistry of living things, cell theory,
and levels of organization. Also discussed are the inner and outer parts of plant and animal cells, cell processes and
division, and mitosis.
Unit 4 – Simple Kingdoms and Classification
This unit explains what classification is and how it works, introduces the six Kingdoms, discusses characteristics
of Viruses, Monerans, and Protists, and describes parts of a Moneran, animal-like Protists, and plant and fungus-like Protists.
Unit 5 – Fungi and Plants
This unit covers fungus, spotlighting mushrooms, and discusses muticellular algae, land and vascular plants, seeds,
leaves and photosynthesis, gymnosperms, angiosperm flower parts, mold and graphing.
Unit 6 – Simple Invertebrates
This unit discusses sponges, cnidarians, mollusks, worms (with a spotlight on earthworms), groups of arthropods,
characteristics of insects, echinoderms, and the parts of a starfish. Earthworm and starfish dissection labs
are also included.
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Unit 7 – Vertebrate Animals
This unit discusses the characteristics of fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. It presents the parts of
bony fish and frogs, groups of reptiles, mammals, and placental mammals, types of birds, beaks, and feet, and
how to use dichotomous keys. A frog dissection lab is also included.
Unit 8 – Skeletal and Muscular System
This unit discusses types of tissue, characteristics of the skeletal system, bones, skeletal joints,
what muscles and the muscular system are, and the muscles of the body.
Unit 9 – Nutrition
This unit discusses the six food groups and the six basic nutrients, as well as the digestive system
and its parts.
Unit 10 – Major Systems of the Body
This unit covers the major systems of the body, including the circulatory system, the heart, the blood,
and the immune, respiratory, excretory, integumentary, and endocrine systems.
Unit 11 – The Nervous System and Senses
This unit describes the central and peripheral nervous systems, the senses, and the systems of the body.
Unit 12 – Reproductive System and Genetics
This unit discusses the female and male reproductive systems, the history of genetics, probability,
heredity, DNA, phases of meiosis, and asexual reproduction.
Unit 13 – Alcohol, Drugs, and Tobacco
This unit discusses drugs, alcohol, and tobacco, including drug prevention.
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