Teachers: Renae
Axtell and Chris Boesiger
Year: 2008-2009
Course: Science
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Classifying Living Things (Unit C) |
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CHAPTER 1 - All Kinds of Living Things
VOCABULARY: organisms, vertebra,
vertebrates, invertebrates, exoskeleton,
fish, gills, amphibian, reptiles, birds,
mammals, molts, nonseed plants, seed plants,
mosses, liverworts, ferns, horsetails,
conifers, monocot, and dicot |
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CHAPTER 2 - The Survival of Living Things
VOCABULARY: environment, savanna,
adaptations, behaviors, instinctive
behaviors, learned behaviors, and extinct |
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Classify organisms into the five different
kingdoms. |
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Compare and contrast vertebrates and
invertebrates. |
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Compare and contrast nonseed and seed
plants. |
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Describe medicinal uses of plants. |
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Name the basic needs of all living things. |
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Describe how the physical characteristics of
animals help them survive. |
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Compare and contrast instinctive and learned
behaviors. |
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Predict the outcome of living things if
their needs are not met. |
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Electricity and Magnetism Unit D |
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Chapter 1 What are Magnets?
VOCABULARY: magnet, magnetism, north pole,
south pole, lines of force, magnetic field,
lodestone, compass
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Chapter 2 Electrical Energy
VOCABULARY: electric charges, static
electricity, electric discharge, electric
current, electric circuit, switch,
conductors, insulators, filament, series
circuit, parallel circuit, fuse, circuit
breaker |
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Discover how magnets attract certain
materials, such as iron and steel; and how
they have north and south poles
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Discover how magnets have magnetic fields
that exert forces in all directions around
the magnet |
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Discover how electricity consists of an
electric charge on the surface of an object |
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Compare and contrast electric current and
stactic electricity |
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Discover how current electricity is the flow
of negative charges through a conductor in a
closed circuit |
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Compare and contrast a series circuit form a
parallel circuit |
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Discover that generators, electric cells,
and solar cells produce electric current and
can be changed into useful froms of energy
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Weather and Climate (Unit E) |
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CHAPTER 1 - The Air Around Us
VOCABULARY: air, nitrogen, oxygen, carbon
dioxide, water vapor, atmosphere,
troposphere, weather, greenhouse effect, and
wind |
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CHAPTER 2 - Observing Weather
VOCABULARY: barometer, air pressure,
high-pressure areas, low-pressure areas,
wind vane, windsock, anemometer, water
cycle, evaporates, condenses, cloud, fog,
precipiation, rain gauge, humidity, and
relative humidity |
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CHAPTER 3 - Weather Patterns
VOCABULARY: weather satellites, cumulus
clouds, stratus clouds, cirrus clouds,
weather forecaster, air mass, front, cold
front, warm front, thunderstorm, flash
floods, hurricanes, and tornado |
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CHAPTER 4 - Seasons and Climate
VOCABULARY: axis, equator, Northern
Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, climate,
tropical climate, temperate climate, polar
climate, and ice ages |
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Define air and what it is composed of. |
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Explain how air is vital to life. |
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Identify the different layers of our
atmosphere. |
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Explain the Greenhouse Effect. |
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Explain what a barometer measures. |
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Describe the effect that air pressure and
water vapor have on weather. |
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Compare a windsock to a wind vane. |
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Describe how wind is measured. |
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Describe the uses of wind energy. |
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Explore the different stages of the water
cycle. |
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Identify the three main types of clouds. |
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Classify clouds by the type of weather they
produce. |
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Identify weather map symbols. |
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Describe how weather maps help predict
weather. |
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Investigate the causes of a thunderstorm. |
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Make a weather safety plan for all types of
severe weather. |
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Compare and contrast hurricanes and
tornadoes. |
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Explore the causes of seasons and surface
temperatures. |
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Describe the three main types of climate. |
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Identify three influences on a region's
climate. |
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Investigate three ways scientists learn
about Earth's past climate changes. |
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