Using interactive exercises, students will review the three different types of models and the advantages and limitations of models.

Using interactive exercises, students will review the contributions of scientist to various fields of scientific study.

Using interactive exercises, students will describe the structure of atoms and the locations of particles with in the atom.

Using interactives, students will demonstrate that gravity is the force that governs the motion of our solar system.

Students will identify how light years are used to measure distances and sizes of components of the universe.

Students will identify how global patterns of atmospheric movement influence local weather.

Students will identify the role of the oceans in the formation of weather systems such as hurricanes. 

Students will describe producer/consumer, predator/prey, and parasite/host relationships as they occur in food webs.

Students will examine how organisms and populations in an ecosystem depend on and may compete for biotic and abiotic factors such as quantity of light, water, range of temperatures, or soil composition.

Students will identify how humans depend on ocean systems and explain how human activities such as runoff, artificial reefs, or use of resources have modified these systems.

Using interactive exercises, students will review how to construct tables and graphs in order to organize data.

Students will use interactive exercises to analyze data to identify patterns, predict trends, formulate reasonable explanations, and communicate valid conclusions.

Using interactive exercises, students will review how to evaluate a scientific explanation.

Given choices of natural resources and lab materials, students will select disposal and recycling methods that best conserve and protect our resources.

Given scenarios of descriptive and comparative investigations, students will plan and implement investigations by making observations and asking well-defined questions.

Given field and laboratory scenarios, students will collect and record data using the International System of Units (SI) and qualitative means such as labeled drawings and graphic organizers.

Given scenarios of comparative and experimental investigations, students will plan and implement investigations by making observations and asking well-defined questions and formulating testable hypothesis.

Given descriptions of investigation, students will select appropriate tools and technology to collect, record, and analyze information.

Given illustrations or descriptions, students will differentiate between elements and compounds.

Given illustrations or descriptions, students will identify that protons determine an element’s identity and valance electrons determine its chemical properties including reactivity.