Science Resources – Grade 7/8 A - Exploring God’s World

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Work of Science

Invertebrates (5)
Find Out (7)
“I Am Soooo Confused!” (8)
Graph It (15)
What Are the Parts? (20)
The Tools of Science (24)

Body Measurements (9)
How Much Room? (13)
Making a Graph (19)
Measuring Mass (R13)

Fill’er Up
Foil Boat Regatta
Household SI Units
Measure It
AIMS Droopy Drawers $

 

DE Measurement
DE Scientific Method and Measurement
DE Simply Science: Science Skills

 

2
Living Cells

What Do You Know? (33)
What Are Cells Like? (34)
It’s a Lot Like an Egg (39)
Like a Bowl of Jell-O (44)
The Control Tower (51)
Division = More (53)
The Instructions (58)

Comparing Cells (40)
Fold It (47)
Black Water (57)
Cell Respiration (R35)

Enzymes as Tools
Learn the Parts
AIMS Cell Mates $

So What Do You Want to Be?

DE The Living Cell
DE Introducing the Cell
DE The Incredible World of the Microscope

 

3
Heredity

What Do You Know? (69)
Look at the Tongues (70)
The Genetic Package (74)
Dominant or Recessive (79)
Whoops (84)
What’s New? (87)

Chances Are (73)
The Genetic Package (81)
Boy or Girl? (81)
Uniquely U (83)
Can You Taste It? (R65)

Design a Kid
Passing It On #1
Toothpick Fish
DNA Extraction

Mapping Life
People Pieces

DE Your Genes: Your Future
DE Genes, Genetics, and DNA
EB Mutations video clip - antibiotics

GO Color blindness
EB Color blindness  - color blindness
GO Mutations, 4-legged duck

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Viruses

Virus (97)
What Are They Like? (98)
Dangerous Viruses (102)
Rude Guests (106)

That’s Pretty Small (100)
Stick Together (105)
Building Viruses (R87)

Stick Together
CG G9 Experimental Epidemic $

 

DE Life Science: Viruses

EB Bacteria: destruction by macrophage
GO Thrush infection

5
Monera, Protista, Fungi

Neither Plant Nor Animal (115)
Monera (116)
Matching Pairs (120)
Kingdom Protista (125)
What a Scum! (127)
Kingdom Fungi (132)

That’s Rotten! (119)
A Mini-Zoo (131)
Mushrooms (134)
Hey, I Don’t Like That! (R111)

The Yeast of Our Worries
Wonderful Wanderers
CG F4 Banana Bag $
CG F5 Saving Salt $

 

DE Biology: The Science of Life: The Microscopic World

 

6
Sponges, Cnidarians
& Worms

Sponges, Cnidarians, and Worms (141)
Invertebrates (142)
Sponges (146)
Cnidarians (149)
Gummi Worms (153)

What Kind of Arrangement Is This? (145)
Earthworm (155)
Hydra (R145)

Invertebrates - Research
Worm Races

 

DE The Kingdom of Animals: From Simple to Complicated

 

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Mollusks & Echinoderms

What’s in Common? #1 (161)
What’s in Common? #2 (162)
Bible Mollusks (166)
Echinoderms (169)
Kinds of Echinoderms (171)

Structure of a Clam (165)
Garden Snails (168)
Structure of a Sea Star (R175)

Clam – Diagram
Sea Star - Diagram
Take Apart Squid

 

DE The Kingdom of Animals: From Simple to Complicated

 

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Arthropods

The Most Common Animal (179)
Examine Me!  (180)
Crustaceans (185)
What Do You Think? (188)
Jumpers (192)

Pill Bug Race (183)
Structure of a Crayfish (187)
Mealworm Observation (R203)

Arachnid – Diagram
Insects - Diagram
Six-legged Arthropods

 

DE Those Amazing Arthropods!

 

9
What Happened to the Plan?

What Should Have Been (205)
Scrambled (207)
Up and Down (208)
The Original Recipe (212)
Evidence of Sabotage (215)
Impact! (218)
R-E-S-P-E-C-T (223)

The Media and Satan’s Sabotage (217)
Changes (224)
Assertiveness Inventory (225)
Getting Help (R241)

       

10
Why Wait?

Decision Helpers (231)
16-18-21 (232)
Favorite Things (236)
“The Survey Says” (242)
Making Choices (246)

Future Wheel (241)
Dumb Reasons (245)
Poor Choice! (249)
What Are Your Values? (R269)

       

11
Sexually Transmitted Diseases

What Kind of Disease? (255)
Whose Fault? (256)
Don’t Spread It Around (259)
What Do You Know? (262)
Prevent It (266)

Hey! This Is Serious! (265)
Take a Stand (267)
Don’t Spread It Around (R297)

The Tangled Web

 

DE Update: Sexually Transmitted Diseases (MUST PREVIEW – some segments may be considered inappropriate)

 

12
A Deadly Virus

What Do You Know? (273)
Cause and Effect (274)
What’s the Sequence? (278)
This Appears SCRAMBLED! (283)

You Call It (276)
Hey, Wanna Trade?  (281)
Attitudes on AIDS (R321)

HIV Infection Diagram
Model It – Virus

     

13
Force

Paper Airplanes (293)
How Many Will Fit?  (295)
Fig Newtons (296)
Let It Fall (299)
It’s Hot! (306)
Other Forces (310)

The Lazy Coin (298)
Falling Pennies (303)
Extend It (304)
Friction (309)
Falling Objects (R349)

Antigravity Machine
Come Fly with Me
Gravity, Don’t Let It . . .
Hoopsters & Spinning Blimps
CG G12 Balancing Nails $

 

DE Physical Science: Forces and Gravity

 

14
Motion

Hey, I’m Moving! (317)
Which Route Is Shortest? (318)
Oooo, That’s Fast!  (322)
The First Law of Motion (327)

Velocity (323)
Hey! Slow Down! (325)
Faster, Faster (326)
Action-Reaction (330)
Speed Zone (R373)

Design a Bobsled
Design a Ride
Just Rolling Along
Marble Roller Coaster

 

DE Laws of Motion
DE Exploring the Laws of Motion

 

15
Energy and Work

Remote-controlled Car (337)
Potential Energy/Kinetic Energy (338)
Who’s the Most Powerful? (342)
Energy Everywhere! (348)

Pokin-kinpo (340)
Human Power (346)
Sorry, I Don’t Want Any (R393)

CG H34 Reaction Racer $

     

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Machines

Which Are Machines? (357)
Let’s Split (358)
This Is Too Easy! (362)
Parts of a Whole (368)

Balance Your Money (361)
Hey, This Is Easy! (365)
Inclined Planes (367)
Pulley Systems (R413)

Spool Tractor
CG E18 Pulley Power $
CG F18 Block and Tackle $

 

DE Work, Energy, and the Simple Machine

 

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Learning about the Universe

Universally Huge! (381)
Part of the Universe? (382)
A Closer Look (390)
Space Energy (396)
Spinoffs (399)

A Handy Sundial (387)
Collecting Light (393)
Spectroscope (394)
“I Can’t Get a Drink!” (400)
Detecting Infrared Waves (R439)

Constellations in a Tube
Eggcelerator
History of Astronomy Timeline

Tinier Than Tiniest

DE Exploring Space: The Universe
DE Space Exploration
DE Greatest Discoveries with Bill Nye: Astronomy
EB International Space Station video clip

GO Hubble Telescope
GO Chandra X-Ray Observatory   
GO NASA & International Space Station
EB International Space Station

18
Our Solar System

What Do You Know?  (409)
Our Solar System (410)
The Inner Planets (414)
Moon Cycle (418)
The Outer Planets (423)
Space Dust (426)

Planet Orbits (413)
The Diameter of the Moon (421)
Making Dents (431)
Moon Watch (R463)

It’s Just a Phase
Mini Solar System
Now You See It, Now You Don’t
Sun - Diagram
CG H22 Student Satellites $

U - Pluto: The Dwarf Planet

DE Our Solar System
EB Solar system (updated - 8 planets & Pluto)
GO Size of Our World

GO Mars Rover
GO Lunar eclipse

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Stars and Galaxies

More Than Meets the Eye (437)
Different Kinds (438)
Our Sun (444)
Dot Patterns (450)
How Big Is a Billion? (454)
You Are Here (462)

Graphing Stars (443)
“Hey, I See Spots!” (446)
How Big Is the Sun? (449)
Finding Polaris (453)
How Long Is a Light-year? (455)
Measuring Parallax (R495)

Marshmallow Constellations
AIMS Stars in the Milky Way Galaxy $

 

DE The Sky Above: A First Look

GO Solar eclipse
GO Variable star

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Questions about Origins

The Way It Was (471)
Bang! (472)
Growing Up (478)
Moving Dots (483)

Find Me! (477)
An Expanding Universe (487)
Chance or Plan? (R521)

 

Out of This World

 

EB Black hole:  dust disk
GO Quasar