Science Resources – Grade 7/8 B – Exploring God’s Creation

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Methods of Science

From Whence Did It Come? (7)
Pin It Up (8)
It’s the Law (12)
What’s Technology? (19)
Look Out! (22)

How Many on a Penny? (11)
The Great Balloon Race (14)
Developing a Model (18)
Be Safe! (25)
They’re All Wet (R15)

Balloon Rocket
Chain Lab
AIMS Sink or Swim $

 

DE How Scientists Work: What Is the Scientific Method?

 

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Special Creation

You Are There! (31)
Creator or Creator? (32)
What Flood? (37)
Things Change (41)
Give Yourself a Hand (47)

What a Week! (46)
What’s Your Number? (51)
When You’ve Seen One, You’ve Seen Them All (51)
Cats and Dogs (R41)

   

DE Fossils: Windows into the Past (Some evolution)

 

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Naturalistic Evolution

Whadauno? (57)
Hard to Believe (58)
Galapagos Islands (62)
The Answer Is . . .? (69)
Really Now! (73)

Orange Segments (67)
Natural Selection in Fifteen Seconds (68)
The Problem with Compromise (75)
Variation: No Two Things Are Quite the Same (R65)

Changing Species

     

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Fossils

Fossils (81)
Jello Geology (82)
“4” (fossils) (86)
Order It (90)
How Old Is It? (97)

Put It Together (87)
This Is Really Hard! (89)
Flyers, Floaters, Swimmers, and Sinkers (93)
Treasures in Stone (R89)

Geologic Column Poster
Wanna Be a Fossil?
AIMS Fossils Are My Bag $

 

DE Fossils: Windows into the Past (Some evolution)

 

5
Age of the Earth

How Long? (105)
At the Lake (106)
All the Same (111)
Hard to Tell (116)

How Old Is It? (107)
What a Time! (123)
Drip, Drip, Drip (R111)

       

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Plant Classification

A Tiny Planet (131)
Fact or Fungi? (133)
Feed Me! (134)
The Bryophytes (140)
Differences (144)
I Seed That! (147)

Potato Pressure (143)
Dancing Spores (146)
Hey, What Kind of Tree Is That? (151)
Spores Galore (R141)

Help Me, I Can’t Stand Up!

 

DE The Plant Kingdom
DE TLC All about Plants

 

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Plant Structure

Plant Parts (157)
Back to Your Roots (158)
Stems (163)
Leaf It Alone (168)
Whada You Know? (172)
Fruits and Seeds (176)

Sprouting Radishes (161)
Types of Roots (162)
What Stomata? (171)
Parts of a Flower (175)
How Many Cotyledons? (178)
Stems and Roots (R167)

Please, Just Leaf Me Alone!
Flower - Diagram
Leaf Internal Structure - Diagram
Root Tip - Diagram
Root X-Section – Diagram
Seed - Diagram
Stem External Structure - Diagram
Stem Internal Structure - Diagram
Tree Cookies

Seeds for Survival

EB Stomata opening/closing – video

GO Diagram of stomata 

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Plant Processes

Staying Alive (185)
The Sugar Factory (186)
Carry On (190)
Making More (193)
I’m Gonna Sneeze! (196)
Bent Out of Shape (201)

Underwater Photosynthesis (189)
Rapid Transit (192)
Transpiration (192)
Watch Them Grow!!! (R191)

Light/Dark Reaction of Photosynthesis
CG G2 Apple Embryo $
AIMS Photosynthesis $

 

DE TLC All About Plants
EB Methods of Pollination

 

9
Ecology

The Tiniest Planet (209)
The Biosphere (210)
Where in the World? (212)
Communities (221)
Get a Job! (227)
Chains and Webs (229)
Recycling (233)

Populations in the Yard (224)
Goldfish Guesstimation (226)
Cold Protection(228)
Make a Food Chain (232)
Caution: Bacteria at Work (R217)

Baggie Biome
Ecology Diagrams
Ecosystems – Research
Endangered Species - Research
CG F24 Funnel Filter $

When the Music Died

DE Ecology
DE Biology of Water: The Ocean Realm (Saltwater Ecology)
DE Ecology: Organisms in Their Environment

GO World biomes

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Natural Resources

Resources (241)
All Natural (242)
I Need Some Energy! (250)
Dirty Dirt (254)
Oops! It’s All Gone! (259)
Don’t (265)

School Litter (248)
Drip, Drip, Drip . . . (253)
Somethin’s in da Air (258)
Watching the Gold (263)
Messes Are Messy (R243)

Pass the Jug
What If Water Cost …?
CG H26 Raisin Resources $
AIMS Cape of Good Hope $
AIMS Down the Drain $

 

DE Conservation of Natural Resources
DE Simply Science: Harnessing Energy

EB World Water Crisis: Is There a Way Out?
GO Endangered species

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Organisms and Their Environment

Watch Your Behavior (271)
Behave Now (272)
Over and Over (280)
Bee Societies (286)
What You Say? (288)
Living Together (290)

Finger Maze (278)
Sow Bug Behavior (279)
A L-O-N-G Winter’s Nap (282)
Zoo Buddies (R267)

AIMS Click, Click. Who’s There? $

 

DE Instincts in Animals
DE Animal Intelligence
DE Animal Communication

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Your Life in Your Hands

Choose Wisely (299)
In Your Hands! (301)
It’s Just a Drink! (302)
From Within or Without? (306)
Packaging Check (309)
You Can’t; We Can! (313)

Now What Do I Do? (305)
Protect the Egg (312)
Help Is out There (316)
Did You Wear It? (R295)

Hey, Read the Label
Nutritional Budgeting

Have You Lost Your Mind?

DE Teen Suicide: A Permanent Solution to a Temporary Problem
DE Enviro-Tacklebox: At Your Own Risk

GO Female STD's chart

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Safeguarding Your Future

Risky Business (323)
Leave Me Out (324)
Classroom Epidemic (327)
Smoke Screen! (331)
Think Positive (332)

The Dread Disease: Acrolitis (330)
Yea or Nay? (333)
Family Health History Survey (R319)

 

Fountain of Youth

 

GO World life expectancy

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Consumers Have Choices

Choices, Choices, Choices (339)
Cure or Care? (340)
What’s That Smell? (344)
Who and Why? (348)
Container Info (351)

Why Not? (347)
Doctor’s Choice (349)
Be There! (354)
Comparing Insurance (R339)

   

DE Making Healthy Choices

 

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Share Your Wealth

I’ve Been There (361)
Whaddayahsay? (362)
Name That Agency (365)
What’s That Number? (369)
Over There (371)

Get Serious! (364)
Where Does It All Go? (368)
Who’s Helping Whom? (370)
When A Few Are Too Many (R365)

       

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Matter

All That Stuff (383)
Air Matters (384)
Melt Away (390)
Round and Sweet (394)
The Change That Matters (397)

Model It (385)
Just Passin’ Through (389)
The United States of Matter (391)
Chemical or Physical (398)
Chemical Properties (R393)

Is This Your Property?
CG H33 Measuring Matter $
AIMS Make Room for Me $

The Stuff of Neon and TV’s

DE Properties of Matter
DE Physical and Chemical Changes in Matter
DE States of Matter

 

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Structure of Matter

The Way It Is (405)
I.C.A. Building (406)
The Brick (410)
What a Difference! (413)
The Table (418)

It All Adds Up (415)
Isotopes of Three Atoms (417)
The Nadnorian Periodic Table (421)
Isotopes and Atomic Masses (R417)

What a Drip!
CG F11 Welded Water $

U - Periodic Chart of Elements
Honey, Everything Shrunk!

DE Elements, Compounds, and Atoms
DE Atomic Structure and the Periodic Table

GO Updated periodic table

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Mixtures and Compounds

Mixture or Compound? (431)
Mixtures (432)
How Sweet It Is (435)
Compounds (439)
Apples and Oranges (441)

Unraveling a Real Mix-up (433)
Kool Colors (434)
Where Does It All Go? (437)
Covalent and Ionic Bonding (R445)

AIMS Messing with Mixtures $

 

DE Mixtures and Solutions

 

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Chemical Reactions

Speed Limits (449)
Skeletons (450)
Movin’ Around (453)
WOW! (456)
The Litmus Test (460)

Making It Happen Faster (457)
How Fast Was That?  (459)
Cabbage Chemistry (463)
Seeing Is Believing (R467)

Copper Caper
I Scream, You Scream
Soda Geyser
CG G35 Burning Steel $

 

DE Chemical Reactions

 

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The Atomic Nucleus

BANG! (469)
It Glows (470)
Half a Life (473)
Break ‘em, Build ‘em (476)
What Does That Mean? (480)

The Banana and the Mantle (471)
Just Flip It! (474)
The M&M Lab (475)
Seeing the Invisible (R493)

How Long Has It Been?
AIMS Modeling Atoms $

 

DE Nuclear Energy
DE Energy from the Atom: Nuclear Power