Science 500 Online Academic Library
Science 500 Online
Unit 1 – CELLS
- Course Overview
- The Basic Unit of Living Things: A Cell
- Viewing Cells
- Experiment: Skin Cells – Complete the Virtual Lab in your assignment. It is not necessary to do the experiments, but observe the video experiment and complete the assignment.
- Quiz 1
- The Life and Activity of Cells
- Plants and Unicellular Organisms
- Experiment: Onion Cells – Complete the Virtual Lab in your assignment. It is not necessary to do the experiments, but observe the video experiment and complete the assignment.
- Experiment Cheek Cells: Complete the Virtual Lab in your assignment. It is not necessary to do the experiments, but observe the video experiment and complete the assignment.
- Tissue
- Quiz 2
- Cells: Energy and Growth of Cells
- Cell Reproduction
- Quiz 3
- Review Game
- Test
- Alternate Test
- Reference
Unit 2 – PLANTS: LIFE CYCLES
- Classifying Living Things and Plants
- Parts of Plants
- Quiz 1
- Seed Bearing Plants
- Flowering Plants
- Experiment: Flower Dissection – Watch the Virtual Lab in your assignment and write about what you see. It is not necessary to do the experiments, but observe the video experiment and describe what you see.
- Fertilization
- Experiment: Seed Dissection –Complete the Virtual Lab in your assignment. It is not necessary to do the experiments, but observe the video experiment and complete the assignment.
- Cone-Bearing Plants
- Quiz 2
- Spore Bearing Plants and Fungi
- Fern Plants
- Fungi
- Experiment: Mold – Complete the Virtual Lab in your assignment. It is not necessary to do the experiments, but observe the video experiment and complete the assignment.
- Quiz 3
- One-celled Living Things
- Quiz 4
- Review Game
- Test
- Alternate Test
- Reference
Unit 3 – ANIMALS: LIFE CYCLES
- Invertebrates: Life Cycles
- One-celled Animal-like Protists
- Egg-Laying Invertebrates
- Experiment: Mealworm –Watch the video in your assignment and the video Mealworm to Darkling Video in Under Two Minutes: It is not necessary to do the experiments but observe the videos and complete the assignment.
- Report: The Spider – Complete this report as listed in your assignment.
- Worms and Mollusks
- Quiz 1
- Vertebrates: Life Cycles
- Egg-Laying Vertebrates
- Egg-Laying Vertebrates (Part 2)
- Egg-Laying Vertebrates (Part 3)
- Live-Bearing Vertebrates
- Report: Mammals – Complete this report as listed in your assignment.
- Quiz 2
- Review Game
- Test
- Alternate Test
- Reference
Unit 4 – BALANCE IN NATURE
- Balance of Nature: Physical Environment
- Ecosystems
- Quiz 1
- The Prairie: Web of Life
- Project: Prairie Land – Complete this project as listed in your assignment.
- The Prairie: Web of Life (Part 2)
- The Prairie: Food Chains
- Project: Prairie Food Chain –Complete this project as listed in your assignment.
- Food Chains, Food Webs, Energy Pyramid in Ecosystems – Video for Kids
- Quiz 2
- Humans and the Web of Life
- Humans and the Web of Life (Part 2)
- Quiz 3
- Review Game
- Test
- Alternate Test
- Reference
Unit 5 – TRANSFORMATION OF ENERGY
- Energy
- Work
- Quiz 1
- Work From Energy
- Forms of Energy
- Experiment:Heat Energy from a Chemical Reaction – Complete the Virtual Lab in your assignment. It is not necessary to do the experiments, but observe the video experiment and complete the assignment.
- Chemical Energy
- Quiz 2
- Energy in the Future
- Future Sources of Energy
- Quiz 3
- Review Game
- Test
- Alternate Test
- Reference
Unit 6 – RECORDS IN THE ROCK: THE FLOOD
- Before the Flood: The Bible Record
- Before the Flood: The Physical Record
- Quiz 1
- The Flood: The Bible Record
- Project: Interview with Noah – Complete this project as listed in your assignment.
- The Flood: The Physical Record
- Quiz 2
- After the Flood: The Bible Record
- After the Flood: The Physical Record
- Quiz 3
- Review Game
- Test
- Alternate Test
- Reference
Unit 7 – RECORDS IN THE ROCK: FOSSILS
- Fossil Formation
- Project: Mold Fossil Copy – Complete the project in your assignment. It is not necessary to do the experiments, but observe the video project and complete the assignment.
- Project: Cast Fossil Copy – Complete the project in your assignment. It is not necessary to do the experiments, but observe the video project and complete the assignment.
- Fossil Formation Part 2
- Fossil Locations
- Quiz 1
- Reading Fossils: Identification
- Reading Fossils: Earth’s Age
- Reading Fossils: Difficulties
- Project: Fossil Clues –Complete the project as listed in your assignment.
- Reading Fossils: Reconstruction
- Quiz 2
- Review Game
- Test
- Alternate Test
- Reference
Unit 8 – RECORDS IN ROCK: GEOLOGY
- Features of the Earth
- Layers of the Earth
- Rocks on the Earth’s Surface
- Project: Examine a Mineral – Complete your project as listed in the assignment using the video Salt Crystals Forming
- Kinds of Rocks
- Quiz 1
- Changes in the Earth: Surface Change
- Experiment: Erosion –Complete the Virtual Lab in your assignment. It is not necessary to do the experiments, but observe the video experiment and complete the assignment.
- Causes of Surface Change
- Earthquakes and Volcanoes
- Project: Volcano Summary –Complete this report as listed in your assignment.
- Results of Forces
- Quiz 2
- Review Game
- Test
- Alternate Test
- Reference
Unit 9- CYCLES IN NATURE
- Properties of Matter
- Properties of Matter (Part 2)
- Experiment: Volume – Complete the Virtual Lab in your assignment. It is not necessary to do the experiments, but observe the video experiment and complete the assignment.
- Changes in Matter
- Experiment: Types of Changes – Complete the Virtual Lab in your assignment. It is not necessary to do the experiments, but observe the video experiment and complete the assignment.
- Conservation of Matter
- Experiment: Conservation of Matter –Complete the Virtual Lab in your assignment. It is not necessary to do the experiments, but observe the video experiment and complete the assignment.
- Structure of Matter
- Quiz 1
- The Four Seasons
- The Cause of Seasons
- Comets
- Report:Famous Comets – Complete this report as listed in your assignment.
- Life
- Quiz 2
- God’s Order
- Quiz 3
- Review Game
- Test
- Alternate Test
- Reference
Unit 10 – LOOK AHEAD
- Living Things: Plants, Fungi, Protists, and Monerans
- Living Things: Animals and Animal-Like Protists
- Living Things: Balance of Nature
- Quiz 1
- The Earth: Records of Life
- The Earth: Fossils
- The Earth: Records in Rock
- Quiz 2
- Order in Creation
- Energy and Work
- Matter
- Quiz 3
- Review Game
- Test
- Alternate Test