General Science
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INTRODUCTION & MATERIALS
What You Need to Know & Buy Before You Begin4 Steps -
MODULE 1: A BRIEF HISTORY OF SCIENCEWeek 12 Steps
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Week 22 Steps
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MODULE 2: SCIENTIFIC INQUIRYWeek 32 Steps
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Week 42 Steps
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MODULE 3: HOW TO ANALYZE AND INTERPRET EXPERIMENTSWeek 52 Steps
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Week 62 Steps
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MODULE 5: THE HISTORY OF LIFE - Archeology, Geology, and PaleontologyWeek 72 Steps
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MODULE 6: FOUNDATIONS OF GEOLOGYWeek 92 Steps
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Week 102 Steps
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MODULE 7: THE FOSSIL RECORDWeek 112 Steps
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MODULE 8: UNIFORMITARIANISM AND CATASTROPHISMWeek 132 Steps
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Week 142 Steps
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MODULE 9: WHAT IS LIFE?Week 152 Steps
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MODULE 10: CLASSIFYING LIFEWeek 172 Steps
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MODULE 11: THE HUMAN BODY: FEARFULLY AND WONDERFULLY MADEWeek 192 Steps
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Week 202 Steps
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MODULE 12: ENERGY AND LIFEWeek 212 Steps
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Week 222 Steps
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MODULE 13: THE HUMAN DIGESTIVE SYSTEMWeek 232 Steps
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MODULE 14: THE HUMAN RESPIRATORY AND CIRCULATORY SYSTEMSWeek 252 Steps
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MODULE 15: THE HUMAN LYMPHATIC, ENDOCRINE, AND URINARY SYSTEMSWeek 272 Steps
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Week 282 Steps
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MODULE 16: THE HUMAN NERVOUS SYSTEMWeek 292 Steps
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Assignment Before Next Lesson
HOMEWORK
- Write lab reports for 1.3 and 1.4
- Optional: Study for and take Module #1 Test. Study for Module 1 test using the flashcards at this Quizlet link.
- Take Module 1 quiz, which can be downloaded here.*
- N.B. The key to quizzes can be found in the “Answers to On Your Own Problems” at the end of each chapter in the textbook. For questions that Bonnie altered or added, answer keys have been provided in the download under the Materials tab for this course.
- Read Module #2 (pages 35-55)
- Complete Study Guide questions after you finish reading
OTHER HOMEWORK INFO
We had a full class yesterday with a review of the information and two labs. However, I forgot to mention at the end of class Experiment 9.5. It’s interesting to pack all of this into an hour weekly. So, you are to set up your banana lab at home to create fruit flies. MOMS if you really don’t want fruit flies in the house, then you are welcome to do this on a covered or screened in porch. If you still don’t want to do this project since maybe you just got rid of some fruit flies and you know how this works email me directly for a back up plan. 🙂 Otherwise, follow the directions on page 230 which are fairly easy. Here is the basic idea so you know what you are getting into with this project, but please follow the textbook directions:
- Take a whole pealed banana put it in a quart mason jar or similar glass jar.
- Put a stocking like fabric over the opening.
- Set it out and observe for 2 weeks.
This project is covered in January and it is harder to make fruit flies at that time. You also don’t have the convenience of doing it outside where it creates less kitchen/indoor issues. Please take notes on this project and we will keep the information for that module in the winter.
Here is a nice video review of Experiment 1.3 A Chemical Reaction
At the end they took a stick light it and put it over the top of the bottle. Since we created carbon dioxide in the second reaction of the experiment, the fire on the wooden stick goes out. Fire (combustion) needs oxygen to be supported. This will be in another lesson, but I like how they proved to you in the video that carbon dioxide was created in the bottle and balloon. You don’t have to just take my word for it. 🙂
*parents, the answers to the quizzes are the On Your Own answers found at the end of each module
Download the complete Course Materials for General Science in one file