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DISCOVERING SCIENCE! Sterling Junior High Science Intructor: Christy Riffel media type="custom" key="8880898" width="250" height="250" align="right"
 * // Standard of Excellence 2010/2011 //
 * // Regional Champions -- Salina, KS Science Olympiad 2011 //
 * // Regional Runner-Ups -- Salina, KS Science Olympiad 2012 //
 * // State Qualifiers - Science Olympiad 2010, 2011, 2012 //

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__** Integrated Science **__

2.2.1

▲ understands the relationship of atoms to elements and elements

2.3.1

identifies the forces that act on an object (e.g., gravity and friction) 2.3.2   ▲ describes, measures, and represents data on a graph showing the motion of an object (position, direction of motion, speed). 2.3.3  ▲ recognizes and describes examples of Newton’s Laws of Motion. 2.4.2   ▲ understands that when work is done energy transforms from one form t o another, including mechanical, heat, light, sound, electrical, chemical, and nuclear energy, yet is conserved.

2.4.   ▲ understands that heat energy can be transferred from hot to cold by radiation, convection, and conduction. 3.1.1   ▲ will understand the cell theory; that all organisms are composed of one or more cells, cells are the basic unit of life, and that cells come from other cells.

3.1.2   ▲ relates the structure of cells, organs, tissues, organ systems, and whole organisms to their functions 3.1.3   compares organisms composed of single cells with organisms that are multicellular. 3.2.1   ▲ differentiates between asexual and sexual reproduction of organisms. 3.2.2   understands how hereditary information of each cell is passed from one generation to the next. 3.2.3   infers that the characteristics of an organism result from heredity and interactions with the environment. 3.4.3   ▲ traces the energy flow from the sun (source of radiant energy) to producers (via photosynthesis – chemical energy) to consumers and decomposers in food webs.

3.5.1   concludes that species of animals, plants, and microorganisms may look dissimilar on the outside but have similarities in internal structures, developmental characteristics, chemical processes, and genomes.

4.4.1   ▲ demonstrates and models object/space/time relationships that explain phenomena such as the day, the month, the year, seasons, phases of   the moon, eclipses and tides.

4.4.2   describes how the angle of incidence of solar energy striking earth’s surface affects the amount of heat energy absorbed at earth’s surface. Standard 3: Life Science 3.1.1   ▲ will understand the cell theory; that all organisms are composed of one or more cells, cells are the basic unit of life, and that cells come from other cells.

3.1.2   ▲ relates the structure of cells, organs, tissues, organ systems, and whole organisms to their functions 3.1.3   compares organisms composed of single cells with organisms that are multi-cellular. 3.1.4   concludes that breakdowns in structure or function may be caused by disease, damage, heredity, or aging. 3.2.1   ▲ differentiates between asexual and sexual reproduction of organisms. 3.2.2   understands how hereditary information of each cell is passed from one generation to the next 3.2.3   infers that the characteristics of an organism result from heredity and interactions with the environment 3.3.1   ▲ understands that internal and/or environmental conditions affect an organism’s behavior and/or response in order to maintain and regulate stable internal conditions to survive in a continually changing environment.

3.3.2   recognizes that the survival of all organisms requires the ingestion of materials, the intake and release of energy, growth, release of wastes and responses to environmental change.

3.4.1   ▲ recognizes that all populations living together (biotic resources) and t he physical factors (abiotic resources) with which they interact compose an ecosystem.

3.4.2  understands how limiting factors determine the carrying capacity of an ecosystem.

3.4.3   ▲ traces the energy flow from the sun (source of radiant energy) to producers (via photosynthesis – chemical energy) to consumers and decomposers in food webs.

3.5.1   concludes that species of animals, plants, and microorganisms may look dissimilar on the outside but have similarities in internal structures, developmental characteristics, chemical processes, and genomes.

3.5.2   ▲ understands that adaptations of organisms (changes in structure, f unction, or behavior that accumulate over successive generations) contribute to biological diversity.

3.5.3   ▲ associates extinction of a species with environmental changes and insufficient adaptive characteristics.