Introductory Unit

Scientific Method
Graphing and data reading
Observations and inferences
Science safety
Variables and controls
Scientific measurement
Life Science Unit

Biogeochemical cycles
Relationships between organisms
Biotic and abiotic
Photosynthesis
Overpopulation and human activity
Slow and rapid environmental change


Classification Unit

Five kingdoms
Body system diversity
Major animal phyla
Weather Unit

The Water Cycle
Fresh water availability
Weather predictions and frontal systems
Weather maps and station models
Biomes
Physical Science Unit

Conservation of matter
Potential and kinetic energy
Forms of energy
Conservation of energy
Energy transformation in a closed system

These are the topics we will study this year, based on the State Standards, although they may not be in this order. (I may teach them backwards, or in Yiddish.  I may even teach only every other word and then go back and teach the other words that I missed the first time when I was only teaching every other word.  I may only teach the first half of each word, and then go back and teach the second half of each word later.  I may take all of the words in the lesson, jumble them up and then teach them in random order.  Don't like that?  Bad too fathead!)