1st Nine Weeks

SCIENTIFIC METHOD

1. What is the difference between a dependent and an independent variable?

GLE 0607.Inq.1
2. How can I design and perform an experiment using the steps of the scientific method? GLE 0607.Inq.2
3. How can I display the data I have collected from an experiment in a table, graph, or diagram? GLE 0607.Inq.3
4. How can I determine a cause and effect conclusion at the end of an experiment? GLE 0607.Inq.4
5. How can I identify incorrect interpretation of data due to errors during the experiment? GLE 0607.Inq.5

PHYSICAL SCIENCE

6. What is the difference between gravitational, elastic, and chemical potential energy? GLE 0607.10.1
7. What is the relationship between potential and kinetic energy? GLE 0607.10.2
8. How can I recognize different types of energy transformations? GLE 0607.10.3
9. What is the Law of Conservation of Energy? GLE 0607.10.4

FORCES IN NATURE

10. What is a simple circuit and how does electricity pass through it to produce heat, light, and sound? GLE 0607.12.1
11. What materials conduct electricity? GLE 0607.12.2

2nd Nine Weeks

THE ATMOSPHERE

12. How can I identify events caused by heat convection? GLE 0607.8.1
13. How is the sun's energy and the wind connected? GLE 0607.8.2
14. How does temperature affect the ocean's currents? GLE 0607.8.3
15. How can I use meteorological data to make predictions about the weather? GLE 0607.8.4

EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE

16. What are the major components of the universe? GLE 0607.6.1
17. How does the distance of objects in space from Earth affect how they appear? GLE 0607.2.2
18. How is the movement of the Earth, sun and moon related to days, lunar cycles, and years? GLE 0607.6.3
19. Can I identify the different phases of the moon? GLE 0607.6.4
20. What affect does the Earth and moon have on the ocean's tide? GLE 0607.6.5
21. How do the positions of the Earth and sun cause the four seasons? GLE 0607.6.6
22. What is the difference between a solar and lunar eclipse? GLE 0607.6.7

3rd Nine Weeks

LIFE SCIENCE

23. How can I identify the producers, consumers, scavengers, and decomposers in a food chain or food web? GLE 0607.2.1
24. How are materials and energy transferred between organisms in an ecosystem? GLE 0607.2.2
25. How can I identify the biotic and abiotic factors in the major biomes? GLE 0607.2.3
26. What types of environmental conditions occur in the major biomes and how do the organisms in those biomes depend on one another? GLE 0607.2.4

EMBEDDED THROUGHOUT THE SCHOOL YEAR

27. How does technology respond to social, political, and economic needs? GLE 0607.T/E.1
28. How do we know that the engineering design process involves an ongoing series of events? GLE 0607.T/E.2
29. What are ways to compare the intended benefits with unintended consequences of new technology? GLE 0607.T/E.3
30. How can I describe, and explain the differences between, adaptive and assistive bioengineered products? GLE0607.T/E.4