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Introductory Unit -  Getting Ready for Science

      Biographies

1. Robert Fulton
2. Johannes Gutenberg
3. Elijah McCoy
4. Eli Whitney 

Unit 1 - Physical Science - Energy and Matter

       Biographies

1. Benjamin Bradley
2. Marie Curie
3. Albert Einstein
4. Enrico Fermi
5. Lise Meitner
6. Ernest Rutherford
7. Chien-Shung Wu

• How Can Matter Be Measured?
• How a Battery Works
• How Can Heat Be Measured?
• Bird Songs
• Measuring Mass
• States of Matter
• How Can Physical Properties Be Used to Identify Matter
• The Mixtures Lab
• Models of the Atom

Unit 2 - Physical Science - Light

           Biographies

1. Thomas Edison
2. Lewis Howard Latimer
3. Isaac Newton

• Shadows Through the Day
• What are the Features of the Sun?
• How Rainbows Form

Unit 3 - Life Science - Adaptations

           Biographies

1. John Bartram
2. Jane Goodall

• Vascular Plants
• Beaks and Teeth
• Migration Routes
• Animal Communities
• What is a Desert Ecosystem?
• Nonliving Factors
• Balance in a Pond

Unit 4 - Earth Science - Patterns in the Sky

           Biographies

1. Annie Jump Cannon
2. Galileo Galilei
3. Robert Goddard

• Welcome to the Solar System
• Shadows Through the Day
• View From Space
• Hubble Scrapbook
• What Causes Day and Night
• Stargazers
• Moon Phases
• Full Moon to New Moon

Discuss