Science 9
From: Science 8
Type: Mandatory
Subjects:
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​Cell division/Mitosis & meiosis​​
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Propagation of life
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Bio, geo, hydro, and atmospheres
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DNA, genetics, & Punnett square (Extraction from Fruit)
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Science 10
From: Socials 9
Type: Mandatory
Subjects:
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Gene diversity
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Conservation of energy and how it affects the environment
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Big Bang​
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Human body systems (digestive, circulatory, respiratory) [Lung model project]
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Enzyme experiments
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Carbon/nitrogen cycles​​
Bio-Curriculum
The 5 kingdoms of life
In future grade courses, students will go deeper into organisms and biodiversity, such as studying the five kingdoms of life: bacteria, protists, fungi, plants, and animals. Evolution and natural selection, fossils, anatomy, ecosystem field studies, and molecular biology. Dissections are done more frequently now and would be of frogs, rats, squid, and worms, along with
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Frog dissection
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The 4 earth spheres