Science Syllabus & Links
Cool websites for science
Look at youtube.com and search for any science topic. Some are great. Putting the word “science” in every search seems to help.
makemegenius.com
Bill Nye science videos Episode Guide (Search for these on youtube or your local library.)
1.1 Body systems (e.g., muscular, endocrine, nervous systems) and how they work together to perform a function (e.g., muscular and skeletal work to move the body)
Human Body Systems Functions Overview: The 11 Champions
Body Systems and How They Work Together (livestrong.com)
Your Body's Systems (factmonster.com)
Organization Levels of Organism Graphic
Lymphatic System (Crash Course)
1.2 Homeostasis feedback methods that maintain homeostasis (e.g., sweating to maintain internal temperature) and effects of changes in the external environment on living things (e.g., hypothermia, injury)
Homeostatic Loops (Bozeman Science)
Positive and Negative Feedback Loops (Bozeman Science)
Homeostasis in Humans (bbc.co.uk)
Homeostasis (chiswickscience)
Soda/Cola Video: Blood Sugar Level Homeostasis
1.3 Nutrition
Digestive System, Part 1: Crash Course
Digestive System, Part 2: Crash Course
Sources of nutrients (e.g., foods, symbiotic organisms) and concepts in nutrition (e.g., calories, vitamins, minerals)
What Is a Nutrient? -- Video slideplayer.com
Carbohydrates (Bozeman Science)
Nutrient (wikipedia.com)
Digestion by Enzymes (Fuse school)
Why Japanese Are So Thin According to Science (Brightside)
How Long Foods Stay in Your Stomach (Brightside)
Intermittent Fasting & Hunger - What the Science Says (What I’ve Learned)
1.4 Diseases
Transmission of disease and pathogens (e.g., airborne, blood-borne), the effects of disease or pathogens on populations (e.g., demographics change, extinction), and disease prevention methods (e.g., vaccination, sanitation)
Bill Nye – germs (schooltube.com)
Biology: how do diseases spread? -- Iken Edu
Flu Attack! How a Virus Invades (NPR)
The Deadliest Being on Planet Earth – The Bacteriophage (Kurzgesagt-In a Nutshell)
The Story of Ebola (Global Health Media Proj.)
Bloodborne Infectious Disease (cdc.gov)
Bacteria and Viruses: What's the Difference? (healthchanneltv)
Population Growth Drives Infectious Disease Rate Upwards (healio.com)
Inflammation, Histamine, Phagocyte (Biotech Review)
Energy for life functions (e.g., photosynthesis, respiration, fermentation)
Photosynthesis with colored dots for atoms (Mark Drollinger)
Photosynthesis and Respiration (Bozeman Science)
Photosynthesis in more depth (Bozeman Science)
Cellular Respiration (in more depth) (Bozeman Science)
Flow of energy in ecosystems (e.g., energy pyramids), conservation of energy in an ecosystem (e.g., energy lost as heat, energy passed on to other organisms) and sources of energy (e.g., sunlight, producers, lower level consumer)
Food Chain (Odyssey Earth on YouTube)
Trophic Levels and Food Pyramids (Odyssey Earth)
Energy Transfers in an Ecosystem (Mr. Fox’s Science Classroom)
Flow of matter in ecosystems (e.g., food webs and chains, positions of organisms in the web or chain) and the effects of change (in communities or environment) on food webs
Energy Transfers in an Ecosystem (Mr. Fox’s Science Classroom)
Carrying capacity, changes in carrying capacity based on changes in populations and environmental effects and limiting resources necessary for growth
Biological Carrying Capacity (Serious Science)
Limiting Factors and Carrying Capacity (Dave Hardt)
How Wolves Change Rivers (YellowstonePark.com)
Symbiosis (e.g., mutualism, parasitism, commensalism) and predator/prey relationships (e.g., changes in one population affecting another population)
Symbiosis: Mutualism, Commensalism, and Parasitism (Untamed Science)
Disruption of ecosystems (e.g., invasive species, flooding, habitat destruction, desertification) and extinction (e.g., causes [human and natural] and effects)
Ecosystem Dynamics (Bozeman Science)
Acid Rain (epa.gov)
What is a 'mass extinction' and are we in one now? (theconversation.com)
Essential functions of life (e.g., chemical reactions, reproduction, metabolism) and cellular components that assist the functions of life (e.g., cell membranes, enzymes, energy)
Basics of Metabolism (khanacademymedicine)
Transport across Cell Membranes (Bozeman Science)
Compartmentalization (Bozeman Science)
The Difference between Organic and Inorganic (thoughtco.com)
The Chemistry of Life (mindset.co.za)
Enzymes (Bozeman Science)
ATP and Respiration (Crash Course)
Mitosis Process with Video (ndsu virtual cell)
Introduction to Metabolism (Craig Savage)
Cell theory (e.g., cells come from cells, cells are the smallest unit of living things), specialized cells and tissues (e.g., muscles, nerve, etc.) and cellular levels of organization (e.g., cells, tissues, organs, systems)
Tour of the Cell (Nucleus Medical Media)
Mitosis, meiosis (e.g. process and purpose)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGVBAHAsjJM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35ncSrJOwME
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zglQ2Ildw4I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXVoTj06zwg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16enC385R0w
Relationship of DNA, genes, and chromosomes (e.g. description, chromosome splitting during meiosis) in heredity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVk0twJYL6Y
DNA Structure and Replication: Crash Course Biology #10
Protein Synthesis (Amoeba Sisters)
Punnett Squares (Genotypes, phenotypes and the probability of traits in close relatives) (e.g., Punnett squares, pedigree charts)
Mendelian genetics/Punnett squares: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWqgZUnJdAY
(PUNNETT SQUARE ANSWERS to above)
Punnett Square (extra) Homework
Incomplete Dominance/Codominance/Sex-Linked https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQvER3MyI2c
Sex-linked & Pedigree https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCtSducotTQ
New alleles, assortment of alleles (e.g., mutations, crossing over), environmental altering of traits, and expression of traits (e.g., epigenetics, color points of Siamese cats)
Mutations/new alleles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FErPJaVCadA
Crossing Over: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdJUvagZjYA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqPMp0U0HOA
Epigenetics (Epigenome controls expression of genes.): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9a-ru2ES6Y
TV Show on Epigenetics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D44cu7v9x1w
Color points of Siamese Cats: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_coloration
Are GMOs Good or Bad? Genetic Engineering and Our Food (kurzgesagt -- In a Nutshell)
Genetic Engineering Will Change Everything Forever -- CRISPR (kurzgesagt -- In a Nutshell)
evolution common ancestry & diversity:
What is Evolution? (Stated Clearly)
Evidence of Common Ancestry & Diversity (Bozeman Science)
Selection (e.g., natural selection, artificial selection, evidence) and the requirements for selection (e.g., variation in traits, differential survivability)
Natural selection (Stated Clearly)
Natural vs. Artificial selection (dek2635 on YouTube)
Peaches: The Role of Artificial Selection
Luther Burbank (Wikipedia.org)
Common ancestry (e.g., evidence) and cladograms (e.g., drawing, creating, interpreting)
Cladograms
Constructing a Cladogram (360Edmlaurence Youtube.com)
Cladogram (educreations on YouTube.com)
Taxonomy: Life's Filing System (crash course)
Taxonomy - Taxonomy Triangle (youtube by ju's)
Taxonomic classification system mnemonics (youtube - Shomu's Biology)
Adaptation, selection pressure, and speciation
Adaptation, Etc.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZt1Gn0R22Q
Selection pressures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVz-Bnd710I
Video 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yvEDqrc3XE
Scientific Method chart
Independent vs. Dependent Variables Video (Beverly Biology)
Heat, temperature, the flow of heat results in work and the transfer of heat
(e.g., conduction, convection)
Energy Defined (Nova/PBS)
Introduction to Energy (Khanacademy.org)
Kinds of Energy
Kinetic Energy vs. Potential Energy
Thermal Energy
Chemical Energy
Energy Transformations (D Watson)
Types of energy (e.g., kinetic, chemical, mechanical) and transformations between types of energy (e.g., chemical energy [sugar] to kinetic energy [motion of a body])
http://www.universetoday.com/73598/what-is-mechanical-energy
http://www.slideshare.net/RachelChan7/energy-transformations-and-conservation-11688257
Endothermic and exothermic reactions http://chemwiki.ucdavis.edu/Physical_Chemistry/Equilibria/Le_Chatelier's_Principle/Effect_Of_Temperature_On_Equilibrium_Composition/Exothermic_Versus_Endothermic_And_K
Endothermic and Exothermic Reactions (Bozeman Science)
Sources of energy (e.g., sun, fossil fuels, nuclear) and the relationships between different sources (e.g., levels of pollutions, amount of energy produced)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBTnVoEIb98
A Crude Awakening (Gelpke and McCormack)
Types of waves, parts of waves (e.g. frequency, wavelength), types of electromagnetic radiation, transfer of energy by waves, and the uses and dangers of electromagnetic radiation (e.g. radio transmission, UV light and sunburns)
Waves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh3o8gUu4AE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkNJvZINSEY
Electromagnetic Radiation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzyPT7kxp8M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfXzwh3KadE
d=rt homework with answers from April 27, 2022
CPO Practice Worksheets pdf link (if you do these problems, it will help your science)
Speed, velocity, acceleration, momentum, and collisions (e.g., inertia in a car accident, momentum transfer between two objects)
Speed, velocity, acceleration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZo8-ihCA9E
Scalar vs. Vector: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUrMI0DIh40
Momentum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFhntPxow0U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=217dpIeuPVQ
Force, Newton’s Laws, gravity, acceleration due to Gravity (e.g., freefall, law of gravitational attraction), mass and weight
Newton’s Laws: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYVMlmL0BPQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn34mnnDnKU
Gravity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_o4aY7xkXg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yyb_RNJWUM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTY1Kje0yLg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_sJ15feNGw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=477WqN90TLU
How do satellites stay in orbit?
Freefall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4F5_gaquVY
Law of Gravitational Attraction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcQF4tNfh5Q
Mass vs. Weight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F5nmIJOF4U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjfLI7aJKmQ
Extra Credit, Quantum Mechanics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7pACq_xWyw
Work, simple machines (types and functions), mechanical advantages (forces, distance, and simple machines), and power
Work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDK2p1QbPKQ
Wheels and Axles (Coronet)
Simple machines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAPxALm9fZA
Mechanical advantages: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhzMYHiuEC4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7WYk1B-lNM
Structure of matter
What is an atom, and how do we know? (stated clearly)
What are atoms made of? (stated clearly)
Atoms Around Us (chem4kids.com)
Atom Builder: You Try It (pbs.org)
Atoms and Their Interactions (Interactive Biology)
Chemical Bonding-- Covalent vs. Ionic Bonds (Ricochet Science)
Metallic Bonds (Fuse School)
Physical and chemical properties, changes of state, and density
Physical and chemical properties of Matter (Mr. Causey)
Phases of Matter and Phase Changes (Mr. Causey)
Division of Matter: Pure Substances and Mixtures (Mr. Causey)
What is Density? (the Science Classroom)
Balancing chemical equations and different types of chemical equations, conservation of mass in balanced chemical equations and limiting reactants
Homework 1 on Balancing
Homework 2 on Balancing (Answers)
Homework 3 on Balancing (This one looks more like the GED: it’s all pull-downs!)
Online Chemical Equation Balancer
Types of chemical equations: http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/361.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-biRwAVTV8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsEkKIiOz7Q
Conservation of mass in balanced equations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El6El4iapO4
Limiting reactants: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rESzyhPOJ7I
Parts in solutions, general rules of solubility (e.g., hotter solvents allow more solute to dissolve), saturation and the differences between weak and strong solutions
Parts and General Rules of Solubility:
Emulsions (fuse school)
Combustion (fuse school)
Interactions of matter between living and nonliving things (e.g., cycles of matter) and the location, uses and dangers of fossil fuels
Cycles of matter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCf-IAJ4pvQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ejvZzeiyH8
Fossil fuels and their dangers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A06Jioj5zJQ
Natural Hazards (e.g., earthquakes, hurricanes, etc.) their effects
(e.g., frequency, severity, and short and long term effects), and mitigation thereof (e.g., dikes, storm shelters, building practices)
Thermoconvection and disasters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9ywO53_8is
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards
Extraction and use of natural resources, renewable vs. nonrenewable resources, and sustainability
Society and the Environment (ackackack -- youtube)
Characteristics of the atmosphere, including its layers, gases and their effects on the Earth and its organisms, including climate change
Atmosphere: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CerJbZ-dm0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJUq6b8_jr4
Acid Rain FuseSchool
Acid Rain BBC iScience
Characteristics of the oceans (e.g., salt water, currents, coral reefs) and their effects on Earth and organisms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFa2TbfikkI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea
El Niño http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/el-nino
Ice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0Maf03wGvE
Interactions between Earth’s systems (e.g., weathering caused by wind or water on rock, wind caused by high/low pressure and Earth’s rotation, etc.)
http://www.teachertube.com/video/big-idea-3-earths-systems-interact-249625
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnpF0ndXk-8
Interior structure of the Earth (e.g., core, mantle, crust, tectonic plates) and its effects (e.g., volcanoes, earthquakes, etc.) and major landforms of the Earth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oQc_49IoCo
Tectonics of the Planet Earth (with snails!)
Structures in the universe (e.g., galaxies, stars, constellations, solar systems), the age and development of the universe, and the age and development of Stars (e.g., main sequence, stellar development, deaths of stars [black hole, white dwarf])
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Planck/History_of_cosmic_structure_formation
history of the entire world, I guess but it’s clean (No swearing, for schools and teachers!)
solar system: http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/101-videos/solar-system-sci
Constellations (History channel video)
The detailed universe (video with music): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IVqMXPFYwI
movie on traveling through the universe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vOU6-1yNZs
star types: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uxfGNxNMg8
sequence of stars: http://www.astro.keele.ac.uk/workx/starlife/StarpageS_26M.html
The universe has no center (long lecture): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kjvXkoDCJ0
Segre Lecture: How Did The Universe Begin?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_4bMIqmV9U
Big bang theory: bad qual. video, but well made -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDQzKTedGNE
http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/space/universe/origins-universe-article
Sun, planets, and moons (e.g., types of planets, comets, asteroids); the motion of the Earth; and the interactions within the Earth’s solar system (e.g., tides, eclipses)
Planets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grYRIyzZ1bw
Comets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFg7pmc3QIo
Asteroids: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yYiq7Gor_U
The motion of the earth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSlDejjY2I0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n04SEzuvXo
Tides: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojPpxAT7Bh4
Eclipses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JybXE7hXpZA
The age of the Earth, including radiometrics, fossils, and landforms
The age of the Earth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fthMRAhPm4k
Radiometrics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EYQPcGvx4c
Fossils: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQeyieeRlZU
Landforms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f3sX9lK4pU
Pangaea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPLsogIPTw0