Unit 1 (Modeling Matter)
Unit Question: What happens when two substances are mixed together?
Chapter 1 Question: Why did the food coloring separate into different dyes?
Chapter 2 Question: Why do some salad dressings have sediments, and others do not?
Chapter 3 Question: Why can salad-dressing ingredients separate again after being mixed?
Unit 2 (The Earth System)
Unit Question:
Chapter 1 Question: Why is East Ferris running out of water while West Ferris is not?
Chapter 2 Question: Why does more rain form over West Ferris than East Ferris?
Chapter 3 Question: Why is more water vapor getting cold over West Ferris than East Ferris?
Chapter 4 Question: Why is there more water vapor high up over West Ferris than East Ferris?
Chapter 5 Question: How can East Ferris turn wastewater into clean freshwater?
Unit 3 (Ecosystem Restoration)
Unit Question:
Chapter 1 Question: Why aren’t the jaguars and sloths growing and thriving?
Chapter 2 Question: Why aren’t the cecropia trees growing and thriving?
Chapter 3 Question: Why aren’t the cecropia trees growing and thriving in the soil?
Unit 4 (Stars and the Night Sky)
Unit Question: Archaeologists discovered part of an ancient artifact that depicts the sun and other stars. How can we figure out what would have appeared on the missing piece?
Chapter 1 Question: Why don't we see a lot of stars in the daytime?
Chapter 2 Question: Why is the sun up sometimes, but not other times?
Chapter 3 Question: Why do we see different stars at different times of the year?
Chapter 4 Question: How can we investigate why we see different stars on different nights?
This order of units will be effective Sept 2025