Science

A school light microscope. The letter e, a pond drop, blood, hair, and the honest limit of the lamp.

A 90 mm refractor. The Moon, the planets, a cluster, and the limit of the lens. The Sun only with a filter on the front.

A moving wave first. Pitch, loudness, and four shapes — sine, square, triangle, saw. Then one variable, three trials, and a claim.

Eight pads, a slider over each, swing at 50, 54, 58, 63, 67 or 71. Save writes a file you can hand to someone, and the pattern bounces to the turntables to scratch over. This computer also keeps the last session.

Two platters with weight. Load a song from this computer, scratch it, mix it, and record the take as a .wav you can keep or play back on a platter. The song never leaves.

Away and toward, start, stop and turn, big and small pushes, ramps, wind and magnets — read-aloud cards, hints, a three-level quiz and a lab: sort push/pull, order the ball's trip, label the ramp, graph three pushes.

Sunrise and sunset, shadows, the moon's shapes, the stars, day and night, long summer days — read-aloud cards, hints, a three-level quiz and a lab: order the day, sort day/night, label the sunset, graph the daylight.

Food, water, air, sunlight and a place to live; what a plant does that an animal cannot; seeds, the parts of a plant, and what a habitat gives — read-aloud cards, hints, a three-level quiz and a lab: sort plant/animal/both, label the plant, order seed to flower, find the four in a rabbit's home.

Sun, clouds, rain, snow and wind; the thermometer; a weather log; the four seasons in order; dressing for the weather; storm safety — read-aloud cards, hints, a three-level quiz and a lab: graph a weather log, sort the closet by season, label a thermometer, order a year in Illinois.

Sound comes from vibration, loud and soft, high and low, seeing needs light, what makes light, what lets it through or blocks it, shadows, mirrors, a message by light or drum — read-aloud cards, hints, a three-level quiz and a lab: sort makes/lets/blocks light, label a drum from stick to ear, order six sounds loud to soft, graph the shadow test.

Solids and liquids, properties, the right material for the job, small pieces build big things, heating and cooling, changes that come back and changes that don't — read-aloud cards, hints, a three-level quiz and a lab: sort solid/liquid, sort comes back/doesn't, label ice–water–steam, argue the melted crayon.

A school light microscope. The letter e, a pond drop, blood, hair, and the honest limit of the lamp.

A 90 mm refractor. The Moon, the planets, a cluster, and the limit of the lens. The Sun only with a filter on the front.

A moving wave first. Pitch, loudness, and four shapes — sine, square, triangle, saw. Then one variable, three trials, and a claim.

Eight pads, a slider over each, swing at 50, 54, 58, 63, 67 or 71. Save writes a file you can hand to someone, and the pattern bounces to the turntables to scratch over. This computer also keeps the last session.

Two platters with weight. Load a song from this computer, scratch it, mix it, and record the take as a .wav you can keep or play back on a platter. The song never leaves.

Pushes and pulls, balanced and unbalanced, friction, gravity, magnets, patterns and fair tests — cards, hints, a three-level quiz and a lab: sort the forces, label the magnets, graph the ramp test, argue the result.

Metamorphosis, plant parts, inherited and learned traits, the environment, variation and survival — cards, hints, a three-level quiz and a lab: order the butterfly, label the plant, sort the traits, argue the two-plant test.

The five tools, clouds and fronts, weather vs. climate, seasons and zones, severe weather and staying safe — cards, hints, a three-level quiz and a lab: graph a week of highs, label a weather map, sort weather/climate, pick a town's safety project from its record.

Its forms, how it moves and changes, collisions, circuits, where it comes from, renewable or not — cards, hints, a three-level quiz and a lab: sort the forms, follow the electricity around a loop, graph the ramp-and-cup test, argue the transfer.

Weathering, erosion, deposition; rivers, glaciers, rock layers and fossils; slow and fast change; map patterns — cards, hints, a three-level quiz and a lab: order the layers, label the river, sort the processes, graph the erosion test.

Particles too small to see, solids, liquids and gases, properties, mixtures and solutions, physical and chemical changes, conservation of weight — cards, hints, a three-level quiz and a lab: label the particles, sort the states, graph dissolving, argue the salt that never left.

The sun, producers, consumers, decomposers, chains and webs, energy and matter, what happens when a link is removed — cards, hints, a three-level quiz and a lab: build the chain, label the prairie, sort the roles, argue the missing hawks.

Why the sun looks bright, day and night, shadows, the year and the seasons' stars, gravity toward the center, sky patterns — cards, hints, a three-level quiz and a lab: rank the lights, graph a day of shadows, label day and night, argue where gravity pulls.

A school light microscope. The letter e, a pond drop, blood, hair, and the honest limit of the lamp.

A 90 mm refractor. The Moon, the planets, a cluster, and the limit of the lens. The Sun only with a filter on the front.

A moving wave first. Pitch, loudness, and four shapes — sine, square, triangle, saw. Then one variable, three trials, and a claim.

Eight pads, a slider over each, swing at 50, 54, 58, 63, 67 or 71. Save writes a file you can hand to someone, and the pattern bounces to the turntables to scratch over. This computer also keeps the last session.

Two platters with weight. Load a song from this computer, scratch it, mix it, and record the take as a .wav you can keep or play back on a platter. The song never leaves.

Cards, hints and a three-level practice quiz.

Cell theory to the two big equations.

Organs, systems and how they work together — now with a lab: label, graph, argue.

Sexual and asexual, and what each one keeps.

Energy, matter and the web that carries them.

Growth, limits, and what changes a count.

Genes, alleles and the Punnett square.

Match, build, use in a sentence, picture, odd one out — on this unit's words or a list you paste.

Atoms, states, physical vs. chemical change, conservation of mass — cards, hints, a three-level quiz and a lab.

Newton's laws, energy transfer, light and sound as waves — cards, hints, a three-level quiz and a lab: label the wave, graph a cart on a ramp, sort the forces, argue the seat-belt data.

Plate tectonics, the rock and water cycles, weather, climate and hazards — cards, hints, a three-level quiz and a lab: label the water cycle and Earth's layers, order the rock cycle, graph a river after a storm.

Day and year, tilt and seasons, phases and eclipses, gravity and orbits, the scale of space — cards, hints, a three-level quiz and a lab: label the Sun–Earth–Moon, order the phases, graph the planets in AU, argue the seasons.

A school light microscope. The letter e, a pond drop, blood, hair, and the honest limit of the lamp.

A 90 mm refractor. The Moon, the planets, a cluster, and the limit of the lens. The Sun only with a filter on the front.

A moving wave first. Pitch, loudness, and four shapes — sine, square, triangle, saw. Then one variable, three trials, and a claim.

Eight pads, a slider over each, swing at 50, 54, 58, 63, 67 or 71. Save writes a file you can hand to someone, and the pattern bounces to the turntables to scratch over. This computer also keeps the last session.

Two platters with weight. Load a song from this computer, scratch it, mix it, and record the take as a .wav you can keep or play back on a platter. The song never leaves.

Cell theory, prokaryote and eukaryote, the selectively permeable membrane, organelles, diffusion and osmosis, enzymes and denaturation, photosynthesis and respiration as a matched pair, ATP, fermentation, cells to organism — cards, hints, a three-level quiz and a lab: label an animal cell (chloroplast and wall as the traps), label the matched pair from light to ATP, graph enzyme rate against temperature, CER on three yeast bottles.

Biotic and abiotic, the 10% rule, food webs, logistic growth and carrying capacity, limiting factors, the carbon cycle, biodiversity and keystone species, Yellowstone's wolves, zebra mussels, the Gulf dead zone, fossil carbon, habitat loss, and the fixes — cards, hints, a three-level quiz and a lab: label the carbon cycle from photosynthesis to the smokestack, graph island deer to find K, sort a prairie biotic/abiotic, CER on the dead zone numbers.

The atom, isotopes, valence electrons, the periodic table's rows, columns, families and trends, ionic, covalent and metallic bonds and the properties they predict, reactions, balancing, exothermic and endothermic, conservation of mass — cards, hints, a three-level quiz and a lab: label a blank periodic table, sort twelve substances by bond type, order the six moves that balance methane's combustion, CER on the sealed and open flasks.

Newton's three laws, F = ma, momentum and impulse, kinetic and potential energy, conservation, work and power, waves and v = fλ, the electromagnetic spectrum, seat belts and collisions by the numbers — cards, hints, a three-level quiz and a lab: graph a car's velocity–time trip, label the EM spectrum on a wave whose wavelength shrinks, sort twelve energy transfers storing/releasing/dissipating, CER on crash-test numbers.

The Big Bang and redshift, fusion, elements from stars, the solar system's birth, Kepler's orbits, Earth's layers and inner heat, the greenhouse effect, feedbacks, climate vs weather, and the evidence for warming down to the isotopes — cards, hints, a three-level quiz and a lab: order the universe's story in seven chapters, label Earth's layers to scale, graph sixty years of Mauna Loa CO₂, CER on the cause of warming that rules out the Sun and the volcanoes.

A school light microscope. The letter e, a pond drop, blood, hair, and the honest limit of the lamp.

A 90 mm refractor. The Moon, the planets, a cluster, and the limit of the lens. The Sun only with a filter on the front.

A moving wave first. Pitch, loudness, and four shapes — sine, square, triangle, saw. Then one variable, three trials, and a claim.

Eight pads, a slider over each, swing at 50, 54, 58, 63, 67 or 71. Save writes a file you can hand to someone, and the pattern bounces to the turntables to scratch over. This computer also keeps the last session.

Two platters with weight. Load a song from this computer, scratch it, mix it, and record the take as a .wav you can keep or play back on a platter. The song never leaves.

Orbitals and configuration, Hund's rule, shielding and effective nuclear charge behind every periodic trend, ionic bonding and lattice energy, Lewis structures and VSEPR, polarity and intermolecular forces, metallic bonding properly, the five reaction types, bond energy and ΔH, rates, equilibrium and Le Châtelier — cards, hints, a three-level quiz and a lab: label oxygen's orbital diagram, sort twelve unfamiliar substances by bond type, order the six steps of predicting a reaction, CER on where the heat of burning methane really comes from.

The mole and molar mass, mole ratios, the mole road from grams to grams, limiting reactant and percent yield, molarity and dilution, acids and bases, pH as a log scale, strong versus concentrated, neutralization and titration — cards, hints, a three-level quiz and a lab: order the seven moves of the mole road, graph a titration curve and find the equivalence point, sort twelve substances acid/base/salt, CER on the limiting reactant.

Kinematics and the three equations, free fall, vectors, projectiles with independent axes, free-body diagrams, net force, friction, the inclined plane, circular motion and the speed at which friction runs out, gravitation and orbits, momentum and impulse, collisions in two dimensions — cards, hints, a three-level quiz and a lab: graph a ball thrown straight up, label a free-body diagram on a ramp, order a Newton's-law argument, CER on cart data that comes up 5% short.

Work and the work–energy theorem, potential energy and the conservation ledger with friction, power, superposition and standing waves, sound and Doppler, reflection, refraction and diffraction, Coulomb's law, current, voltage and resistance, Ohm's law and P = IV, series and parallel, electromagnetism, motors and generators — cards, hints, a three-level quiz and a lab: label a circuit diagram, graph Ohm's law and read the resistance off the slope, sort twelve circuit facts series/parallel, CER on where 22.8 missing joules went.

Earth's four spheres, renewable versus nonrenewable by the rate, population and consumption, fossil and renewable energy, air and water pollution, soil, biodiversity, sustainability's three rules, the tragedy of the commons, resource curves, acid rain and the ozone hole as solved problems, the grid's duck curve, life-cycle thinking, environmental justice, matching the policy tool to the source — cards, hints, a three-level quiz and a lab: annotate the EPA's 2009 endangerment finding, graph world grain against population, sort twelve resources by the rate they are used, CER on whether the 1990 sulfur cap worked.

Testable questions, criteria and constraints, the three kinds of variable, controls, sample size and replication, measurement and error, tables and graphs, spread, correlation versus causation, claim–evidence–reasoning, iteration, peer review, confounds, when the data say no, overclaiming, extrapolation — cards, hints, a three-level quiz and a lab: order the eight moves of an inquiry, graph a bridge team's data and find the knee, annotate a methods paragraph, write the CER for the finding no wider than the data. The last room on the science door.