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Course Overview
Science 500 is a basic elementary course intended to expose students to the designs and patterns in God’s physical universe. This course expands on the Science 300 and Science 400 courses, providing a broad survey of the major areas of science. Some of the areas covered in Science 500 include the study of cells, plants and animals, ecology, energy, geology, properties of matter, and the natural cycles of life.
The course seeks to develop the student’s ability to understand and participate in scientific inquiry. The units contain experiments and projects to capitalize on the students’ natural curiosity. The student will explore, observe, and manipulate everyday objects and materials in their environment. Students at this level should begin to understand interrelationships between organisms, recognize patterns in ecosystems, and become aware of the cellular dimensions of living systems. Collectively, this should help students develop and build on their subject-matter knowledge base.
Upon completion of the course, students should be able to do the following:
- Use their main senses for observation of the world around them.
- Demonstrate an understanding of cells and their structure, both plant and animal.
- Differentiate between plants, animals, fungi, protozoa, and algae.
- Explain interactions between different life forms.
- Discuss different energy transformations.
- Describe geology and how it relates to the Flood.
- Demonstrate an understanding of fossil types and the formation of fossils.
- Understand natural cycles.
Additional Resources
Some assignments in this course require the use of resources that must be supplied by the user. A list of these outside resources is available from the link below.
In addition to the default course program, Science 500 includes extra alternate assignments, experiments/projects, and tests for use in enhancing instruction or addressing individual needs. These are listed below.
Unit 1
- Alternate Test
Unit 2
- Project: Seed Hunt
- Report: Walking Fern
- Alternate Test
Unit 3
- Report: Protozoa
- Experiment: Mealworm
- Report: The Spider
- Report: Insect Study
- Experiment: Chicken Egg
- Report: Mammals
- Essay: God and Animals
- Experiment: Trial and Error
- Report: Man’s Influence
- Alternate Test
Unit 4
- Project: Cycles
- Project: Prairie Land
- Report: Prairie Birds
- Project: Prairie Food Chain
- Project: Special Environments
- Alternate Test
Unit 5
- Experiment: Heat from the Sun
- Experiment: Heat from Bending
- Experiment: Heat Energy from a Chemical Reaction
- Alternate Test
Unit 6
- Project: Interview with Noah
- Report: Ancient Flood Stories
- Alternate test
Unit 7
- Project: Cast Fossil Copy
- Project: Plant and Animal Fossils
- Project: Fossil Clues
- Project: Fill in the Skeleton
- Project: Be Creative
- Alternate Test
Unit 8
- Project: Examine a Mineral
- Report: Rocks
- Project: Rock Hunt
- Experiment: Erosion
- Project: Volcano Summary
- Alternate Test
Unit 9
- Experiment: Water Container
- Experiment: Types of Changes
- Experiment: Conservation of Matter
- Project: Globe
- Report: Famous Comets
- Experiment: Water Evaporation
- Alternate Test
Unit 10
- Alternate Test