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Unit 1: The Nature of Science (including scientific method, global science community, nature/nurture, data analysis, famous experiments)

 

Unit 2: Spheres of Earth: Atmosphere (including water, composition of air, air pressure, air temperature, clouds, processes, cycles, weather, climate, storms, tornadoes, hurricanes, and atmospheric disturbances)

 

Unit 3: Spheres of Earth: Earth's Interior Structure (including rocks, cycles and processes, magma, volcanoes, convection currents in magma, tectonic plates, continental drifting, earthquakes, ocean floor landscape and features, tsunamis) 

 

Unit 4: Earth, Sun, Moon, and Solar System (including hemispheres, seasons, tracking time, rotation, revolution around the sun, day/night, moon phases, eclipses, gravitational influences on objects, mass and distance)

 

Unit 5: Space (including past and current space initiatives and projects, engineering design of machinery and robotics in space, star formation, star life span, deaths of stars, classification of stars, distance between stars, lightyear, speed of light, universe, multiverse)