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Unit 1 - What Happeed?                    1    2    3    4    5
Unit 2 - Plants and Ecology                6    7    8    9    10    11
Unit 3 - Challenges and Choices        12    13    14    15    
Unit 4 - Active Atoms                         16    17    18    19    20

Unit I - What Happened?

Chapter 1 - Methods of Science

     What summer is the hottest - 
             An activity using weather data

 

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Chapter 2 - Special Creation

Teacher Page
Complete Creation Science Site
Articles on creation topics - including human footprints
Questions and Answers about the Flood

Chapter 3 - Naturalistic Evolution

          

Chapter 4 - Fossils

        La Brea Tar Pit fossils - Examples of unchanged fossils

Chapter 5 - Age of Earth        Teacher resources

        Evidences for a young Earth -- Still looking for a good site. Email to info@education-now.com
        Creation Science Resources

Unit II - Plants & Ecology    Links to plant pictures

Chapter 6 - Plant Classification

       Bryophytes - enlarged pictures of different types 
       Lichens        Want to garden with mosses - start here

Vascular Plants with Seeds

Conifers - descriptions of various conifers with pictures

Watch a red cedar grow

Cycads - A very complete site describing these interesting plants. Ginkgoes - Describes the only living species of ginkgo
Flowering plants

Monocots vs. Dicots

Monocots - Descriptions and pictures of many different monocots Dicots - Descriptions of some of the various types of dicots.

Chapter 7 - Plant Structure

Roots    2D Roots seeking water  3D Roots seeking water(slow)    Microscopic structure
Stems    Different types of stems    Microscopic structure
Leafs    Why leaves change color    Different types of leaves    Microscopic structure
Flowers    Structure    Flowers close-up 1 2 3 4     What flowers do
Fruits & Seeds    Types & dispersal

Chapter 8 - Plant Processes    Photosynthesis for teachers

    Photosynthesis     
    Reproduction of: Mosses    Ferns    
    Vegetative reproduction     Importance of pollination

Chapter 9 - Ecology

    BioSphere2 website
    Critical eco-regions - Sierra Club
    Learning about Biomes  Missouri Botonical Gardens
 
    Tour of Biomes        Species that are in danger        Ecological Niches        
    Food Chains     More on Food Chains    And even more
    Nitrogen cycle     Too much Nitrogen?        Carbon dioxide & Greenhouse warming
    Is Global Warming for Real?

Chapter 10 - Natural Resources

    Conservation Choices
    A Canadian site about metals and minerals in the home
    Information on plastics and the environment
    Recycling tips
    Surf your Watershed
    Renewable (alternative) Energy    
    Pollution and its effects - Heavier reading
    Endangered species
Chapter 11 - Organisms &Their Environment
    Biological Clocks in organisms        Online experiment
    Animal communication is it for real? More on animal communication
    Pheromones - Chemical communication in social insects
    Bee dancing
    Parasites - Where are they?
    Parasites: The Hidden Health Hazard
    Symbiosis and Commensalism

Unit III - Challenges & Choices

Chapter 12 - Your Life in Your Hands

    Teen Safety    
    Seatbelt Physics - Teacher may have to explain
                Eating disorders

Chapter 13 - Safeguarding Your Future

    Chronic Diseases and their risk factors
    CDC Resources

Chapter 14 - Consumers Have Choices

    Consumer Education links
    The American Council on Science & Health

Chapter 15 - Share Your Wealth

    An electronic guide to information on adolescent issues

International Health Organizations

    World Health Organization
    UNESCO
    UNICEF
    Project Hope
    World Vision
    CARE
    ORBIS
    ADRA

Unit IV - Active Atoms

Chapter 16 - Matter

    J. J. Thompson
    What Rutherford discovered
    What Bohr discovered
    States of Matter        Chemical and Physical Change

Chapter 17 - Structure of Matter

    Atoms        A Neat Periodic Table

Chapter 18 - Mixtures & Compounds

Mixtures  Solutions        Covalent & Ionic Bonds

Chapter 19 - Chemical Reactions

Chemical Reactions

Chapter 20 - The Atomic Nucleus

Atomic Structure