VIRTUAL LEARNING

GENERAL SCIENCE

  • GRADE 7
  • GRADE 8
  • GRADE 9
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Ecology - Feeding Relationships

Objectives:
Students will be able to:

1. Define the terms food chain and food webs.
2. Define the terms producer, and consumers.
3. Explain the various levels of consumers.
4. Construct a food web.

Water

Objectives:
Students will be able to:
1. Describe the molecular structure of water.
2. State the uses of water.
3. Explain the differences between hard and soft water.
4. Describe water purification methods.
5. Describe how to test for the presence of water. 

Objectives:
The students will be able to:
  • Describe the molecular structure of water.
  • State the uses of water.
  • Explain the differences between hard and soft water.
  • Describe water purification methods.
  • Describe how to test for the presence of water. 

Additional Resources:
PowerPoint

TOPIC:  Ecology - Feeding Relationships

Objectives:
The students will be able to:
  • Define the terms food chain and food webs.
  • Define the terms producer, and consumers.
  • Explain the various levels of consumers.
  • Construct a food web.

TOPIC:  Water PT 2

TOPIC:  Water 

Objectives:
The students will be able to:

1. describe the various kinds of water pollution, their sources and effects on the environment.
2. describe the water cycle.
​3. define the processes involved in the water cycle.  

Additional Resources:
Video
PowerPoint
Worksheet

Physical and Chemical Changes

Picture

TOPIC:  Energy

Objectives:  The students will be able to:
  • review forms of energy. 
  • define potential and kinetic energy.
  • describe energy transformation.
  • define renewable and non renewable energy with examples

 

TOPIC: Diffusion Osmosis and Forms of Energy

Objectives:  The students will be able to:
  • define the terms diffusion, osmosis.
  • identify and describe the various  forms of energy
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Activity 1


 

TOPIC:  States of Matter

OBJECTIVES:
  • Define the term Matter,
  • Identify and recognize the states of matter, explain the changes of states of matter
  • ​Describe and Explain Physical and Chemical Properties and changes. 
  • Give examples of physical and chemical properties and changes
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Lesson Worksheets 1

Lesson Worksheets 2 

LESSONS 8-12

TOPIC:  Soil and The Digestive System

Objectives:  The students will be able to
  • describe the types of soil
  • describe the structure of the digestive system,
  • identify the parts and state the functions
  • name the enzymes of the digestive system and state their functions
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​Lessons 1-7

TOPIC:  Endangered and Extinct Species 

OBJECTIVES: 
  • ​​Explain the differences between endangered and extinct species.
  • Give examples and describe human impacts​

​​Lesson Worksheets 1 
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TOPIC:  Air and Global Warming 

OBJECTIVES: 
  • Define the term air. 
  • Describe the composition of air.
  • Explain Global Warming.
  • Define the term Global Warming. ​
  • Read a passage on Global Warming and answer questions .​

Lesson Worksheets 2

Lesson Worksheet 3
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TOPIC:  Carbon Dioxide

OBJECTIVES: ​​The students will be able to 
  • define what is carbon.
  • describe properties of carbon dioxide.
  • describe how Carbon Dioxide is prepared in the lab.
  • observe a test for Carbon dioxide.

Lesson Worksheet 4

LESSONS 9-12

TOPIC:  ​Light and Light Spectrum

Objectives:  The students will be able to:
  • describe what is light.
  • describe the parts a light wave.
  • explain a light spectrum and a rainbow

LESSONS 7-8

TOPIC:  The Eye

Objectives:  The students will be able to:
  • ​explain how an image is focused on the retina. 
  • ​describe pupil reflex. Describe accommodation.
  • describe common visual disorders and their treatment.

LESSONS 1-8

TOPIC:  Light 

OBJECTIVES:
  • identify light as a form of energy.
  • describe how light travels.
  • define the terms opaque, transparent and translucent, refraction and reflection

Lesson Worksheets 1

Lesson PowerPoint 
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TOPIC:  The Eye

OBJECTIVES:
  • ​explain how an image is focused on the retina. 
  • describe pupil reflex. ​

Lesson Worksheets 2


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OBJECTIVES:​
  • describe accommodation.
  • describe common visual disorders and their treatment.

Lesson Worksheet 3 

Ministry  of Education - The Bahamas
​The Bahamas’ Ministry of Education (MoE) has responsibility for more than 50,000 K-12 students in approximately 170 educational institutions in The Commonwealth of The Bahamas, which are dispersed over 14 districts in the major islands. Our goal is to increase the graduation rate from 50% to 85% by 2030. The MoE aims to create an educational system that is technologically sound and competitive and that develops the strengths of each child, whether academic or otherwise, towards the maximum contribution that he/she is able to make to the national development of The Bahamas.