Science Foundations: Biology - Flexible Schedule

Do you have a child who loves biology?  This class is a semester-long survey of beginning science concepts in biology and includes all of the biology material from my Science Foundations classes.  Students are not required to have any prior scientific experience.

Schedule:
Week 1- Living and Nonliving
                --What is the difference between living and nonliving things?
Week 2 - The Plant and Animal Kingdoms
                --Living things belong to the Plant or Animal Kingdoms.  What makes them different?
Week 3 - Life Cycles
                --Learn about the stages of development and growth from one generation to the next.
Week 4 - Scientific Classification
                --Living things are organized into groups based on their similarities and differences.
Week 5 - Food Chains and Adaptations
                --Animals are particularly adapted to eat specific types of food.
Week 6 - Skeletal & Muscular System
                --How animals move.
Week 7 - Skeletal Systems in Animals
               --Body structure in animals and the difference between vertebrates and invertebrates.
Week 8 - The Nervous System
               --How the nervous system controls the body and its movements.
Week 9 - The Digestive System
               --How our internal organs are designed to help us get energy for our movements from our food.
Week 10 - Plant Structure
               --Basic parts of plants and their functions.
Week 11 - Seeds and Their Growth
               --Germination, seedling growth, and instinctual plant responses (tropisms).
Week 12 - Plants, Soil, and Water
               --Ideal plant growth and soil science.

**Class Format**
This is a flexible schedule class with NO live meetings.

Monday
              --Prerecorded instructional videos will be posted by 8am (MST) each Monday.  Videos will be ~7-15 minutes in length.

Wednesday
              --By Wednesday of each week, each student will need to post in the classroom a short written or video response to the video as well as a picture of the entry they made in their science journal about that weeks topic.

Friday
               --In addition, students will also be required to complete a small homework assignment by Friday.  These assignments will be posted at the same time as the instructional videos on Mondays, so students will have the entire week to work on them.  Don't wait until the last minute!  For more on the homework, see the homework section below.