| 8/18- 8/19/11 | | | | Orientation to science | Pretest |
| 8/22-8/26 | Activity 1:Solving problems- Saving Fred | Activity 2: The Pellagra Story | Activity 2 continued | Activity 3: Testing Medicines with clinical trials | Activity 3 continued |
| 8/29-9/2 | Picture Day! Activity 4: Reading about how to test people scientifically | Activity 6: Finding the Nerve | Activity 7: Human Variation | Activit7 continued | Activity 8: Studying People |
| 9/5-9/9 | Labor Day | Activity 9 Data Toss | Data Toss continued | Activity 10 Evaluating clinical trials | Evaluating clinical trials continued |
| 9/12-16 | Continue evaluating clinical trials | Design your own catching lab write up due today.Review for Unit Test | Unit A test | Begin Unit B: Body Works | No School For Students |
| 9/19-23 | No School For Students | How to write good scientific explanations | ENRICHMENT in SCIENCE | Activity 12: Modeling organ systems | Activity 12 continued |
| 9/26-30 | Activity 13: Living with your Liver | Activitiy 14:Digestion Breakdown Lab | Activity 14 continued | Activity 15: reading about digestion | Applying digestive knowledge |
| 10/3-7 | Healthy eating | Digestive system quiz | Activity 17: Respiration lab | Respiration lab continued | Activity 18:Circulation Game |
| 10/10-14 | Playing the circulation game | Pulse rate activity | pulse cont. | Read about heart structure | heart sounds |
| 10/17-21 | Heart problems | quiz: circulation/respiration | Heart parts game | Research for healthy heart brochure in LMC | Sheep heart dissection |
| | Heart Brochure | Unit B test | Enrichment in science | Model a contagious disease spreads | No School |
| 11/1-4 | no school | Activity 30 It's Catching. Modeling how infectious disease spreads | Act. 30 continued | Activity 32 Who Infected Whom? Modeling how epidemiologists do their job | Activity 33 View video on vectors and disease spread |
| 11/7-11 | Introduction to microscopes | Microscope magnification | viewing micro-life | No school | No school |
| 11/14-18 | Viewing Plant vs. Animal cells | Lab: cell membrane model | Enrichment in science | Microscope Quiz | Lab: cellular respiration |
| 11/21-23 | osmosis/diffusion | Guest Speaker | No School | No School | No School |
| 11/28-12/2 | Cell Organelle Functions | Protists, bacteria, virus characteristics | Blood type compatability | Immune system functions | Cell Quiz |
| 12/5-12/9 | Characteristics of living things | vaccinations (shortened classes due to interim testing) | Development of penicillin video | Antibiotics activity: Why take the full course? | antibiotics activity continued |
| 12/12-12/16 | Organization of life | Guest speaker from CU on antibiotic resistance | prenatal development video | Cell Project due | Holocaust Speaker |
| 1/2-1/6 | New Years Holiday | No School for students | Emerging diseases | emerging diseases continued | emerging diseases wrap-up |
| 1/9-1/13 | Designing a hand washing lab | conducting lab | Enrichment in Science | reading/writing in science | no school for students |
| 1/16-1/20 | NO SCHOOL | Begin Unit D | Set up Plant seeds/ Joe's dilema | Unit C review | Unit C test |
| 1/23-1/26 | Activity 57: Asexual/sexual reproduction | Act.58:Model how genes are inherited | Act 59: Probability in inheritance | act 59 continued | Act 60 Mendel: 1st Geneticist |
| 1/30-2/3 | Dominant Traits | Activity 61 Punnett squares | Activity 62: Seedling genetics | Activity 63: Cell cycle | Activity 63 continued |
| 2/6-2/10 | Ski Trip No science class | Cell cycle three stages | Enrichment | DNA structure | Quiz |
| 2/13-17 | review cell cycle for quiz Friday, Cancer video | Meiosis and RNA | RNA continued | Genetics vs. Environmental influence on genes | quiz on cell cycle, design lab testing effect of environment on genetic expression |
| 2/20-2/24 | Presidents Day No School | No school for students | Meiosis | Set up Nature vs. Nurture lab | Codominant, incomplete dominance, gender determination |
| 2/27-3/2 | Video: natural selection | Activity 66 Pedigrees | Pedigrees continued | Activity 67 Joe's pedigree | Quiz: IV, DV, control, constants, graphing |
| 3/5-3/9 | RH factor | Seedling genetics | Enrichment | DNA and the lost children | Effects of predators in ecosystems |
| 3/12-3/16 | Guest speaker from CU: the genetics of dogs | Wolves in yellowstone continued | | Review for test | Unit D Genetics Test |
| 3/19-23 | Go over Unit D test | Start ecology: Nile Perch | Classification | Classification | HUNGER GAMES |
| 4/2-6 | classification | Population graphs | Population graphs | Food chains/webs | classification quiz |
| 4/9-13 | Owl pellets | owl pellets | Enrichment | food chain checkers | food chain checkers |
| 4/16-4/20 | Activity 79: eating for life | Last Benchmark testing | Producers source of energy lab | Lab continued | Lab write up |
| 4/23-4/27 | Respiration/Photosynthesis | Plant structure | Gymnosperms and Angiosperms | Carring Capacity | Predator presentations |
| 4/30-5/4 | Predator presentations continued: review for ecology test | Ecology test | Fossil footprints | Geologic time | Geologic time |
| 5/7-5/11 | Life similiarities and differences with modern life | Superposition of rock layers and dating | Charles Darwin | Hiding in the background: Adaptations | Battling Beaks: adaptations |
| 5/14-5/18 | CU prof. guest speaker on evolution | CU speaker canceled: PBS Video on evolution instead | Review for final | Review for final | Final exam |
| 5/21-5/25 | Student guest speaker: living with Muscular Dystrophy | To Be Announced | TBA | Bible Park picnic | Yearbook signing |