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Science 2000: Science 2 (Grade 8).
Science 2000 series. Developed by Decision Development Corp. San Ramon, Calif.: Decision Development Corp., 1995.
Program Overview
The Science 2000 series is an integrated, multimedia science curriculum designed to introduce middle school students (grades 5 through 8) to 6 important themes of science: energy, evolution, patterns of change, scale and structure, stability, and systems and interactions. A separate, year-long course containing 4 units is offered for each grade. Each unit in a course takes from 7 to 9 weeks to complete. Students use videodisc imagery, software simulations, databases, hands-on investigations, and worksheets to explore real-world scientific questions. For each course, an extensive set of materials is available for students and teachers.
Curriculum Resource Guide
Recommended grade level:
8+.
The Science 2000 curriculum for eighth-grade students is composed of 4 units: (1) "The Lost Children: Genetics and Heredity," (2) "The Sun and Global Climate Change," (3) "Ears to the Sky: Energy Transformations," and (4) "Natural Disasters." Each unit, which has a series of lesson "clusters," requires students to explore general and then more specific investigative questions or problems.
Topics explored during the course include DNA, heredity, genetic engineering, climate and weather, humans and the environment, oceanography, pollution, electricity, magnetism, communication devices, sound and hearing, light and optics, plate tectonics, natural disasters, nuclear energy, and energy transfer.
Examples of the broad questions that students explore include these: "How can we determine whether two people are biologically related?" "How do the sun and atmosphere shape global climate?" "How do we communicate over long distances?" "Where and how do natural disasters affect land and structures built by man?" To explore sound and communication over distances, for example, students watch a video on dolphin communication and discuss various ways animals communicate; they determine the frequency of a pendulum and examine the relationship between frequency and wavelength; they investigate electricity, current, and voltage by making a wet-cell battery; and they examine how telegraphs and telephones work.
Many lessons take more than 50 minutes to complete. All lessons include student investigations--either controlled experiments, field observations, computer simulations, discussions, research projects, presentations, or a combination of these forms of investigation. Instructions for implementing activities are found in the lessons themselves, and text is hot-linked to databases and other files. Students interact with the computer directly or work from lessons and student activities that are also provided in print form. Teacher information for each lesson, which is accessed separately, includes a list of supplies, background information, procedures, and extensions.
Teacher's Guide
Organized in a 3-ring binder, the teacher's guide is designed to familiarize teachers with the Science 2000 program and its components. It provides background information on the Science 2000 curriculum, reviews hardware requirements and procedures for installing the software, explains how to use the Science 2000 software, and offers teaching tips and strategies. It also provides a step-by-step "trial run" for learning how to use the program (including how to plan lessons, print out documents, interact with students, and provide instructions).
Program Resources and Support Materials
The course includes blackline masters for student investigations, a set of preprinted lesson plans, and 2 videodiscs. Videodisc audio tracks are provided in both English and Spanish.
Key to Content Standards: 5-8 (see app. C)
UNIFYING CONCEPTS AND PROCESSES: Systems, order, and organization; evidence, models, and explanation; change, constancy, and measurement; evolution and equilibrium; form and function.
SCIENCE AS INQUIRY: Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry; understandings about scientific inquiry.
PHYSICAL SCIENCE: Properties and changes of properties in matter; motions and forces; transfer of energy.
LIFE SCIENCE: Structure and function in living systems; reproduction and heredity; diversity and adaptations of organisms.
EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE: Structure of the earth system; earth's history; earth in the solar system.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Abilities of technological design; understandings about science and technology.
SCIENCE IN PERSONAL AND SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES: Natural hazards; risks and benefits; science and technology in society.
HISTORY AND NATURE OF SCIENCE: Science as a human endeavor; nature of science; history of science.
Prices:
Curriculum resource guide, $350.00. Teacher's guide, $39.95. Videodiscs, $499.00. Site license, $4,500.00. (Contact publisher/supplier for complete price and ordering information.)
Publisher/supplier:
Decision Development Corp.
Materials:
Available locally, or from commercial suppliers.
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