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Flow of Matter and Energy in Ecosystems Grade Level: Elementary School, High School, Middle School SciPacks are self-directed online learning experiences for teachers to enhance their understanding of a particular scientific concept and its related pedagogical implications for student learning. Unlimited expert content help via email and a final assessment both facilitate and document teacher learning. The Flow of Matter and Energy in Ecosystems SciPack explores the systemic interplay and flow of matter and energy throughout ecosystems,...  [view full summary] SciPacks are self-directed online learning experiences for teachers to enhance their understanding of a particular scientific concept and its related pedagogical implications for student learning. Unlimited expert content help via email and a final assessment both facilitate and document teacher learning. The Flow of Matter and Energy in Ecosystems SciPack explores the systemic interplay and flow of matter and energy throughout ecosystems, populations and organisms. Energy from the sun is the direct or indirect source of energy for nearly all organisms, it can flow only in one direction through ecosystems: from the sun to producers, to consumers, and finally to decomposers. Unlike the unidirectional transformation of energy, matter cycles among ecosystem components. One key ecosystem function, the cycling of carbon from non-living to living components and back, serves as a primary example in this SciPack for how all nutrients cycle on Earth. Webs and pyramids are used to model and communicate about the transfer of energy and cycling of matter within an ecosystem, representing how the total living biomass stays roughly constant—cycling materials from old to new life—accompanied by an irreversible flow of energy from captured sunlight into dissipated heat. [hide full abstract] Member Price: $31.99      Nonmember Price: $39.99

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Force and Motion Grade Level: Elementary School, High School, Middle School SciPacks are self-directed online learning experiences for teachers to enhance their understanding of a particular scientific concept and its related pedagogical implications for student learning. Unlimited expert content help via email and a final assessment both facilitate and document teacher learning. The Force and Motion SciPack explores the effects of forces on the motion of objects. The focus is on topics linked to Standards and...  [view full summary] SciPacks are self-directed online learning experiences for teachers to enhance their understanding of a particular scientific concept and its related pedagogical implications for student learning. Unlimited expert content help via email and a final assessment both facilitate and document teacher learning. The Force and Motion SciPack explores the effects of forces on the motion of objects. The focus is on topics linked to Standards and Benchmarks related to concepts such as constant motion, acceleration, speed and direction as well as a discussion of Newton’s Laws of Motion. [hide full abstract] Member Price: $31.99      Nonmember Price: $39.99

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Earth, Sun, and Moon Grade Level: Elementary School, High School, Middle School SciPacks are self-directed online learning experiences for teachers to enhance their understanding of a particular scientific concept and its related pedagogical implications for student learning. Unlimited expert content help via email and a final assessment both facilitate and document teacher learning. The Earth, Sun, and Moon SciPack explores the phenomena that can be explained by the position and motion of Earth, the Moon, and...  [view full summary] SciPacks are self-directed online learning experiences for teachers to enhance their understanding of a particular scientific concept and its related pedagogical implications for student learning. Unlimited expert content help via email and a final assessment both facilitate and document teacher learning. The Earth, Sun, and Moon SciPack explores the phenomena that can be explained by the position and motion of Earth, the Moon, and the Sun. The focus is on topics supporting Standards and Benchmarks related to the heating of Earth’s surface by the Sun, phases of the Moon, and the apparent changes in the position of objects in the night sky. This SciPack also includes some of the basic details about Earth, including the characteristics that make it unique in our solar system, its composition, and its capacity to support life. [hide full abstract] Member Price: $31.99      Nonmember Price: $39.99

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Heredity and Variation Grade Level: Elementary School, High School, Middle School SciPacks are self-directed online learning experiences for teachers to enhance their understanding of a particular scientific concept and its related pedagogical implications for student learning. Unlimited expert content help via email and a final assessment both facilitate and document teacher learning. The Heredity and Variation SciPack explores patterns of inheritance and discusses how...  [view full summary] SciPacks are self-directed online learning experiences for teachers to enhance their understanding of a particular scientific concept and its related pedagogical implications for student learning. Unlimited expert content help via email and a final assessment both facilitate and document teacher learning. The Heredity and Variation SciPack explores patterns of inheritance and discusses how offspring can look similar to their parents yet still possess differences within their genetic code. These differences can sometimes affect (positively or negatively) an offspring’s ability to survive and reproduce. Our ancestors used their observations of plants and animals to cultivate crops and domesticate animals. Now, through the use of technology and our current understanding of the DNA molecule, scientists can study individual genes and a gene’s impact on the inheritance of traits. [hide full abstract] Member Price: Free      Nonmember Price: Free

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Gravity and Orbits Grade Level: Elementary School, High School, Middle School SciPacks are self-directed online learning experiences for teachers to enhance their understanding of a particular scientific concept and its related pedagogical implications for student learning. Unlimited expert content help via email and a final assessment both facilitate and document teacher learning. The Gravity and Orbits SciPack explores concepts related to Earth’s universal gravitation and how gravity affects the universe around...  [view full summary] SciPacks are self-directed online learning experiences for teachers to enhance their understanding of a particular scientific concept and its related pedagogical implications for student learning. Unlimited expert content help via email and a final assessment both facilitate and document teacher learning. The Gravity and Orbits SciPack explores concepts related to Earth’s universal gravitation and how gravity affects the universe around us. The focus is on Standards and Benchmarks related to universal gravitation including variables that influence the amount of gravitational force and how gravity governs the motion of the solar system. [hide full abstract] Member Price: $31.99      Nonmember Price: $39.99

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Science of Food Safety Grade Level: Elementary School, High School, Middle School SciPacks are self-directed online learning experiences for teachers to enhance their understanding of a particular scientific concept and its related pedagogical implications for student learning. Unlimited expert content help via email and a final assessment both facilitate and document teacher learning. The Science of Food Safety SciPack explores the science underlying food safety. This SciPack is focused on Standards and Benchmarks...  [view full summary] SciPacks are self-directed online learning experiences for teachers to enhance their understanding of a particular scientific concept and its related pedagogical implications for student learning. Unlimited expert content help via email and a final assessment both facilitate and document teacher learning. The Science of Food Safety SciPack explores the science underlying food safety. This SciPack is focused on Standards and Benchmarks related the composition and functioning of cells and viruses; the growth, reproduction, and evolution of bacteria; the fundamentals of the human immune system; and societal precautions against foodborne illness. [hide full abstract] Member Price: $31.99      Nonmember Price: $39.99

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Coral Reef Ecosystems Grade Level: Elementary School, High School, Middle School SciPacks are self-directed online learning experiences for teachers to enhance their understanding of a particular scientific concept and its related pedagogical implications for student learning. Unlimited expert content help via email and a final assessment both facilitate and document teacher learning. The Coral Reef Ecosystems SciPack explores the unique and diverse ecosystem of the coral reef. The focus is on Standards and Benchmarks...  [view full summary] SciPacks are self-directed online learning experiences for teachers to enhance their understanding of a particular scientific concept and its related pedagogical implications for student learning. Unlimited expert content help via email and a final assessment both facilitate and document teacher learning. The Coral Reef Ecosystems SciPack explores the unique and diverse ecosystem of the coral reef. The focus is on Standards and Benchmarks related to populations and ecosystems using coral reefs and their immediate environment as an example. Because the Standards and Benchmarks present the concepts of populations and ecosystems generically, without reference to a specific ecosystem or the organisms in the system, coral reefs are used to provide the context through which concepts in a marine ecosystem are explored. [hide full abstract] Member Price: $31.99      Nonmember Price: $39.99

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Cell Division and Differentiation Grade Level: Elementary School, High School, Middle School SciPacks are self-directed online learning experiences for teachers to enhance their understanding of a particular scientific concept and its related pedagogical implications for student learning. Unlimited expert content help via email and a final assessment both facilitate and document teacher learning. The Cell Division and Differentiation SciPack explores the cellular processes, including the selective expression of specific genes,...  [view full summary] SciPacks are self-directed online learning experiences for teachers to enhance their understanding of a particular scientific concept and its related pedagogical implications for student learning. Unlimited expert content help via email and a final assessment both facilitate and document teacher learning. The Cell Division and Differentiation SciPack explores the cellular processes, including the selective expression of specific genes, which allow for the differentiation and specialization of cells. Additionally, this SciPack looks at cell division (mitosis) and the cell cycle, including the cycle for unhealthy (cancerous cells); the hierarchy between cells, tissues, organs and the organism; and the difference between specialized (differentiated) and unspecialized (undifferentiated) cells. [hide full abstract] Member Price: $31.99      Nonmember Price: $39.99

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Cells and Chemical Reactions Grade Level: Elementary School, High School, Middle School SciPacks are self-directed online learning experiences for teachers to enhance their understanding of a particular scientific concept and its related pedagogical implications for student learning. Unlimited expert content help via email and a final assessment both facilitate and document teacher learning. The Cells and Chemical Reactions SciPack explores the chemical reactions that take place in plant and animal cells. The SciPack takes...  [view full summary] SciPacks are self-directed online learning experiences for teachers to enhance their understanding of a particular scientific concept and its related pedagogical implications for student learning. Unlimited expert content help via email and a final assessment both facilitate and document teacher learning. The Cells and Chemical Reactions SciPack explores the chemical reactions that take place in plant and animal cells. The SciPack takes a close look at the process of photosynthesis in plant cells and cellular respiration in plant and animal cells. Additionally, this SciPack looks at how the rates of these reactions can be affected by temperature, pH, hydration levels, and enzymes. [hide full abstract] Member Price: $31.99      Nonmember Price: $39.99

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Energy Grade Level: Elementary School, High School, Middle School SciPacks are self-directed online learning experiences for teachers to enhance their understanding of a particular scientific concept and its related pedagogical implications for student learning. Unlimited expert content help via email and a final assessment both facilitate and document teacher learning. The Energy SciPack explores the many forms of energy and the concept that energy can change from one form to another. The focus...  [view full summary] SciPacks are self-directed online learning experiences for teachers to enhance their understanding of a particular scientific concept and its related pedagogical implications for student learning. Unlimited expert content help via email and a final assessment both facilitate and document teacher learning. The Energy SciPack explores the many forms of energy and the concept that energy can change from one form to another. The focus is on Standards and Benchmarks related to energy, energy transfer, and the conservation of energy. Work and simple machines are used throughout the SciPack to explain energy transformations. [hide full abstract] Member Price: $31.99      Nonmember Price: $39.99