RCCHS 4 YEAR THEMATIC SCIENCE PLAN: TOPIC OUTLINE

FRESHMAN: QUALITY OF LIFE SOPHOMORES: AN EXANDING UNIVERSE JUNIORS: SENIORS: MICROWORLDS AND MODELS MAPPING AND DOCUMENTING

EXPLORING OUR TOWN:

EXPLORERS:

THE TRUCKEE MICROCOSM: HISTORY NEAR AND FAR:

The Truckee River Watershed, Weather, Inventions, Mapping, Exploration, The Scientific Method, Experimentation, Forensic Careers, Crime Scenes, Climate, The Rainshadow Effect, Geology Compasses, Orienteering, GPS, Time Science Fair, Ethics, Body of Knowledge, Eyewitness Accounts, Memory, Direct and of the Great Basin, Reno Food Shed, Local Geologic Processes, The Fossil Scales, Peer-Review Process, Truckee Meadows Evidence, Fingerprints, Physical Agriculture, Interpreting and Creating Record, Plate Tectonics, Biogeochemistry Tomorrow, Human Population Growth Impression Evidence, Tire Tracks, Tool Charts and Graphs, Reno's Demographics and Erosion. and Expansion, Our Community, Marks, Bite Marks and Odontology, Hair Data Collection and Interpretation. Our School and Our Niche. and Fibers, Chromatography

TELESCOPES & INTERGALATICS: THE LIVES OF A CELL: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY:

HISTORY RECORDED:

How Science, Technology and Society Astronomy, Stars, Life in Outer Space, Reproduction, Mitosis, Meiosis, Cells, Trace Evidence, Blood, Blood Typing, influence each other. Reno Infrastructure The Origin and Evolution of the Universe, Transcription and Translation, DNA, Blood Spatter, DNA Evidence, Forensic Cities of the Future, City Planning, Nuclear Fusion, Star Formation and Urban Genetics, Mendel, Inheritance, Punnett Entomology, Forensic Anthropology, Sprawl, Bridge Design and Construction Destruction, Planetary Motion, Seasons Squares, Organs, Specialized Structures Investigation, Criminology, Crime Arson Strength Testing, Medical Facilities and and Technology, Medical Breakthroughs Cancer, Disease, Nutrition and the Future of Health and Medicine. and Functions, Organ Systems, Scene Analysis.

KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS: Differentiated Cells, Organisms, Disease Cancer, Epidemiology, Communities of Conservation and Environmentalism,
Organisms. Environmental Ethics, Sustainable

THE SOCIAL AND HUMAN RESOURCES: FACT, FICTION & FUTURE: LIVES OF AN ATOM: Development, Cultural Perspectives, SCIENCE
The Social Resources in Reno, Increasing Forces, Gravitation, Newtons Physics, Chemistry, Electrons, Protons, Neutrons, Population Biology, Matter Cycling, , the Quality of Life and Quality of Life Laws, Electromagnets, Electricity, Molecular Motion, Atoms, Properties & Environmental Health, Toxicology, Food Indicators, Social Emotional Health, Magnetism, Theory of Relativity, States of Matter, Compounds, Solutions, and Agriculture, Nutrition, Soil, Genetic Life Strategies, Truckee Meadows and Black Holes. Health, DNA, Genetics, Genotype and Phenotype Eugenics, Social Darwinism, Local trips: The Science Museum, Children's Cabinet Solutes and Solvents, The PeriodicEngineering, Pests and Pesticides. Table, Isotopes, Radioactive Decay, Ions,THE BOOK OF MYSELF: Covalent and Ionic Bonds, Endothermic, Biodiversity Threats, Land Use and Exothermic, Balancing Reactions, Law of Resource Management, Restoration,

THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE: Conservation of Matter Wildlife Refuges, Parks and Preserves, UTOPIAS & DISTOPIAS: NV Minerals and Mining, Water Use, Nevada Ecosystems, Producers, Big Bang, Red Shift, The Origins of the
Consumers, Trophic Levels, Food Chains, Universe, Planetary Motion, Weather, Environmental Science, Pollution, Global Management, and Pollution, Toxic, and Food Webs, Owl Pellet Project, Symbiosis The Water Cycle, Telescope Technology Change, Energy (Waves, Sound, Climate Hazardous Waste, Urbanization and Niches, Predator/Prey Relations, and Space Exploration. Seismic, Electromagnetic, Transfer, Sustainable Cities, Ecological Economics Nutrient Cycling, Evolution, Natural and Conversion, and Conservation) , Nuclear Environmental Law and Policy, Artificial Selection, Extinction. Fusion/Fission and Renewables. Citizenship and Environmental Action
Marisa Kendall, Science Dept Chair

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