Castle Learning Online

Intermediate Science

Castle Learning Online's Intermediate Science includes questions that are targeted to middle school students, covering all areas of Earth, Life, and Physical sciences. Questions are linked to detailed hints, reasons, and vocabulary definitions. Besides using this course during all of the middle school years, 8th grade teachers can especially use this to help students prepare for 8th grade assessment tests!

Units: (click to view Sections)

Introduction to Science
Sections:
1. Analysis
2. Inquiry
3. Design
Life: Living vs. Nonliving Things
Sections:
1. Cells
2. Unicellular Organisms
3. Multi-cellular Organisms
4. Plants
5. Animals
6. Classification of Living Things
Life: Human Organ Systems
Sections:
1. Organization
2. Digestive System
3. Respiratory System and Cellular Respiration
4. Excretory System
5. Circulatory System
6. Locomotion
7. Nervous and Endocrine systems
8. Reproductive System
9. Disease
Life: Inheritance of Genetic Information
Sections:
1. Hereditary Information
2. Heredity and Reproduction
3. Models of Genetic Inheritance
Life: Changes in Organisms and Species
Sections:
1. Variation and Survival
2. Competition
Life: Reproduction and Development
Sections:
1. Asexual Reproductive Patterns
2. Sexual Reproductive Patterns
3. Development in Plants and Animals
4. Cell Division
Life: Dynamic Equilibrium of Life
Sections:
1. Obtaining Resources
Life: Interdependence of Living Things
Sections:
1. Ecosystems: The Flow of Energy and Matter
2. Photosynthesis
Life: Human Impact on the Environment
Sections:
1. Survival and the Environment
2. Effects of Environmental Change
Earth: Studying Earth Science
Sections:
1. Density
2. Percent Error
3. Contour Maps
4. Three Phases of Matter
Earth: Earth and Celestial Motions
Sections:
1. Motions of the Earth and Moon
2. Earth Dimensions
3. Earth Spheres
4. The Solar System
5. Beyond the Solar System
Earth: Weather and Climate
Sections:
1. Water and Energy in the Atmosphere
2. Weather
3. Land and Sea Breezes
4. Storms and Violent Weather
5. Climate
Earth: Changes on Earth's Surface
Sections:
1. Weathering
2. Erosion and Deposition
3. Soil
Earth: Minerals and Rocks
Sections:
1. Minerals
2. Rocks
3. The Rock Cycle
4. Earth History and the Fossil Record
Earth: The Dynamic Earth
Sections:
1. Crustal Movement
2. Earthquakes
3. Plate Tectonics
4. Earth's Interior
5. Public Safety
Earth: The Changing Environment
Sections:
1. Mineral and Energy Resources
2. Pollution of the Air and Water
3. Pollution of Earth's Surface
Physical: Matter
Sections:
1. Properties of Matter
2. Phases of Matter
3. Mixtures
4. Density and Buoyancy
Physical: Changes in Matter
Sections:
1. Physical and Chemical Changes
2. Classification of Matter
3. Conservation of Matter
Physical: Models of Matter
Sections:
1. Building Blocks of Matter
2. Interactions
3. Classification of Elements: The Periodic Table
4. The Chemistry of Carbon
Physical: Energy
Sections:
1. Sources of Energy
2. Forms of Energy and Transformations
3. Conservation of Energy
Physical: Heating and Cooling
Sections:
1. The Flow of Heat
2. Energy and Change of Phase
3. Effects of Heat on Other Properties
Physical: Light, Sound, Electricity and Magnetism
Sections:
1. Electromagnetic Energy
2. Properties of Light
3. Vibrations
4. Electricity
5. Magnetism
Physical: Forces and Motion
Sections:
1. Patterns of Motion
2. Newton's Laws of Motion
3. Gravity
4. Electric Currents and Magnetism
5. Machines

Themes:

Models
Measurements and Calculations
Motions
Energy and Temperature
Change
Relationships
Observations and Inferences
Stewardship
Reading Graphs and Diagrams
Interdependence
Tools of the Scientist
Equilibrium
Structures
Reproduction
Heredity
Experimentation

Attributes:

Graph
Data Table
Chart
Diagram
Map
Calculation
Apparatus
Reading Passage