Unifying Concepts and Processes of Science (under development ...

Electricity/Charge;
electrical energy and
power
The human body as an
electrical system
Chemical reactivity and
relationship to structure;
simple chemical
bonding; electronegativity
used to
describe bonding
Lightning
Energy as a universal
currency
Gases and laws of
thermodynamics
Energy use by living
systems
Exothermic or
endothermic reactions or
energy transformations
Equilibrium;
thermodynamics
Energy in Earth systems
Structure and composition
of Earth’s atmosphere
Forces and motion
Plate tectonics
Gravity Geotropism, Gravity and orbital systems
Kinetic theory of
gases
Light; spectral lines
and a glimpse of
quantum phenomena
Light as a wave and
particle
Matter, properties of
matter
Momentum
Pressure, gas laws
with a simple,
operational derivation
Photosynthesis; light
energy and chemical
energy conversion in
molecules useful to
living things
Sound
Ideal gas law or reaction
rates
Atomic and molecular
reactions with light
Waves Ultrasound Seismic wave, the structure
of the Earth, and how we
know it.