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e-Tutor provides students with a wide variety of topics in twenty-three subjects. Lesson modules can be compared to chapters and include vocabulary, resources, study guide, problem statement, activities, extended learning, quizzes and exams. In order to get credit for the online instruction, students must fully complete each lesson module in the subject assigned for the particular grade level.
Science gives the student a unique perspective to understanding and interactions of the natural world. The goal of the e-Tutor science program is to provide learners a rich and full understanding of the inquiry process, key concepts and principles in science, and contemporary and historical issues in science, technology, and society.
The e-Tutor Science Curriculum is organized so that the subjects inform one another and depend upon one another for meaning. The curriculum includes life science, physical science and earth and space science in seven different subjects.
The many subjects in science are all interrelated. Understanding the functioning of living things depends on knowing chemistry; understanding chemistry depends on knowing physics. In the same way, science itself is highly dependent on mathematics - and it also relates strongly to medicine, geography, physical development and health, social trends and issues, and many other topics. Science, at its best, provides knowledge and skills that improve the understanding of virtually all subjects.
Scientific inquiry relies on asking questions and seeking answers. In the e-Tutor Science program, students learn how to gather evidence, review and understand their findings. They learn that there can be differing solutions to the same problem, some more useful than others. In the process, the e-Tutor student learns and applies scientific principles. He also learns to be objective in deciding whether his solutions meet specifications and perform as desired.
e-Tutor students learn that scientists must carefully describe their methods and results to a variety of audiences, including other scientists. This requires precise and complete descriptions and the presentation of conclusions supported by evidence. Younger students develop the powers of observation and description. Older students gain the ability to organize and study data, to determine its meaning, to translate their findings into clear understandable language and to compare their results with those of other investigators.
Astronomy
Students will understand the composition and structure of the universe and Earth's place in it.
Objectives
- Identify relative sizes and positions of bodies in the solar system.
- Describe earth as a sphere in the space and a part of the solar planetary system.
- Describe what is known about objects in the solar system.
Biology and Botany
Students will understand how living things function, adapt and change.
Objectives
- Identify orderliness in nature and the schemes we use to express this order.
- Identify symmetries or patterns in the natural and physical world.
- Identify fundamental entities which are useful in expressing the structure of nature.
- Understand cycles in which conditions or events are repeated at regular intervals.
- Understand organism as a system which can be characterized by the processes of life.
Ecology
Students will understand how living things interact with each other and with their environment.
Objectives
- Identify the growth responses of plants under differing environmental conditions.
- Identify ways organisms adapt to life in various ecosystems or habitats.
- Describe the relationship of environmental conditions on the diversity of plants and animals.
- Describe how a community interacts with its physical environment.
Chemistry and Physics
Students will understand properties of matter and energy and the interactions between them.
Objectives
- Describe energy/matter and their various forms and relationships.
- Describe interactions of two or more things and the effect each has on the other.
- Describe how different atoms are categorized.
- Understand cause and effect relationships which allow predictions to be made.
Geology
Students will understand concepts that describe the features and processes of the Earth and its resources.
Objectives
- Understand cycles in which conditions or events are repeated at regular intervals .
- Understand change including its rate, stages and mechanisms.
- Understand structure and function.
- Understand forces as push or pull.
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