ASOL Sample Activities

The student will investigate and understand how Earth’s surface is constantly changing. Key concepts include changes in Earth’s crust due to plate tectonics.

The student will investigate and understand how Earth’s surface is constantly changing. Key concepts include weathering, erosion, and deposition.

The student will investigate and understand how Earth’s surface is constantly changing. Key concepts include human impact.

The student will investigate and understand characteristics and interactions of moving objects. Key concepts include motion is described by an object’s direction and speed.

The student will investigate and understand characteristics and interactions of moving objects. Key concepts include changes in motion are related to force and mass.

The student will investigate and understand characteristics and interactions of moving objects. Key concepts include friction is a force that opposes motion.

The student will investigate and understand characteristics and interactions of moving objects. Key concepts include moving objects have kinetic energy.

The student will investigate and understand the characteristics of electricity. Key concepts include conductors and insulators.

The student will investigate and understand the characteristics of electricity. Key concepts include basic circuits.

The student will investigate and understand the characteristics of electricity. Key concepts include static electricity.

The student will investigate and understand the characteristics of electricity. Key concepts include the ability of electrical energy to be transformed into light and motion, and to produce heat.

The student will investigate and understand the characteristics of electricity. Key concepts include simple electromagnets and magnetism.

The student will investigate and understand the characteristics of electricity. Key concepts include historical contributions in understanding electricity.

The student will investigate and understand how sound is created and transmitted, and how it is used. Key concepts include compression waves.

The student will investigate and understand how sound is created and transmitted, and how it is used. Key concepts include vibration, compression, wavelength, frequency, amplitude.

The student will investigate and understand how sound is created and transmitted, and how it is used. Key concepts include the ability of different media (solids, liquids, and gases) to transmit sound.

The student will investigate and understand how sound is created and transmitted, and how it is used. Key concepts include uses and applications of sound waves.

The student will investigate and understand basic characteristics of visible light and how it behaves. Key concepts include traverse waves.

The student will investigate and understand basic characteristics of visible light and how it behaves. Key concepts include the visible spectrum.

The student will investigate and understand basic characteristics of visible light and how it behaves. Key concepts include opaque, transparent, and translucent.

The student will investigate and understand basic characteristics of visible light and how it behaves. Key concepts include reflection of light from reflective surfaces.

The student will investigate and understand basic characteristics of visible light and how it behaves. Key concepts include refraction of light through water and prisms.

The student will investigate and understand that matter is anything that has mass, and takes up space; and occurs as a solid, liquid, or gas. Key concepts include distinguishing properties of each phase of matter.

The student will investigate and understand that matter is anything that has mass, and takes up space; and occurs as a solid, liquid, or gas. Key concepts include the effect of temperature on the phases of matter.

The student will investigate and understand that matter is anything that has mass, and takes up space; and occurs as a solid, liquid, or gas. Key concepts include atoms and elements.

The student will investigate and understand that matter is anything that has mass, and takes up space; and occurs as a solid, liquid, or gas. Key concepts include molecules, and compound.

The student will investigate and understand that matter is anything that has mass, and takes up space; and occurs as a solid, liquid, or gas. Key concepts include mixtures including solutions.

The student will investigate and understand basic plant anatomy and life processes. Key concepts include the structures of typical plants and the function of each structure.

The student will investigate and understand basic plant anatomy and life processes. Key concepts include processes and structures involved with plant reproduction.

The student will investigate and understand basic plant anatomy and life processes. Key concepts include photosynthesis.

The student will investigate and understand basic plant anatomy and life processes. Key concepts include adaptations allow plants to satisfy life needs and respond to the environment.

The student will investigate and understand how plants and animals, including humans, in an ecosystem interact with one another and with the nonliving components in the ecosystem. Key concepts include plant and animal adaptations.

The student will investigate and understand how plants and animals, including humans, in an ecosystem interact with one another and with the nonliving components in the ecosystem. Key concepts include organization of populations, communities, and ecosystems and how they interrelate.

The student will investigate and understand how plants and animals, including humans, in an ecosystem interact with one another and with the nonliving components in the ecosystem. Key concepts include flow of energy through food webs.

The student will investigate and understand how plants and animals, including humans, in an ecosystem interact with one another and with the nonliving components in the ecosystem. Key concepts include habitats and niches.

The student will investigate and understand how plants and animals, including humans, in an ecosystem interact with one another and with the nonliving components in the ecosystem. Key concepts include changes in an organism’s niche at various stages in its life cycle.

The student will investigate and understand how plants and animals, including humans, in an ecosystem interact with one another and with the nonliving components in the ecosystem. Key concepts include influences of human activity on ecosystems.

The student will investigate and understand important Virginia natural resources. Key concepts include animals and plants.

The student will investigate and understand that organisms are made of one or more cells and have distinguishing characteristics that play a vital role in the organism’s ability to survive and thrive in its environment. Key concepts include basic cell structures and functions.

The student will investigate and understand that organisms are made of one or more cells and have distinguishing characteristics that play a vital role in the organism’s ability to survive and thrive in its environment. Key concepts include classification of organisms using physical characteristics, body structures, and behavior of the organism.

The student will investigate and understand that organisms are made of one or more cells and have distinguishing characteristics that play a vital role in the organism’s ability to survive and thrive in its environment. Key concepts include traits of organisms that allow them to survive in their environment.

The student will demonstrate an understanding of scientific reasoning, logic, and thenature of science by planning and conducting investigations in which distinctions are made among observations, conclusions, inferences, and predictions.

The student will demonstrate an understanding of scientific reasoning, logic, and thenature of science by planning and conducting investigations in which objects or events are classified and arranged according to characteristics or properties.

The student will demonstrate an understanding of scientific reasoning, logic, and thenature of science by planning and conducting investigations in which appropriate instruments are selected and used to measure length, mass, volume, and temperature in metric units.

The student will demonstrate an understanding of scientific reasoning, logic, and thenature of science by planning and conducting investigations in which appropriate instruments are selected and used to measure elapsed time.

The student will demonstrate an understanding of scientific reasoning, logic, and thenature of science by planning and conducting investigations in which predictions and inferences are made, and conclusions are drawn based on data from a variety of sources.

The student will demonstrate an understanding of scientific reasoning, logic, and thenature of science by planning and conducting investigations in which independent and dependent variables are identified.

The student will demonstrate an understanding of scientific reasoning, logic, and thenature of science by planning and conducting investigations in which constants in an experimental situation are identified.

The student will demonstrate an understanding of scientific reasoning, logic, and thenature of science by planning and conducting investigations in which hypotheses are developed as cause and effect relationships.

The student will demonstrate an understanding of scientific reasoning, logic, and thenature of science by planning and conducting investigations in which data are collected, recorded, analyzed, and displayed using bar and basic line graphs.