science 500 ONLINE academic library
​Science 500 seeks to develop the student’s ability to understand and participate in scientific inquiry. The units contain experiments and projects to capitalize on the students’ natural curiosity. The student will explore, observe, and manipulate everyday objects and materials in their environment. Students at this level should begin to understand interrelationships between organisms, recognize patterns in ecosystems, and become aware of the cellular dimensions of living systems. Collectively, this should help students develop and build on their subject-matter knowledge base. Download a copy of the Science 500 Course Overview. You will find the goals for the course and the grading components and the grading scale for all NFC Academy courses.
SCIENCE 500 ONLINE
Unit 1 - CELLS
  1. Course Overview
  2. The Basic Unit of Living Things: A Cell
  3. Viewing Cells​
  4. Quiz 1
  5. The Life and Activity of Cells
  6. Plants and Unicellular Organisms
  7. Experiment: Onion Cells - Complete the Virtual Lab in your assignment.  It is not necessary to do the experiments, but observe the video experiment and complete the assignment.
  8. Experiment Cheek Cells: Complete the Virtual Lab in your assignment.  It is not necessary to do the experiments, but observe the video experiment and complete the assignment.
  9. Tissue
  10. Quiz 2
  11. Cells: Energy and Growth of Cells
  12. Cell Reproduction
  13. Quiz 3
  14. Review Game
  15. Test
  16. Alternate Test
  17. Reference
Unit 2 - PLANTS: LIFE CYCLES
  1. Classifying Living Things and Plants
  2. Parts of Plants
  3. Quiz 1
  4. Seed Bearing Plants
  5. Flowering Plants
  6. Experiment: Flower Dissection – Watch the Virtual Lab in your assignment and write about what you see.  It is not necessary to do the experiments, but observe the video experiment and describe what you see.
  7. Fertilization
  8. Experiment: Seed Dissection – Complete the Virtual Lab in your assignment.  It is not necessary to do the experiments, but observe the video experiment and complete the assignment.
  9. Cone-Bearing Plants
  10. Quiz 2
  11. Spore Bearing Plants and Fungi
  12. Fern Plants
  13. Fungi
  14. Experiment:  Mold – Complete the Virtual Lab in your assignment.  It is not necessary to do the experiments, but observe the video experiment and complete the assignment.
  15. Quiz 3
  16. One-celled Living Things
  17. Quiz 4
  18. Review Game
  19. Test
  20. Alternate Test
  21. Reference
Unit 3 - ANIMALS: LIFE CYCLES
  1. Invertebrates: Life Cycles
  2. One-celled Animal-like Protists
  3. Egg-Laying Invertebrates
  4. Experiment:  Mealworm – Watch the video in your assignment and the video Mealworm to Darkling Video in Under Two Minutes: It is not necessary to do the experiments but observe the videos and complete the assignment.  
  5. Report: The Spider – Complete this report as listed in your assignment.
  6. Worms and Mollusks
  7. Quiz 1
  8. Vertebrates: Life Cycles
  9. Egg-Laying Vertebrates
  10. Egg-Laying Vertebrates (Part 2)
  11. Egg-Laying Vertebrates (Part 3)
  12. Live-Bearing Vertebrates
  13. Report: Mammals – Complete this report as listed in your assignment.
  14. Quiz 2
  15. Review Game
  16. Test
  17. Alternate Test
  18. Reference
Unit 4 - BALANCE IN NATURE
  1. Balance of Nature: Physical Environment
  2. Ecosystems
  3. Quiz 1
  4. The Prairie: Web of Life
  5. Project: Prairie Land – Complete this project as listed in your assignment.
  6. The Prairie: Web of Life (Part 2)
  7. The Prairie: Food Chains
  8. Project:  Prairie Food Chain – Complete this project as listed in your assignment.
  9. Food Chains, Food Webs, Energy Pyramid in Ecosystems – Video for Kids 
  10. Quiz 2
  11. Humans and the Web of Life
  12. Humans and the Web of Life (Part 2)
  13. Quiz 3
  14. Review Game
  15. Test
  16. Alternate Test
  17. Reference
Unit 5 - TRANSFORMATION OF ENERGY
  1. Energy
  2. Work
  3. Quiz 1
  4. Work From Energy
  5. Forms of Energy
  6. Experiment: Heat Energy from a Chemical Reaction - Complete the Virtual Lab in your assignment.  It is not necessary to do the experiments, but observe the video experiment and complete the assignment.
  7. Chemical Energy
  8. Quiz 2
  9. Energy in the Future
  10. Future Sources of Energy
  11. Quiz 3
  12. Review Game
  13. Test
  14. Alternate Test
  15. Reference
Unit 6 - RECORDS IN THE ROCK: THE FLOOD
  1. Before the Flood: The Bible Record
  2. Before the Flood: The Physical Record
  3. Quiz 1
  4. The Flood: The Bible Record
  5. Project: Interview with Noah – Complete this project as listed in your assignment.
  6. The Flood: The Physical Record
  7. Quiz 2
  8. After the Flood: The Bible Record
  9. After the Flood: The Physical Record
  10. Quiz 3
  11. Review Game
  12. Test
  13. Alternate Test
  14. Reference
Unit 7 - RECORDS IN THE ROCK: FOSSILS
  1. Fossil Formation
  2. Project: Mold Fossil Copy  - Complete the project in your assignment.  It is not necessary to do the experiments, but observe the video project and complete the assignment.
  3. Project: Cast Fossil Copy - Complete the project in your assignment.  It is not necessary to do the experiments, but observe the video project and complete the assignment.
  4. Fossil Formation Part 2
  5. Fossil Locations
  6. Quiz 1
  7. Reading Fossils: Identification
  8. Reading Fossils: Earth's Age
  9. Reading Fossils: Difficulties
  10. Project: Fossil Clues - Complete the project as listed in your assignment. 
  11. Reading Fossils: Reconstruction
  12. Quiz 2
  13. Review Game
  14. Test
  15. Alternate Test
  16. Reference
Unit 8 - RECORDS IN ROCK: GEOLOGY
  1. Features of the Earth
  2. Layers of the Earth
  3. Rocks on the Earth's Surface
  4. Project: Examine a Mineral – Complete your project as listed in the assignment using the video Salt Crystals Forming 
  5. Kinds of Rocks
  6. Quiz 1
  7. Changes in the Earth: Surface Change
  8. Experiment: Erosion - Complete the Virtual Lab in your assignment.  It is not necessary to do the experiments, but observe the video experiment and complete the assignment.
  9. Causes of Surface Change
  10. Earthquakes and Volcanoes
  11. Project: Volcano Summary  – Complete this report as listed in your assignment.
  12. Results of Forces
  13. Quiz 2
  14. Review Game
  15. Test
  16. Alternate Test
  17. Reference
Unit 9- CYCLES IN NATURE
  1. Properties of Matter
  2. Properties of Matter (Part 2)
  3. Experiment: Volume  - Complete the Virtual Lab in your assignment.  It is not necessary to do the experiments, but observe the video experiment and complete the assignment.
  4. Changes in Matter
  5. Experiment: Types of Changes - Complete the Virtual Lab in your assignment.  It is not necessary to do the experiments, but observe the video experiment and complete the assignment.
  6. Conservation of Matter
  7. Experiment:  Conservation of Matter - Complete the Virtual Lab in your assignment.  It is not necessary to do the experiments, but observe the video experiment and complete the assignment.
  8. Structure of Matter
  9. Quiz 1
  10. The Four Seasons
  11. The Cause of Seasons
  12. Comets
  13. Report: Famous Comets – Complete this report as listed in your assignment.
  14. Life
  15. Quiz 2
  16. God's Order
  17. Quiz 3
  18. Review Game
  19. Test
  20. Alternate Test
  21. Reference
Unit 10 - LOOK AHEAD
  1. Living Things: Plants, Fungi, Protists, and Monerans
  2. Living Things: Animals and Animal-Like Protists
  3. Living Things: Balance of Nature
  4. Quiz 1
  5. The Earth: Records of Life
  6. The Earth: Fossils
  7. The Earth: Records in Rock
  8. Quiz 2
  9. Order in Creation
  10. Energy and Work
  11. Matter
  12. Quiz 3
  13. Review Game
  14. Test
  15. Alternate Test