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RCCHS 4 YEAR THEMATIC SCIENCE PLAN: TOPIC OUTLINE

Marisa Kendall, Science Dept Chair

FRESHMAN: SOPHOMORES: JUNIORS: SENIORS:

QUALITY OF LIFE AN EXANDING UNIVERSE MICROWORLDS AND MODELS MAPPING AND DOCUMENTING

EXPLORING OUR TOWN: EXPLORERS: HE TRUCKEE MICROCOSMHISTORY NEAR AND FAR:The Truckee River Watershed, WeInventions, Mapping, Exploration, The Scientific Method, Experimen Forensic Careers, Crime Scenes,

Climate, The Rainshadow Effect, Compasses, Orienteering, GPS, Ti Science Fair, Ethics, Body of Know

of the Great Basin, Reno Food She Scales, Geologic Processes, The Peer-Review Process, Truckee Me Physical Evidence, Fingerprints,Agriculture, Interpreting and Crea Record, Plate Tectonics, BiogeochTomorrow, Human Population Gro Impression Evidence, Tire Tracks,

Charts and Graphs, Reno's Demogand Erosion. and Expansion, Our Community, Marks, Bite Marks and Odontology

Data Collection and Interpretation. Our School and Our Niche. and Fibers, Chromatography

NCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCI ESCOPES & INTERGALATI THE LIVES OF A CELL: HISTORY RECORDED:

How Science, Technology and SocAstronomy, Stars, Life in Outer SpCells, Reproduction, Mitosis, Meio Trace Evidence, Blood, Blood Typi

The Origin and Evolution of the U Transcription and Translation, DNBlood Spatter, DNA Evidence, For

Cities of the Future, City Planning, Nuclear Fusion, Star Formation a Genetics, Mendel, Inheritance, Pu Entomology, Forensic Anthropolog

Sprawl, Bridge Design and Constr Destruction, Planetary Motion, Se Squares, Organs, Specialized StruArson Investigation, Criminology,

Strength Testing, Medical Facilities and and Functions, Organ Systems, Scene Analysis.

and Technology, Medical Breakthroughs Differentiated Cells, Organisms, KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS:

Cancer, Disease, Nutrition and the Future Cancer, Epidemiology, CommunitiConservation and Environmentali

of Health and Medicine. Organisms. Environmental Ethics, Sustainable

CIAL AND HUMAN RESOURC NCE FACT, FICTION & FUTUTHE LIVES OF AN ATOM: Development, Cultural Perspectiv

The Social Resources in Reno, Inc Physics, Forces, Gravitation, NewtChemistry, Electrons, Protons, Ne Population Biology, Matter Cycling

the Quality of Life and Quality of LLaws, Electromagnets, Electricity, Molecular Motion, Atoms, Properti Environmental Health, Toxicology,

Indicators, Social Emotional Healt Magnetism, Theory of Relativity, States of Matter, Compounds, Sol and Agriculture, Nutrition, Soil, Ge

Life Strategies, Truckee Meadows and Black Holes. Solutes and Solvents, The Periodi Engineering, Pests and Pesticides.

DNA, Genetics, Genotype and Phenotype Isotopes, Radioactive Decay, Ions,THE BOOK OF MYSELF:Eugenics, Social Darwinism, Local trips: Covalent and Ionic Bonds, Endoth Biodiversity Threats, Land Use an

The Science Museum, Children's Cabinet Exothermic, Balancing Reactions, Resource Management, Restorati

ECOSYSTEMS: HE EXPANDING UNIVERS Conservation of Matter Wildlife Refuges, Parks and Preser

Nevada Ecosystems, Producers, Big Bang, Red Shift, The Origins o UTOPIAS & DISTOPIAS: NV Minerals and Mining, Water Us

Consumers, Trophic Levels, Food Universe, Planetary Motion, Weat Environmental Science, Pollution, Management, and Pollution, Toxic,

Food Webs, Owl Pellet Project, Sy The Water Cycle, Telescope Tech Climate Change, Energy (Waves, Hazardous Waste, Urbanization an

Niches, Predator/Prey Relations, and Space Exploration. Seismic, Electromagnetic, TransfSustainable Cities, Ecological Eco

Nutrient Cycling, Evolution, Natural and Conversion, and Conservation) , NEnvironmental Law and Policy,

Artificial Selection, Extinction. Fusion/Fission and Renewables. Citizenship and Environmental Act

Eyewitness Accounts, Memory, Di

influence each other. Reno Infrastr

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