The First Step discusses honest self-assessment. “Discovery and Intention Journal Entry System” is introduced, as well as “The Discovery Wheel.”
Producers: Coast Learning Systems
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Ideas Are Tools
Ideas Are Tools covers the concept of learning styles and features four stages of learning.
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Plant Reproduction
Plant Reproduction demonstrates how plants have evolved other remarkable mechanisms to maximize reproduction opportunities.
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Animal Structure
Animal Structure examines structure as a commonality among animals, who achieve motion promoted by a musculoskeletal system and maintain equilibrium through homeostasis and feedback.
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Circulation: A River of Life
Circulation: A River of Life illustrates how food and chemical products are transported rapidly to and from the body’s living cells through the circulatory system to sustain life.
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Immunity
Immunity explores the complex system of physical and chemical defenses that protect animals against disease.
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Generations: Mitosis and Meiosis
Generations: Mitosis and Meiosis chronicles the process of cell division
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Patterns of Inheritance
Patterns of Inheritance begins with theories of inheritance developed by Gregor Mendel in the mid-1800s and goes on to discuss how modern-day plant geneticists improve the productivity of commercially grown crops.
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DNA: Blueprint of Life
DNA: Blueprint of Life explores the research that led to the famous double-helix model of DNA.
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Proteins: Building Blocks of Life
Proteins: Building Blocks of Life explains the structure of proteins, along with a unique property of DNA and proteins to replicate the genetic code over thousands of years.