(Recorded Course) Middle School Life Science, Part Two with Victoria Cerise

Give your middle school student the basics of Life Science that includes species, biomes, food chains and cover living organisms, bacteria and viruses, fungi, animals and more.

How to get the most out of Middle School Life Science, Part Two with Christine Hamilton:

  • First, read the course materials below before the first class meeting.

  • Then have a notebook ready and available for class notes each live session.

  • Read assignments before class meetings

  • Watch that week’s recording if you need to revisit information from our live session.

  • Do the assignments, quizzes, and any extra work assigned for that week.

  • Once the course is completed to the parent's and professor’s satisfaction, there is a Certificate of Completion at the end to be filled in for your records.

Special Notes: This is Part Two of a 2-part course. Students are welcome to join us midyear, as there is no prerequisite.  

Total Classes: 12

Prerequisite: None

Suggested Grade Level: 6th to 8th grade

Suggested Credit: 1 full semester Science or Life Science

Course Description: Life Science is an introductory level course designed to enable students to explore basic biological concepts. Students focus on concepts that are shared by all living things such as cell structure, biochemical makeup, and inheritance. As students move into the second semester, the focus is on the diversity of life as they classify the many different species of living organisms into kingdoms and other classification categories. Students have a class with a unit on ecology that relates the interdependence of living with each other and with their environment.

Weekly Outline:

  • Week 1 Food Chains/Food Pyramids

  • Week 2 Biomes/Ecosystems

  • Week 3 Adaptations

  • Week 4 Classifications

  • Week 5 Cells

  • Week 6 Bacteria and Viruses

  • Week 7 Fungi

  • Week 8 Plantae

  • Week 9 Animalia - Invertebrates

  • Week 10 Animalia - Vertebrates

  • Week 11 Dissection - Pickle

  • Week 12 Dissection - Frog

Course Materials: Reading materials supplied free. Lab materials are inexpensive and easy to find, such as a pickle for the pickle dissection lab. Students who choose to participate in the frog dissection lab will also need the dissection kit found at https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B002UZ35RI/catholictreas-20.

Homework: Weekly quizzes and two simple labs. Quizzes are graded automatically by the computer.