Social Studies
Our African, Asian, and European backgrounds Exploration and discovery Growth and development of the United States Colonial life Struggle for independence U.S. Constitiution and Bill of Rights Westward movement in America American Civil War Reconstruction U.S. as a world power		Meaning of democracy Our American culture U.S. political system U.S. economic system U.S. government U.S. geography Advanced map and globe skills

Science
Scientific method Scientific nomenclature Scientific measurement Ecology and environment Conservation Composition of the earth Ocean, atmosphere Weather Water and its uses Weathering and erosion Recycling of resources Magnetism and electricity Heat and light		Forces in liquids and gases Wave, mechanical, electrical, and nuclear energy The earth's movement Newton's three laws of motion Machines The atom Periodic table of elements Compunds and mixtures Chemical changes Astronomy The universe and Milky Way Apace and space travel

Language Arts
Independent reading Litereal, inferential, and evaluative reading skills Literary terms Novel, short story, narrative poetry Nonfiction Biographies of great Americans American poets and storytellers Creative dramatics Listening and speech activities Advanced dictionary skills Extended vocabulary		Figures of speech Spelling Infinitive, participle, gerund, predicate, adjective, direct and indirect object Kinds of sentences and their parts Functions of sentence elements Writing simple business letters Report-writing skills Improving skills in using basic reference sources Inductive and deductive reasoning

Health & Safety
Grooming Functions of the body The body's utilization of food Types and functions of foods Environmental hazards Functions of the body Community sanitation and health		Health care services Sexually transmitted diseases Accident prevention, safety, and first aid Mental hygiene Substance abuse

Mathmatics
Maintaining skills in fundamental operations factoring and products Sets and simple sentences Numeration systems Using fractions and decimals ratio, proportion, and percent Equalities and inequalities Simple formulas and equations Graphing an equation Powers and roots of rational numbers		Polynomials Metric and nonmetric geometry Pythagorean Theorem Scale drawing Right triangle trigonometry Customary and metric measurement Permutations Probability statistics Statistical terms Matematics of insurance, banking, and taxes

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