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4-H Arkansas Outdoor School (AOS)
SEEK: Science for home-schooling students
7th and 8th Grade Outline

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Week 1: Introductions, teambuilding and introduction to critical thinking

Week 2: Digital photography, scientific method and predictions

Week 3: Soil, soil testing and earth worms

Week 4: Water as a resource and force of nature

Week 5: Stream ecosystems

Week 6: Water quality and single-celled organisms

Week 7: Genes, DNA and heredity

Week 8: More genetics

Week 9: Weather, weather patterns and prediction

Week 10: Earthworm experiment wrap-up

Week 11: Map, compass and GPS skills

Week 12: Unit wrap-up

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seek@uaex.edu
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