High School

GED Test Prep - Science

1 Credit
36 Weeks
Open

GED® Tutorials are based on content frameworks for the 2014 GED Test and current specifications and provide students a less stressful and more successful preparation effort as they work to achieve a GED passing score.

GED Tutorials offer targeted instruction, practice and review. Students engage with the content in an interactive, feedback-rich environment as they progress through GED test aligned modules. Students will practice skills essential to the test they’re preparing for and build the depth of knowledge, confidence, and higher order skills required to demonstrate mastery when put to the test.

In each module, the Learn It and Try It make complex ideas accessible to students through focused content, guided analysis, and practice with personalized feedback so students are empowered to increase their Exam Readiness. The Review It offers an engaging and high impact video summary of key concepts and important to grasp connections. The Test It assesses students’ mastery of the module’s concepts, providing granular performance data to students and teachers, linking a student’s performance to GED reporting categories and reasoning indicators. To help students focus on the content most relevant to them, unit-level pretests and posttests can quickly identify where students are ready for test day and where they need to continue their review and practice.

This Tutorial is aligned with 2014 assessment content from GED Testing Service and content area assessment targets for Mathematics test sections.

GED® is a registered trademark of the American Council on Education (“ACE”).

Major Topics and Concepts

Unit 1: Cells, Tissues, Organs, and Systems

Unit 2: Heredity and Evolution

Unit 3: Energy in Life Systems

Unit 4: Energy, Force, and Motion

Unit 5: Matter and its Interactions

Unit 6: Earth and Space

Competencies

Energy Systems

Students will demonstrate an understanding of energy systems by describing photosynthesis and cellular respiration, explaining the role of macronutrients and micronutrients, explaining cycles in ecosystems, explaining relationships in ecosystems.

Foundations of Biological Structure

Students will demonstrate an understanding of the foundations of biological structure by describing bio-molecule formation, explaining cell structure and function, explaining the structure and function of tissues and organs, and explaining body systems structure and function.

Foundations of Genetics

Students will demonstrate an understanding of the foundations of genetics by describing the function of genes, explaining genetic mutations, describing patterns in heredity, and explaining evolution and natural selection.

Foundations in Earth-Space Science

Students will demonstrate an understanding of foundations in Earth-space science by describing Earth’s subsystems and natural resources, describing Earth’s structures and climate, explaining the formation of the earth, and explaining the formation of the universe.

Fundamentals of Matter

Students will demonstrate an understanding of the fundamentals of matter by describing characteristics of matter, explaining features of the periodic table, explaining chemical reactions and bonding, and describing water and solutions.

Fundamentals of Physics

Students will demonstrate an understanding of the fundamentals of physics by describing characteristics of energy, describing properties of waves, explaining types of motion, and describing forces.