Academic Standards and Performance Indicators
8.S.1A: The practices of science and engineering support the development of science concepts, develop the habits of mind that are necessary for scientific thinking, and allow students to engage in science in ways that are similar to those used by scientists and engineers
8.S.1A.1: Ask questions to
8.S.1A.1.1: generate hypotheses for scientific investigations,
Hearing: Frequency and Volume
Sight vs. Sound Reactions
8.S.1A.1.2: refine models, explanations, or designs, or
8.S.1A.1.3: extend the results of investigations or challenge claims.
Hearing: Frequency and Volume
Sight vs. Sound Reactions
8.S.1A.2: Develop, use, and refine models to
8.S.1A.2.1: understand or represent phenomena, processes, and relationships,
Carbon Cycle
Coral Reefs 1 - Abiotic Factors
Erosion Rates
Mouse Genetics (One Trait)
Programmable Rover
RNA and Protein Synthesis
Ripple Tank
River Erosion
Star Spectra
Weathering
8.S.1A.2.2: test devices or solutions, or
Circuits
Programmable Rover
Trebuchet
8.S.1A.2.3: communicate ideas to others.
Building Topographic Maps
Ocean Mapping
Ripple Tank
8.S.1A.3: Plan and conduct controlled scientific investigations to answer questions, test hypotheses, and develop explanations:
8.S.1A.3.1: formulate scientific questions and testable hypotheses,
Effect of Environment on New Life Form
Hearing: Frequency and Volume
Seed Germination
Sight vs. Sound Reactions
Time Estimation
8.S.1A.3.2: identify materials, procedures, and variables,
Diffusion
Effect of Environment on New Life Form
Hearing: Frequency and Volume
Real-Time Histogram
Sight vs. Sound Reactions
Time Estimation
8.S.1A.3.3: select and use appropriate tools or instruments to collect qualitative and quantitative data, and
8.S.1A.3.4: record and represent data in an appropriate form. Use appropriate safety procedures.
Diffusion
Hearing: Frequency and Volume
Pendulum Clock
Real-Time Histogram
8.S.1A.4: Analyze and interpret data from informational texts, observations, measurements, or investigations using a range of methods (such as tabulation, graphing, or statistical analysis) to
8.S.1A.4.1: reveal patterns and construct meaning or
Boyle's Law and Charles's Law
Coral Reefs 1 - Abiotic Factors
Diffusion
Effect of Environment on New Life Form
Hearing: Frequency and Volume
Pendulum Clock
Seed Germination
8.S.1A.4.2: support hypotheses, explanations, claims, or designs.
Boyle's Law and Charles's Law
Coral Reefs 1 - Abiotic Factors
Diffusion
Disease Spread
Effect of Environment on New Life Form
Hearing: Frequency and Volume
Pendulum Clock
Seed Germination
8.S.1A.5: Use mathematical and computational thinking to
8.S.1A.5.1: use and manipulate appropriate metric units,
Unit Conversions
Unit Conversions 2 - Scientific Notation and Significant Digits
8.S.1A.5.2: collect and analyze data,
Estimating Population Size
Hearing: Frequency and Volume
Seed Germination
Sight vs. Sound Reactions
Time Estimation
8.S.1A.5.3: express relationships between variables for models and investigations, or
Food Chain
Hearing: Frequency and Volume
Pendulum Clock
Plants and Snails
8.S.1A.5.4: use grade-level appropriate statistics to analyze data.
Describing Data Using Statistics
Sight vs. Sound Reactions
Time Estimation
8.S.1A.6: Construct explanations of phenomena using
8.S.1A.6.1: primary or secondary scientific evidence and models,
Big Bang Theory - Hubble's Law
Doppler Shift
Mouse Genetics (One Trait)
Ray Tracing (Lenses)
Ray Tracing (Mirrors)
8.S.1A.6.2: conclusions from scientific investigations,
Hearing: Frequency and Volume
Mouse Genetics (One Trait)
8.S.1A.6.4: data communicated in graphs, tables, or diagrams.
Big Bang Theory - Hubble's Law
Doppler Shift
Mouse Genetics (One Trait)
Ray Tracing (Lenses)
Ray Tracing (Mirrors)
Seasons Around the World
8.S.1A.7: Construct and analyze scientific arguments to support claims, explanations, or designs using evidence from observations, data, or informational texts.
Archimedes' Principle
Gravity Pitch
Mouse Genetics (One Trait)
8.S.1A.8: Obtain and evaluate scientific information to
8.S.1A.8.3: develop models,
Carbon Cycle
Electromagnetic Induction
Programmable Rover
8.S.1A.8.4: evaluate hypotheses, explanations, claims, or designs or
Genetic Engineering
Programmable Rover
Seed Germination
8.S.1A.8.A: Communicate using the conventions and expectations of scientific writing or oral presentations by
8.S.1A.8.A.2: reporting the results of student experimental investigations.
8.S.1B: Technology is any modification to the natural world created to fulfill the wants and needs of humans. The engineering design process involves a series of iterative steps used to solve a problem and often leads to the development of a new or improved technology.
8.S.1B.1: Construct devices or design solutions using scientific knowledge to solve specific problems or needs:
8.S.1B.1.3: generate and communicate ideas for possible devices or solutions,
8.S.1B.1.4: build and test devices or solutions,
8.S.1B.1.5: determine if the devices or solutions solved the problem and refine the design if needed, and
Feel the Heat
Programmable Rover
Trebuchet
8.S.1B.1.6: communicate the results.
8.P.2A: Motion occurs when there is a change in position of an object with respect to a reference point. The final position of an object is determined by measuring the change in position and direction of the segments along a trip. While the speed of the object may vary during the total time it is moving, the average speed is the result of the total distance divided by the total time taken. Forces acting on an object can be balanced or unbalanced. Varying the amount of force or mass will affect the motion of an object. Inertia is the tendency of objects to resist any change in motion.
8.P.2A.1: Plan and conduct controlled scientific investigations to test how varying the amount of force or mass of an object affects the motion (speed and direction), shape, or orientation of an object.
Atwood Machine
Fan Cart Physics
Free-Fall Laboratory
8.P.2A.2: Develop and use models to compare and predict the resulting effect of balanced and unbalanced forces on an object's motion in terms of magnitude and direction.
Atwood Machine
Fan Cart Physics
Free-Fall Laboratory
8.P.2A.3: Construct explanations for the relationship between the mass of an object and the concept of inertia (Newton's First Law of Motion).
8.P.2A.4: Analyze and interpret data to support claims that for every force exerted on an object there is an equal force exerted in the opposite direction (Newton's Third Law of Motion).
8.P.2A.5: Analyze and interpret data to describe and predict the effects of forces (including gravitational and friction) on the speed and direction of an object.
Free-Fall Laboratory
Inclined Plane - Sliding Objects
8.P.2A.6: Use mathematical and computational thinking to generate graphs that represent the motion of an object's position and speed as a function of time.
Distance-Time Graphs - Metric
Distance-Time and Velocity-Time Graphs
Distance-Time and Velocity-Time Graphs - Metric
Fan Cart Physics
Free-Fall Laboratory
8.P.2A.7: Use mathematical and computational thinking to describe the relationship between the speed and velocity (including positive and negative expression of direction) of an object in determining average speed (v=d/t).
Distance-Time and Velocity-Time Graphs - Metric
8.P.3A: Waves (including sound and seismic waves, waves on water, and light waves) have energy and transfer energy when they interact with matter. Waves are a repeating pattern of motion that transfers energy from place to place without overall displacement of matter. All types of waves have some features in common. When waves interact, they superimpose up on or interfere with each other resulting in changes to the amplitude. Major modern technologies are based on waves and their interactions with matter.
8.P.3A.2: Develop and use models to exemplify the basic properties of waves (including frequency, amplitude, wavelength, and speed).
Longitudinal Waves
Refraction
Ripple Tank
Sound Beats and Sine Waves
Waves
8.P.3A.3: Analyze and interpret data to describe the behavior of waves (including refraction, reflection, transmission, and absorption) as they interact with various materials.
Basic Prism
Color Absorption
Heat Absorption
Longitudinal Waves
Refraction
Ripple Tank
Waves
8.P.3A.4: Analyze and interpret data to describe the behavior of mechanical waves as they intersect.
Longitudinal Waves
Ripple Tank
Sound Beats and Sine Waves
8.P.3A.5: Construct explanations for how humans see color as a result of the transmission, absorption, and reflection of light waves by various materials.
Color Absorption
Heat Absorption
8.P.3A.6: Obtain and communicate information about how various instruments are used to extend human senses by transmitting and detecting waves (such as radio, television, cell phones, and wireless computer networks) to exemplify how technological advancements and designs meet human needs.
8.E.4A: Earth's solar system is part of the Milky Way Galaxy, which is one of many galaxies in the universe. The planet Earth is a tiny part of a vast universe that has developed over a span of time beginning with a period of extreme and rapid expansion.
8.E.4A.2: Construct and analyze scientific arguments to support claims that the universe began with a period of extreme and rapid expansion using evidence from the composition of stars and gases and the motion of galaxies in the universe.
Big Bang Theory - Hubble's Law
8.E.4B: Earth's solar system consists of the Sun and other objects that are held in orbit around the Sun by its gravitational pull on them. Motions within the Earth-Moon-Sun system have effects that can be observed on Earth.
8.E.4B.1: Obtain and communicate information to model and compare the characteristics and movements of objects in the solar system (including planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and meteors).
Comparing Earth and Venus
Phases of the Moon
Solar System Explorer
8.E.4B.2: Construct explanations for how gravity affects the motion of objects in the solar system and tides on Earth.
8.E.4B.3: Develop and use models to explain how seasons, caused by the tilt of Earth's axis as it orbits the Sun, affects the length of the day and the amount of heating on Earth's surface.
Seasons Around the World
Seasons in 3D
Seasons: Earth, Moon, and Sun
Seasons: Why do we have them?
8.E.4B.4: Develop and use models to explain how motions within the Sun-Earth-Moon system cause Earth phenomena (including day and year, moon phases, solar and lunar eclipses, and tides).
3D Eclipse
Moonrise, Moonset, and Phases
Phases of the Moon
Seasons Around the World
Seasons: Earth, Moon, and Sun
8.E.4B.5: Obtain and communicate information to describe how data from technologies (including telescopes, spectroscopes, satellites, space probes) provide information about objects in the solar system and the universe.
8.E.5A: All Earth processes are the result of energy flowing and matter cycling within and among Earth's systems. Because Earth's processes are dynamic and interactive in nature, the surface of Earth is constantly changing. Earth's hot interior is a main source of energy that drives the cycling and moving of materials. Plate tectonics is the unifying theory that explains the past and current crustal movements at the Earth's surface. This theory provides a framework for understanding geological history.
8.E.5A.1: Develop and use models to explain how the processes of weathering, erosion, and deposition change surface features in the environment.
Erosion Rates
River Erosion
Weathering
8.E.5A.2: Use the rock cycle model to describe the relationship between the processes and forces that create igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks.
8.E.5A.4: Construct explanations for how the theory of plate tectonics accounts for
8.E.5A.4.1: the motion of lithospheric plates,
8.E.5A.4.2: the geologic activities at plate boundaries, and
8.E.5A.4.3: the changes in landform areas over geologic time.
8.E.5A.5: Construct and analyze scientific arguments to support claims that plat e tectonics accounts for
8.E.5A.5.1: the distribution of fossils on different continents,
8.E.5A.5.2: the occurrence of earthquakes, and
Earthquakes 1 - Recording Station
Plate Tectonics
8.E.5A.5.3: continental and ocean floor features (including mountains, volcanoes, faults and trenches).
Building Pangaea
Plate Tectonics
8.E.5B: Natural processes can cause sudden or gradual changes to Earth's systems. Some may adversely affect humans such as volcanic eruptions or earthquakes. Mapping the history of natural hazards in a region, combined with an understanding of related geological forecast the locations and likelihoods of future events.
8.E.5B.1: Analyze and interpret data to describe patterns in the location of volcanoes and earthquakes related to tectonic plate boundaries, interactions, and hot spots.
Earthquakes 1 - Recording Station
Plate Tectonics
8.E.5B.2: Construct explanations of how forces inside Earth result in earthquakes and volcanoes.
8.E.5B.3: Define problems that may be caused by a catastrophic event resulting from plate movements and design possible devices or solutions to minimize the effects of that event on Earth's surface and/or human structures.
Earthquakes 1 - Recording Station
8.E.6A: The geologic time scale interpreted from rock strata provides a way to organize major historical events in Earth's history. Analysis of rock strata and the fossil record, which documents the existence, diversity, extinction, and change of many life forms throughout history, provide only relative dates, not an absolute scale. Changes in life forms are shaped by Earth's varying geological conditions.
8.E.6A.4: Construct and analyze scientific arguments to support claims that different types of fossils provide evidence of
8.E.6A.4.1: the diversity of life that has been present on Earth,
Human Evolution - Skull Analysis
8.E.6A.4.2: relationships between past and existing life forms, and
Human Evolution - Skull Analysis
8.E.6B: Adaptation by natural selection acting over generations is one important process by which species change in response to changes in environmental conditions. The resources of biological communities can be used within sustainable limits, but if the ecosystem becomes unbalanced in ways that prevent the sustainable use of resources, then ecosystem degradation and species extinction can occur.
8.E.6B.1: Construct explanations for how biological adaptations and genetic variations of traits in a population enhance the probability of survival in a particular environment.
Correlation last revised: 6/21/2021