Academic Standards
SC8.1.1: Students will design and conduct investigations that will lead to descriptions of relationships between evidence and explanations.
SC8.1.1.a: Formulate testable questions that lead to predictions and scientific investigations
Diffusion
Effect of Environment on New Life Form
Hearing: Frequency and Volume
Pendulum Clock
Sight vs. Sound Reactions
SC8.1.1.b: Design and conduct logical and sequential investigations including repeated trials
Coral Reefs 2 - Biotic Factors
Diffusion
Effect of Environment on New Life Form
Growing Plants
Hearing: Frequency and Volume
Pendulum Clock
Real-Time Histogram
Seed Germination
Sight vs. Sound Reactions
Temperature and Sex Determination - Metric
Time Estimation
SC8.1.1.c: Determine controls and use dependent (responding) and independent (manipulated) variables
Effect of Environment on New Life Form
Pendulum Clock
SC8.1.1.f: Record and represent data appropriately and review for quality, accuracy, and relevancy
SC8.1.1.g: Evaluate predictions, draw logical inferences based on observed patterns/relationships, and account for non-relevant information
SC8.1.1.h: Share information, procedures, results, and conclusions with appropriate audiences
Hearing: Frequency and Volume
Pendulum Clock
SC8.1.1.i: Analyze and provide appropriate critique of scientific investigations
Diffusion
Effect of Environment on New Life Form
Hearing: Frequency and Volume
Pendulum Clock
SC8.1.1.j: Use appropriate mathematics in all aspects of scientific inquiry
SC8.1.3: Students will solve a design problem which involves one or two science concepts.
SC8.1.3.b: Design a solution or product
SC8.1.3.c: Implement the proposed design
SC8.1.3.d: Evaluate completed technological designs or products
SC8.1.3.f: Distinguish between scientific inquiry (asking questions about the natural world) and technological design (using science to solve practical problems)
SC8.1.3.g: Describe how science and technology are reciprocal
DNA Analysis
Roller Coaster Physics
SC8.1.3.h: Recognize that solutions have intended and unintended consequences
SC8.2.1: Students will identify and describe the particulate nature of matter including physical and chemical interactions.
SC8.2.1.b: Describe physical and chemical properties of matter
Density Experiment: Slice and Dice
Mineral Identification
SC8.2.1.c: Recognize most substances can exist as a solid, liquid, or gas depending on temperature
SC8.2.1.e: Distinguish between physical and chemical changes (phase changes, dissolving, burning, rusting)
Chemical Changes
Density Experiment: Slice and Dice
Phase Changes
Phases of Water
SC8.2.1.f: Recognize conservation of matter in physical and chemical changes
Chemical Changes
Chemical Equations
SC8.2.1.g: Classify substances into similar groups based on physical properties
Density Experiment: Slice and Dice
Mineral Identification
SC8.2.2: Students will investigate and describe forces and motion.
SC8.2.2.b: Recognize an object that is not being subjected to a force will continue to move at a constant speed in a straight line or stay at rest (Newton’s 1st law)
Fan Cart Physics
Force and Fan Carts
SC8.2.2.c: Compare the motion of objects related to the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces
Fan Cart Physics
Force and Fan Carts
SC8.2.2.d: Recognize that everything on or around Earth is pulled towards Earth’s center by gravitational force
Free Fall Tower
Free-Fall Laboratory
Gravitational Force
SC8.2.3: Students will identify and describe how energy systems and matter interact.
SC8.2.3.a: Recognize that vibrations set up wave-like disturbances that spread away from the source (sound, seismic, water waves)
Earthquakes 1 - Recording Station
Longitudinal Waves
SC8.2.3.b: Identify that waves move at different speeds in different materials
SC8.2.3.c: Recognize that light interacts with matter by transmission (including refraction), absorption, or scattering (including reflection)
Basic Prism
Color Absorption
Heat Absorption
Herschel Experiment - Metric
Radiation
Refraction
Subtractive Colors
SC8.2.3.d: Recognize that to see an object, light from the surface of the object must enter the eye; the color seen depends on the properties of the surface and the color of the available light sources
Color Absorption
Heat Absorption
SC8.2.3.e: Recognize that heat moves from warmer objects to cooler objects until both reach the same temperature
Conduction and Convection
Heat Transfer by Conduction
SC8.2.3.f: Describe transfer of energy from electrical and magnetic sources to different energy forms (heat, light, sound, chemical)
Calorimetry Lab
Conduction and Convection
Heat Absorption
Heat Transfer by Conduction
Herschel Experiment - Metric
Radiation
SC8.2.3.g: Recognize all energy is neither created nor destroyed
Air Track
Energy Conversion in a System
Energy of a Pendulum
Inclined Plane - Sliding Objects
Roller Coaster Physics
SC8.3.1: Students will investigate and describe the structure and function of living organisms.
SC8.3.1.a: Recognize the levels of organization in living organisms (cells, tissues, organs, organ systems, organisms)
SC8.3.1.b: Recognize that all organisms are composed of one or many cells; that these cells must grow, divide, and use energy; and that all cells function similarly
Cell Division
Cell Structure
Paramecium Homeostasis
SC8.3.1.c: Recognize specialized cells perform specialized functions in multicellular organisms
Cell Structure
Paramecium Homeostasis
SC8.3.1.d: Identify the organs and functions of the major systems of the human body and describe ways that these systems interact with each other
Circulatory System
Digestive System
SC8.3.2: Students will investigate and describe the relationship between reproduction and heredity.
SC8.3.2.a: Recognize that hereditary information is contained in genes within the chromosomes of each cell
SC8.3.3: Students will describe populations and ecosystems.
SC8.3.3.a: Diagram and explain the flow of energy through a simple food web
SC8.3.3.b: Compare the roles of producers, consumers, and decomposers in an ecosystem
Coral Reefs 1 - Abiotic Factors
Food Chain
Forest Ecosystem
SC8.3.3.c: Recognize that producers transform sunlight into chemical energy through photosynthesis
Cell Energy Cycle
Photosynthesis Lab
SC8.3.3.d: Determine the biotic and abiotic factors that impact the number of organisms an ecosystem can support
Coral Reefs 1 - Abiotic Factors
Pond Ecosystem
SC8.3.3.e: Recognize a population is all the individuals of a species at a given place and time
Food Chain
Rabbit Population by Season
SC8.3.3.g: Identify positive and negative effects of natural and human activity on an ecosystem
Coral Reefs 1 - Abiotic Factors
Coral Reefs 2 - Biotic Factors
Pond Ecosystem
Water Pollution
SC8.3.4: Students will identify characteristics of organisms that help them survive.
SC8.3.4.a: Describe how an inherited characteristic enables an organism to improve its survival rate
Rainfall and Bird Beaks - Metric
SC8.4.1: Students will investigate and describe Earth and the solar system.
SC8.4.1.a: Describe the components of the solar system (the Sun, planets, moons, asteroids, comets)
Comparing Earth and Venus
Solar System
Solar System Explorer
SC8.4.1.b: Describe the relationship between motion of objects in the solar system and the phenomena of day, year, eclipses, phases of the Moon and seasons
2D Eclipse
3D Eclipse
Phases of the Moon
Seasons Around the World
Seasons in 3D
Seasons: Earth, Moon, and Sun
Seasons: Why do we have them?
Summer and Winter
SC8.4.1.c: Describe the effects of gravity on Earth (tides) and the effect of gravity on objects in the solar system
Gravitational Force
Gravity Pitch
Tides - Metric
SC8.4.2: Students will investigate and describe Earth’s structure, systems, and processes.
SC8.4.2.e: Compare and contrast constructive and destructive forces (deposition, erosion, weathering, plate motion causing uplift, volcanoes, earthquakes) that impact Earth’s surface
SC8.4.2.f: Describe the rock cycle
SC8.4.2.g: Describe the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation)
SC8.4.3: Students will investigate and describe energy in Earth’s systems.
SC8.4.3.b: Identify factors that influence daily and seasonal changes on Earth (tilt of the Earth, humidity, air pressure, air masses)
Hurricane Motion - Metric
Relative Humidity
Seasons Around the World
Seasons in 3D
Seasons: Why do we have them?
Summer and Winter
Weather Maps - Metric
SC8.4.3.c: Describe atmospheric movements that influence weather and climate (air masses, jet stream)
Coastal Winds and Clouds - Metric
Hurricane Motion - Metric
Weather Maps - Metric
Correlation last revised: 9/16/2020