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Science
Know and apply concepts that explain how living things function, adapt and change.
Compare and contrast how different forms and structures reflect different functions (e.g., similarities and differences among animals that fly, walk or swim; structures of plant cells and animal cells).
The student demonstrates understanding of the interactions between matter and energy and the effects of these interactions on systems by recognizing that most substances can exist as a solid, liquid, or gas depending on temperature.
Craft and Structure
Determine the meaning of symbols, key terms, and other domain-specific words and phrases as they are used in a specific scientific or technical context relevant to grades 6-8 texts and topics.
Describe factors that cause changes to Earth's surface over time. Examples: earthquakes, volcanoes, weathering, erosion, glacial erosion or scouring, deposition, water flow, tornadoes, hurricanes, farming and conservation, mining and reclamation, deforestation and reforestation, waste disposal, global climate changes, greenhouse gases
Comparing constructive and destructive natural processes and their effects on land formations. Examples: constructive - volcanic and mountain-building processes; destructive - erosion by wind, water, and ice
Structure and Function: Model and explain the function of plant organs: leaves, roots, stems, flowers
The student demonstrates an understanding that all organisms are linked to each other and their physical environments through the transfer and transformation of matter and energy by recognizing that organisms can cause physical and chemical changes (e.g., digestion, growth, respiration, photosynthesis) to matter and recognizing the importance of energy transfer in these changes.
Water on Earth is distributed and circulated through oceans, glaciers, rivers, ground water, and the atmosphere. Students can:
Identify the various causes and effects of water pollution in local and world water distributions
Craft and Structure
Determine the meaning of symbols, key terms, and other domain-specific words and phrases as they are used in a specific scientific or technical context relevant to grades 6-8 texts and topics.
Explain the plate tectonic theory. Example: using terminology such as continental drift, seafloor spreading, lava, magma, eruption, epicenter, focus, seismic wave, and subduction zone
Determining energy release through seismographic data. Example: using data from the Mercalli scale and the Richter scale
Craft and Structure
Determine the meaning of symbols, key terms, and other domain-specific words and phrases as they are used in a specific scientific or technical context relevant to grades 6-8 texts and topics.
Craft and Structure
Determine the meaning of symbols, key terms, and other domain-specific words and phrases as they are used in a specific scientific or technical context relevant to grades 6-8 texts and topics.
Know and apply concepts that explain how living things function, adapt and change.
Compare and contrast how different forms and structures reflect different functions (e.g., similarities and differences among animals that fly, walk or swim; structures of plant cells and animal cells).
Scientific progress is made by asking meaningful questions and conducting careful investigations. As a basis for understanding this concept and addressing the content in the other three strands, students should develop their own questions and perform investigations. Students will:
Read a topographic map and a geologic map for evidence provided on the maps and construct and interpret a simple scale map.
Motion and Forces: Recognize and give examples of different types of forces: gravitational forces, magnetic forces, friction
Structure/Function Relationship
Enduring Understanding: Living systems, from the organismic to the cellular level, demonstrate the complementary nature of structure and function.
Plants and animals are similar to and different from each other in observable structures and behavior. These characteristics distinguish them from each other and from nonliving things. (Level: Essential)
Compare the characteristic structures of invertebrate animals (including sponges, segmented worms, echinoderms, mollusks, and arthropods) and vertebrate animals (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals).
The Forms and Sources of Energy
Enduring Understanding: Energy takes many forms. These forms can be grouped into types of energy that are associated with the motion of mass (kinetic energy), and types of energy associated with the position of mass and with energy fields (potential energy).
Electrical energy is a form of energy that can be transferred by moving charges through a complete circuit. (Level: Essential)
Characteristics of Science: Define and give examples of laws and theories
Describe water and carbon biogeochemical cycles and their effects on Earth.
Heat (Thermal Energy) (Physical Science)
Heat moves in a predictable flow from warmer objects to cooler objects until all the objects are at the same temperature. As a basis for understanding this concept:
Students know that when fuel is consumed, most of the energy released becomes heat energy.