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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).
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.
Structure of the Earth: Describe the composition and interactions between the structure of the Earth and its atmosphere.
Describe the properties and the composition of the layers of the atmosphere.
The student demonstrates an understanding of the structure, function, behavior, development, life cycles, and diversity of living organisms by using a dichotomous key to classify animals and plants into groups using external or internal features.
Develop an understanding that historical perspectives of scientific explanations demonstrate that scientific knowledge changes over time, building on prior knowledge.
Develop an understanding of how science explains changes in life forms over time, including genetics, heredity, the process of natural selection, and biological evolution.
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
The student demonstrates an understanding of the structure, function, behavior, development, life cycles, and diversity of living organisms by identifying basic behaviors (e.g., migration, communication, hibernation) used by organisms to meet the requirements of life.
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).
Develop an understanding that the advancement of scientific knowledge embraces innovation and requires empirical evidence, repeatable investigations, logical arguments, and critical review in striving for the best possible explanations of the natural world.
The student demonstrates an understanding of how energy can be transformed, transferred, and conserved by recognizing that energy can exist in many forms (i.e., heat, light, chemical, electrical, mechanical).
Identify common parts of plant and animal cells, including the nucleus, cytoplasm, and cell membrane.
Comparing unicellular and multicellular organisms