English Language Arts
Writing: English Language Conventions: Students write using Standard English conventions appropriate to this grade level. Sentence Structure: Distinguish between complete (When Tom hit the ball, he was proud.) and incomplete sentences (When Tom hit the ball).
Mathematics
Data Analysis and Probability: Collect, organize and analyze data using statistical methods; predict results; and interpret uncertainty using concepts of probability. Determine, describe and apply the probabilities of events.
Compare the likelihood of events in terms of certain, more likely, less likely or impossible.
Biology
Biology Core - Students will: Describe cell processes necessary for achieving homeostasis, including active and passive transport, osmosis, diffusion, exocytosis, and endocytosis.
Comparing the reaction of plant and animal cells in isotonic, hypotonic, and hypertonic solutions
Biology Core - Students will: Describe cell processes necessary for achieving homeostasis, including active and passive transport, osmosis, diffusion, exocytosis, and endocytosis.
Comparing the reaction of plant and animal cells in isotonic, hypotonic, and hypertonic solutions
Biology Core - Students will: Describe cell processes necessary for achieving homeostasis, including active and passive transport, osmosis, diffusion, exocytosis, and endocytosis.
Comparing the reaction of plant and animal cells in isotonic, hypotonic, and hypertonic solutions
Botany Elective Core - Students will: Identify the twelve plant kingdom divisions.
Classifying native Alabama plants using dichotomous keys
Botany Elective Core - Students will: Identify the twelve plant kingdom divisions.
Classifying native Alabama plants using dichotomous keys
Botany Elective Core - Students will: Identify the twelve plant kingdom divisions.
Classifying native Alabama plants using dichotomous keys
Social Studies
History. The student understands the origins of customs, holidays, and celebrations. The student is expected to:
Compare the observance of holidays and celebrations, past and present.
Mathematics
Measurement and Data – Students will: Represent and interpret data.
Generate measurement data by measuring lengths using rulers marked with halves and fourths of an inch. Show the data by making a line plot where the horizontal scale is marked off in appropriate units – whole numbers, halves, or quarters.
Shape, Dimension, and Geometric Relationships Shapes can be described by their attributes and used to represent part/whole relationships. Students can:
Identify triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes. (CCSS: 2.G.1)
Shape, Dimension, and Geometric Relationships Shapes can be described by their attributes and used to represent part/whole relationships. Students can:
Identify triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes. (CCSS: 2.G.1)
Operations and Algebraic Thinking Identify and continue patterns.
Identify, continue and label number patterns (e.g., aabb, abab). Describe a rule that determines and continues a sequence or pattern.
Data Analysis and Probability: Collect, organize and analyze data using statistical methods; predict results; and interpret uncertainty using concepts of probability. Determine, describe and apply the probabilities of events.
Compare the likelihood of events in terms of certain, more likely, less likely or impossible.
Processes of Mathematics: Students demonstrate the processes of mathematics by making connections and applying reasoning to solve problems and to communicate their findings. Communications: Present mathematical ideas using words, symbols, visual displays, or technology
Use multiple representations to express concepts or solutions
Science
Life Science - Students will: Determine habitat conditions that support plant growth and survival. Examples: deserts support cacti, wetlands support ferns and mosses
Chemistry
Physical Science Core - Students will: Recognize periodic trends of elements, including the number of valence electrons, atomic size, and reactivity.
Categorizing elements as metals, nonmetals, metalloids, and noble gases
Science
Reading Standards for Literacy in Science and Technical Subjects 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.
Life Science - Students will: Describe characteristics common to living things, including growth and development, reproduction, cellular organization, use of energy, exchange of gases, and response to the environment.
Identifying homeostasis as the process by which an organism responds to its internal or external environment
Earth Science
Earth and Space Science Elective Core - Students will: Describe pulsars, quasars, black holes, and galaxies.