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MS.E.8.GRADE EIGHT: Earth and Space Science
GRADE EIGHT: Earth and Space Science
Earth’s Resources
E.8.10. Students will demonstrate an understanding that a decrease in natural resources is directly related to the increase in human population on Earth and must be conserved.
E.8.10.1. Read and evaluate scientific information about advancements in renewable and nonrenewable resources. Propose and defend ways to decrease national and global dependency on nonrenewable resources.
Multimedia Lesson Energy: Forms and Changes
Presentations Sources of Energy
Vocabulary Terms Energy: Forms and Changes
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Energy: Forms and Changes
E.8.10.3. Using scientific data, debate the societal advantages and disadvantages of technological advancements in renewable energy sources.
Multimedia Lesson Energy: Forms and Changes
Presentations Sources of Energy
Vocabulary Terms Energy: Forms and Changes
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Energy: Forms and Changes
E.8.10.4. Using an engineering design process, develop a system to capture and distribute thermal energy that makes renewable energy more readily available and reduces human impact on the environment (e.g., building solar water heaters, conserving home energy).
Earth’s Structure and History
E.8.7. Students will demonstrate an understanding of geological evidence to analyze patterns in Earth’s major events, processes, and evolution in history.
E.8.7.1. Use scientific evidence to create a timeline of Earth’s history that depicts relative dates from index fossil records and layers of rock (strata).
Flip Charts Fossils
Flip Charts Science: Earth Science
E.8.7.2. Create a model of the processes involved in the rock cycle and relate it to the fossil record.
Multimedia Lesson Minerals
Multimedia Lesson Rocks
Multimedia Lesson Volcanoes
Interactive/Simulation Rock Cycle
Presentations How Do Minerals Form?
Presentations Igneous Rocks
Presentations Introduction to Volcanoes
Presentations Metamorphic Rocks
Presentations Properties of Magma
Presentations Sedimentary Rocks
Presentations The Rock Cycle
Flip Charts Fossils
Flip Charts Rocks
Flip Charts Rocks
Flip Charts Science: Earth Science
Vocabulary Terms Minerals
Vocabulary Terms Rocks
Vocabulary Terms Volcanoes
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Minerals
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Rocks
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Volcanoes
E.8.7.3. Construct and analyze scientific arguments to support claims that most fossil evidence is an indication of the diversity of life that was present on Earth and that relationships exist between past and current life forms.
Multimedia Lesson Plate Tectonics
Presentations Continental Drift
Flip Charts Fossils
Flip Charts Science: Earth Science
E.8.7.4. Use research and evidence to document how evolution has been shaped both gradually and through mass extinction by Earth’s varying geological conditions (e.g., climate change, meteor impacts, and volcanic eruptions).
Flip Charts Geologic Time Scale
Flip Charts Science: Earth Science
Earth’s Systems and Cycles
E.8.9A. Students will demonstrate an understanding that physical processes and major geological events (e.g., plate movement, volcanic activity, mountain building, weathering, erosion) are powered by the Sun and the Earth’s internal heat and have occurred over mi
E.8.9A.1. Investigate and explain how the flow of Earth’s internal energy drives the cycling of matter through convection currents between Earth’s surface and the deep interior causing plate movements.
Multimedia Lesson Plate Tectonics
Presentations Heat Transfer and Convection Currents
Presentations Theory of Plate Tectonics
Flip Charts Plate Tectonics
Flip Charts Plate Tectonics
Flip Charts Science: Earth Science
E.8.9A.2. Explore and debate theories of plate tectonics to form conclusions about past and current movements of rocks at Earth’s surface throughout history.
Multimedia Lesson Earthquakes
Multimedia Lesson Plate Tectonics
Multimedia Lesson Volcanoes
Interactive/Simulation Continent Movement Over Time
Virtual Lab Tectonic Plate Boundaries
Presentations Continental Drift
Presentations Faults in the Earth's Crust
Presentations How Earth's Surface Changes
Presentations Sea-Floor Spreading
Presentations Theory of Plate Tectonics
Presentations Volcanoes and Plate Boundaries
Flip Charts Earthquakes
Flip Charts Earthquakes
Flip Charts Plate Tectonics
Flip Charts Plate Tectonics
Flip Charts Rocks
Flip Charts Rocks
Flip Charts Science: Earth Science
Vocabulary Terms Earthquakes
Vocabulary Terms Volcanoes
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Earthquakes
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Volcanoes
E.8.9A.3. Map land and water patterns from various time periods and use rocks and fossils to report evidence of how Earth’s plates have moved great distances, collided, and spread apart.
Multimedia Lesson Plate Tectonics
Presentations Continental Drift
Presentations Theory of Plate Tectonics
Flip Charts Plate Tectonics
Flip Charts Plate Tectonics
Flip Charts Science: Earth Science
E.8.9A.4. Research and assess the credibility of scientific ideas to debate and discuss how Earth’s constructive and destructive processes have changed Earth’s surface at varying time and spatial scales.
Multimedia Lesson Earth's Surface
Interactive/Simulation Forces of Erosion and Deposition
Presentations Forces of Erosion and Deposition
Presentations Mechanical and Chemical Weathering
Presentations The Erosion and Deposition Cycle
Presentations Weathering and Erosion Overview
Flip Charts Earthquakes
Flip Charts Earthquakes
Flip Charts Science: Earth Science
Flip Charts Weathering of Rocks & Soil Formation
Vocabulary Terms Earth`s Surface
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Earth`s Surface
E.8.9A.5. Use models that demonstrate convergent and divergent plate movements that are responsible for most landforms and the distribution of most rocks and minerals within Earth’s crust.
Multimedia Lesson Earthquakes
Multimedia Lesson Plate Tectonics
Multimedia Lesson Volcanoes
Virtual Lab Tectonic Plate Boundaries
Presentations Faults in the Earth's Crust
Presentations Sea-Floor Spreading
Presentations Theory of Plate Tectonics
Presentations Volcanoes and Plate Boundaries
Flip Charts Earthquakes
Flip Charts Earthquakes
Flip Charts Plate Tectonics
Flip Charts Plate Tectonics
Flip Charts Rocks
Flip Charts Rocks
Flip Charts Science: Earth Science
Vocabulary Terms Earthquakes
Vocabulary Terms Volcanoes
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Earthquakes
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Volcanoes
E.8.9A.6. Design and conduct investigations to evaluate the chemical and physical processes involved in the formation of soils.
Flip Charts Science: Earth Science
Flip Charts Weathering of Rocks & Soil Formation
E.8.9A.7. Explain the interconnected relationship between surface water and groundwater.
Multimedia Lesson Atmosphere and Weather
Presentations Weather
Vocabulary Terms Atmosphere and Weather
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Atmosphere and Weather
E.8.9B. Students will demonstrate an understanding of natural hazards (volcanic eruptions, severe weather, earthquakes) and construct explanations for why some hazards are predictable and others are not.
E.8.9B.1. Research and map various types of natural hazards to determine their impact on society.
Multimedia Lesson Atmosphere and Weather
Multimedia Lesson Earthquakes
Interactive/Simulation Types of Severe Weather
Presentations Earthquake Safety
Presentations Severe Weather
Flip Charts Earthquakes
Flip Charts Earthquakes
Flip Charts Science: Earth Science
Vocabulary Terms Atmosphere and Weather
Vocabulary Terms Earthquakes
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Atmosphere and Weather
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Earthquakes
E.8.9B.2. Compare and contrast technologies that predict natural hazards to identify which types of technologies are most effective.
E.8.9B.3. Using an engineering design process, create mechanisms to improve community resilience, which safeguard against natural hazards (e.g., building restrictions in flood or tidal zones, regional watershed management, Firewise construction).
MS.L.8.GRADE EIGHT: Life Science
GRADE EIGHT: Life Science
Reproduction and Heredity
L.8.2A. Students will demonstrate an understanding of how sexual reproduction results in offspring with genetic variation while asexual reproduction results in offspring with identical genetic information.
L.8.2A.1. Obtain and communicate information about the relationship of genes, chromosomes, and DNA, and construct explanations comparing their relationship to inherited characteristics.
Multimedia Lesson Chromosomes, Genes and DNA
Multimedia Lesson Genetics: The Study of Heredity
Multimedia Lesson Mitosis
Interactive/Simulation Chromosome and DNA Structure
Interactive/Simulation Deciphering the DNA Code
Presentations Chromosomes
Presentations Chromosomes
Presentations DNA
Presentations Dominant and Recessive
Presentations Genes
Presentations How Traits Are Inherited
Presentations Mendel's Experiments
Presentations The Genetic Code
Presentations Translation: RNA to Protein
Flip Charts Chromosomes, Genes & DNA
Flip Charts Genes and Heredity
Flip Charts How Genes Work
Flip Charts Human Genetic Disorders
Flip Charts Mitosis - Cellular Reproduction
Flip Charts Mitosis & Meiosis
Flip Charts Mitosis & Meiosis
Flip Charts Modern Genetics
Flip Charts Modern Genetics
Flip Charts Science: Genetics & Heredity
Flip Charts Science: Life Science
Vocabulary Terms Chromosomes, Genes and DNA
Vocabulary Terms Genetics and heredity I
Vocabulary Terms Genetics: The Study of Heredity
Vocabulary Terms Mitosis
Vocabulary Terms Nucleic acids and protein synthesis
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Cell Reproduction
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Chromosomes, Genes and DNA
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Genetics and heredity I
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Genetics: The Study of Heredity
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Mitosis
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Nucleic acids and protein synthesis
L.8.2A.2. Create a diagram of mitosis and explain its role in asexual reproduction, which results in offspring with identical genetic information.
Multimedia Lesson Meiosis
Multimedia Lesson Mitosis
Virtual Lab Comparing Mitosis in Plant & Animal Cells
Presentations Comparing Mitosis and Meiosis
Presentations Comparing Plant and Animal Cell Mitosis
Presentations Mitosis
Presentations Phases of Mitosis
Presentations The Cell Cycle
Flip Charts Mitosis - Cellular Reproduction
Flip Charts Mitosis & Meiosis
Flip Charts Mitosis & Meiosis
Flip Charts Science: Genetics & Heredity
Flip Charts Science: Life Science
Vocabulary Terms Meiosis
Vocabulary Terms Mitosis
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Cell Reproduction
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Meiosis
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Mitosis
L.8.2A.3. Construct explanations of how genetic information is transferred during meiosis.
Multimedia Lesson Meiosis
Interactive/Simulation Meiosis II Phases
Virtual Lab Build the Phases of Meiosis
Presentations Comparing Mitosis and Meiosis
Presentations Crossing-Over
Presentations Meiosis I
Presentations Meiosis II
Presentations Meiosis Overview
Presentations Sexual Reproduction
Flip Charts Meiosis
Flip Charts Mitosis & Meiosis
Flip Charts Mitosis & Meiosis
Flip Charts Science: Genetics & Heredity
Flip Charts Science: Life Science
Vocabulary Terms Meiosis
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Cell Reproduction
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Meiosis
L.8.2A.4. Engage in discussion using models and evidence to explain that sexual reproduction produces offspring that have a new combination of genetic information different from either parent.
Multimedia Lesson Protists: Pond Microlife
Presentations Amoeba
Presentations Paramecium
Presentations Spirogyra
Flip Charts Meiosis
Flip Charts Mitosis & Meiosis
Flip Charts Mitosis & Meiosis
Flip Charts Science: Genetics & Heredity
Flip Charts Science: Life Science
Vocabulary Terms Protists: Pond Microlife
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Protists: Pond Microlife
L.8.2A.5. Compare and contrast advantages and disadvantages of asexual and sexual reproduction.
Multimedia Lesson Protists: Pond Microlife
Presentations Amoeba
Presentations Paramecium
Presentations Spirogyra
Flip Charts Meiosis
Flip Charts Mitosis & Meiosis
Flip Charts Mitosis & Meiosis
Flip Charts Science: Genetics & Heredity
Flip Charts Science: Life Science
Vocabulary Terms Protists: Pond Microlife
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Protists: Pond Microlife
L.8.2B. Students will demonstrate an understanding of the differences in inherited and acquired characteristics and how environmental factors (natural selection) and the use of technologies (selective breeding, genetic engineering) influence the transfer of genet
L.8.2B.1. Construct an argument based on evidence for how environmental and genetic factors influence the growth of organisms.
Multimedia Lesson Photosynthesis and Respiration
Presentations Overview of Photosynthesis
Vocabulary Terms Photosynthesis and Respiration
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Photosynthesis and Respiration
L.8.2B.2. Use various scientific resources to research and support the historical findings of Gregor Mendel to explain the basic principles of heredity.
Multimedia Lesson Genetics: The Study of Heredity
Presentations Gregor Mendel
Presentations Mendel's Experiments
Presentations Phenotypes and Genotypes
Flip Charts Science: Genetics & Heredity
Vocabulary Terms Genetics and heredity I
Vocabulary Terms Genetics: The Study of Heredity
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Genetics and heredity I
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Genetics: The Study of Heredity
L.8.2B.3. Use mathematical and computational thinking to analyze data and make predictions about the outcome of specific genetic crosses (monohybrid Punnett Squares) involving simple dominant/recessive traits.
Multimedia Lesson Genetics: The Study of Heredity
Interactive/Simulation Understanding a Punnett Square
Presentations Codominance
Presentations Dominant and Recessive
Presentations Phenotypes and Genotypes
Presentations Using a Punnett Square
Flip Charts Human Genetic Disorders
Flip Charts Science: Genetics & Heredity
Vocabulary Terms Genetics: The Study of Heredity
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Genetics: The Study of Heredity
L.8.2C. Students will demonstrate an understanding that chromosomes contain many distinct genes and that each gene holds the instructions for the production of a specific protein, which in turn affects the traits of an individual.
L.8.2C.1. Communicate through diagrams that chromosomes contain many distinct genes and that each gene holds the instructions for the production of specific proteins, which in turn affects the traits of the individual (not to include transcription or translation).
Multimedia Lesson Chromosomes, Genes and DNA
Multimedia Lesson Genetics: The Study of Heredity
Multimedia Lesson Mitosis
Interactive/Simulation Chromosome and DNA Structure
Presentations Chromosomes
Presentations Chromosomes
Presentations Dominant and Recessive
Presentations Genes
Presentations How Traits Are Inherited
Presentations Mendel's Experiments
Flip Charts Chromosomes, Genes & DNA
Flip Charts Genes and Heredity
Flip Charts Human Genetic Disorders
Flip Charts Modern Genetics
Flip Charts Modern Genetics
Flip Charts Science: Genetics & Heredity
Flip Charts Science: Life Science
Vocabulary Terms Chromosomes, Genes and DNA
Vocabulary Terms Genetics and heredity I
Vocabulary Terms Genetics: The Study of Heredity
Vocabulary Terms Mitosis
Vocabulary Terms Nucleic acids and protein synthesis
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Chromosomes, Genes and DNA
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Genetics and heredity I
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Genetics: The Study of Heredity
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Mitosis
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Nucleic acids and protein synthesis
L.8.2C.2. Construct scientific arguments from evidence to support claims about the potentially harmful, beneficial, or neutral effects of genetic mutations on organisms.
Multimedia Lesson Chromosomes, Genes and DNA
Presentations Mutations
Flip Charts Chromosomes, Genes & DNA
Flip Charts Human Genetic Disorders
Flip Charts Modern Genetics
Flip Charts Modern Genetics
Flip Charts Science: Life Science
Vocabulary Terms Chromosomes, Genes and DNA
Vocabulary Terms Nucleic acids and protein synthesis
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Chromosomes, Genes and DNA
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Nucleic acids and protein synthesis
Adaptation and Diversity
L.8.4A. Students will demonstrate an understanding of the process of natural selection, in which variations in a population increase some individuals’ likelihood of surviving and reproducing in a changing environment.
L.8.4A.1. Use various scientific resources to analyze the historical findings of Charles Darwin to explain basic principles of natural selection.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Evolution and classification
L.8.4A.2. Investigate to construct explanations about natural selection that connect growth, survival, and reproduction to genetic factors, environmental factors, food intake, and interactions with other organisms.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Evolution and classification
L.8.4B. Students will demonstrate an understanding of how similarities and differences among living and extinct species provide evidence that changes have occurred in organisms over time and that similarity of characteristics provides evidence of common ancestry.
L.8.4B.1. Analyze and interpret data (e.g. pictures, graphs) to explain how natural selection may lead to increases and decreases of specific traits in populations over time.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Evolution and classification
L.8.4B.2. Construct written and verbal explanations to describe how genetic variations of traits in a population increase some organisms’ probability of surviving and reproducing in a specific environment.
Multimedia Lesson Meiosis
Presentations Crossing-Over
Vocabulary Terms Meiosis
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Evolution and classification
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Meiosis
MS.P.8.GRADE EIGHT: Physical Science
GRADE EIGHT: Physical Science
Motions, Forces, and Energy
P.8.6. Students will demonstrate an understanding of the properties, behaviors, and application of waves.
P.8.6.1. Collect, organize, and interpret data about the characteristics of sound and light waves to construct explanations about the relationship between matter and energy.
Multimedia Lesson Light and Optics
Multimedia Lesson Sound
Interactive/Simulation Longitudinal Waves
Interactive/Simulation Reflection and Lenses
Virtual Lab Mirrors and Lenses
Presentations Interactions of Light
Presentations Light
Presentations Musical Sounds
Presentations Practical Applications of Sound
Presentations Refraction and lenses
Presentations Sound and Sound Waves
Flip Charts Light
Flip Charts Science: Physical Science
Flip Charts Sound
Vocabulary Terms Light and Optics
Vocabulary Terms Sound
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Light and Optics
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Sound
P.8.6.2. Investigate research-based mechanisms for capturing and converting wave energy (frequency, amplitude, wavelength, and speed) into electrical energy.
Multimedia Lesson Electricity and Magnetism
Presentations Magnetism
Vocabulary Terms Electricity and Magnetism
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Electricity and Magnetism
P.8.6.3. Conduct simple investigations about the performance of waves to describe their behavior (e.g., refraction, reflection, transmission, and absorption) as they interact with various materials (e.g., lenses, mirrors, and prisms).
Multimedia Lesson Light and Optics
Multimedia Lesson Sound
Interactive/Simulation Longitudinal Waves
Interactive/Simulation Reflection and Lenses
Virtual Lab Mirrors and Lenses
Presentations Interactions of Light
Presentations Musical Sounds
Presentations Refraction and lenses
Presentations Sound and Sound Waves
Presentations Wave Interactions
Presentations Waves
Flip Charts Science: Physical Science
Flip Charts Sound
Vocabulary Terms Light and Optics
Vocabulary Terms Sound
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Light and Optics
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Sound
P.8.6.4. Use scientific processes to plan and conduct controlled investigations to conclude sound is a wave phenomenon that is characterized by amplitude and frequency.
Multimedia Lesson Sound
Presentations Sound and Sound Waves
Flip Charts Science: Physical Science
Flip Charts Sound
Vocabulary Terms Sound
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Sound
P.8.6.5. Conduct scientific investigations that describe the behavior of sound when resonance changes (e.g., waves in a stretched string and design of musical instruments).
Multimedia Lesson Sound
Presentations Musical Sounds
Vocabulary Terms Sound
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Sound
P.8.6.7. Research the historical significance of wave technology to explain how digitized tools have evolved to encode and transmit information (e.g., telegraph, cell phones, and wireless computer networks).
Multimedia Lesson Light and Optics
Presentations Wave Interactions
Flip Charts Light
Flip Charts Science: Physical Science
Vocabulary Terms Light and Optics
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Light and Optics
P.8.6.8. Compare and contrast the behavior of sound and light waves to determine which types of waves need a medium for transmission.
Multimedia Lesson Light and Optics
Multimedia Lesson Sound
Interactive/Simulation Longitudinal Waves
Presentations Light
Presentations Sound and Sound Waves
Flip Charts Light
Flip Charts Science: Physical Science
Flip Charts Sound
Vocabulary Terms Light and Optics
Vocabulary Terms Sound
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Light and Optics
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Sound
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