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TN.8.ESS.Earth and Space Sciences (ESS)

Earth and Space Sciences (ESS)

8.ESS1. Earth’s Place in the Universe

8.ESS1.1. Research, analyze, and communicate that the universe began with a period of rapid expansion using evidence from the motion of galaxies and composition of stars.

Multimedia Lesson Cells

Multimedia Lesson Our Solar System

Multimedia Lesson Systems of the Human Body 1: Moving and Controlling the Body

Multimedia Lesson Systems of the Human Body 2: Providing Fuel and Transportation

Multimedia Lesson Systems of the Human Body 3: Protection, Reproduction and Cooperation

Presentations Body Organization

Presentations Digestive System - Fuel from Food

Presentations Disease and the Body's Defense

Presentations Excretory System - Transporting Waste

Presentations Formation of Our Solar System

Presentations Geocentric and Heliocentric Systems

Presentations Nervous System

Presentations Organization of Cells

Presentations Respiratory System - The Need for Oxygen

Flip Charts Our Solar System

Flip Charts Science: Earth Science

Flip Charts Science: Human Body

Flip Charts The Circulatory System

Flip Charts The Digestive System

Flip Charts The Excretory System

Flip Charts The Nervous System

Flip Charts The Respiratory System

Vocabulary Terms Cells

Vocabulary Terms Human biology I

Vocabulary Terms Human biology II

Vocabulary Terms Our Solar System

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Cells

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Human biology I

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Human biology II

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Our Solar System

8.ESS1.2. Explain the role of gravity in the formation of our sun and planets. Extend this explanation to address gravity’s effect on the motion of celestial objects in our solar system and Earth’s ocean tides.

Multimedia Lesson Our Solar System

Multimedia Lesson The Sun-Earth-Moon System

Virtual Lab Moon Phases, Eclipses and Tides

Presentations Earth's Moon

Presentations Formation of Our Solar System

Presentations Phases, Eclipses and Tides

Flip Charts Geologic Time Scale

Flip Charts Our Solar System

Flip Charts Science: Earth Science

Vocabulary Terms Our Solar System

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Our Solar System

8.ESS2. Earth’s Systems

8.ESS2.1. Analyze and interpret data to support the assertion that rapid or gradual geographic changes lead to drastic population changes and extinction events.

Multimedia Lesson Earthquakes

Presentations Earthquake Safety

Flip Charts Earthquakes

Flip Charts Science: Earth Science

Vocabulary Terms Earthquakes

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Earthquakes

8.ESS2.2. Evaluate data collected from seismographs to create a model of Earth's structure.

Multimedia Lesson Earthquakes

Multimedia Lesson Plate Tectonics

Interactive/Simulation Earthquake and Seismogram

Virtual Lab Earthquake Simulator

Presentations Earth's Interior

Presentations Measuring Earthquakes

Presentations Seismic Waves

Flip Charts Earthquakes

Flip Charts Science: Earth Science

Vocabulary Terms Earthquakes

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Earthquakes

8.ESS2.3. Describe the relationship between the processes and forces that create igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks.

Multimedia Lesson Minerals

Multimedia Lesson Rocks

Multimedia Lesson Volcanoes

Interactive/Simulation Rock Cycle

Virtual Lab Rock Identification

Presentations Classifying Rocks

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 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

8.ESS2.4. Gather and evaluate evidence that energy from the earth’s interior drives convection cycles within the asthenosphere which creates changes within the lithosphere including plate movements, plate boundaries, and sea-floor spreading.

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 Heat Transfer and Convection Currents

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 Plate Tectonics

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

8.ESS2.5. Construct a scientific explanation using data that explains the gradual process of plate tectonics accounting for A) the distribution of fossils on different continents, B) the occurrence of earthquakes, and C) continental and ocean floor features (includ

Multimedia Lesson Earthquakes

Multimedia Lesson Plate Tectonics

Multimedia Lesson Volcanoes

Presentations Continental Drift

Presentations Faults in the Earth's Crust

Presentations How an Earthquake Occurs

Presentations How Earth's Surface Changes

Presentations Sea-Floor Spreading

Presentations Types of Stress in Crustal Rock

Presentations Volcanoes and Plate Boundaries

Flip Charts Earthquakes

Flip Charts Plate Tectonics

Flip Charts Science: Earth Science

Vocabulary Terms Earthquakes

Vocabulary Terms Volcanoes

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Earthquakes

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Volcanoes

8.ESS3. Earth and Human Activity

8.ESS3.1. Interpret data to explain that earth’s mineral, fossil fuel, and groundwater resources are unevenly distributed as a result of geologic processes.

Flip Charts Minerals

Flip Charts Science: Earth Science

8.ESS3.2. Collect data, map, and describe patterns in the locations of volcanoes and earthquakes related to tectonic plate boundaries, interactions, and hotspots.

Multimedia Lesson Earthquakes

Multimedia Lesson Volcanoes

Presentations Types of Stress in Crustal Rock

Presentations Volcanoes and Plate Boundaries

Flip Charts Earthquakes

Flip Charts Science: Earth Science

Vocabulary Terms Earthquakes

Vocabulary Terms Volcanoes

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Earthquakes

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Volcanoes

TN.8.ETS.Engineering, Technology, and Applications of Science (ETS)

Engineering, Technology, and Applications of Science (ETS)

8.ETS1. Engineering Design

8.ETS1.1. Develop a model to generate data for ongoing testing and modification of an electromagnet, a generator, and a motor such that an optimal design can be achieved.

8.ETS1.2. Research and communicate information to describe how data from technologies (telescopes, spectroscopes, satellites, and space probes) provide information about objects in the solar system and universe.

Multimedia Lesson Light and Optics

Presentations Refraction and lenses

Vocabulary Terms Light and Optics

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Light and Optics

TN.8.LS.Life Sciences (LS)

Life Sciences (LS)

8.LS4. Biological Change: Unity and Diversity

8.LS4.1. Analyze and interpret data for patterns in the fossil record that document the existence, diversity, extinction, and change in life forms throughout Earth’s history.

Multimedia Lesson Plate Tectonics

Presentations Continental Drift

Flip Charts Fossils

Flip Charts Science: Earth Science

8.LS4.2. Construct an explanation addressing similarities and differences of the anatomical structures and genetic information between extinct and extant organisms using evidence of common ancestry and patterns between taxa.

Multimedia Lesson Six Kingdoms of Life

Presentations Classification

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Evolution and classification

8.LS4.3. Analyze evidence from geology, paleontology, and comparative anatomy to support that specific phenotypes within a population can increase the probability of survival of that species and lead to adaptation.

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Evolution and classification

8.LS4.4. Develop a scientific explanation of how natural selection plays a role in determining the survival of a species in a changing environment.

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Evolution and classification

8.LS4.5. Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about the technologies that have changed the way humans use artificial selection to influence the inheritance of desired traits in other organisms.

Flip Charts Gene Technology

TN.8.PS.Physical Sciences (PS)

Physical Sciences (PS)

8.PS2. Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions

8.PS2.1. Design and conduct investigations depicting the relationship between magnetism and electricity in electromagnets, generators, and electrical motors, emphasizing the factors that increase or diminish the electric current and the magnetic field strength.

8.PS2.2. Conduct an investigation to provide evidence that fields exist between objects exerting forces on each other even though the objects are not in contact.

Multimedia Lesson Electricity and Magnetism

Multimedia Lesson Forces and Motion

Presentations Gravity

Presentations Introduction to Electricity

Presentations Magnetism

Flip Charts Forces & Motion

Flip Charts Magnetism

Flip Charts Science: Physical Science

Vocabulary Terms Electricity and Magnetism

Vocabulary Terms Forces and Motion

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Electricity and Magnetism

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Forces and Motion

8.PS2.4. Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence that the change in an object’s motion depends on the sum of the forces on the object and the mass of the object.

Multimedia Lesson Forces and Motion

Presentations Newton`s Laws

Flip Charts Forces & Motion

Flip Charts Science: Physical Science

Vocabulary Terms Forces and Motion

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Forces and Motion

8.PS2.5. Evaluate and interpret that for every force exerted on an object there is an equal force exerted in the opposite direction.

Flip Charts Forces & Motion

Flip Charts Science: Physical Science

8.PS4. Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer

8.PS4.1. Develop and use models to represent the basic properties of waves including frequency, amplitude, wavelength, and speed.

Multimedia Lesson Light and Optics

Multimedia Lesson Sound

Interactive/Simulation Longitudinal Waves

Interactive/Simulation Wave Interactions

Presentations Light

Presentations Sound and Sound Waves

Presentations Wave Interactions

Presentations Waves

Flip Charts Light

Flip Charts Science: Physical Science

Vocabulary Terms Light and Optics

Vocabulary Terms Sound

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Light and Optics

Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Sound

8.PS4.2. Compare and contrast mechanical waves and electromagnetic waves based on refraction, reflection, transmission, absorption, and their behavior through a vacuum and/or various media.

Multimedia Lesson Light and Optics

Multimedia Lesson Sound

Interactive/Simulation Longitudinal Waves

Interactive/Simulation Reflection and Lenses

Virtual Lab Mirrors and Lenses

Presentations Light

Presentations Musical Sounds

Presentations Practical Applications of Sound

Presentations Refraction and lenses

Presentations Sound and Sound Waves

Presentations Wave Interactions

Presentations Waves