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WV.S.6-8.L.Science Literacy
Science Literacy
Writing- Text Types and Purposes
S.6-8.L.11. Write arguments focused on discipline-specific content:
S.6-8.L.11.5. Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the argument presented.
S.6-8.L.12. Write informative/explanatory texts, including the narration of historical events, scientific procedures/ experiments or technical processes:
S.6-8.L.12.1. Introduce a topic clearly, previewing what is to follow; organize ideas, concepts and information into broader categories as appropriate to achieving purpose; include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., charts and tables) and multimedia when usef
S.6-8.L.4. 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.
S.6-8.L.14. With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed.
S.6-8.L.7. Integrate quantitative or technical information expressed in words in a text with a version of that information expressed visually (e.g., in a flowchart, diagram, model, graph, or table).
S.6-8.L.9. Compare and contrast the information gained from experiments, simulations, video or multimedia sources with that gained from reading a text on the same topic.
S.8.ESS.1. Construct an argument supported by evidence for how increases in human population and per-capita consumption of natural resources impact Earth’s systems.
Growth, Development, and Reproduction of Organisms
S.8.LS.1. Use argument based on empirical evidence and scientific reasoning to support an explanation for how characteristic animal behaviors and specialized plant structures affect the probability of successful reproduction of animals and plants respectively.
S.8.LS.3. Develop and use a model to describe why structural changes to genes (mutations) located on chromosomes may affect proteins and may result in harmful, beneficial, or neutral effects to the structure and function of an organism.
S.8.LS.4. Develop and use a model to describe why asexual reproduction results in offspring with identical genetic information and sexual reproduction results in offspring with genetic variation.
S.8.LS.5. Gather and synthesize information about the technologies that have changed the way humans influence the inheritance of desired traits in organisms.
S.8.LS.10. Use mathematical representations to support explanations of how natural selection may lead to increases and decreases of specific traits in populations over time.
S.8.LS.9. Construct an explanation based on evidence that describes how genetic variations of traits in a population increase some individuals’ probability of surviving and reproducing in a specific environment.
S.8.PS.3. Develop a model that predicts and describes changes in particle motion, temperature, and state of a pure substance when thermal energy is added or removed.
S.8.PS.4. Analyze and interpret data on the properties of substances before and after the substances interact to determine if a chemical reaction has occurred.