Gizmos for New Hampshire - Science: Grades 7-8 (Grade Level and Grade Span Expectations adopted 2006)

This correlation lists the recommended Gizmos for this state's curriculum standards. Click any Gizmo title below for more information.

ESS1: : The Earth and Earth materials, as we know them today, have developed over long periods of time, through constant change processes.

ESS1.1: : Atmosphere, Climate, and Weather

ESS1.1.S.ESS1.8.1.1: : Identify and describe the processes of the water cycle and explain their effects on climatic patterns.

ESS1.5: : Processes and Rates of Change

ESS1.5.S.ESS1.8.5.1: : Explain that the Earth's crust is divided into plates which move at extremely slow rates in response to movements in the mantle.

ESS1.5.S.ESS1.8.5.2: : Explain how Earth events, abruptly and over time, can bring about changes on Earth's surface (e.g., landforms, ocean floor, rock features, climate).

ESS1.6: : Rock Cycle

ESS1.6.S.ESS1.8.6.1: : Describe the processes of the rock cycle.

ESS1.6.S.ESS1.8.6.3: : Explain how sediments of sand and smaller particles, which may contain the remains of organisms, are gradually buried and cemented together by dissolved minerals to form solid rock.

ESS1.6.S.ESS1.8.6.4: : Using data about a rock's physical characteristics make and support an inference about the rock's history and connection to the rock cycle.

ESS1.7: : Water

ESS1.7.S.ESS1.8.7.1: : Describe how water flows into and through a watershed, falling on the land, collecting in rivers and lakes, soil, and porous layers of rock, until much of it flows back into the ocean.

ESS1.7.S.ESS1.8.7.3: : Explain the processes that cause cycling of water into and out of the atmosphere and their connections to our planet's weather patterns.

ESS2: : The Earth is part of a solar system, made up of distinct parts, which have temporal and spatial interrelationships.

ESS2.1: : Earth, Sun, and Moon

ESS2.1.S.ESS2.8.1.2: : Recognize and describe how the regular and predictable motions of the Earth and Moon account for phenomena, such as the phases of the Moon and eclipses.

ESS2.1.S.ESS2.8.1.4: : Explain the temporal or positional relationships between or among the Earth, Sun and Moon (e.g., night/day, seasons, year, tide).

ESS2.3: : Solar System

ESS2.3.S.ESS2.8.3.1: : Identify the characteristics and movement patterns of the planets in our Solar System and differentiate between them.

ESS2.3.S.ESS2.8.3.2: : Explain the affects of gravitational force on the planets and their moons.

ESS2.3.S.ESS2.8.3.4: : Compare and contrast planets based on data provided about size, composition, location, orbital movement, atmosphere, or surface features (includes moons).

ESS2.3.S.ESS2.8.3.5: : Explain how gravitational force affects objects in the Solar System (e.g., moons, tides, orbits, satellites).

ESS4: : The growth of scientific knowledge in Earth Space Science has been advanced through the development of technology and is used (alone or in combination with other sciences) to identify, understand and solve local and global issues.

ESS4.1: : Design Technology

ESS4.1.S.ESS4.8.1.2: : Recognize the importance of technology as it relates to science, for purposes such as: access to space and other remote locations, sample collection and treatment, measurement, data collection, and storage, computation, and communication of information.

LS1: : All living organisms have identifiable structures and characteristics that allow for survival (organisms, populations, & species).

LS1.1: : Classification

LS1.1.S.LS1.8.1.2: : Describe or compare how different organisms have mechanisms that work in a coordinated way to obtain energy, grow, move, respond, provide defense, enable reproduction, or maintain internal balance (e.g., cells, tissues, organs and systems).

LS1.2: : Living Things and Organization

LS1.2.S.LS1.8.2.1: : Identify the functions of the human body's systems, including digestion, respiration, reproduction, circulation, excretion, movement, control and coordination and protection from disease; and describe how they interact with one another.

LS1.2.S.LS1.8.2.2: : Define a population and describe the factors that can affect it.

LS1.2.S.LS1.8.2.4: : Explain relationships between or among the structure and function of the cells, tissues, organs, and organ systems in an organism.

LS1.2.S.LS1.8.2.5: : Using data and observations about the biodiversity of an ecosystem, make predictions or draw conclusions about how the diversity contributes to the stability of the ecosystem.

LS1.3: : Reproduction

LS1.3.S.LS1.8.3.3: : Explain that in sexual reproduction, a single specialized cell from a female merges with a specialized cell from a male in a process called fertilization.

LS2: : Energy flows and matter recycles through an ecosystem.

LS2.1: : Environment

LS2.1.S.LS2.8.1.1: : Explain how changes in environmental conditions can affect the survival of individual organisms and an entire species.

LS2.2: : Flow of Energy

LS2.2.S.LS2.8.2.2: : Given a scenario, trace the flow of energy through an ecosystem, beginning with the sun, through organisms in the food web, and into the environment (includes photosynthesis and respiration).

LS2.3: : Recycling of Materials

LS2.3.S.LS2.8.3.1: : Identify autotrophs as producers who may use photosynthesis, and describe this as the basis of the food web.

LS2.3.S.LS2.8.3.2: : Explain the process of respiration and differentiate between it and photosynthesis.

LS2.3.S.LS2.8.3.3: : Know that all organisms, including humans, are part of, and depend on, two main interconnected global food webs: one which includes microscopic ocean plants, and the other which includes land plants.

LS2.3.S.LS2.8.3.4: : Describe how matter is recycled within ecosystems and explain that the total amount of matter remains the same, though its form and location change.

LS2.3.S.LS2.8.3.6: : Given an ecosystem, trace how matter cycles among and between organisms and the physical environment (includes water, oxygen, food web, decomposition and recycling, but not carbon cycle nor nitrogen cycle).

LS3: : Groups of organisms show evidence of change over time (e.g. evolution, natural selection, structures, behaviors, and biochemistry).

LS3.1: : Change

LS3.1.S.LS3.8.1.1: : Describe the type of impact certain environmental changes, including deforestation, invasive species, increased erosion, and pollution containing toxic substances, could have on local environments.

LS3.2: : Evidence of Evolution

LS3.2.S.LS3.8.2.1: : Describe how the fossil record provides geologic evidence verifying the existence of now extinct life forms, and explains how this evidence provides documented proof of their appearance, diversification and extinction.

LS3.2.S.LS3.8.2.3: : Use a model, classification system, or dichotomous key to illustrate, compare, or interpret possible relationships among groups of organisms (e.g., internal and external structures, anatomical features).

LS3.3: : Natural Selection

LS3.3.S.LS3.8.3.1: : Recognize that hereditary information is contained in genes, which are located in the chromosomes of each cell; and explain that inherited traits can be determined by either one or many genes, and that a single gene can influence more than one trait, such as eye and hair color.

LS3.3.S.LS3.8.3.3: : Explain how individual organisms with certain traits are more likely than others to survive and have offspring.

LS3.3.S.LS3.8.3.5: : Cite examples supporting the concept that certain traits of organisms may provide a survival advantage in a specific environment and therefore, an increased likelihood to produce offspring.

LS4: : Humans are similar to other species in many ways, and yet are unique among Earth's life forms

LS4.2: : Disease

LS4.2.S.LS4.8.2.2: : Describe how viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites may affect the human body and provide examples of how they can interfere with normal body function.

LS4.3: : Human Identity

LS4.3.S.LS4.8.3.2: : Recognize that an organism can be described in terms of a combination of traits; and differentiate between inherited traits and those that result from interactions with the environment.

LS5: : The growth of scientific knowledge in Life Science has been advanced through the development of technology and is used (alone or in combination with other sciences) to identify, understand and solve local and global issues.

LS5.1: : Design Technology

LS5.1.S.LS5.8.1.1: : Explain how technology has influenced the course of history, and provide examples such as those that relate to agriculture, sanitation and medicine.

LS5.2: : Tools

LS5.2.S.LS5.8.2.1: : Recognizes and provide examples of how technology has enhanced the study of life sciences, as in the development of advanced diagnosing equipment improving medicine.

LS5.3: : Social Issues (Local and Global), Medical Technology, Biotechnology

LS5.3.B.S.LS5.8.3.3: : Describes ways biotechnology helps humans, including improved health and medicine.

PS1: : All living and nonliving things are composed of matter having characteristic properties that distinguish one substance from another (independent of size/amount of substance).

PS1.1: : Composition

PS1.1.S.PS1.8.1.4: : Differentiate between a mixture and a pure substance.

PS1.2: : Properties

PS1.2.S.PS1.8.2.1: : Differentiate between volume and mass and define density.

PS1.2.S.PS1.8.2.4: : Investigate the relationships among mass, volume and density.

PS1.2.S.PS1.8.2.5: : Given data about characteristic properties of matter (e.g., melting and boiling points, density, solubility), identify, compare, or classify different substances.

PS1.2.S.PS1.8.2.6: : Represent or explain the relationship between or among energy, molecular motion, temperature, and states of matter.

PS2: : Energy is necessary for change to occur in matter. Energy can be stored, transferred and transformed, but cannot be destroyed.

PS2.1: : Change

PS2.1.S.PS2.8.1.4: : Explain that states of matter depend on the arrangement of the molecules and their motion.

PS2.1.S.PS2.8.1.5: : Given a real-world example, show that within a system, energy transforms from one form to another (i.e., chemical, heat, electrical, gravitational, light, sound, mechanical).

PS2.2: : Conservation

PS2.2.S.PS2.8.2.1: : Explain the law of conservation of energy.

PS2.3: : Energy

PS2.3.S.PS2.8.3.1: : Differentiate between kinetic energy, which is the energy of motion and potential energy, which depends on relative position.

PS2.3.S.PS2.8.3.3: : Describe ways light can interact with matter, such as transmission (which includes refraction), absorption, and scattering (which includes reflection).

PS2.3.S.PS2.8.3.6: : Use data to draw conclusions about how heat can be transferred (convection, conduction, radiation).

PS3: : The motion of an object is affected by force.

PS3.1: : Forces

PS3.1.S.PS3.8.1.1: : Explain that the force of gravity gets stronger the closer one gets to an object and decreases the further away one gets from it.

PS3.1.S.PS3.8.1.2: : Recognize the general concepts related to gravitational force.

PS3.1.S.PS3.8.1.3: : Use data to determine or predict the overall (net) effect of multiple forces (e.g., friction, gravitational, magnetic) on the position, speed, and direction of motion of objects.

PS3.2: : Motion

PS3.2.S.PS3.8.2.1: : Explain that an object in motion that is unaffected by a force will continue to move at a constant speed and in a straight line.

PS3.2.S.PS3.8.2.2: : Explain how the motion of an object can be described by its position, direction of motion, and speed; and illustrate how that motion can be measured and represented graphically.

PS4: : The growth of scientific knowledge in Physical Science has been advanced through the development of technology and is used (alone or in combination with other sciences) to identify, understand and solve local and global issues.

PS4.2: : Tools

PS4.2.S.PS4.8.2.1: : Demonstrate appropriate use of tools, such as rulers, calculators, balances, and graduated cylinders to measure and calculate volume and mass.

Correlation last revised: 9/16/2020

New Hampshire - Science: Grades 7-8

Grade Level and Grade Span Expectations | Adopted: 2006