Gizmos for Maine - Science: Grades 6-8 (Learning Results adopted 2007)

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

D1: : Students explain the movements and describe the location, composition, and characteristics of our solar system and universe, including planets, the sun, and galaxies.

D1.a: : Describe the different kinds of objects in the solar system including planets, sun, moons, asteroids, and comets.

D1.b: : Explain the motions that cause days, years, phases of the moon, and eclipses.

D2: : Students describe the various cycles, physical and biological forces and processes, position in space, energy transformations, and human actions that affect the short-term and long-term changes to the Earth.

D2.a: : Explain how the tilt of Earth's rotational axis relative to the plane of its yearly orbit around the sun affects the day length and sunlight intensity to cause seasons.

D2.b: : Describe Earth Systems - biosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere and lithosphere - and cycles and interactions within them (including water moving among and between them, rocks forming and transforming, and weather formation).

D2.e: : Describe the effect of gravity on objects on Earth.

D3: : Students describe physical and chemical properties of matter, interactions and changes in matter, and transfer of energy through matter.

D3.a: : Describe that all matter is made up of atoms and distinguish between/among elements, atoms, and molecules.

D3.c: : Describe the difference between physical and chemical change.

D3.d: : Explain the relationship of the motion of atoms and molecules to the states of matter for gases, liquids, and solids.

D3.f: : Explain and apply the understanding that substances have characteristic properties, including density, boiling point, and solubility and these properties are not dependent on the amount of matter present.

D3.g: : Use the idea of atoms to explain the conservation of matter.

D3.h: : Describe several different types of energy forms including heat energy, chemical energy, and mechanical energy.

D3.i: : Use examples of energy transformations from one form to another to explain that energy cannot be created or destroyed.

D3.j: : Describe how heat is transferred from one object to another by conduction, convection, and/or radiation.

D3.k: : Describe the properties of solar radiation and its interaction with objects on Earth.

D4: : Students describe the force of gravity, the motion of objects, the properties of waves, and the wavelike property of energy in light waves.

D4.c: : Describe and apply an understanding of how the gravitational force between any two objects would change if their mass or the distance between them changed.

D4.d: : Describe and apply an understanding of how electric currents and magnets can exert force on each other.

D4.e: : Describe and apply an understanding of the effects of multiple forces on an object, and how unbalanced forces will cause changes in the speed or direction.

E1: : Students differentiate among organisms based on biological characteristics and identify patterns of similarity.

E1.a: : Compare physical characteristics that differentiate organisms into groups (including plants that use sunlight to make their own food, animals that consume energy-rich food, and organisms that cannot easily be classified as either).

E1.b: : Explain how biologists use internal and external anatomical features to determine relatedness among organisms and to form the basis for classification systems.

E1.c: : Explain ways to determine whether organisms are the same species.

E2: : Students examine how the characteristics of the physical, non-living (abiotic) environment, the types and behaviors of living (biotic) organisms, and the flow of matter and energy affect organisms and the ecosystem of which they are part.

E2.b: : Describe ways in which two types of organisms may interact (including competition, predator/prey, producer/consumer/decomposer, parasitism, and mutualism) and describe the positive and negative consequences of such interactions.

E2.c: : Describe the source and flow of energy in the two major food webs, terrestrial and marine.

E2.d: : Describe how matter and energy change from one form to another in living things and in the physical environment.

E2.e: : Explain that the total amount of matter in the environment stays the same even as its form and location change.

E3: : Students describe the hierarchy of organization and function in organisms, and the similarities and differences in structure, function, and needs among and within organisms.

E3.a: : Describe the basic functions of organisms carried out within cells including the extracting of energy from food and the elimination of wastes.

E3.b: : Explain the relationship among cells, tissues, organs, and organ systems, including how tissues and organs serve the needs of cells and organisms.

E3.c: : Compare the structures, system, and interactions that allow single-celled organisms and multi-celled plants and animals, including humans, to defend themselves, acquire and use energy, self-regulate, reproduce, and coordinate movement.

E3.d: : Explain that all living things are composed of cells numbering from just one to millions.

E4: : Students describe the general characteristics and mechanisms of reproduction and heredity in organisms, including humans, and ways in which organisms are affected by their genetic traits.

E4.c: : Describe asexual reproduction as a process by which all genetic information comes from one parent and determines the inherited traits that are a part of every cell.

E5: : Students describe the evidence that evolution occurs over many generations, allowing species to acquire many of their unique characteristics or adaptations.

E5.a: : Explain how the layers of sedimentary rock and their contained fossils provide evidence for the long history of Earth and for the long history of changing life.

E5.b: : Describe how small differences between parents and offspring can lead to descendants who are very different from their ancestors.

E5.c: : Describe how variations in the behavior and traits of an offspring may permit some of them to survive a changing environment.

Correlation last revised: 9/22/2020

Maine - Science: Grades 6-8

Learning Results | Adopted: 2007