8.3: Focuses on science facts, concepts, principles, theories, and models that are important for all students to know, understand and use

8.3.1: By the end of eighth grade, students will develop an understanding of properties and changes of properties in matter.

8.3.1.b: Observe, describe, and measure physical and chemical properties of matter.

Density Experiment: Slice and Dice
Mineral Identification

8.3.2: By the end of eighth grade, students will develop an understanding of motion and forces.

8.3.2.a: Investigate and describe the motion of an object by its position, direction of motion, and speed.

Distance-Time Graphs
Free Fall Tower
Free-Fall Laboratory
Measuring Motion

8.3.3: By the end of eighth grade, students will develop an understanding of the forms of energy and how energy is transferred.

8.3.3.a: Investigate and describe the transfer of light energy.

Heat Absorption
Herschel Experiment
Radiation

8.3.3.b: Investigate and demonstrate how energy is transferred using simple machines.

Pulley Lab

8.3.3.c: Investigate and describe how heat is transferred from a warmer object to a cooler object until both reach the same temperature.

Conduction and Convection
Heat Transfer by Conduction

8.3.3.d: Investigate and describe the properties and transfer of sound energy.

Longitudinal Waves
Ripple Tank

8.4: Focuses on science facts, concepts, principles, theories, and models that are important for all students to know, understand, and use.

8.4.1: By the end of eighth grade, students will develop an understanding of the structure and function in living systems.

8.4.1.d: Investigate and describe the specialized function performed by specialized cells (e.g., muscular and skeletal) in multicellular organisms.

Cell Structure

8.4.1.e: Investigate and describe the human body systems and how they interact.

Circulatory System
Digestive System
Human Homeostasis

8.4.2: By the end of eighth grade, students will develop an understanding of reproduction and heredity.

8.4.2.a: Investigate and describe how all organisms reproduce through sexual or asexual reproduction.

Pollination: Flower to Fruit

8.4.2.c: Investigate and explain that chromosomes contain genes which influence heredity.

Human Karyotyping

8.4.2.d: Investigate and describe the effects of inherited traits and environmental influences on an organism’s characteristics.

Inheritance

8.4.3: By the end of eighth grade, students will develop an understanding of regulation and behavior.

8.4.3.b: Investigate and examine how an organism senses change in its internal or external environment and responds to keep conditions within a required range.

Reverse the Field

8.4.3.c: Investigate and explain how behavior is a response to internal and external stimuli determined by heredity and experience.

Reverse the Field

8.4.3.d: Investigate and explain how an organism’s behavior evolves through environmental adaptation.

Reverse the Field

8.4.4: By the end of eighth grade, students will develop an understanding of populations and ecosystems.

8.4.4.a: Investigate and describe that a population consists of all individuals of a species at a given place and time.

Food Chain
Rabbit Population by Season

8.4.4.b: Investigate and analyze the living and nonliving factors that determine the number of organisms an ecosystem can support.

Rabbit Population by Season

8.4.4.c: Describe an organism by the function it serves in an ecosystem (e.g., producer, consumer, and decomposer).

Forest Ecosystem

8.4.4.d: Investigate and explain how energy entering ecosystems as sunlight is transferred by producers into chemical energy through photosynthesis, and that energy then passes from organism to organism in food webs.

Cell Energy Cycle
Forest Ecosystem
Photosynthesis Lab

8.5: Focuses on the science facts, concepts, principles, theories, and models that are important for all students to know, understand, and use

8.5.1: By the end of eighth grade, students will develop an understanding of the structure of the earth.

8.5.1.d: Investigate and describe the water cycle.

Water Cycle

8.5.2: By the end of eighth grade, students will develop an understanding of the earth's history.

8.5.2.a: Investigate and describe how earth processes that occur today (e.g., volcanism, weather, and erosion) are similar to those that occurred in the past.

Plate Tectonics

8.5.3: By the end of eighth grade, students will develop an understanding of the earth in the solar system.

8.5.3.a: Investigate and list the components of the solar system.

Solar System Explorer

8.5.3.b: Investigate and describe the motion of objects in the solar system that support the concepts of day, year, eclipses, and phases of the moon.

2D Eclipse
3D Eclipse
Comparing Earth and Venus
Phases of the Moon

8.5.3.c: Investigate and describe the influence of gravity on objects in the solar system.

Gravity Pitch

8.5.3.e: Investigate and describe the effect of the tilt of the earth’s axis on seasons.

Seasons Around the World
Seasons in 3D
Seasons: Why do we have them?