GA--Performance Standards (GPS)
S8CS1.a: Understand the importance of—and keep—honest, clear, and accurate records in science.
S8CS1.b: Understand that hypotheses can be valuable even if they turn out not to be completely accurate.
Diffusion
Effect of Environment on New Life Form
Effect of Temperature on Gender
Pendulum Clock
S8CS2.b: Demonstrate appropriate techniques in all laboratory situations.
Diffusion
Hearing: Frequency and Volume
S8CS3.b: Find the mean, median, and mode and use them to analyze a set of scientific data.
Effect of Temperature on Gender
Seed Germination
S8CS3.d: Decide what degree of precision is adequate, and round off appropriately.
Unit Conversions 2 - Scientific Notation and Significant Digits
S8CS3.f: Use ratios and proportions, including constant rates, in appropriate problems.
Beam to Moon (Ratios and Proportions)
Estimating Population Size
S8CS4.a: Use appropriate technology to store and retrieve scientific information in topical, alphabetical, numerical, and keyword files, and create simple files.
Effect of Environment on New Life Form
Pendulum Clock
S8CS4.b: Use appropriate tools and units for measuring objects and/or substances.
S8CS5.b: Understand that different models (such as physical replicas, pictures, and analogies) can be used to represent the same thing.
S8CS6.a: Write clear, step-by-step instructions for conducting scientific investigations, operating a piece of equipment, or following a procedure.
S8CS6.c: Organize scientific information in appropriate tables, charts, and graphs, and identify relationships they reveal.
S8CS8.a: When similar investigations give different results, the scientific challenge is to judge whether the differences are trivial or significant, which often requires further study. Even with similar results, scientists may wait until an investigation has been repeated many times before accepting the results as meaningful.
Effect of Temperature on Gender
Growing Plants
Seed Germination
S8CS9.a: Investigations are conducted for different reasons, which include exploring new phenomena, confirming previous results, testing how well a theory predicts, and comparing different theories. Scientific investigations usually involve collecting evidence, reasoning, devising hypotheses, and formulating explanations to make sense of collected evidence.
S8CS9.b: Scientific investigations usually involve collecting evidence, reasoning, devising hypotheses, and formulating explanations to make sense of collected evidence.
Diffusion
Effect of Environment on New Life Form
Effect of Temperature on Gender
Hearing: Frequency and Volume
Pendulum Clock
S8CS9.c: Scientific experiments investigate the effect of one variable on another. All other variables are kept constant.
Diffusion
Effect of Environment on New Life Form
Effect of Temperature on Gender
Pendulum Clock
Seed Germination
S8CS9.f: Scientists use technology and mathematics to enhance the process of scientific inquiry.
Diffusion
Electromagnetic Induction
Pendulum Clock
S8P1.c: Describe the movement of particles in solids, liquids, gases, and plasmas states.
Phase Changes
Temperature and Particle Motion
S8P1.d: Distinguish between physical and chemical properties of matter as physical (i.e., density, melting point, boiling point) or chemical (i.e., reactivity, combustibility).
Density Experiment: Slice and Dice
Density Laboratory
Mineral Identification
Phase Changes
S8P1.e: Distinguish between changes in matter as physical (i.e., physical change) or chemical (development of a gas, formation of precipitate, and change in color).
Chemical Changes
Density Experiment: Slice and Dice
S8P1.g: Identify and demonstrate the Law of Conservation of Matter.
Chemical Changes
Chemical Equations
S8P2.a: Explain energy transformation in terms of the Law of Conservation of Energy.
Air Track
Energy Conversion in a System
Energy of a Pendulum
Inclined Plane - Sliding Objects
Roller Coaster Physics
S8P2.b: Explain the relationship between potential and kinetic energy.
Energy Conversion in a System
Energy of a Pendulum
Inclined Plane - Sliding Objects
Roller Coaster Physics
Sled Wars
S8P2.c: Compare and contrast the different forms of energy (heat, light, electricity, mechanical motion, sound) and their characteristics.
S8P2.d: Describe how heat can be transferred through matter by the collisions of atoms (conduction) or through space (radiation). In a liquid or gas, currents will facilitate the transfer of heat (convection).
Conduction and Convection
Heat Absorption
Heat Transfer by Conduction
Herschel Experiment
Radiation
S8P3.a: Determine the relationship between velocity and acceleration.
Free Fall Tower
Free-Fall Laboratory
S8P3.c: Demonstrate the effect of simple machines (lever, inclined plane, pulley, wedge, screw, and wheel and axle) on work.
Ants on a Slant (Inclined Plane)
Levers
Pulley Lab
Wheel and Axle
S8P4.a: Identify the characteristics of electromagnetic and mechanical waves.
Longitudinal Waves
Ripple Tank
S8P4.b: Describe how the behavior of light waves is manipulated causing reflection, refraction diffraction, and absorption.
Basic Prism
Color Absorption
Heat Absorption
Refraction
S8P4.d: Describe how the behavior of waves is affected by medium (such as air, water, solids).
Longitudinal Waves
Refraction
Ripple Tank
S8P4.e: Relate the properties of sound to everyday experiences.
S8P4.f: Diagram the parts of the wave and explain how the parts are affected by changes in amplitude and pitch.
Hearing: Frequency and Volume
Ripple Tank
S8P5.a: Recognize that every object exerts gravitational force on every other object and that the force exerted depends on how much mass the objects have and how far apart they are.
S8P5.b: Demonstrate the advantages and disadvantages of series and parallel circuits and how they transfer energy.
S8P5.c: Investigate and explain that electric currents and magnets can exert force on each other.
Electromagnetic Induction
Magnetism
Correlation last revised: 1/11/2017