British Columbia- Science: 8th Grade

British Columbia Learning Standards    Adopted: 2016

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3: Content

a: Students are expected to know the following: characteristics of life

Coral Reefs 1 - Abiotic Factors
 Coral Reefs 2 - Biotic Factors
 Food Chain
 Forest Ecosystem
 Plants and Snails
 Pond Ecosystem
 Prairie Ecosystem
 Seed Germination

b: Students are expected to know the following: cell theory and types of cells

Cell Energy Cycle
 Cell Structure
 Cell Types

c: Students are expected to know the following: photosynthesis and cellular respiration

Cell Energy Cycle
 Photosynthesis Lab
 Plants and Snails
 Pond Ecosystem

d: Students are expected to know the following: the relationship of micro-organisms with living things:

Forest Ecosystem

d.3: impacts of epidemics and pandemics on human populations

Disease Spread

e: Students are expected to know the following: kinetic molecular theory (KMT)

Boyle's Law and Charles's Law
 Phase Changes
 Phases of Water
 Temperature and Particle Motion

f: Students are expected to know the following: atomic theory and models

Element Builder
 Phase Changes
 Temperature and Particle Motion

g: Students are expected to know the following: protons, neutrons, and quarks

Element Builder

h: Students are expected to know the following: electrons and leptons

Element Builder
 Ionic Bonds

i: Students are expected to know the following: types and effects of electromagnetic radiation

Electromagnetic Induction
 Heat Absorption
 Radiation

j: Students are expected to know the following: light:

j.1: properties

Basic Prism
 Color Absorption
 Herschel Experiment - Metric
 Refraction
 Ripple Tank

j.2: behaviours

Additive Colors
 Basic Prism
 Color Absorption
 Heat Absorption
 Laser Reflection
 Radiation
 Ray Tracing (Lenses)
 Ray Tracing (Mirrors)
 Refraction
 Subtractive Colors

j.3: ways of sensing

Color Absorption
 Ray Tracing (Lenses)
 Ray Tracing (Mirrors)
 Senses

k: Students are expected to know the following: plate tectonic movement

Building Pangaea
 Convection Cells
 Earthquakes 1 - Recording Station
 Earthquakes 2 - Determination of Epicenter
 Plate Tectonics

l: Students are expected to know the following: major geological events of local significance

Earthquakes 1 - Recording Station
 Earthquakes 2 - Determination of Epicenter
 Plate Tectonics

n: Students are expected to know the following: layers of Earth

Convection Cells

Correlation last revised: 9/22/2020

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