College- and Career-Readiness Standards
LS.S.8.1: Use argument based on empirical evidence and scientific reasoning to support an explanation for how characteristic animal behaviors and specialized plant structures affect the probability of successful reproduction of animals and plants respectively.
Flower Pollination
Honeybee Hive
Fruit Production
Heredity and Traits
LS.S.8.2: Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how environmental and genetic factors influence the growth of organisms.
Fast Plants® 1 - Growth and Genetics
Growing Plants
Inheritance
Seed Germination
Temperature and Sex Determination
Temperature and Sex Determination - Metric
Heredity and Traits
LS.S.8.3: Develop and use a model to describe why structural changes to genes (mutations) located on chromosomes may affect proteins and may result in harmful, beneficial, or neutral effects to the structure and function of an organism.
Evolution: Mutation and Selection
Genetic Engineering
Human Karyotyping
LS.S.8.4: Develop and use a model to describe why asexual reproduction results in offspring with identical genetic information and sexual reproduction results in offspring with genetic variation.
Chicken Genetics
Fast Plants® 1 - Growth and Genetics
Fast Plants® 2 - Mystery Parent
Inheritance
Mouse Genetics (One Trait)
Mouse Genetics (Two Traits)
Heredity and Traits
LS.S.8.5: Gather and synthesize information about the technologies that have changed the way humans influence the inheritance of desired traits in organisms.
Evolution: Natural and Artificial Selection
Genetic Engineering
LS.S.8.6: Analyze and interpret data for patterns in the fossil record that document the existence, diversity, extinction, and change of life forms throughout the history of life on Earth under the assumption that natural laws operate today as in the past.
Human Evolution - Skull Analysis
LS.S.8.7: Apply scientific ideas to construct an explanation for the anatomical similarities and differences among modern organisms and between modern and fossil organisms to infer evolutionary relationships.
Cladograms
Embryo Development
Human Evolution - Skull Analysis
LS.S.8.8: Analyze displays of pictorial data to compare patterns of similarities in the embryological development across multiple species to identify relationships not evident in the fully formed anatomy.
LS.S.8.9: Construct an explanation based on evidence that describes how genetic variations of traits in a population increase some individuals’ probability of surviving and reproducing in a specific environment.
Evolution: Mutation and Selection
Evolution: Natural and Artificial Selection
Natural Selection
Rainfall and Bird Beaks
Rainfall and Bird Beaks - Metric
LS.S.8.10: Use mathematical models, probability statements, and proportional reasoning to support explanations of how natural selection may lead to increases and decreases of specific traits in populations over time.
Evolution: Mutation and Selection
Evolution: Natural and Artificial Selection
Natural Selection
Rainfall and Bird Beaks
Rainfall and Bird Beaks - Metric
PS.S.8.11: Develop models to describe the atomic composition of simple molecules and basic extended structures.
PS.S.8.13: Develop a model that predicts and describes changes in particle motion, temperature, and state of a pure substance when thermal energy is added or removed.
Phase Changes
Phases of Water
Temperature and Particle Motion
Chemical and Physical Changes
PS.S.8.14: Analyze and interpret data on the properties of substances before and after the substances interact to determine if a chemical reaction has occurred.
Chemical Changes
Chemical and Physical Changes
PS.S.8.15: Develop and use a model to describe how the total number of atoms does not change in a chemical reaction and thus mass is conserved.
PS.S.8.16: Undertake a design project to construct, test, and modify a device that either releases or absorbs thermal energy by chemical processes.
ESS.S.8.17: Construct an argument supported by evidence for how increases in human population and per-capita consumption of natural resources impact Earth’s systems.
Carbon Cycle
Coral Reefs 2 - Biotic Factors
ETAS.S.8.18: Evaluate competing design solutions using a systematic process to determine how well they meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.
Crumple Zones
Digestive System
Earthquake-Proof Homes
Flood and Storm-Proof Homes
GMOs and the Environment
Genetic Engineering
Muscles and Bones
Programmable Rover
Trebuchet
ETAS.S.8.19: Develop a model to generate data for iterative testing and modification of a proposed object, tool, or process such that an optimal design can be achieved.
Crumple Zones
Feel the Heat
Pendulum Clock
Trebuchet
Correlation last revised: 8/29/2022