Criterion-Referenced Test Frameworks
D.8.1 b: Measure chemical and physical properties of a substance.
Density Experiment: Slice and Dice
Mineral Identification
D.8.1 c: Classify substances using chemical and physical properties.
Density Experiment: Slice and Dice
Mineral Identification
D.8.1 d: Differentiate between chemical and physical properties based on observation of physical and chemical changes.
D.8.2 b: Describe that matter is in constant motion.
Temperature and Particle Motion
D.8.2 c: Explain that changes of state are related to energy changes.
D.8.4 a: Conduct investigations and apply science themes to explain physical and chemical changes.
D.8.6 a: Demonstrate a conceptual understanding of motion by conducting investigations of speed, velocity, acceleration, friction, and momentum.
2D Collisions
Air Track
Free Fall Tower
Free-Fall Laboratory
Inclined Plane - Sliding Objects
Roller Coaster Physics
Sled Wars
D.8.6 b: Investigate speed and velocity through their graphical representations and mathematical relationships.
Distance-Time Graphs
Measuring Motion
D.8.6 c: Apply these concepts to real-life situations.
Free Fall Tower
Free-Fall Laboratory
Inclined Plane - Sliding Objects
D.8.7 a: Describe kinetic and potential energy.
Air Track
Energy of a Pendulum
Inclined Plane - Sliding Objects
Potential Energy on Shelves
Roller Coaster Physics
Sled Wars
D.8.7 b: Explain what happens to an object as the object's energy changes from potential and kinetic energy and vice versa.
Air Track
Energy Conversion in a System
Energy of a Pendulum
Inclined Plane - Sliding Objects
Roller Coaster Physics
Sled Wars
D.8.7 c: Understand that energy can neither be created nor destroyed; it is transformed among heat, light, sound, mechanical, chemical, nuclear, and electrical energy.
D.8.8 a: Describe and explain the properties of light (reflection, absorption, refraction), sound (wave behavior and motion through various media), heat transfer (conduction, convection, radiation), electricity (transfer through circuits) magnetism (magnetic fields) and gravity.
Circuit Builder
Color Absorption
Conduction and Convection
Heat Absorption
Heat Transfer by Conduction
Herschel Experiment
Inclined Plane - Sliding Objects
Radiation
Ray Tracing (Lenses)
Ray Tracing (Mirrors)
Refraction
D.8.9 b: Investigate energy transformations.
Energy Conversion in a System
Inclined Plane - Sliding Objects
E.8.1 a: Use the themes of systems, change, and organization to describe and explain how land forms are a result of a combination of constructive and destructive forces and how these factors contribute to the forming and changing of earth and its atmosphere. (Constructive forces include crustal deformation, volcanic eruption, and deposition of sediment, while destructive forces include weathering and erosion.)
E.8.2 b: Describe how movement of plates within the earth result in major geological events.
E.8.7 c: Research gravity's role in holding together the solar system.
E.8.7 e: Use models competently to represent solar system, galaxies, and universe.
E.8.8 a: Research, using models, how objects in the solar system have regular and predictable orbits and motion.
Gravity Pitch
Solar System Explorer
E.8.8 b: Recognize that the tilt of the earth on its axis as it revolves around the sun causes seasons.
Seasons Around the World
Seasons in 3D
Seasons: Why do we have them?
E.8.8 c: Explain that rotation of the earth on its axis causes day and night.
F.8.1 b: Explore cell components, including different components of plant and animal cells.
Cell Structure
RNA and Protein Synthesis
F.8.1 c: Apply cell specialization to the organization of tissues, organs, systems, and organisms in both plants and animals (photosynthesis and respiration on a conceptual level).
Cell Energy Cycle
Cell Structure
Digestive System
F.8.2 b: Investigate natural selection.
Evolution: Mutation and Selection
Evolution: Natural and Artificial Selection
Natural Selection
Rainfall and Bird Beaks
F.8.3 b: Present conceptual understandings of differences between single-celled and multiple-celled organisms.
F.8.3 c: Compare and contrast structure and function of specialized cells.
Cell Structure
Paramecium Homeostasis
F.8.4 a: Investigate basic genetics including Mendel's theories, Punnett squares, and predictions of possible offspring.
Inheritance
Mouse Genetics (One Trait)
Mouse Genetics (Two Traits)
F.8.4 b: Understand that genes determine traits.
Evolution: Mutation and Selection
Evolution: Natural and Artificial Selection
Mouse Genetics (One Trait)
Mouse Genetics (Two Traits)
F.8.6 a: Investigate external/internal stimuli on organisms using themes of equilibrium and constancy.
Human Homeostasis
Paramecium Homeostasis
F.8.8 a: Investigate interactions within various ecosystems and their components (including non-living).
F.8.8 b: Analyze population fluctuations and energy flow in ecosystems.
Coral Reefs 1 - Abiotic Factors
Food Chain
Rabbit Population by Season
F.8.9 a: Investigate environmental problems.
Coral Reefs 1 - Abiotic Factors
Correlation last revised: 5/31/2018