8th General Science Essential Learning Target
8th General Science ELTs
Electricity and Information Transfer: Students will model energy transfer.
Waves: Students will model wave properties using diagrams and mathematical depictions.
Exploring Plate Tectonics: Students will interpret evidence to draw conclusions concerning earth processes over the course of time.
Digestion and Motion: Students will interpret evidence and model how body systems work together.
The Nature of Science: Students will conduct an investigation when given a set of variables.
General Science Units and Objectives
Electricity, Waves & Information Transfer
- I can draw a schematic of an electric circuit using proper symbols.
- I can understand how current is influenced by different variables, including circuit arrangement, resistance, voltage, etc.
- I can diagram how circuits transform different types of energy.
- I can conduct an investigation that measures thermal energy transfer.
- I can evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of digital communication.
- I can diagram wave characteristics.
- I can perform wave characteristic calculations.
Exploring Plate Tectonics
- I can explain how medium influences seismic wave behavior.
- I can explain that different types of waves behave differently in different types of medium.
- I can analyze and interpret data to map locations of earthquakes and explain how patterns of earthquake locations reveal plate boundaries.
- I can explain how plate movements and faults cause earthquakes and volcanoes.
- I can show that convection influences earthquakes and volcanoes (and plate movements) at the surface.
- I can explain the rock cycles and indicate what energy flows drives the process.
Digestion & Motion
- I can describe how body systems are made of organs that work together.
- I can evaluate how digestion of nutrients occurs using mechanical and chemical processes throughout the digestive tract (includes enzymes and the nutrients digested by those enzymes).
- I can describe how the different sections of the digestive system work together (including which nutrients are digested in each section, which organs are involved, and which digestive enzymes are used).
- I can develop a model of the muscular skeletal system (and compare it to the human arm).
- I can argue that body systems work together in maintaining a relatively stable internal environment.
The Nature of Science
- I can construct a hypothesis in the If.....then.....format and include reasoning.
- I can construct an accurate experiment when given a testable question.
- I can construct data tables and graphs to interpret data.
- I can analyze data and draw conclusions