Eighth Grade Science

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8th Grade Science
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Topics

Cellular Respiration & Yeast

Carbon cycle

Force & Work

Energy Conversion

Mechanical Advantage

Origins of the Universe

Origins of stars and planets

Star life cycle

Organization & movement in solar system

Origins of Life

Continental Drift

Ecological foundations

Population ecology

Natural Selection & adaptations

Humans and the environment

Content

Reactants

Gravitational Force

Mass versus Weight

Force, Work & Heat

Potential & Kinetic Energy

Energy Conversion

Energy Auditing

Block & Tackle

Levers

Gears

Magnitudes of Time

Big bang cosmology

Formation of elements and stars

Organization of universe

Detecting objects and energy


Solar System Formation

Planet Movement

Planet Environments

Historical models of our Solar System

Season on Earth

Origins of Life

Characteristics of Life

Alfred Wegener & the Driftists

Mapping the Continents

Rock Cycle

Stratigraphy

Paleontology

Fossilization

Paleomagnetism

Oceanography

Seafloor Spreading

Plate Tectonics & Convection Cells

Species & populations

Factors limiting population growth

Biological Cycling

Natural Selection

Speciation

Biomes

Energy Flow on earth

Human food energy needs

Hominid history

Hunters & Gatherers

Effect of agriculture on society

Human Population Growth

Ecological Footprints

Global Warming

Skills Experimental Design

Collaboration

Using an H-R diagram

Evaluating data

Evaluating evidence and making conclusions

Experimental Design

Environmental Decision making

Portfolio Artifacts

Bread baking in Dutch oven

Physics Circus

Lan notebook

 

 

Planet Landscapes

Longitude Inbox

Star Project

Organism Design Project

Amphibian & Reptile Monitoring

Lynx & Hare Simulation

Lab Population Experiment

Exponential Population Growth

Global Warming Project

 

Integrated Units Art:  Machine Drawings

 

Math: Mechanical Advantage & Slope of Wheelchairs Ramps

Art: Planet Landscapes

Spanish: Mesoamerican Archeo-Astronomy

Math: Human Population Growth
Field Trips & Speakers  Bakery Tour  Star Party

 

 

 

Resources FAST 3: Change Over Time

ORIGINS video series

FAST 3: Change Over Time

Longitude by Dava Sobel

ORIGINS video series

This Dynamic Earth from USGS

FAST 3: Change Over Time

 


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