8th Grade Science - Student Outcomes

The student will...

• plan and conduct field and laboratory investigations
• use scientific method
• analyze data
• use critical thinking and problem solving
• use scientific tools
• identify roles of both human activities and natural events in altering earth systems: lunar cycle, carbon cycle, nitrogen cycle, rock cycle, water cycle, solar cycle, weather and ocean systems
• examine information on periodic table
• recognize elements and grouped into families and periods
• draw atoms based on periodic table information (including ions and isotopes)
• examine interactions between matter and energy
• demonstrate exothermic and endothermic reactions
• identify the origin of waves and investigate their ability to travel through media: electromagnetic, mechanical, transverse, compressions, surface
• learn genetics: Punnett squares, incomplete dominance, recessive, heterogeneous, natural selection, co-dominance, homozygous
• understand that science is constantly changing
• create models of objects/events as tools for understanding the natural world - identify limitations of models