8th Grade Science
Trimester 1
Proficiency Scales Level Standards Topic, Objectives, and Assessments
Vocabulary Development
Earth Materials 2 ESS2-1 Lab: Grow your own minerals and Systems 2 ESS2-1 Mineral Formation
2 ESS2-1 Mighty Minerals Project
3 ESS2-1 Magnificent Minerals Lab MasterMines Game Rocks Reading 3 ESS2-1 Rocks and the Processes of the Rock Cycle
3 ESS2-1 JASON Mission Center Interactive: The Rock Cycle Rock Cycle Popplet Rock Cycle Videos/Images 3 ESS2-1 Rock Cycle Dice Activity Rock Cycle Comic Strip 3 ESS2-1 Rock Cycle Check for Understanding
2 to 4 ESS2-1 Rock Cycle Re-teaching/Extension Activities
History of Planet 2 ESS2-3 Continental Drift Introduction Earth Find Evidence for Continental Drift Hypothesis 3 to 4 ESS2-3 Find Evidence for Seafloor Spreading Hypothesis
3 ESS2-3 Online Lab: Continental Drift: What's the Big Idea?
4 ESS2-3 Check for Understanding - Continental Drift
2 to 4 ESS2-1, ESS2- Re-teaching/Extensions 2, ESS2-3 Study Guide 4 6 Week Common Assessment
History of Planet 3 ESS2-2 Destructive Forces: Observations, Inferences and Predictions Earth Cont. Evidence for the Theory of Plate Tectonics 3 ESS2-2 Earthquake Characteristics Volcano Characteristics Landford Detectives Game Human Impacts 3 ESS2-2 Elastic Rebound Theory: Focus and Epicenter Shape it Up Game Letter to Congressman of how Illinois was affected by glaciers and how we should research them more. 3 ESS2-2 How Glaciers Shaped Illinois Weathering of Streets Weathering Graham Cracker Lab.
3 ESS2-2 Earth's Surface Check for Understanding
2 to 4 ESS2-2 Re-teaching/Extensions for Earth Surface
3 ESS3-5 Global Temperatures in the last century Introduction to Climate Change 3 ESS3-5 Climate Change inquiry
3 to 4 ESS3-5 Climate Change Review Game
4 ESS3-5 Climate Change Check for Understanding
2 to 4 ESS3-5 Climate Change Re-teaching + Other Standards Re-teaching
ESS2-1, ESS2- Study Guide - 12 Week Common Assessment 2, ESS2-3, ESS3-5 4 ESS2-1, ESS2- 12 week Geoscience Common Assessment 2, ESS2-3, ESS3-5
Trimester 2
Proficiency Scales Level Standards Topic, Objectives, and Assessments
Vocabulary Development
Bellringer: Presentations
MS-PS3-2 Read: Types of Energy Energy & Force 2
Bounce Lab MS-PS3-2 2 Digital: Create a Graph
2 MS-PS3-2 Marble Energy Lab (Separate Sheet of Paper)
2 MS-PS3-2 Functional Rollercoaster Lab
2 MS-PS3-2 Lab: Complete Pendulum Lab
3 MS-PS3-2 Energy & Forces Check for Understanding
3 MS-PS3-2 R-eteaching/Extensions Types of MS-PS2-3, MS- 2 Interactions PS2-5 1. Phet: Balloons and Static Electricity
MS-PS2-3, MS- 2 PS2-5 2. Cosmos: The Electric Boy
MS-PS2-3, MS- 2 3. Read: Electric Charge PS2-5
MS-PS2-3, MS- 3 PS2-5 4. Lab: Opposites Attract
MS-PS2-3, MS- 3 PS2-5 5. Read: Magnets and Magnetism
MS-PS2-3, MS- 3 PS2-5 6. Lab: Magnetism
MS-PS2-3, MS- 7. Read: Electricity and Magnetism 3 PS2-5
MS-PS2-3, MS- 3 PS2-5 8. Read: Using Electromagnetism
MS-PS2-3, MS- 3 PS2-5 9. Lab: Magnets and Electromagnets
MS-PS2-3, MS- 3 PS2-5 10. Read: Generating and Using Electricity
4 MS-PS2-3, MS- Quiz on Types of Interactions PS2-5 MS-PS2-3, MS- 4 PS2-5 Re-teaching/Extension Activities
MS-PS4-1, MS- Read: Characteristics of Waves - Vocabulary 2 Waves PS4-2 Questions 2, 3, 5-7
MS-PS4-1, MS- 2 PS4-2 Digital: Waves on a String
MS-PS4-1, MS- 2 PS4-2 Lab: Slinky Waves
MS-PS4-1, MS- 2 PS4-2 Read: Measuring Waves MS-PS4-1, MS- 2 PS4-2 Lab: Dominoes Lab
MS-PS4-1, MS- 2 PS4-2 Digital: Wave Interactions
MS-PS4-1, MS- 2 PS4-2 Read: Wave Interactions
MS-PS4-1, MS- 3 PS4-2 Lab: Wave Properties
MS-PS4-1, MS- 3 PS4-2 Lab: Reflection
MS-PS4-1, MS- 3 PS4-2 Lab: Reflections of Light
MS-PS4-1, MS- 2 PS4-2 Watch: Cosmos - Hiding in the Light
MS-PS4-1, MS- 4 PS4-2 Review
MS-PS4-1, MS- 4 PS4-2 Waves Check for Understanding
MS-PS4-1, MS- 4 PS4-2 Re-teaching/Extensions
Information MS-LS1-8, MS- 2 Processing PS4-3 Lab: Stimuli Response
MS-LS1-8, MS- 2 PS4-3 Read: Nervous System
MS-LS1-8, MS- 2 PS4-3 Motor Learning and Memory
MS-LS1-8, MS- 2 PS4-3 Read: Eyes and Vision
MS-LS1-8, MS- 2 PS4-3 Vision Lab
MS-LS1-8, MS- 2 PS4-3 Read: Other Senses MS-LS1-8, MS- 3 PS4-3 Senses Lab
MS-LS1-8, MS- 3 PS4-3 Lab: Recency and Primacy Effect
MS-LS1-8, MS- 3 PS4-3 Lab: Your Incredible Memory
MS-LS1-8, MS- 3 PS4-3 Lab: Who's Choice is it Anyway?
MS-LS1-8, MS- 3 PS4-3 Read: electrical Signals
MS-LS1-8, MS- 3 PS4-3 Analogue and Digital Signals
MS-LS1-8, MS- 3 PS4-3 NASA Digital
MS-LS1-8, MS- PS4-3, MS-LS1- 4 8, MS-PS4-3 Review for Common Assessment
MS-LS1-8, MS- 4 PS4-3, MS-LS1- 8, MS-PS4-3 12 Week Common Assessment