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Annually Assessed Benchmarks: 8 Grade
Science
Standard Number Standard Text Activities
1.Be able to explore and
describe the densities of various
materials through measurement
The student identifies various ways in which of their mass and volume
2.Be able to classify and
substances differ (e.g., mass, volume, shape, compare substances based
SC.A.1.3.1 density, texture, and reaction to upon their density, thermal or
electrical conductivity, solubility,
temperature and light). magnetic properties, melting
and boiling point.
3.Know the difference between
weight and mass
1.know the difference between
radiation, conduction ,
convection and the three
mechanisms through which heat
if transferred.
2.Know the different
wavelengths including infrared,
The student identifies forms of energy and visible and ultraviolet\
SC.B.1.3.1 explains that they can be measured and 3.understand white light
4.Understand the Law of
compared. Conservation of Energy
5.identiy and know the different
between potential and kinetic
energy
6.Understand energy transfers
from one form to another
The student knows the properties of waves
(e.g., frequency, wavelength, and
1.Know that light can reflected,
SC.B.1.3.6 amplitude); that each wave consists of a refracted and absorbed
number of crests and troughs; and the
effects of different media on waves.
The student knows that most events in the
universe (e.g., weather changes, moving
cars, and the transfer of a nervous impulse
in the human body) involve some form of 1.Understand
SC.B.2.3.1 energy transfer and that these changes Entrophy
almost always increase the total disorder of
the system and its surroundings, reducing
the amount of useful energy.
1.Explain and give exampled of
physical evidence that supports
the Earth evolving over geologic
time.
The student explains and shows the ways in 2.Understand and explain plate
which a net force (i.e., the sum of all acting tectonics, such as changes in
the Earth’s surface including
forces) can act on an object (e.g., speeding volcanic eruptions, earthquakes
SC.C.2.3.6 up an object traveling in the same direction and mountain building
3.Understand and explain
as the net force, slowing down an object deforestation, urbanization,
traveling in the direction opposite of the net desertification, erosion, air and
water quality and changing the
force) flow of water.
4.Recognize heat flow and
movement
The student knows the ways in which plants
and animals reshape the landscape (e.g.,
1.Understand human impact on
bacteria, fungi, worms, rodents, and other the Earth through deforestation,
SC.D.1.3.4 organisms add organic matter to the soil, urbanization, desertification,
erosion, air and water quality
increasing soil fertility, encouraging plant and changing the flow of water
growth, and strengthening resistance to
erosion).
1.Understand relationships with
astronomical bodies such as
distance, size and composition
The student understands the vast size of our 2.Identify and compare charac.
SC.E.1.3.1 Solar System and the relationship of the Such as wavelength,
frequemcy, hazards, etc.
planets and their satellites. 3.Reconize that the universe
billions of galaxies with billions
of stars within each.
1.Understand and explain the
organization of atoms to
The student understands that living things molecules and cell to tissues to
are composed of major systems that organs to organ systems to
SC.F.1.3.1 function in reproduction, growth,
organisms.
2. Identify and investigate the
maintenance, and regulation. functions of the major systems
of the human body and describe
their interaction.
The student knows that the variation in each
1.Know and Understand
species is due to the exchange and Evolution
SC.F.2.3.2 interaction of genetic information as it is 2.Know and Understand DNA
3.reproduction for survival
passed from parent to offspring.
1.Know and explain the carbon
The student knows that the interactions of cycle
organisms with each other and with the 2.Compare and Contrast the
different types of infectious
SC.G.1.3.4 nonliving parts of their environments result agents such as viruses,
in the flow of energy and the cycling of bacteria, fungi and parasites
matter throughout the system.
1.Understand and explain
The student understands that humans are a deforestation, urbanization,
part of an ecosystem and their activities may desertification, erosion, air and
SC.G.2.3.4 deliberately or inadvertently alter the water quality and changing the
flow of water.
equilibrium in ecosystems.