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2012-2013 PACING GUIDE RATIONALE M/J COMPREHENSIVE SCIENCE 3

FCAT 2.0 Science was administered to students for the first time in the spring of 2012. The test and

standards have been revised as big ideas that flow throughout all grade levels and build in rigor as

students progress to higher grades. There are 18 big ideas that are organized into four Bodies of

Knowledge (Nature of Science, Life Science, Earth Science, and Physical Science). The Nature of Science

benchmarks are taught at the beginning of the year and integrated in all units and activities throughout

the entire school year at every grade level. Lab safety and the use of scientific tools should be

introduced at the beginning of the year and re-addressed continuously throughout the year.

In middle school the FCAT 2.0 Science is only administered in 8th grade. The NGSS benchmarks for

science are considered “fair game”. This means that the benchmarks from previous grade levels can be

tested, but they will not be tested in isolation. The Pacing Guide was developed by a team of middle

grades science teachers using the Florida Science Standards, Test Item Specifications, 2011 & 2012 FCAT

Content Focus Reports, and Pearson Interactive Science Textbooks as the primary resources. The intent

was to provide 8th grade teachers sufficient time to teach all of the 8th grade FCAT 2.0 standards by

January 18th, 2013 and provide a 7 week comprehensive review of all Annually Assessed Benchmarks

and “Fair Game” before FCAT Testing Begins in April.

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Week of

Big Idea

Annually Assessed

Benchmarks and “Fair

Game”

Standard-Based, Inquiry-

Based, Hands-On Activities

Jan. 28-Feb.1

Nature of Science

& Practice of Science

Feb. 4- 8

Feb. 11-15

Feb. 19-22

Mar. 4-8

Mar. 11-15

Mar. 25-29

2012-2013 M/J COMPREHENSIVE SCIENCE 3 PACING GUIDE

COURSE CODE: 2002100 COURSE NAME: M/J COMPREHENSIVE SCIENCE 3

UNIT TITLE: The Nature of Science UNIT ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:

SEMESTER: 1

Grading Period: 1

CONCEPT CONCEPT CONCEPT

How Scientists Work Scientific Measurement Mathematics and Scientific Thinking

STANDARD(S) STANDARD(S) STANDARD(S)

SC.8.N.1.1, SC.6.N.2.2, SC.7.N.1.2, SC.7.N.1.5, SC.7.N.3.1, MA.6.A.3.6



LESSON ESSENTIAL QUESTION LESSON ESSENTIAL QUESTION LESSON ESSENTIAL QUESTION

How do Scientists Explore the Natural World? Why do Scientists use a Standard Measurement system? What are Some SI Units of Measure?

What Math Skills do Scientists Use? What Math Tools do Scientists Use?

VOCABULARY VOCABULARY VOCABULARY

Science, observing, quantitative observation, qualitative observation, classifying, inferring, predicting, analyzing

Metric system, International System of Units (SI), mass, weight, volume, meniscus, density

Estimate, accuracy, precision, significant figures, mean, median, mode, range, percent, anomalous data

RESOURCES

Interactive textbook Section 1.1 Inquiry Warm-Up: How Does a Scientist Think Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading)

Interactive textbook Section 1.2 Inquiry Warm-Up: What is Scientific Measurement? Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading)

Interactive textbook Section Inquiry Warm-Up: How do Math and Science Work Together? Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading)

What tools do scientists use to investigate the natural world?


Additional Information


Using Graphs in Science Designing an Experiment The Characteristics of Scientific Knowledge


SC.8.N.1.1; LA.8.2.2.3; MA.6.A.3.6;

SC.8.N.1.1, SC.6.N.2.2, SC.7.N.1.2, SC.7.N.1.5, SC.7.N.3.1 MA.6.A.3.6

SC.8.N.1.1; SC.6.N.2.2; SC.7.N.1.2; SC.7.N.1.5; SC.7.N.3.1; MA.6.A.3.6


How Do Scientists Use Graphs? How do you Conduct Scientific Inquiry? How do you Test a Hypothesis? What is a Scientific Explanation?

What Activities do Scientific Investigations Involve? What are Scientific and Pseudoscientific Thinking? What Characterizes Science and its Methods?


Graph, linear graph, nonlinear graph Scientific inquiry, hypothesis, independent variable, dependent variable, controlled experiment, bias, repeated trial, replication, scientific explanation

Observing, data, empirical evidence, inferring, objective reasoning, subjective reasoning, opinion, pseudoscience

RESOURCES

Interactive textbook Section 1.4 Inquiry Warm-Up: Using Graphs in Science Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading)

Interactive textbook Section 1.5 Inquiry Warm-Up: Designing an Experiment Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Chapter 1 Review and Assessment Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading)

Interactive textbook Section 2.1 Inquiry Warm-Up: Developing a Theory Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading)



Inquiry Lab: How do scientists use their observations Activities: Teacher Demo- The Compass Suggested websites: http://www.ipl.org/youth/projectguide/

http://www.scifair.org

http://www.floridassef.net/

Teacher Demo: Flaps on an Airplane Suggested websites: http://www.societyforscience.org/isef/primer/index.asp http://scienceclub.org/scifair.html BrainPop: Scientific Methods

Glencoe Virtual Lab: How is a controlled experiment performed? http://glencoe.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/dl/free/0078693896/280403/LS01.html

Quick Lab: Comparing Precision Application Lab: Determining the thickness of aluminum foil Teacher Demo: Conversion factor Laboratory Manual: Evaluating precision Laboratory Manual: Measuring temperature and volume Suggested websites: http://www.sciencebuddies.org/

http://youth.net/nsrc/sci/sci.index.html

Glencoe Virtual Lab: Measurement http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/E01/E01.html

BrainPop: Measuring Matter

http://www.ipl.org/youth/projectguide/

http://www.scifair.org/

http://www.floridassef.net/

http://www.societyforscience.org/isef/primer/index.asp

http://www.societyforscience.org/isef/primer/index.asp

http://scienceclub.org/scifair.html

http://glencoe.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/dl/free/0078693896/280403/LS01.html



http://www.sciencebuddies.org/

http://youth.net/nsrc/sci/sci.index.html

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/E01/E01.html

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/E01/E01.html


CONCEPT CONCEPT

Models and Systems Modifying Scientific Theories

STANDARD(S) STANDARD(S)

SC.8.N.1.1; SC.6.N.2.2; SC.7.N.1.2; SC.7.N.1.5; SC.7.N.3.1

SC.8.N.1.1; SC.6.N.2.2; SC.7.N.1.2; SC.7.N.1.5; SC.7.N.3.1

LESSON ESSENTIAL QUESTION LESSON ESSENTIAL QUESTION

How Do Scientists Use Models? What are the Characteristics of a System? How do Models Help Scientists Understand Systems?

What is a Scientific Theory? Why are Some Scientific Theories Modified?

VOCABULARY VOCABULARY

Model, system, input, process, output, feedback Scientific theory, scientific law

RESOURCES

Interactive textbook Section 2.2 Inquiry Warm-Up: Models in Science Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading)

Interactive textbook Section 2.3 Inquiry Warm-Up: Scientific Theories Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Chapter 2 Review and Assessment Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading)


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Additional Websites: Brainpop Gizmo Study Island Scholastic.com Phet simulations NCClark.net




COURSE CODE: 2002100

COURSE NAME: M/J COMPREHENSIVE SCIENCE 3

UNIT TITLE: Earth and Space Science UNIT ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:


The Scale of the Universe Star Systems and Galaxies Gravity and Motion


SC.E.8.5.3; SC.E.8.5.5; SC.E.8.5.7; SC.E.8.5.9 SC.8.N.1.1; SC.6.N.2.2; SC.7.N.1.2; SC.7.N.1.5; SC.7.N.3.1

SC.E.8.5.3; SC.E.8.5.5; SC.E.8.5.7; SC.E.8.5.9 SC.8.N.1.1; SC.6.N.2.2; SC.7.N.1.2; SC.7.N.1.5; SC.7.N.3.1

SC.E.8.5.7; SC.E.8.5.9; SC.8.N.1.1; SC.6.N.2.2; SC.7.N.1.2; SC.7.N.1.5; SC.7.N.3.1


How do astronomers measure distances to the stars? How do astronomers describe the Scale of the universe?

What are the differences between the planets and the stars? What are the major types of galaxies?

What determines gravity? What keeps objects in orbit?


Parallax, universe, light-year, scientific notation Star, planet, solar system, binary star, galaxy, spiral galaxy, elliptical galaxy, irregular galaxy, quasar

Orbit, force, gravity, law of universal gravitation, mass, weight, inertia, Newton’s first law of motion

RESOURCES

Interactive textbook Section 3.1 Inquiry Warm-Up: Stringing Along Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading)

Interactive textbook Section 3.2 Inquiry Warm-Up: Why does the Milky Way look hazy? Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading)

Interactive textbook Section 3.3 Inquiry Warm-Up: What Factors Affect Gravity? Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading)

What astronomical objects exist in the universe? How do Earth, the moon, and sun interact?



Characteristics of Stars Lives of Stars The Sun


SC.E.8.5.5; SC.E.8.5.7; SC.E.8.5.9 SC.8.N.1.1; SC.6.N.2.2; SC.7.N.1.2; SC.7.N.1.5; SC.7.N.3.1




How are stars classified? What is an H-R Diagram and how do astronomers use it?

How a star form and what determines its life span? What happens to a star when it runs out?

What is the structure of the sun? What features can you see on the sun?


Spectrograph, apparent brightness, absolute brightness, Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram, main sequence

Nebula, protostar, white dwarf, supernova, neutron star, pulsar, black hole

Core, nuclear fusion, radiation zone, convection zone, photosphere chromosphere, corona, solar wind, sun spot, prominence, solar flare

RESOURCES

Interactive textbook Section 3.4 Inquiry Warm-Up: How do stars differ? Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading)

Interactive textbook Section 3.5 Inquiry Warm-Up: What determines how long stars live? Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading)

Interactive textbook Section Inquiry Warm-Up: How can you safely observe the sun? Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Chapter 3 Review and Assessment Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading)



UNIT TITLE: Earth and Space UNIT ESSENTIAL QUESTION:

SEMESTER: 1

Grading Period: 2


Introducing the Solar System Earth’s Moon Inner Planets


SC.E.8.5.5; SC.E.8.5.7; SC.E.8.5.9; SC.8.N.1.1; SC.6.N.2.2; SC.7.N.1.2; SC.7.N.1.5; SC.7.N.3.1




What makes up the solar system? How did the solar system form?

What is the moon like? What do inner planets have in common? What are the characteristics of inner planets?


Solar system, astronomical unit, planet, dwarf planet, planetesimal

Maria, crater, meteoroid Terrestrial planet, greenhouse effect

RESOURCES

Interactive textbook Section 4.1 Inquiry Warm-Up: How big is Earth? Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading)

Interactive textbook Section 4.2 Inquiry Warm-Up: Why do craters look different from each other? Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading)

Interactive textbook Section 4.3 Inquiry Warm-Up: Ring around the sun Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading)

What astronomical objects exist in the universe? Why are objects in the solar system different from each other?



The Outer Planets Small Solar System Objects Models of the Solar System






What do the outer planets have in common? What are the characteristics of each outer planet?

How do scientists classify small objects in the solar system?

What was the Geocentric Model? How did the Heliocentric Model Develop?


Gas giant, ring Asteroid belt, Kuiper belt, Oort cloud, comet, coma, nucleus, asteroid, meteor, meteorite

Geocentric, heliocentric, ellipse

RESOURCES

Interactive textbook Section 4.4 Inquiry Warm-Up: How big are the planets? Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading)

Interactive textbook Section 4.5 Inquiry Warm-Up: Collecting Micrometeorites Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading)

Interactive textbook Section 4.6 Inquiry Warm-Up: What is at the center? Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading)







Earth in Space Phases and Eclipses Tides




SC.E.8.5.7; SC.E.8.5.9; SC.8.N.1.1; SC.6.N.2.2; SC.7.N.1.2; SC.7.N.1.5; SC.7.N.3.1; MA.6.S.6.2


How do the Earth, sun, and moon interact? How does Earth move? What causes seasons?

What causes the moon phases? What are eclipses?

What causes tides?


Axis, rotation, revolution, calendar, solstice, equinox

Phase, eclipse, solar eclipse, umbra, penumbra, lunar eclipse

Tide, spring tide, neap tide

RESOURCES

Interactive textbook Section 5.1 Inquiry Warm-Up: What causes day and night? Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading)

Interactive textbook Section 5.2 Inquiry Warm-Up: How does the moon move? Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading)

Interactive textbook Section 5.3 Inquiry Warm-Up: When is high tide? Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading)







UNIT TITLE: Properties of Matter UNIT ESSENTIAL QUESTION:

SEMESTER: 1

Grading Period: 2


Describing Matter States of Matter Changes of State


SC.8.P.8.4; SC.8.P.9.2; SC.8.N.1.1; SC.8.N.3.1; LA.8.2.2.3; MA.6.A.3.6




What is matter made of? How do you describe a solid? How do you describe a liquid? How do you describe a gas?

What happens when heat is transferred to a substance? What happens to a solid as it melts? What happens to a substance that becomes a gas?


Matter, chemistry, substance, element, atom, chemical bond, molecule, compound, chemical formula, mixture

Solid, crystalline solid, amorphous solid, liquid, fluid, surface tension, viscosity, gas, pressure, temperature

Thermal energy, heat, physical property, melting, melting point, freezing, vaporization, evaporation, boiling, boiling point, condensation, sublimation

Why does a substance change states?


RESOURCES

Interactive textbook Section 7.1 Inquiry Warm-Up: Differences in Compounds Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading)-Describing Matter

Interactive textbook Section 7.2 Inquiry Warm-Up: What are solids, liquids, and gases? Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading) States of Matter

Interactive textbook Section 7.3 Inquiry Warm-Up: What happens when you breathe on a mirror? Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading) Chapter 7 Review and Assessment


Quick Lab: Modeling Atoms and Molecules

Build Inquiry: Evaporation Lab Investigation: Melting Ice



Measuring Matter Physical and Chemical Properties of Matter Physical and Chemical Changes


SC.8.N.1.1; SC.8.N.1.6; SC.8.P.8.2; SC.8.P.8.3; SC.8.P.8.4; SC.8.P.8.5; LA.8.2.2.3; MA.6.S.6.2




What units are used to express mass and volume? How is density determined?

Why are physical and chemical properties useful? How can matter change?


Weight, mass, International System of Units, volume, density

Physical property, chemical property Physical change, chemical change

RESOURCES

Interactive textbook Section 8.1 Inquiry Warm-Up: Which has more mass? Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading)

Interactive textbook Section 8.2 Inquiry Warm-Up: How do you describe matter? Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading): Physical and Chemical Properties of Matter

Interactive textbook Section 8.3 Inquiry Warm-Up: Is a new substance formed? Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading): Is it physical or chemical? Chapter 8 Review and Assessment


Build Inquiry: Volume of a Rectangular Solid Quick Lab: Calculating Volume

Build Inquiry: Observing Physical Properties

Quick Lab: Physical and Chemical Changes



UNIT TITLE: Atoms and the Periodic Table UNIT ESSENTIAL QUESTION:

SEMESTER: 2

Grading Period: 3


Organizing the Elements Metals Nonmetals and Metalloids


SC.8.N.1.4; SC.8.N.1.6; SC.8.N.3.2; SC.8.P.8.6; SC.8.P.8.7; LA.8.2.2.3; LA.8.4.2.2; MA.6.A.3.6




What did Mendeleev discover? What information does the periodic table contain? How is the Periodic table useful?

What are the properties of metals? How are metals classified?

What are the properties of nonmetals? What are the families containing nonmetals?


Atomic mass, periodic table, nucleus, proton, atomic number, neutron, electron, chemical symbol, period, group

Metal, luster, malleable, ductile, thermal conductivity, electrical conductivity, reactivity, corrosion, alkali metal, alkaline earth metal, transitional metal

Nonmetal, diatomic molecule, halogen, noble gas, metalloid, semiconductor

RESOURCES

Interactive textbook Section 9.1 Inquiry Warm-Up: Which is easier? Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading): Organizing the Elements

Interactive textbook Section 9.2 Inquiry Warm-Up: Why use aluminum? Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading): Metals

Interactive textbook Section 9.3 Inquiry Warm-Up: What are the properties of charcoal? Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading):Nonmetals and Metalloids

How is the periodic table organized?



Quick Lab: Classifying Elements Quick Lab: Using the Periodic Table





Models of Atoms Atoms and Bonding Elements Forming Compounds






How did atomic theory develop? What is the modern model of the atom?

What determines an element’s chemistry? How do ionic compounds form? How do molecular compounds form? What determines the properties of metals?


Energy level, isotope, mass number Valence electron, electron dot diagram, chemical bond

Ion, ionic bond, ionic compound, chemical formula, subscript, covalent bond, molecular compound, molecule, nonpolar bond, polar bond, metallic bond

RESOURCES

Interactive textbook Section 9.4 Inquiry Warm-Up: What’s in the box? Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading): Make an Atomic Model

Interactive textbook Section 10.1 Inquiry Warm-Up: What are the trends in the periodic table? Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading): Atoms and Bonding

Interactive textbook Section 10.2 Inquiry Warm-Up: How do ions form? Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading): Elements Forming Compounds


CONCEPT

Identifying Physical and Chemical Changes

STANDARD(S)

SC.8.N.1.4; SC.8.N.1.6; SC.8.N.3.2; SC.8.P.9.1; SC.8.P.9.2; SC.8.P.9.3; LA.8.2.2.3; LA.8.4.2.2; MA.6.A.3.6

LESSON ESSENTIAL QUESTION

How can changes in matter be described? How do you tell a chemical change from a physical change?

VOCABULARY

Physical change, chemical change, reactants, products, law of conservation of mass, exothermic reaction, endothermic reactions, precipitate

RESOURCES

Interactive textbook Section 12.1 Inquiry Warm-Up: What Happens when Chemicals React Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading): Identifying Physical and Chemical Changes


Quick Lab: Observing change Teacher Demo: Hopping Corn



UNIT TITLE: Matter and Energy Transformations UNIT ESSENTIAL QUESTION:

SEMESTER: 2

Grading Period: 3


Photosynthesis Cellular Respiration Cycles of Matter


SC.8.N.2.1; SC.8.N.2.2; SC.8.L.18.1; SC.8.L.18.2; SC.8.L.18.3; SC.8.L.18.4; LA.8.2.2.3; MA.6.A.3.6




How do living things get energy from the sun? What happens during photosynthesis?

What happens during cellular respiration? What happens during fermentation?

What processes are involved in the water cycle? How are carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen recycled? How do living systems conserve matter and energy?


Ecosystem, photosynthesis, autotroph, heterotroph, chlorophyll

Cellular respiration, fermentation Evaporation, condensation, precipitation, carbon cycle, nitrogen fixation

RESOURCES

Interactive textbook Section 13.1 Inquiry Warm-Up: Where does the energy come from? Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading): Photosynthesis

Interactive textbook Section : 13.2 Inquiry Warm-Up: Cellular Respiration Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading): Cellular Respiration

Interactive textbook Section : 13.3 Inquiry Warm-Up: Are you part of a cycle? Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries

How do energy and matter move through ecosystems?



MyScienceOnline.com: Tracking your Carbon Atoms Planet Diary: Energy, Matter, and Living Things


Quick Lab: Modeling the Carbon Cycle Quick Lab: Follow the Water Quick Lab: Predict Carbon and Oxygen Cycling Quick Lab: Conservation in Living Systems



UNIT TITLE: Comprehensive Review of AA & “Fair Game” Benchmarks

UNIT ESSENTIAL QUESTION:

SEMESTER: 2

Grading Period: 3


The Nature and Practice of Science Earth and Space Science Physical Science


SC.6.N.2.2, SC.7.N.1.2; SC.7.N.1.5; SC.7.N.3.1; SC.8.N.1.1

SC.6.E.7.4; SC.6.E.7.5; SC.7.E.6.2; SC.7.E.6.4; SC.7.E.6.5; SC.7.E.5.3; SC.7.E.5.5; SC.8.E.5.5;

SC.8.E.5.7; SC.8.E.5.9

SC.6.P.13.1; SC.6.P.13.3; SC.7.P.10.1; SC.7.P.10.3; SC.7.P.11.2; SC.7.P.11.4; SC.8.P.8.4; SC.8.P.4.5;

SC.8.P.9.2


The lessons in this review will focus on the following topics: Comparing methods and results; Repetition; Replication; Models Distinguishing between theories and laws Evaluating a procedure; Outcome variables; Test variables

The lessons in this review will focus on the following topics: Atmosphere, Convection, Conduction, Weathering and Erosion, Earthquakes, Relative Distance, Properties of Planets, Earth-Sun-Moon relationships

The lessons in this review will focus on the following topics: Gravitational force, position, properties of waves, electromagnetic spectrum, Potential and Kinetic Energy, Convection and Conduction, Physical and Chemical Properties and Changes


Science, observing, quantitative observation, qualitative observation, classifying, inferring, predicting, analyzing, Metric system, International System of Units (SI), mass, weight, volume, meniscus, density, Estimate, accuracy, precision, significant figures, mean, median, mode, range, percent, anomalous data, Scientific inquiry, hypothesis, independent variable, dependent variable, controlled experiment, bias, repeated trial, replication, scientific explanation

Parallax, universe, light-year, scientific notation Star, planet, solar system, binary star, galaxy, spiral galaxy, elliptical galaxy, irregular galaxy, quasar Orbit, force, gravity, law of universal gravitation, mass, weight, inertia, Newton’s first law of motion, Convection, conduction, radiation,, atmosphere, plate tectonics, Core, nuclear fusion, radiation zone, convection zone, photosphere chromosphere, corona, solar wind, sun spot, prominence, solar flare, main sequence, dwarf

Matter, chemistry, substance, element, atom, chemical bond, molecule, compound, chemical formula, mixture, Physical property, chemical property, mass, density, volume, Ecosystem, photosynthesis, autotroph, heterotroph, chlorophyll, Physical change, chemical change, reactants, products, law of conservation of mass, exothermic reaction, endothermic reactions, precipitate

What are the results of scientific inquiry? What is the relationship of astronomical bodies and the solar system? What are the properties of matter?


RESOURCES

Gizmos Glencoe Virtual Labs Brainpop Study Island FCAT Explorer




CPALMS.org



UNIT TITLE: Comprehensive Review of AA & “Fair Game” Benchmarks

UNIT ESSENTIAL QUESTION:

SEMESTER: 2

Grading Period: 4


Life Science


SC.6.L.14.1; SC.6.L.14.2; SC.6.L.14.4; SC.6.L.14.5; SC.6.L.15.1; SC.7.L.15.2; SC.7.L.16.1; SC.7.L.17.2; SC.8.L.18.4


The lessons in this review will focus on the following topics: Structural organization, cellular processes, cell structure and functions, human body systems, genetics, food webs, limiting factors, cellular respiration, and photosynthesis


Abiotic, biotic, allele, ecosystem, gene, heterozygous, homozygous, mitosis, meiosis, nucleus, dominant, recessive, trait, sexual reproduction, asexual reproduction

RESOURCES


What tools do scientists use to investigate the natural world? How do matter and energy move through an ecosystem



**Middle School FCAT 2.0 Testing is scheduled to span from April 8- 26th; afterwards instruction will include inquiry-related activities designed to enhance the nature and practice of science skills, portfolio completion and remediation. **

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