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TOPIC ARRANGEMENTS and Disciplinary Core Ideas Grades 6-8
Elevate Science puts students on a successful path to science learning. The topic arrangement connects the Performance Expectations (PEs) within and across the middle grades, creating a natural, balanced, and coherent sequence that deepens student understanding. Students connect the core ideas to the application of science and engineering practices as they experience the crosscutting concepts. Integrated Engineering Design standards drive instruction in each topic.
A Logical Progression for Middle School Science
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Fully Supports the Progressions Within the Next
Generation Science
Standards*
*Next Generation Science Standards is a registered trademark of Achieve. Neither Achieve nor the lead states and partners that developed the Next Generation Science Standards were involved in the production of this product, and do not endorse it.
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NGSS TOPIC ARRANGEMENTPresents a coherent instructional sequence within and across grades based on Appendix K
3D LEARNINGProvides multiple opportunities to engage in the three dimensions of science with real-world phenomena MATH
CONNECTIONSConsiders the needed mathematical skills from the middle grades progression
ENGINEERINGDESIGNIntegrates the ETS standards and the design process in every topic across the grades CONCEPTUAL
COMPLEXITY Builds across the topic sequence as described in Appendix K
The Elevate Science Story: Fostering Curiosity and Building Understanding
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Topic Arrangement Map for the Middle School Sequence
Grade
7
Grade
6
Grade
8
Matter Energy Heat Earth Systems Weather
The Rock CyclePlate TectonicsSurface Systems
Weathering and ErosionBiosphere
Atomic Structure
Chemical Reactions
Forces and Motion
Genes Heredity
Natural Selection
History of Earth
Energy in the AtmosphereClimateSun–Earth–
Moon SystemSolar System and Beyond
Information Technology
Electricity and Magnetism
Waves and Electro- magnetic Radiation
Natural Resources and Human Impact on Environment
Human Body System
Reproduction and Growth
Populations, Communities, and Ecosystems
Cell Systems and Their Processes
KEY: Physical Sciences Life Sciences Earth and Space SciencesStudents engage in Engineering, Technology, and the Applications of Science throughout.
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Students make sense of phenomena as they explore the disciplinary core ideasthrough the lens of crosscutting concepts, such as Systems and System Models, Causeand Effect, and Matter and Energy. Each topic seamlessly integrates thescience and engineering practices with Engineering Design principles as studentsexperience a variety of hands-on investigations.
Students begin their discovery in the physical world with models of observablephenomena...
Students end the year beingintroduced to thebiosphere, looking at how matter andenergy are cycled.
...and how matter is cycled throughthe processes of weathering, erosion,and deposition.
Models help to explainhow thermal energydrives the movement ofEarth’s crust...
...and in the geospherestudents examine the cycling of matter as they investigate different types of rocks.
...and move toexplore the conceptof energy and howit is needed tochange matter...
...which leads tothe study ofthermal energyand heat transfer.
Earth systems areintroduced where energyflow and the cycling of matter are drivingfactors. Students...
...explore cause and effect factors driving the water cycle as models of energy flow in the atmosphere...
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The Rock CyclePlate TectonicsSurface Systems
Weathering and ErosionBiosphere
Matter Energy Heat Earth Systems Weather
Students continue their study of the biosphere. Investigations begin at the microscopic level with System Models and expand outward with Structure and Function in the life sciences and Stability and Change in the Earth’s systems. Students return to the concepts of Energy in the study of waves and electromagnetic radiation, ending with the application of these core ideas in Information Technology.
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Students considersystems and howthey interact as theyinvestigate cell functionand cellular processes...
...and explore thehuman body as asystem model, drivenby the flow of energyand the cycling ofmatter.
This leads to thestudy of reproductionand the plant and animal structuresthat support it.
Students consider stability and change as a core concept in the biosphere. They examine factors that impact living things and the environments they live in...
...which they applyas they investigateinnovations in communicationtechnologies.
...leading to theintroduction of forces found in twocommon studentexperiences....
The study of energy begunin Grade 6 is extended asstudents investigateanother form of energy....
...and connect that to the geosphereas they investigate the use of natural resources and consider human impact on the environment.
Information Technology
Electricity and Magnetism
Waves and Electro- magnetic Radiation
Natural Resources and Human Impact on Environment
Human Body System
Reproduction and Growth
Populations, Communities, and Ecosystems
Cell Systems and Their Processes
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Students return to the study of the physical world, applying the concepts of Patterns and Scale, Proportion, and Quantity. Their investigations begin at the atomic level and expand outwards. Students look at different Systems and Models in the physical world, in the living world, and across earth and space sciences. More sophisticated understandings are developed in topics like Heredity and Climate, using the concepts of Stability and Change and Cause and Effect.
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Atomic Structure
Chemical Reactions
Forces and Motion
Genes Heredity
Natural Selection
History of Earth
Energy in the AtmosphereClimateSun–Earth–
Moon SystemSolar System and Beyond
Students look atpatterns as theyexplore atomictheory, structure,bonding, and acidsand bases...
...leading to anunderstanding ofchemical reactionsand how materialsmay be created.
Students return toforces and buildmodels to explain therelationship betweenspeed, velocity, andacceleration.
Examining patterns ingenes and hereditycontinues, includingcoding and proteinsynthesis, leading to an understanding...
...of how geneticmutations representchange and providean explanation to thetheory of evolution.
...where the Earth isgoverned by forces ofplanetary motion thatextend beyond ourSolar System.
Earth’s movementin space is part of alarger system andfollows a predictablepattern...
...understanding ofclimate. They exploremodels of howchanges in climatecan affect Earth’ssystems.
Students review energyconcepts as they look atpatterns of circulationin the atmosphere andoceans leading to an...
Applying concepts ofatomic theory helpsstudents use patterns tocomprehend how rockages can be calculated.
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