Science Curriculum

8th Grade

Course Purpose:

 Eighth grade students will use scientific principles to quantify interactions among the components of the world they see.

Outcomes and Components:

SC.8.1 Students will develop models that describe gravity's effect on the galaxy, solar system, Sun, Earth, and Moon systems.

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Component Code

Component

Standard(s)
  SC.8.1.1 Model to show the role of gravity for movement around galactic center for the Sun, Earth, and moon.

MS-ESS1-2

MS-PS2-4
  SC.8.1.2 Model to show role of gravity and formation of the solar system (spinning motion).

MS-ESS1-2

MS-ESS1-3
  SC.8.1.3 Describe the relationship between the Milky Way, Earth, Sun, Moon system. MS-ESS1-2
  SC.8.1.4 Model motion of moon phases. MS-ESS1-1
  SC.8.1.5 Compare and contrast moons of other planets with Earth. MS-ESS1-1
  SC.8.1.6 Model to describe the lunar/solar eclipses in the earth, moon, Sun system. MS-ESS1-3

Academic Vocabulary:  System, model, describe, compare, contrast, cause, effect

Content Vocabulary: Cyclical pattern, gravity, moon phase, solar eclipse, lunar eclipse, axis, rotation, Revolution, hemisphere, inertia, Mass, Moon, orbital motion