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8th Grade Science 2013-2014 Assessment Guideline Questions/Recommended Pacing CROSS CUTTING CONCEPT: Energy and Matter: Flows, cycles and conservation Week Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 8-5 8-6 8-7 8-8 8-9 New Teachers Report 8-12 School Inservice 8-13 District Inservice 8-14 Workday 8-15 Workday 8-16 Workday 8-19 FIRST DAY for STUDENTS Lab Safety Scientific Method 8-20 (8-1.3) What is the difference between observation/inference? (8-1.7) Lab Safety (8-1.1) and (8-1.2) Scientific Method 8-21 What is the difference between quantitative and qualitative? (8-1.4) Independent variables (8.1.5) Replication 8-22 How do you interpret data and graphs? (8-1.6) Tools Science Fair Information 8-26 (8-5.1) & (8-5.2) What do graphs tell you about motion? 8-27 (8-5.1) & (8-5.2) What is the relationship between speed, time and distance? 8-28 (8-5.4) & (8-5.5) How is force illustrated and measured? 8-29 (8-5.4) What are balanced and unbalanced forces and why are they different? 8-23 Fall MAP Testing Begins (8-5.1) & (8-5.2) How does a change in position from a reference point indicate motion? 8-30 (8-5.4) What factors affects the force applied on an object? 9-2 9-3 (8-5.4) How does the movement of objects influence other objects? 9-4 (8-5.4) What is the effect of mass on the movement of the stationary (parked) car? 9-5 (8-5.3) How does mass and distance affect the force of gravity? 9-6 (8-5.3) How does friction affect motion? Labor Day Holiday 9-9 (8-5.3) & (8-5.4) How do forces acting on an object affect its motion? 9-10 (8-5.6) What is the relationship between inertia and mass? 9-11 (8-5.6) How would the inertia of each object used in the 3 mini labs affects its motion? 9-12 (8-5.3) & (8-5.4) & (85.6) How do forces work against gravity? 9-16 (8-5.3) & (8-5.6) How can you increase the distance a balloon travels? 9-17 (8-6.1) & (8-6.2) How do waves transfer energy without transferring matter? 9-19 Interims Issued (8-6.3) What are the basic properties of waves? 7 9-23 (8-6.3) Explain how amplitude and frequency are related to the energy of a wave? 9-24 (8-6.4) How do waves change as they encounter a barrier? 9-18 ½ Day/Planning (8-6.2) What are the similarities and differences between electromagnetic and mechanical waves? 9-25 (8-6.4) How do waves behave when interacting with a different medium or barrier? 9-13 Fall MAP Testing Ends (8-5.3) & (8-5.6) How do you create a balloon powered car for maximum speed and distance? 9-20 (8-6.3) How is a wave’s speed related to its wavelength and frequency? 9-26 (8-6.5) How sound waves are detected by the ear? 9-27 (8-6.5) How is sound transmitted through a medium? 8 9-30 (8-6.2) & (8-6.8) How do electromagnetic waves differ from mechanical waves? 10-1 (8-6.8) What does an electromagnetic wave consist of? 10-2 8-6.8) How is invisible light important in your life? 10-4 (8-6.4) & (8-6.7) Why do we see color? 10-7 (8-6.4) & (8-6.7) Why do the colors of an object appear to change when you look at them through transparent color sheets? 10-14 (8-6.4) How do plane mirrors produce images? 10-8 (8-6.4) & (8-6.7) How does light interact with matter? 10-9 (8-6.4) & (8-6.7) How does the appearance of objects of different colors appear in different colors of light? 10-3 (8-6.8) How does a prism separate light into various frequencies/wave lengths/colors? 10-10 (8-6.4) & (8-6.7) How is the color of an object determined? 10-15 (8-6.6) How does the human eye see? 10-16 (8-6.6) How does the eyeball work? 10-17 Review 10-18 District Inservice 1 2 3 4 5 6 9 10 10-11 8-6.4) How are light waves diffracted and scattered? 8th Grade Science 2013-2014 Assessment Guideline Questions/Recommended Pacing CROSS CUTTING CONCEPT: Energy and Matter: Flows, cycles and conservation Week 11 Monday 10-21 (8-3.9) How do you read and understand a topographic map? Tuesday 10-22 End of 1st Quarter (8-3.9) What features are shown on a topographic map? Wednesday 10-23 First Day of 2nd Quarter Thursday Friday 10-25 School Inservice (8-3.9) How can you use a topographic map to pinpoint a location? 10-30 ½ Day/Planning (8-3.5) How do you identify minerals? 10-24 (8-3.9) How can a topographic map help you get from place to another? (8-3.9) How do you read and analyze satellite images? 10-31 (8-3.5) What are some everyday uses of Minerals? 10-28 Report Cards Issued (8-3.5) What are minerals? 10-29 (8-3.5) What are some common characteristics of minerals? 11-4 (8-3.4) Why do some igneous rocks look different? 11-5 (8-3.4) & (8-3.5) How do you identify the differences between intrusive and extrusive rocks? 11-12 (8-3.4) What conditions causes one type of rock to change into another type of rock? 11-6 (8-3.4) What kinds of materials make up sedimentary rocks? 11-7 (8-3.4) How and why sedimentary rocks form in layers? 11-8 (8-3.4) Under what conditions do metamorphic rocks form? 11-13 (8-3.4) What causes rocks to change? 11-14 (8-3.4) What properties can be used to classify rocks? 11-15 (8-3.4) What characteristics or processes do you think might differentiate rocks from each other? Veterans Day Holiday 11-18 (8-3.4) Can you identify rocks with a few characteristics? 11-19 (8-3.5) How do natural resources help to support life on Earth? 11-20 (8-3.5) Describe the possible advantages and disadvantages of using fossil fuels? 11-21 Interims Issued (8-3.1) What is the Composition of Earth’s layers? 11-22 (8-3.1) What is the structure of the Earth’s interior? 11-25 11-26 11-27 11-28 11-29 Thanksgiving Holiday 12-3 (8-3.6) How does the theory of plate tectonics helps explain how the plates move? Thanksgiving Holiday 12-4 (8-3.6) What makes the lithospheric plates move? Thanksgiving Holiday 12-5 (8-3.6) How might convection in the Earth’s mantle affect tectonic plates? Thanksgiving Holiday 12-6 (8-3.6) How do continents change position over time? 18 Thanksgiving Holiday 12-2 Winter MAP Testing Begins (8-3.1) Of all the layers that make up the Earth, which layer is the densest and which is the least dense? 12-9 (8-3.6) How does seafloor spreading help to support the idea that continents drift? 12-10 (8-3.6) How are fossils useful evidence for continental drift? 12-11 (8-3.6) & (8-3.7) How do tectonic forces form mountains? 12-12 (8-3.6) & (8-3.7) How do the Earth’s movements affect the locations of mountains? 12-13 (8-3.7) What kinds of geologic features form when certain forces act upon them? 19 12-16 (8-3.7) How does the presence of gas increase pressure inside a volcano? 12-17 (8-3.7) & (8-3.8) How does stress in the crust change the Earth’s surface? 12-18 (8-3.7) How does faulting contribute to the dynamic properties of the earth? 12-19 (8-3.8) How do Earthquakes release energy? 12-23 12-24 12-25 12-26 12-20 Winter MAP Testing Ends (8-3.2) & (8-3.8) How does seismic energy travel through Earth? 12-27 Winter Holiday 12-30 Winter Holiday 12-31 1-1 Winter Holiday Winter Holiday 12 13 11-11 14 15 11-1 (8-3.4) & (8-3.5) What is the difference between a mineral and a rock? 16 17 20 21 Winter Holiday Winter Holiday 1-2 Winter Holiday Winter Holiday 1-3 Winter Holiday Winter Holiday 8th Grade Science 2013-2014 Assessment Guideline Questions/Recommended Pacing CROSS CUTTING CONCEPT: Energy and Matter: Flows, cycles and conservation Week Monday 1-6 Students Return Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 1-10 (8-2.2) What do fossils reveal about the geographic and environmental changes throughout geological history? 1-17 Workday 1-7 (8-3.2) & (8-3.8) Why do some earthquakes occur deeper than others? 1-8 (8-2.2) How are fossils formed? 1-9 (8-2.2)How is Earth’s past revealed in fossils? 22 (8-3.3) & (8-3.8) How can you locate an earthquake’s epicenter? 23 1-13 (8-2.2) & (8-2.6) How are index fossils used to determine the ages of rock layers? 1-14 (8-2.2) How do fossils provide concrete evidence of past life? 1-15 8-2.6) Can you determine the relative ages of rock layers? 1-16 End of 2nd Quarter/1st Semester Review 1-20 1-21 First Day of 3rd Quarter 1-22 (8-2.6) How do paleontologists determine relative ages of fossils? 1-23 (8-2.6) What is the Law of Superposition? 1-24 (8-2.2) and (8-2.6) How do organisms become fossils? 1-28 (8-2.4) What are the different units of the geologic time scale? 1-29 (8-2.5) How can a model of geologic time scale help you understand Earth’s History? 1-30 (8-2.5) Why is the Precambrian the most significant part of Earth’s History? 1-31 (8-2.5) What were the significant events during the Mesozoic and Cenozoic Eras? 2-3 (8-2.5) How has our area’s landform changed from the geologic time period? 2-4 (8-2.3) What is mass extinction? 2-5 ½ Day/Planning 2-6 (8-2.1) How do new species arise from older species? 2-10 (8-2.1) How does an increase in survival through adaptations enhance reproduction in a living population? 2-11 (8-2.1) How can an organism best adapt to its environment to survive and reproduce? 2-12 (8-2.1) What characteristics do an animal need to be well suited to its environment? 2-7 (8-2.1) How do various adaptations ensure the survival of the different species within an ecosystem? 2-14 (8-2.7) How can human activity affect populations within the ecosystem? 2-17 District Inservice 2-18 STAR Performance Task Assessment Begins (8-4.4) & (8-4.5) What causes the cycle of seasons on Earth? 2-25 (8-4.1) & (8-4.4) What shape does the Moon appear to be when it is at a small angle to the Sun? 2-19 (8-4.4) & (8-4.5) What causes patterns of temperature changes and weather trends over a year’s time? 3-4 STAR Performance Task Assessment Ends (8-4.1) How do the inner planets compare to each other? 3-11 (8-4.1) How do the Planets and other objects form a system around our Sun? 3-5 ½ Day Planning (8-4.1) What characteristics do the inner planets have in common? 3-12 (8-4.1) What are comets? 3-18 PASS Writing Test 3-19 PASS Writing Test 24 25 26 27 (8-2.6) Why fossils are important to scientists Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday 1-27 Report Cards Issued (8-2.4) Why is the geologic time scale used to show Earth’s history ? 28 2-24 Interims Issued 29 30 31 32 (8-4.1) & (8-4.4) Why does the Moon appear to change shape? 3-3 (8-4.1) How was the solar system formed? 3-10 (8-4.1) How can a dichotomous key help to classify the planets? 3-17 (8-4.1) How do you identify the distinctive features of impact craters? (8-2.3) What is mass extinction? 2-26 (8-4.4) What causes eclipses? 2-13 (8-2.7) What are examples of environmental changes that can cause the formation or extinction of species? 2-20 (8-4.4) & (8-4.5) How are temperatures throughout the year affected by the angles of sunlight? 2-21 (8-4.1) & (8-4.4) What causes the phases of the moon? 2-27 (8-4.4) Can a model be devised to show the positions of the sun, the moon, and Earth during various phases and eclipses? 3-6 (8-4.1) What characteristics do the outer planets have in common? 2-28 (8-4.4) and (8-4.7) What causes tides? 3-13 (8-4.1) What are the major parts of a comet? 3-14 (8-4.1) How does the impact of asteroids, meteoroids, and comets affect the Earth? 3-21 (8-4.2) How does energy flow through the sun’s layers? 3-20 (8-4.1) How does one characteristic of an impact or a colliding object affect the resulting crater? 3-7 (8-4.1) What are the atmospheres of the giant planets like? 8th Grade Science 2013-2014 Assessment Guideline Questions/Recommended Pacing CROSS CUTTING CONCEPT: Energy and Matter: Flows, cycles and conservation Week 33 34 35 36 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 3-24 (8-4.2) How does the Sun’s energy move through its layers? 3-25 End of 3rd Quarter (8-4.2) and (8-4.3) What are sunspots, solar flares, and prominences? 3-27 (8-4.3) Why is the sun the Earth’s most important energy source? 3-28 (8-4.2) & (8-4.3) How are magnetic storms related to sunspot activity and what causes auroras to form? 3-31 Report Cards Issued (8-4.10) What information can be determined by using a star’s color? 4-7 (8-4.6) Why don’t you notice the force of gravity between you and all of the objects around you? 4-14 (8-4.10) How do astronomers gather information about space? 4-1 (8-4.9) How are galaxies classified? 3-26 First Day of 4th Quarter Spring MAP Testing Begins (8-4.2) and (8-4.3) What are sunspots, solar flares, and prominences? 4-2 (8-4.9) How are galaxies classified? 4-3 (8-4.9) How does the solar system move relative to the Milky Way galaxy? 4-4 (8-4.6) & (8-4.8) What is the difference between mass and weight? 4-8 (8-4.6) How does the study of pendulums help us with the concept of gravitational forces? 4-9 (8-4.10) How has space technology enhanced space exploration? 4-11 (8-4.10) What tools and technology can we use to increase our knowledge of space? 4-15 PASS REVIEW 4-16 PASS REVIEW 4-10 (8-4.10) How does a telescope help astronomers analyze and interpret the data from space? 4-17 PASS REVIEW 4-21 4-22 4-23 4-24 Spring Holiday 4-25 Spring Holiday 4-28 PASS REVIEW Spring Holiday 4-29 PASS REVIEW Spring Holiday 4-30 PASS REVIEW Spring Holiday 5-1 PASS REVIEW Spring Holiday 5-2 PASS REVIEW 5-5 Interims Issued 5-6 PASS Testing 5-7 PASS Testing 5-8 PASS Testing 5-9 PASS Testing 5-12 PASS Make-up 5-13 PASS Make-up 5-14 PASS Make-up 5-15 PASS Make-up 5-16 PASS Make-up 5-19 Review 5-20 Review 5-21 Review 5-22 Review 5-23 Review 5-26 5-27 Review 5-28 Review 5-29 Review 5-30 Review 6-3 Review 6-4 Review 6-5 End of 4th Qtr. Last Day for Students 6-6 Workday Crestwood/Lakewood Graduations Saturday 6-7 Sumter Graduation 4-18 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 Memorial Day Holiday 6-2 Review