SCIENCE Grade 8 Standards Met by Nature Net Sites
A.8.1
Develop their understanding of the science themes by using the themes to
frame questions about science-related issues and problems
[ALNC*;
BHNC*; CM*; ICF+; JSF; MKE; OBG+; OWP; UWA*]
A.8.2
Describe limitations of science systems and give reasons why specific
science themes are included in or excluded from those systems
[ALF+;
ALNC*; BHNC*; JSF; MKE; OBG+; OWP; UWA*]
A.8.3
Defend explanations and models by collecting and organizing evidence that
supports them and critique explanations and models by collecting and organizing
evidence that conflicts with them
[ALNC*;
BHNC+; CM+; JSF+; MKE; OBG+; OWP+; UWA*]
A.8.4
Collect evidence to show that models developed as explanations for events
were (and are) based on the evidence available to scientists at the time
[ALF+;
ALNC*; BHNC*; CM+; ICF+; JSF+; MKE; OBG+; OWP+; UWA*; UWG+]
A.8.5
Show how models and explanations, based on systems, were changed as new
evidence accumulated (the effects of constancy, evolution, change, and
measurement should all be part of these explanations)
[ALF+;
ALNC*; BHNC+; CM; JSF+; MKE; OBG+; OWP+; UWA]
A.8.6
Use models and explanations to predict actions and events in the natural
world
[ALNC*;
BHNC+; CM; JSF+; MKE; OBG+; OWP+; UWA*; UWG+]
A.8.7
Design real or thought investigations to test the usefulness and
limitations of a model
[ALNC*;
BHNC*; CM+; JSF+; MKE+; OBG+; OWP+; UWA*]
A.8.8.
Use the themes of evolution, equilibrium, and energy to predict future
events or changes in the natural world
[ALNC*;
BHNC+; CM+; ICF+; JSF+; MKE+; OBG+; OWP+; UWA*; UWG+]
B. NATURE OF SCIENCE
B.8.1
Describe how scientific knowledge and concepts have changed over time in
the earth and space, life and environmental, and physical sciences
[ALF+;
ALNC*; BHNC+; CM+; JSF*; MKE*; OBG+;
OWP*; UWA*]
B.8.2
Identify and describe major changes that have occurred over in conceptual
models and explanations in the earth and space, life and environmental, and
physical sciences and identify the people, cultures, and conditions that led to
these developments
[ALF+;
ALNC*; CM*; ICF+; JSF*; MKE*; OWP*;
UWA*]
B.8.3
Explain how the general rules of science apply to the development and use
of evidence in science investigations, model-making, and applications
[ALNC*;
BHNC+; CM+; JSF*; MKE; OWP*; UWA*]
B.8.4
Describe types of reasoning and evidence used outside of science to draw
conclusions about the natural world
[ALNC*;
BHNC+; CM+; ICF+; JSF+; MKE; OBG*; OWP+; UWA+]
B.8.5
Explain ways in which science knowledge is shared, checked, and extended,
and show how these processes change over time
[ALNC*;
BHNC+; CM+; ICF+; MKE*; UWA*]
B.8.6
Explain the ways in which scientific knowledge is useful and also limited
when applied to social issues
[ALF+;
ALNC*; JSF*; MKE; OBG*; OWP*; UWA+; UWG+]
C.8.1
Identify questions they can investigate using resources and equipment
they have available
[ALNC*;
BHNC; CM+; ICF+; JSF; MKE; OBG*; OWP; UWA*; UWG+]
C.8.2
Identify data and locate sources of information including their own
records to answer the questions being investigated
[ALNC*;
BHNC+; CM+; JSF; MKE; OBG*; OWP; UWA*]
C.8.3
Design and safely conduct investigations that provide reliable
quantitative or qualitative data, as appropriate, to answer their questions
[ALNC*;
BHNC+; CM+; JSF+; MKE; OBG*; OWP+; UWA+]
C.8.4
Use inferences to help decide possible results of their investigations,
use observations to check their inferences
[ALNC*;
BHNC+; CM+; JSF+; MKE; OBG*; OWP+; UWA+]
C.8.5
Use accepted scientific knowledge, models, and theories to explain their
results and to raise further questions about their investigations
[ALNC*;
BHNC*; JSF+; MKE; OBG*; OWP+; UWA+; UWG+]
C.8.6
State what they have learned from investigations, relating their
inferences to scientific knowledge and to data they have collected
[ALNC*;
BHNC*; JSF+; MKE; OBG*; OWP+; UWA+]
C.8.7
Explain their data and conclusions in ways that allow an audience to
understand the questions they selected for investigation and the answers they
have developed
[ALNC*;
BHNC+; JSF+; MKE+; OBG+; OWP+]
C.8.8
Use computer software and other technologies to organize, process, and
present their data
[ALNC+;
OBG+]
C.8.9
Evaluate, explain, and defend the validity of questions, hypotheses, and
conclusions to their investigations
[ALNC*;
BHNC*; CM+; MKE+; OBG+]
C.8.10
Discuss the importance of their results and implications of their work with
peers, teachers, and other adults
[ALNC*;
BHNC+; MKE+; OBG+]
C.8.11
Raise further questions which still need to be answered
[ALNC*;
BHNC; ICF+; MKE+; OBG+; UWA*; UWG+]
PROPERTIES
AND CHANGES OF PROPERTIES IN MATTER
D.8.1
Observe, describe, and measure physical and chemical properties of
elements and other substances to identify and group them according to properties
such as density, melting points, boiling points, conductivity, magnetic
attraction, solubility, and reactions to common physical and chemical tests
[ALNC*;
MKE*; UWG+]
D.8.2
Use the major ideas of atomic theory and molecular theory to describe
physical and chemical interactions among substances, including solids, liquids,
and gases
D.8.3
Understand how chemical interactions and behaviors lead to new substances
with different properties
[CMu; MKE]
D.8.4
While conducting investigations, use the science themes to develop
explanations of physical and chemical interactions and energy exchanges
[ALNC*; CMu; MKE]
MOTIONS
AND FORCES
D.8.5
While conducting investigations, explain the motion of objects by
describing the forces acting on them
[ALNC+;
BHNC*; MKE*; UWG+]
D.8.6
While conducting investigations, explain the motion of objects using
concepts of speed, velocity,
acceleration, friction, momentum, and changes over time, among others, and apply
these concepts and explanations to real-life situations outside the classroom
[ALNC+;
BHNC*; MKE*; UWG+]
D.8.7
While conducting investigations of common physical and chemical
interactions occurring in the laboratory and the outside world, use commonly
accepted definitions of energy and the idea of energy conservation
TRANSFER
OF ENERGY
D.8.8
Describe and investigate the properties of light, heat, gravity, radio
waves, magnetic fields, electrical fields, and sound waves as they interact with
material objects in common situations
[ALNC*;
MKE+]
D.8.9
Explain the behaviors of various forms of energy by using the models of
energy transmission, both in the laboratory and in real-life situations in the
outside world
[ALNC*;
MKE+; UWA+]
STRUCTURE
OF EARTH SYSTEM
E.8.1
Using the science themes, explain and predict changes in major features
of land, water, and atmospheric systems
[ALNC*;
BHNC+; CM*; ICF+; JSF*; MKE*; OBG*; OWP*; UWA+]
E.8.2
Describe underlying structures of the earth that cause changes in the
earth's surface
[BHNC+;
CMu; MKE*; OBG*; UWA+; UWG]
E.8.3
Using the science themes during the process of investigation, describe
climate, weather, ocean currents, soil movements and changes in the forces
acting on the earth
[ALNC+;
BHNC+; CMu; MKE*; OBG*; UWA+]
E.8.4
Using the science themes, analyze the influence living organisms have had
on the earth's systems, including their impact on the composition of the
atmosphere and the weathering of rocks
[ALNC*;
BHNC+; CMu; MKE*; OBG*; UWA+; UWG+]
EARTH'S
HISTORY
E.8.5
Analyze the geologic and life history of the earth, including change over
time, using various forms of scientific evidence
[ALNC*;
BHNC*; CMu; ICF+; MKE*; OBG+; UWA*; UWG+]
E.8.6
Describe through investigations the use of the earth's resources by
humans in both past and current cultures, particularly how changes in the
resources used for the past 100 years are the basis for efforts to conserve and
recycle renewable and non-renewable resources
[ALNC; BHNC*; CMu; ICF+; MKE*; OBG+; UWA*]
EARTH
IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM
E.8.7
Describe the general structure of the solar system, galaxies, and the
universe, explaining the nature of the evidence used to develop current models
of the universe
[MKE*]
E.8.8
Using past and current models of the structure of the solar system,
explain the daily, monthly, yearly, and long-term cycles of the earth, citing
evidence gained from personal observation as well as evidence used by scientists
F. LIFE
AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
STRUCTURE
AND FUNCTION IN LIVING THINGS
F.8.1
Understand the structure and function of cells, organs, tissues, organ
systems, and whole organisms
[ALNC*;
BHNC+; CM+; MKE*; OBG+; UWA+; UWG+]
F.8.2
Show how organisms have adapted structures to match their functions,
providing means of encouraging individual and group survival within specific
environments
[ALNC;
BHNC+; CM+; ICF; MKE*; OBG; UWA*]
F.8.3
Differentiate between single-celled and multiple-celled organisms
(humans) through investigation, comparing the cell functions of specialized
cells for each type of organism
[ALNC+; CM+; OBG+; UWA+]
REPRODUCTION
AND HEREDITY
F.8.4
Investigate and explain that heredity is comprised of the characteristic
traits found in genes within the cell of an organism
[ALNC+;
BHNC+; MKE*; UWA+]
F.8.5
Show how different structures both reproduce and pass on characteristics
of their group
[ALNC+;
UWA+]
REGULATION
AND BEHAVIOR
F.8.6
Understand that an organism is regulated both internally and externally
[ALNC;
BHNC+; CM+; JSF*; MKE; OBG*; OWP*; UWA+; UWG+]
F.8.7
Understand that an organism's behavior evolves through adaptation to its
environment
[ALNC;
BHNC; CM+; ICF+; JSF*; MKE; OBG; OWP*; UWA*]
POPULATIONS
AND ECOSYSTEMS
F.8.8
Show through investigations how organisms both depend on and contribute
to the balance or imbalance of populations and/or ecosystems, which in turn
contribute to the total system of life on the planet
[ALF+;
ALNC*; BHNC+; CM; ICF+; JSF; MKE; OBG*; OWP; UWA*]
DIVERSITY
AND ADAPTATIONS OF ORGANISMS
F.8.9
Explain how some of the changes on the earth are contributing to changes
in the balance of life and affecting the survival or population growth of
certain species
[ALF+;
ALNC; BHNC+; ICF; JSF*; MKE; OBG*; OWP*; UWA+; UWG+]
F.8.10
Project how current trends in human resource use and population growth will
influence the natural environment, and show how current policies affect those
trends
[ALF+;
ALNC*; BHNC+; CM; ICF; MKE; OBG*; UWA+
G.8.1
Identify and investigate the skills people need for a career in science
or technology and identify the academic courses that a person pursuing such a
career would need
[BHNC*;
CMu; ICF*; MKE*; OBG+; UWA+]
G.8.2
Explain how current scientific and technological discoveries have an
influence on the work people do and how some of these discoveries also lead to
new careers
[ALNC+;
BHNC*; MKE*; OBG+; UWA+
G.8.3
Illustrate the impact that science and technology have had, both good and
bad, on careers, systems, society, environment, and quality of life
[ALNC*;
BHNC+; MKE*; OBG+; UWA+]
G.8.4
Propose a design (or re-design) of an applied science model or a machine
that will have an impact in the community or elsewhere in the world and show how
the design (or re-design) might work, including potential side-effects
[ALNC+;
MKE+; UWA+]
G.8.5
Investigate a specific local problem to which there has been a scientific
or technological solution, including proposals for alternative courses of
action, the choices that were made, reasons for the choices, any new problems
created, and subsequent community satisfaction
[ALNC+;
MKE+; UWA+]
G.8.6
Use current texts, encyclopedias, source books, computers, experts, the
popular press, or other relevant sources to identify examples of how scientific
discoveries have resulted in new technology
[ALNC*;
MKE+]
G.8.7
Show evidence of how science and technology are interdependent, using
some examples drawn from personally conducted investigations
H.8.1
Evaluate the scientific evidence used in various media (for example,
television, radio, Internet, popular press, and scientific journals) to address
a social issue, using criteria of accuracy, logic, bias, relevance of data, and
credibility of sources
H.8.2
Present a scientific solution to a problem involving the earth and space,
life and environmental, or physical sciences and participate in a
consensus-building discussion to arrive at a group decision
[ALNC+;
BHNC*; MKE+; UWA+]
H.8.3
Understand the consequences of decisions affecting personal health and
safety
[ALNC+;
BHNC+; CMu; MKE*]