EIGHTH GRADE SCIENCE
 

During Grade Eight  Earth Science, students continue to expand their range of inquiry skills and achieve proficiency with those skills for understanding scientific principles. The nature of science is developed
and reinforced for students through planning and conducting investigations in which: research methods are used to investigate practical problems and questions; Valid conclusions are made after analyzing experimental data; experimental results are presented in appropriate written form.
 

Students will investigate and understand:
• The basic nature of matter.
• The modern and historical models of atomic structure.
• The organization and use of the periodic table of elements to
obtain information.
• Changes in matter and the relationship of these changes to the
Law of Conservation of Matter and Energy.
• States and forms of energy and how energy is transferred and
transformed.
• Temperature scales, heat, and heat transfer.
• Characteristics of sound and technological applications of sound
waves.
• The nature and technological applications of light.
• Scientific principles and technological applications of work, force,
and motion.
• Basic principles of electricity and magnetism.