Science
Eighth-grade science focuses on the Earth, its historical changes, and its place in the universe. Students demonstrate awareness of how the Earth’s systems and processes interact in the geosphere, resulting in the habitability of the Earth. This includes understanding the properties and the interconnected nature of the Earth’s systems, as well as processes that shape the Earth and its history. Students demonstrate an understanding of how the concepts and principles of energy, matter, motion, and forces interact within the Earth’s systems. In addition, students explore issues regarding the Earth that have important and lasting effects on science and society.
Students continue to develop scientific reasoning skills as they use the processes of scientific inquiry to ask valid questions and to gather and analyze information.