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Middle School Science Curriculum || **Unit 1: Energy Flow through Weather ** • Scientific models • Movement of atoms in solids, liquids, and gases • Heat and temperature • Heat and light as forms of energy • Conduction, convection, and radiation • Cause of seasons • Conditions in the troposphere • Humidity, dew point, and cloud formation • Air pressure, winds and wind belts, the Coriolis effect, and the jet stream. • Warm air and cold air masses, weather patterns, and storms • Latitude and longitude • What meteorology studies ||  [|weather data from weather underground] || **Unit 1: Changes in Matter ** • Variables in experiments • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Properties of matter • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Physical and chemical changes in matter • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Atoms in solids, liquids, and gases • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Structure of the atom
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|| <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> || **<span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Unit 1: Amusement Parks ** • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Speed and acceleration • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Contact and non-contact forces • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Newton’s laws of motion; inertia • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Simple machines and work • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Mechanical efficiency <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">

|| <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> || || **<span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Unit 2: Dynamic Earth ** • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Interior layers of Earth (crust, mantle, inner/outer core) • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Major surface features and events on Earth due to plate tectonics (seafloor spreading, mountain building, earthquakes, and volcanoes). • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Earthquakes and volcanoes • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Types of rocks and the rock cycle • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Weathering as it applies to the rock cycle • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Time required for earth processes • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Fossils in sedimentary rocks • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Work of geologists, seismologists, and volcanologists || [|Explosion-of-lava videos]
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[|LIGO e-Lab] (seismic studies)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> || <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> **<span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Unit 2: Building Blocks of Nature ** • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Cell theory • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Prokaryotes and eukaryotes • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Plant and animal cells • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Osmosis • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Unicellular and multicellular organisms • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Structure vs. function • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Levels of cellular organization • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Cell cycle • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Asexual and sexual reproduction • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Characteristics and needs of living things • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Viruses • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Classification of living things • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Bacteria, fungi, and protists • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Plants || || <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> **<span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Unit 2: The Final Frontier ** • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Electromagnetic radiation • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Waves, light, and sound • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Cause of Earth’s seasons • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Solar system • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Causes of moon phases • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Mass, weight, and gravity • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Causes of Earth’s tides • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Stars and galaxies || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|The Geometry of Sound] [|Galaxy Zoo]

[] || || **<span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Unit 3: Power Plants ** • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Parts of the atom (nucleus and negatively charged electrons only) • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Magnetic domains and magnetic fields • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Forms of energy • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Energy transformations • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Static electricity • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Current electricity • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Series and parallel circuits • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Electromagnetism • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Safety with electricity • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Renewable and non-renewable energy <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">sources || <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> || **<span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Unit 3: Global Connections ** • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Abiotic and biotic parts of an environment • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Population, community, and ecosystem • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Energy flow in ecosystems (food webs and energy pyramids) • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Adaptations of organisms • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Interactions among organisms; cycles of matter • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">How plants and animals change the land || <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> || **<span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Unit 3 Earth’s Systems ** • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Cycling of matter and energy • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Effect of people on ecosystems • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Patterns of heredity • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Asexual and sexual reproduction • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Meiosis • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Science ethics involving humans and animals • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Adaptations in organisms over time; fossils • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Ethical treatment of animals and humans in scientific research ||^  || <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> || || **<span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Unit 4: Alive and Well ** • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Cellular organization • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Human body systems (structure and function • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Animal kingdom characteristics  • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Invertebrate and vertebrate animals <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> || <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> || **<span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Unit 4: Water on Earth ** • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Physical and chemical weathering  • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Fresh water: underground and surface water  • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Importance of Water and water pollution  • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Erosion by liquid and solid water, wind, and gravity • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Salt water: currents, waves, beach erosion, and deposition • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Effect of oceans on climate • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Saltwater and fresh water wetlands • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Human effects on coastlines <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> || <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> || **<span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Unit 5: It’s Elementary (Bridge to Grade 9) ** • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Characteristic properties of matter, including density and boiling point • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Atomic structure; atoms and ions • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The significance of the atomic number of elements • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Elements and compounds; periodic table • <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Pure substances and mixtures || <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> ||
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