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Course Objectives

7th Grade Objectives and Goals

In grade 7, instructional time will be based on NGSS Standards and will focus on four critical areas:

  1. Understanding Matter 
  2. The Changing Earth.
  3. Earth's resources
  4. Interactions within ecosystems.
  • Students will investigate how energy flows through ecosystems, factors that affect ecosystems and the importance of biodiversity.
  • Students will discover how earth's surface is constantly changing due to movement to the tectonic plates. 
  • Students will explore Earth's resources : renewable and nonrenewable.
  • Students will learn how to define, evaluate, and compare data.
  • Students will examine what matter is and how matter interacts.
  • Students will develop an understanding of scientific methods and the design engineering process through hands on inquiry driven lab investigations and projects.

 

 

 

8th Grade Objectives and Goals

 

In grade 8, instructional time will be based on NGSS Standards and will focus on four critical areas:

  1. Understanding matter,
  2. Understanding waves,
  3. Energy and motion,
  4. Interactions of matter.
  • Students investigate the definitions of matter and how matter interacts
  • Students will explore how light waves travel and behave.
  • Students will analyze how forces effect objects.
  • Students will learn how to define, evaluate, and compare data.
  • Students will discover how energy is transferred, learn about different types of energy and examine chemical and physical reactions.
  • Students will develop an understanding of scientific methods and the design engineering process through hands on inquiry driven lab investigations and projects.