Curriculum Guide for 8th_ Grade
NGSS
T.E. Book
Title
Critical Content
(Big Idea –
written as a
question)
Student
chapter
&
Section
(UPDATED 6/4/2013)
Objectives/Key Concepts
(Please write as a statement.)
Required Summative
Tests and Labs/Projects
(see V:drive for alternates)
Pacing
(days)
3.1.1 Explain why elements are called the building
blocks of matter.
PS1.A
Chemical
Interactions
How do
compounds
form?
3.1
*3.1.2 Describe how atomic theory developed and
4
changed.
3.1.3 How the reactivity of elements is related to
valence electrons in atoms.
PS1.A
PS1.A
Chemical
Interactions
Chemical
Interactions
How do
compounds
form?
How do
compounds
form?
3.2.1 Explain how the reactivity of elements is related
to valence electrons in atoms.
3.2
3.2.2 State what the periodic table tells you about
atoms and the properties of elements?
3.1 and 3.2 will be one
summative
4
Summative (formative,
review, assessment)
3
3.3.1 Describe ions and explain how they form bonds.
3.3
5
3.3.2 Identify the properties of ionic compounds.
3.4.1 Explain what holds covalent bonds together.
PS1.A
Chemical
Interactions
How do
compounds
form?
3.4
3.4.2 Identify the properties of molecular
compounds.
3.3 – 3.4 will be a summative
5
Summative (formative,
review, assessment)
3
*3.4.3 Explain how unequal sharing occurs and how
it affects molecules
* Limited Assessment
PS1.B
Chemical
Interactions
What happens
during chemical
reactions?
PS1.B
Chemical
Interactions
What happens
during chemical
reactions?
PS1.B
Chemical
Interactions
What happens
during chemical
reactions?
4.1.1 State how matter and changes in matter can be
described.
4.1
4.2
2
4.1.2 Explain how you can tell when a chemical
reaction occurs.
4.2.1 Identify what information a chemical equation
contains.
4.2.2 State the principle of conservation of mass.
*4.2.3 Explain what a balanced chemical equation
must show.
*4.2.4 Identify three categories of chemical reactions.
4.3.1 Explain how activation energy is related to
chemical reactions.
8
4.3
2
4.3.2 Identify factors that affect the rate of a chemical
reaction.
Summative (formative,
review, assessment)
3
*5.1.1 State the characteristics solutions colloids and
PS1.A
Chemical
Interactions
How may
properties of
acids and bases
be determined?
suspensions.
5.1
5.1.2 Describe what happens to the particles of a
solute when a solution forms.
2
5.1.3 Explain how solutes affect the freezing and
boiling points of a solvent.
PS1.A
Chemical
Interactions
How may
properties of
acids and bases
be determined?
*5.2.1 Describe how concentration is measured
5.2
5.2.2 Explain why solubility is useful in identifying
substances
2
5.2.3 Identify factors that affect the solubility of a
substance.
Summative (formative,
review, assessment)
* Limited Assessment
2
PS1.B
PS1.B
Chemical
Interactions
Chemical
Interactions
How may
properties of
acids and bases
be determined?
How may
properties of
acids and bases
be determined?
5.3.1 Describe the properties of acids and bases.
5.3
2
*5.3.2 Explain how and where acids and bases are
commonly used.
*5.4.1 State what kind of ions acids and bases form
in water.
5.4
5.4.2 Explain what pH tells you about a solution.
Cabbage Juice Lab
(summative)
4
5.4.3 Describe what happens in a neutralization
reaction.
LS1.C
PS3.D
Chemical
Interactions
Chemical
Interactions
How may
properties of
acids and bases
be determined?
Why does carbon
have a central
role in the
chemistry of
living things?
5.5.1 Explain why the body must digest food.
5.5
1
5.5.2 Describe how pH affects digestion.
6.3.1 List the four main classes of organic compounds
in living things.
6.3
6.3.2 How do the classes of organic compounds in
living things differ from each other?
Summative (formative,
review, assessment)
3
Biochemical Identification
Lab
(Summative)
5
Formative and review for
Lab Summative (see above)
2
WINTER BREAK
LS1.A
Cells and
Heredity
How are cells
important to the
structure and
function of living
things?
7.1.1 Explain what cells are.
*7.1.2 Explain how the invention of the microscope
7.1
contributes to knowledge about living things.
7.1.3 State the cell theory.
* Limited Assessment
3
LS1.A
Cells and
Heredity
How are cells
important to the
structure and
function of living
things?
7.2.1 Identify the role of the cell wall and the cell
membrane in the cell.
7.2.2 Describe the functions of cell organelles.
7.2
7.2.3 Explain how cells are organized in many-celled
organisms.
Organelle project could
(summative project)
6
*7.2.4 Tell how bacterial cells differ from plant and
animal cells.
Summative (formative,
review, assessment)
PS3.D
PS3.D
LS1.C
PS3.D
LS1.C
Cells and
Heredity
How are cells
important to the
structure and
function of living
things?
Cells and
Heredity
How do cells
obtain the
energy they need
to carry out all
their functions?
Cells and
Heredity
How do cells
obtain the
energy they need
to carry out all
their functions?
7.4.1 Describe how most small molecules cross the
cell membrane.
7.4
7.4.2 Explain why osmosis is important to cells.
7.4.3 Tell the difference between passive transport
and active transport.
TREATED AS SEPERATE
CHAPTER (7.4, 8.1, 8.2)
Eggsperiment with a Cell (p.
237)
[summative lab]
3
4
8.1.1 Explain how the sun supplies living things with
the energy they need.
8.1
8.2
2
8.1.2 Describe what happens during the process of
photosynthesis.
8.2.1 Describe the events that occur during
respiration.
8.2.2 Tell what fermentation is.
* Limited Assessment
Chapter ENDS
(7.4, 8.1, 8.2)
2
Summative (formative,
review, assessment)
3
LS3.A
LS3.B
LS3.A
Cells and
Heredity
How do cells
obtain the
energy they need
to carry out all
their functions?
Cells and
Heredity
How do cells
obtain the
energy they need
to carry out all
their functions?
Cells and
Heredity
How are traits
passed from
parents to
offspring?
8.3.1 Identify the events that take place during the
three stages of the cell cycle.
8.3
8.3.2 Explain how the structure of DNA helps account
for the way in which DNA copies itself.
NEW CHAPTER
(8.3, 8.4, 9.4)
Cell Cycle Project
8.4.1 Explain how cancer is related to the cell cycle.
8.4
1
*8.4.2 Describe how cancer can be treated and
prevented.
9.4.1 Explain what forms the genetic code.
9.4
4
9.4.2 Describe how a cell produces proteins.
9.4.3 Identify how mutations can affect an organism.
Summative (formative,
review, assessment)
LS1.B
LS3.A
Cells and
Heredity
How are traits
passed from
parents to
offspring?
LS3.B
How are traits
passed from
parents to
offspring?
3
9.1.1 Describe the results of Mendel’s experiments.
9.1
9.1.2 Identify what controls the inheritance of traits
in organisms.
9.2.1 Define probability and describe how it helps
explain the results of genetic crosses.
Cells and
Heredity
8
9.2
9.2.2 Explain what is meant by genotype and
phenotype.
9.2.3 Tell what codominance is.
* Limited Assessment
NEW CHAPTER
(9.1, 9.2, 9.3)
Bug Builder lab
(see old Holt textbook)
(Summative Lab)
5
4
9.3.1 Describe the role chromosomes play in
inheritance.
LS3.A
Cells and
Heredity
How are traits
passed from
parents to
offspring?
Meiosis Foldable
9.3
9.3.2 Identify the events that occur during meiosis.
4
(Summative Project)
9.3.3 Explain the relationship between chromosomes
and genes.
Summative (formative,
review, assessment)
LS3.A
LS3.B
LS4.B
LS4.B
Cells and
Heredity
Cells and
Heredity
Cells and
Heredity
What
applications of
science and
technology have
advanced the
study of
genetics?
What
applications of
science and
technology have
advanced the
study of
genetics?
What
applications of
science and
technology have
advanced the
study of
genetics?
3
10.1.1 List patterns of inheritance in humans.
10.1.2 Explain the functions of the sex chromosomes.
10.1
3
10.1.3 Explain the relationship between genes and
the environment.
10.2.1 List the two major causes of genetic disorders
in humans.
10.2
10.2.2 Describe how geneticists trace the inheritance
of traits.
3
*10.2.3 Explain how genetic disorders diagnosed and
treated.
10.3
10.3.1 List the three ways of producing organisms
with desired traits.
2
10.3.2 Explain the goal of the human genome project.
Summative (formative,
review, assessment)
* Limited Assessment
3
LS4.A
LS4.B
LS4.A
LS4.C
LS4.A
ESS1.C
Cells and
Heredity
Cells and
Heredity
Cells and
Heredity
What process
leads to the
evolution and
diversity of
organisms?
What process
leads to the
evolution and
diversity of
organisms?
What process
leads to the
evolution and
diversity of
organisms?
11.1.1 Describe important observations Darwin made
on his voyage.
11.1
11.1.2 Explain the hypothesis Darwin made to explain
the difference between similar species.
3
11.1.3 Explain how natural selection leads to
evolution.
11.2.1 State evidence that supports the theory of
evolution.
11.2
11.2.2 Explain how scientists infer evolutionary
relationships among organisms.
Caminalcule Evolution lab
(see internet)
[summative lab]
3
Life Long Calendar or Full
Earth/Living Earth timeline
project (summative project)
3
Summative (formative,
review, assessment)
3
11.2.3 Describe how new species form.
11.3
11.3.2 Explain how scientists can determine a fossil’s
age.
*11.3.3 State what the Geologic Time Scale is.
* Limited Assessment