Students will be focusing on these Science and Engineering Practices based on NGSS Standards for all units:
1. Asking questions and defining problems
2. Developing and using models
3. Planning and carrying out investigations
4. Analyzing and interpreting data
5. Using mathematics and computational thinking
6. Constructing explanations and designing solutions
7. Engaging in argument from evidence
8. Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information
The major units covered throughout the year include:
Metrics
1. Asking questions and defining problems
2. Developing and using models
3. Planning and carrying out investigations
4. Analyzing and interpreting data
5. Using mathematics and computational thinking
6. Constructing explanations and designing solutions
7. Engaging in argument from evidence
8. Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information
The major units covered throughout the year include:
Metrics
- Students learn how to use tools for metric measurement.
- Students will learn the basic metric prefixes and be able to convert from one unit to another.
- Students will learn the concepts of mass, weight, distance, volume, and density.
- Students learn to make scientific observations and inferences.
- Students learn how to design and conduct valid experiments following scientific processes
- Students will learn about the states and properties of matter.
- Students will learn the fundamentals behind the Periodic Table and how it relates to the current model of the atom.
- Students will learn about the theory of plate tectonics and continental drift.
- Students will learn about renewable and non-renewable resources.
- Students will learn about geoscience and human processes that affect the distribution of natural resources.
- Students will learn the differences between bacteria and viruses.
- Students will learn about protozoa’s and how they eat and move.
- Students will learn about the parts of a microscope and how to use it properly.