Science Course Descriptions

7th Grade Life Science

Students will be  given a variety of opportunities to develop critical thinking skills by conducting as well as planning investigations and experiments in the following topics: Structures and Processes, Ecosystems, Heredity, Biological Evolution and Engineering Design. These topics will be discovered and investigated via the application of  Cross-Cutting  Concepts (Patterns, Cause and Effect; Scale, Proportion, and Quantity; Systems and  System Models, Energy and Matter, Structure and Function; Stability and Change). The use of Cross-Cutting Concepts will be implemented in order to help students build a foundation of deductive reasoning, that enables recognition of concepts that are  common themes and connections across a variety of curriculum.

8th Grade Physical Science

 Students will be given a variety of opportunities to develop critical thinking skills by conducting as well as planning investigations and experiments in the following topics: Matter and its Interactions, Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions; Energy; Waves and their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer and Engineering Design. These topics will be discovered and investigated via the application of Cross-Cutting Concepts (Patterns; Cause and Effect; Scale, Proportion, and Quantity; Systems and System Models; Energy and Matter; Structure and Function; Stability and Change).  The use of Cross Cutting Concepts will be implemented in order to help students build a foundation of deductive reasoning that enables recognition of concepts that are common themes and connections across a variety of curriculum.