Full year
In Grade 8 Science, students and teachers engage in learning activities centered around these beliefs. Through the content units of Genetic and Heredity, Evolution of Life, Waves, and Earth and Space Systems, students are expected to:
- Be inquisitive and to ask questions
- Develop and use models
- Construct explanations of phenomena
- Plan and carry out investigations
- Analyze and interpret data
- Engage in argument from evidence
- Design, test and modify solutions to problems
- Obtain, evaluate and communicate information
As teachers facilitate learning in a more constructivist environment, we expect students to engage with/in: project based learning, laboratory practices, discussion, research, writing activities, technology, engineering design, reflection on learning and an analysis of human impact on Earth. In doing so, students find answers and develop new questions while uncovering understanding from essential questions such as:
- How do genetics and DNA affect the inheritance of characteristics in living things?
- How has life on Earth changed over time?
- How do light and sound transfer energy?
- What affects the behavior of sound and light waves?
- How did the solar system form and how will it change over time?
- How does gravity affect our solar system?