Physical Science

• • Atoms
  • States of Matter
  • Changing States of Matter
  • Potential and Kinetic Energy
  • Gravity

Earth Science

• • Radiation and Greenhouse Effect
  • Seasons
  • Scale of Solar System
  • Constellation Movement
  • Eclipses and Moon

Life Science

• • Food Chains and Webs
  • Ecosystem Relationships
  • Change in Species
  • Human Impact on Ecosystems

Students will engage in many science and engineering practices:

• asking questions and defining problems
• developing and using models (both conceptual and physical)
• planning and carrying out investigations
• analyzing and interpreting data
• using mathematics and computational thinking
• constructing explanations and design solutions
• engaging in argument from evidence
• obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information

Instruction will bridge boundaries between science and other disciplines and connect core ideas and practices throughout the fields of study:

• patterns
• cause and effect
• structure and function
• systems and system models
• stability and change
• scale, proportion, and quantity
• energy and matter