This course is designed to engage students in a comprehensive program as they work to make sense of the natural world through phenomenon-based instruction and the Science and Engineering Practices (SEPs) and Crosscutting Concepts (CCCs) of the Next Generation of Science Standards (NGSS). The Disciplinary Core Ideas for eighth grade include: waves and their applications in technologies, genetic mutations and variation, artificial selection, the fossil record, developmental relationships among organisms, adaptation, growth of organisms, survival and natural selection, Earth’s history, Earth’s systems, and Earth and human activity In this course, students are expected to consistently apply the SEPs and demonstrate the correlation among the CCCs in order to make sense of and connect the DCIs across disciplines of science This course also includes review of sixth and seventh grade topics in preparation for the Grade 8 Maryland Integrated Science Assessment (MISA).
418873 - Co-Teach - This course is designed to have a general education teacher work in collaboration with a special educator in order to ensure that both general education and special education students have access to the general education curriculum while incorporating instructional practices and strategies to meet the needs of all students;
417883 - Intensive - This course is designed to be a small class environment for special education students enrolled in a designated special education program.
