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: chemical reactions, conservation of energy, energy transfer, thermal energy, forces and motion, weather and climate, and human impact on the environment. This course also includes review of sixth and seventh grade topics in preparation for the Grade 8 Maryland Integrated Science Assessment( MISA). 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.
