8th Grade

Meet Your Teachers:

Math: Mrs. Mitsock or Ms. Kizik

Social Studies: Mrs. Rice or Mr. Craft (most material is posted on Schoology.com)

Unit 8: Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment
- New discoveries in science
- How the discoveries changed society
- New ideas that helped shape governments
Unit 7: Reformation
- Why did the Catholic Church split?
- Reformers (Martin Luther, John Calvin)
Unit 6: Renaissance
- Key players of the Renaissance?
- Cultural developments (ideas, art, etc)
Unit 5: Byzantine and Ottoman Empire
- Creation of the Empires
- Powerful people (Osman, Suleman I)
- The Schism of the Eastern and Western Church
Unit 4: The Decline of Feudalism
- How did these topics lead to the decline of feudalism?
  - The Magna Carta
  - 100 Years War
  - The Plague
Unit 3: Early Medieval Europe and the Crusades
- Fall of the Roman Empire
- Start of Feudalism
- Role of the Roman Catholic Church
- The Crusades
Unit 2: Islam
- The Prophet Muhammad
- Emergence of Islam
- Influence of Islam
Unit 1: The Silk Road, Eastern Asian Religion and Philosophies
- The Silk Road
  - Purpose and movement of ideas
- Hinduism
  - Origins and impact on lives
- Buddhism
  - Origins and enlightenment
Daoism, Confucianism, Legalism
- What each Chinese philosophy focuses on

Chemistry
- Chapter 4: Periodic Table
  - Reading the Periodic Table
  - Balancing equations
- Chapter 3: Density
  - Calculate density of different materials
- Chapter 2: Changes of State
  - Evaporation, melting, condensation, freezing
- Chapter 1: Matter
  - States of matter
  - Effects of temperature
Chapter 5 Evolution
- Adaptation
- Evolution
- Evidence for evolution
Chapter 4 DNA
- What is DNA?
- How does DNA replicate?
- Mutations
Chapter 3 Heredity and Genetics
- Dominant and recessive genes
- Alleles and Punnett Squares
- Parents and offspring