Science

Unit Overview/Newsletter

7th:

We will be starting a new unit over Magnetic Fields this semester. Below are the standards/expectations that we will be addressing:

• PS2-3 Ask questions about data to determine the factors that affect the strength of electric and magnetic forces.

• PS2-4 Construct and present arguments using evidence to support the claim that gravitational interactions are attractive and depend on the masses of interacting objects.

• PS2-5 Conduct an investigation and evaluate the experimental design to provide evidence that fields exist between objects exerting forces on each other even though the objects are not in contact

• PS3-2 Develop a model to describe that when the arrangement of objects interacting at a distance changes, different amounts of potential energy are stored in the system.

8th:

We will be starting a new unit over "Earth's Changing Climate" this semester. Below are the standards/expectations that we will be addressing:

• ESS3-2 Analyze and interpret data on natural hazards to forecast future catastrophic events and inform the development of technologies to mitigate their effects.

• ESS3-3 Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment.

• ESS3-4 Construct an argument supported by evidence for how increases in human population and per-capita consumption of natural resources impact Earth’s systems.

• ESS3-5 Ask questions to clarify evidence of the factors that have caused the rise in global temperatures over the past century.