2012-2013 PACING GUIDE RATIONALE M/J COMPREHENSIVE SCIENCE 3 FCAT 2.0 Science was administered to students for the first time in the spring of 2012. The test and standards have been revised as big ideas that flow throughout all grade levels and build in rigor as students progress to higher grades. There are 18 big ideas that are organized into four Bodies of Knowledge (Nature of Science, Life Science, Earth Science, and Physical Science). The Nature of Science benchmarks are taught at the beginning of the year and integrated in all units and activities throughout the entire school year at every grade level. Lab safety and the use of scientific tools should be introduced at the beginning of the year and re-addressed continuously throughout the year. In middle school the FCAT 2.0 Science is only administered in 8 th grade. The NGSS benchmarks for science are considered “fair game”. This means that the benchmarks from previous grade levels can be tested, but they will not be tested in isolation. The Pacing Guide was developed by a team of middle grades science teachers using the Florida Science Standards, Test Item Specifications, 2011 & 2012 FCAT Content Focus Reports, and Pearson Interactive Science Textbooks as the primary resources. The intent was to provide 8 th grade teachers sufficient time to teach all of the 8 th grade FCAT 2.0 standards by January 18th, 2013 and provide a 7 week comprehensive review of all Annually Assessed Benchmarks and “Fair Game” before FCAT Testing Begins in April. RECOMMENDATIONS:
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Interactive textbook Section 1.1 Inquiry Warm-Up: How Does a Scientist Think Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading)
Interactive textbook Section 1.2 Inquiry Warm-Up: What is Scientific Measurement? Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading)
Interactive textbook Section Inquiry Warm-Up: How do Math and Science Work Together? Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading)
What tools do scientists use to investigate the natural world?
How are stars classified? What is an H-R Diagram and how do astronomers use it?
How a star form and what determines its life span? What happens to a star when it runs out?
What is the structure of the sun? What features can you see on the sun?
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Spectrograph, apparent brightness, absolute brightness, Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram, main sequence
Nebula, protostar, white dwarf, supernova, neutron star, pulsar, black hole
Core, nuclear fusion, radiation zone, convection zone, photosphere chromosphere, corona, solar wind, sun spot, prominence, solar flare
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Interactive textbook Section 3.4 Inquiry Warm-Up: How do stars differ? Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading)
Interactive textbook Section 3.5 Inquiry Warm-Up: What determines how long stars live? Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading)
Interactive textbook Section Inquiry Warm-Up: How can you safely observe the sun? Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Chapter 3 Review and Assessment Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading)
Interactive textbook Section 4.1 Inquiry Warm-Up: How big is Earth? Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading)
Interactive textbook Section 4.2 Inquiry Warm-Up: Why do craters look different from each other? Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading)
Interactive textbook Section 4.3 Inquiry Warm-Up: Ring around the sun Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading)
What astronomical objects exist in the universe? Why are objects in the solar system different from each other?
What do the outer planets have in common? What are the characteristics of each outer planet?
How do scientists classify small objects in the solar system?
What was the Geocentric Model? How did the Heliocentric Model Develop?
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Gas giant, ring Asteroid belt, Kuiper belt, Oort cloud, comet, coma, nucleus, asteroid, meteor, meteorite
Geocentric, heliocentric, ellipse
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Interactive textbook Section 4.4 Inquiry Warm-Up: How big are the planets? Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading)
Interactive textbook Section 4.6 Inquiry Warm-Up: What is at the center? Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading)
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Additional Websites: Brainpop Gizmo Study Island Scholastic.com Phet simulations NCClark.net
Interactive textbook Section 7.1 Inquiry Warm-Up: Differences in Compounds Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading)-Describing Matter
Interactive textbook Section 7.2 Inquiry Warm-Up: What are solids, liquids, and gases? Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading) States of Matter
Interactive textbook Section 7.3 Inquiry Warm-Up: What happens when you breathe on a mirror? Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading) Chapter 7 Review and Assessment
What units are used to express mass and volume? How is density determined?
Why are physical and chemical properties useful? How can matter change?
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Weight, mass, International System of Units, volume, density
Physical property, chemical property Physical change, chemical change
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Interactive textbook Section 8.1 Inquiry Warm-Up: Which has more mass? Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading)
Interactive textbook Section 8.2 Inquiry Warm-Up: How do you describe matter? Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading): Physical and Chemical Properties of Matter
Interactive textbook Section 8.3 Inquiry Warm-Up: Is a new substance formed? Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading): Is it physical or chemical? Chapter 8 Review and Assessment
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Build Inquiry: Volume of a Rectangular Solid Quick Lab: Calculating Volume
Interactive textbook Section 9.1 Inquiry Warm-Up: Which is easier? Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading): Organizing the Elements
Interactive textbook Section 9.2 Inquiry Warm-Up: Why use aluminum? Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading): Metals
Interactive textbook Section 9.3 Inquiry Warm-Up: What are the properties of charcoal? Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading):Nonmetals and Metalloids
How did atomic theory develop? What is the modern model of the atom?
What determines an element’s chemistry? How do ionic compounds form? How do molecular compounds form? What determines the properties of metals?
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Energy level, isotope, mass number Valence electron, electron dot diagram, chemical bond
Ion, ionic bond, ionic compound, chemical formula, subscript, covalent bond, molecular compound, molecule, nonpolar bond, polar bond, metallic bond
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Interactive textbook Section 9.4 Inquiry Warm-Up: What’s in the box? Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading): Make an Atomic Model
Interactive textbook Section 10.1 Inquiry Warm-Up: What are the trends in the periodic table? Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading): Atoms and Bonding
Interactive textbook Section 10.2 Inquiry Warm-Up: How do ions form? Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading): Elements Forming Compounds
Interactive textbook Section 13.1 Inquiry Warm-Up: Where does the energy come from? Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries Enrich (Integrate Reading): Photosynthesis
Interactive textbook Section : 13.3 Inquiry Warm-Up: Are you part of a cycle? Assess Your Understanding Review and Reinforce Lesson Quiz Image Library Assess Understanding Key Concept summaries
MyScienceOnline.com: Tracking your Carbon Atoms Planet Diary: Energy, Matter, and Living Things
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Quick Lab: Modeling the Carbon Cycle Quick Lab: Follow the Water Quick Lab: Predict Carbon and Oxygen Cycling Quick Lab: Conservation in Living Systems
The lessons in this review will focus on the following topics: Comparing methods and results; Repetition; Replication; Models Distinguishing between theories and laws Evaluating a procedure; Outcome variables; Test variables
The lessons in this review will focus on the following topics: Atmosphere, Convection, Conduction, Weathering and Erosion, Earthquakes, Relative Distance, Properties of Planets, Earth-Sun-Moon relationships
The lessons in this review will focus on the following topics: Gravitational force, position, properties of waves, electromagnetic spectrum, Potential and Kinetic Energy, Convection and Conduction, Physical and Chemical Properties and Changes
The lessons in this review will focus on the following topics: Structural organization, cellular processes, cell structure and functions, human body systems, genetics, food webs, limiting factors, cellular respiration, and photosynthesis
**Middle School FCAT 2.0 Testing is scheduled to span from April 8- 26th; afterwards instruction will include inquiry-related activities designed to enhance the nature and practice of science skills, portfolio completion and remediation. **