Middle School Science
General Objectives:
- To apply scientific and engineering practices in gaining knowledge and understanding
- Asking questions (for science) and defining problems (for engineering)
- Developing and using models
- Planning and carrying out investigations
- Analyzing and interpreting data
- Using mathematics and computational thinking
- Constructing explanations (for science) and designing solutions (for engineering)
- Engaging in argument from evidence
- Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information
- To relate basic scientific concepts in the learning of all topics
- Patterns observed in forms and events
- Cause and effect: mechanism and explanation of events and their causes
- Scale, Proportion, and Quantity: different measures of size, time, and energy
- Systems and System Models: defining a system and testing ideas
- Energy and Matter: flows, cycles, and conservation
- Structure and Function: The way structure determines functions
- Stability and Change: conditions of stability and rates of change