Grade
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Middle School Science Expectations
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(Thinkport) Compare Your Air
(Grades 6,7,8)
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(Thinkport) Every Breath You Take
(Grades 6,7,8)
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6
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Life Sciences: Changes in environmental conditions can affect the survival of individual organisms, populations, and entire species.
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X
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X
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6
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Life Sciences: Organisms interact with each other and their environment in various ways that create a flow of energy and cycling of matter in an ecosystem.
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X
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X
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6
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Earth System Sciences: Earth’s natural resources provide the foundation for human society’s physical needs. Many natural resources are nonrenewable on human timescales, while others can be renewed or recycled.
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X
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X
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7
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Life Sciences: Individual organisms with certain traits are more likely than others to survive and have offspring in a specific environment.
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7
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Life Sciences: The human body is composed of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, organs, and organ systems that have functions and interactions.
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X
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7
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Life Sciences: Cells are the smallest unit of life that can function independently and perform all the necessary functions of life.
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8
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Life Sciences: Human activities can deliberately or inadvertently alter ecosystems and their resiliency.
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X
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X
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Reading, Writing, and Communicating Expectations
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6
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Oral Expression: Successful group discussions require planning and participation by all.
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X
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X
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6
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Reading for All Purposes: Understanding the meaning within different types of literature depends on properly analyzing literary components.
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X
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6
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Reading for All Purposes: Organizing structure to understand and analyze factual information.
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6
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Research & Reasoning: Individual and group research projects require obtaining information on a topic from a variety of sources and organizing it for a presentation.
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7
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Oral Expression: Small and large group discussions rely on active listening and the effective contributions of all participants.
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X
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X
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7
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Research & Reasoning: Answering a research question logistically beings with obtaining and analyzing information from a variety of sources.
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X
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X
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7
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Research & Reasoning: Logical information requires documented sources.
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8
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Oral Expression: A variety of response strategies clarifies meaning or messages.
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X
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X
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8
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Reading for All Purposes: Quality comprehension and interpretation of literary texts demand self-monitoring and self assessment.
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X
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8
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Research & Reasoning: Individual research projects being with information obtained from a variety of sources, and is organized, documented, and presented using logical procedures.
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X
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X
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Middle School Mathematics Expectations:
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6
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Number, Sense, Properties, and Operations: In the real number system, positive rational numbers are represented in multiple equivalent forms.
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X
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6
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Number, Sense, Properties, and Operations: Formulate, represent, and use algorithms with positive rational numbers flexibly, accurately and efficiently.
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X
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X
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6
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Number, Sense, Properties, and Operations: Quantities can be expressed and compared using ratios and rates.
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X
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X
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6
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Patterns, Functions, and Algebraic Structures: Patterns can be described using words, tables, and graphs.
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X
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6
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Data, Analysis, Statisctics, and Probablility: Questions can be answered by collecting and analyzing data and data displays.
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X
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X
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6
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Data, Analysis, Statisctics, and Probablility: Mathematical models are used to determine probability.
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X
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6
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Shape, Dimension, and Geometric Relationships: Standard units provide common language for communicating measurements.
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7
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Number, Sense, Properties, and Operations: Formulate, represent, and use algorithms with positive rational numbers flexibly, accurately and efficiently.
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X
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X
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7
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Data, Analysis, Statistics, and Probablility: Mathematical models are used to determine probability.
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X
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8
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Patterns, Functions, and Algebraic Structures: Graphs, tables, and equations can be used to distinguish between linear and nonlinear functions.
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X
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8
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Data, Analysis, Statistics, and Probablility: Visual displays and summary statistics of two-variable data condense the information in data sets into usable knowledge.
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X
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