Science Curriculum
8th Grade
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Course Purpose: |
Eighth grade students will use scientific principles to quantify interactions among the components of the world they see. |
Outcomes and Components:
| SC.8.5 | Students will use Punnett Squares and other tools to identify and predict how traits are or have been transferred from parent to offspring. | ||
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Pacing Instruct/ Assess |
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Standard(s) |
| SC.8.5.1 | Describe traits that are passed down from parent to offspring. | MS-LS3-2 | |
| SC.8.5.2 | Model how chromosomes are passed from parent to offspring. | MS-LS3-2 | |
| SC.8.5.3 | Use a Punnett square to predict possible genotypes and phenotypes of offspring. |
MS-LS3-2 MS-LS4-6 |
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| SC.8.5.4 | Create a model offspring using sexual and asexual reproduction to produce a claim predicting the traits that would be passed on with a percentage likelihood. |
MS-LS1-5 MS-LS3-1 |
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Academic Vocabulary: Illustrate, describe, model, utilize, create, probability, predict |
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Content Vocabulary: heredity, self-pollinating plant, true breeding plant, dominant trait, recessive trait, dormant trait, trait, gene, allele, Punnett Square, genotype, phenotype, probability, offspring, incomplete dominance |