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.8.6 | Students will evaluate mutations of genes to determine probability of passing on a disorder. | ||
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Pacing Instruct/ Assess |
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Standard(s) |
| SC.8.6.1 | Describe how genes control types of proteins produced and that those proteins express traits. | MS-LS3-1 | |
| SC.8.6.2 | Use simulation to show passing of traits and how mutations can occur. | MS-LS3-1 | |
| SC.8.6.3 | Model mutations in DNA. Amino Acids carry and connect in a specific way. | MS-LS3-1 | |
| SC.8.6.4 | Modeling mutation to determine whether it is beneficial, harmful, or neutral. | MS-LS3-1 | |
| SC.8.6.5 | Write a scientific explanation describing how a mutation can occur and what it may look like in the human body. | MS-LS3-1 | |
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Academic Vocabulary: Evaluate, probability, describe, utilize, model, analyze, construct an explanation |
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Content Vocabulary: DNA, nucleotides, adenine, thymine, guanine, satisfying, ribosome, mutations, deletion, substitution, mutagens, pedigree, genetic engineering |