GRADE BAND THEME: ORDER AND ORGANIZATION
This theme focuses on helping students use scientific inquiry to discover patterns, trends, structures and relationships that may be inferred from simple principles.
These principles are related to the properties or interactions within and between systems.
STRANDS
Strand Connections: Systems can be described and understood by analysis of the interaction of their components. Energy, forces and motion combine to change the physical features of Earth. The changes of the physical Earth and the species that have lived on Earth are found in the rock record. For species to continue, reproduction must be successful.
This topic focuses on continuation of the species.
CONDENSED CONTENT STATEMENTS
8.LS.1 Diversity of species, a result of variation of traits, occurs through the process of evolution and extinction over many generations. The fossil records provide evidence that changes have occurred in number and types of species.
8.LS.2 Every organism alive today comes from a long line of ancestors who reproduced successfully every generation.
8.LS.3 The characteristics of an organism are a result of inherited traits received from parent(s).
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