North Dakota State Standards for Science: Grade 8
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ND.1. Unifying Concepts: Students understand the unifying concepts and processes of science.
8.1.1.
Organize changes (e.g., patterns, cycles) that occur sequentially in systems
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Standard 8.1.1.
ND.2. Science Inquiry: Students use the process of science inquiry.
8.2.1.
Understandings About Scientific Inquiry: Explain how science advances through legitimate skepticism
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Standard 8.2.1.
8.2.2.
Abilities Necessary To Do Scientific Inquiry: Use evidence to generate descriptions, explanations, predictions, and Models
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Standard 8.2.2.
8.2.3.
Abilities Necessary To Do Scientific Inquiry: Use basic mathematics and statistics (e.g., operations, mean, median, mode, range, and estimation) to interpret quantitative data
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Standard 8.2.3.
8.2.4.
Abilities Necessary To Do Scientific Inquiry: Design and conduct a scientific investigation (e.g., making systematic observations, making accurate measurements, identifying and controlling variables)
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Standard 8.2.4.
ND.3. Physical Science: Students understand the basic concepts and principles of physical science.
8.3.1.
Properties of Matter: Identify elements and compounds
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Standard 8.3.1.
8.3.2.
Properties of Matter: Explain the relationship between phases of matter and temperature
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Standard 8.3.2.
8.3.3.
Force and Motion: Interpret the effect of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object (e.g., convection currents, orbital motion, tides)
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Standard 8.3.3.
8.3.4.
Force and Motion: Explain how all objects exert gravitational force and this force is affected by the distance between the masses of the objects
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Standard 8.3.4.
8.3.5.
Energy Transfer and Transformation: Identify when heat can be transferred by conduction, convection, or radiation.
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Standard 8.3.5.
8.3.6.
Vibrations and Waves: Explain the characteristic properties (e.g., wavelength, frequency) and behaviors (e.g., reflection, refraction) of waves
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Standard 8.3.6.
ND.4. Life Science: Students understand the basic concepts and principles of life science.
8.4.1.
Natural Selection and Biological Evolution: Identify the evidence of biological evolution. (e.g., adaptation, radiation, extinction) as found in the fossil record
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Standard 8.4.1.
ND.5. Earth and Space Science: Students understand the basic concepts and principles of earth and space science.
8.5.1.
Weather, Seasons, and Climate: Explain how factors (i.e., fronts, winds, air masses, air pressure, humidity, temperature, location) affect weather
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Standard 8.5.1.
8.5.2.
Geologic Processes: Understand the rock cycle
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Standard 8.5.2.
8.5.3.
Geologic Processes: Explain the water cycle
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Standard 8.5.3.
8.5.4. Geologic Processes: Explain how landforms are changed (e.g., crustal deformation, volcanic eruption, deposition, weathering, erosion)
8.5.5.
Geologic Processes: Identify evidence for plate tectonics theory (e.g., fit of continents, location of earthquakes, volcanoes, mid-ocean ridge, plate boundaries)
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Standard 8.5.5.
8.5.6.
Geologic Processes: Identify a variety of methods (e.g., rock sequences, fossil correlation, radiometric dating) used to determine geologic time
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Standard 8.5.6.
8.5.7.
Geologic Processes: Explain the changes Earth has undergone over geologic time (e.g., fossil record, plate tectonics, climate change, glaciation)
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Standard 8.5.7.
8.5.8.
Characteristics of the Earth: Explain how phenomena on Earth (i.e., day, year, seasons, lunar phases, eclipses, tides) are related to the position and motion of the Sun, Moon, and Earth
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Standard 8.5.8.
8.5.9.
The Universe: Identify characteristics of stars (e.g., color, size, temperature, life cycle)
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Standard 8.5.9.
8.5.10.
The Universe: Identify the composition (e.g., stars, galaxies) and scale of the universe
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Standard 8.5.10.
ND.6. Science and Technology: Students understand relations between science and technology.
ND.7. Science and Other Areas: Students understand relations between science and personal, social, and environmental issues.
8.7.1.
Science and Social Issues: Explain the interaction of science and technology with social issues (e.g., mining, natural disasters)
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Standard 8.7.1.
ND.8. History and Nature of Science: Students understand the history and nature of science.
8.8.1.
Scientific Knowledge: Explain how many people from various cultures have made important contributions to the advancement of science and technology
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Standard 8.8.1.