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MATH Scope and Sequence
GRADE 8
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Scope and Sequence Grade 8 • Math Volume 2
Learning Sessions
Subject
Lesson
Skills
• Students will acquire knowledge about forces and motion, in the context of an article about amusement park roller coasters; • Students will ask questions about the forces and energy conversions in amusement park rides. Short writing task: Plan and write a short reflection about rides described in the article. • Students will acquire knowledge about algebraic expressions, in the context of an article about students learning computer coding; • Students will apply their knowledge to use a computer coding language, called MATH++, and the order of operations to evaluate expressions. Short writing task: Plan and write a short reflection about communicating in computer code. • Students will acquire knowledge about financial literacy and budgets, in the context of an article about a young woman who created a business making and selling slime; • Students will apply their knowledge to create a budget that details income and expenses of the slime business and then calculate its profits. Short writing task: Plan and write a short reflection about starting a business. • Students will acquire knowledge about scientific notation, in the context of an article about the Voyager spacecraft’s exploration of the solar system; • Students will apply their knowledge to express in scientific notation distances traveled by the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecrafts. Short writing task: Plan and write a short reflection about real-world uses of very large and very small numbers. • Students will acquire knowledge about conservation, in the context of an article about a scientific illustrator who focuses on plants and animals— most recently, birds; • Students will apply their knowledge to plan a museum exhibit that includes illustrations. Short writing task: Plan and write a short reflection about turning an interest into a career. • Students will acquire knowledge about algebraic equations, in the context of an article about the Wilson Football Factory; • Students will apply their knowledge to use variables to write and solve two-step equations about the football factory. Short writing task: Plan and write a short reflection critiquing this article.
Science: Physics: Forces & Motion
1 & 2
“Wild Rides”
3 & 4
Math: Algebra: Expressions
“Create It With Code”
Math: Financial Literacy: Budgets
5 & 6
“It’s Slime Time!”
Math: Algebra: Scientific Notation
“2,867,872,400 Miles and Counting!”
7 & 8
9 & 10 Science: STEM Jobs: Conservation
“Avian Artist”
11 & 12 Math: Algebra: Equations
“Super Ball Champs!”
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Scope and Sequence Grade 8 • Math Volume 2 (cont.)
Learning Sessions
Subject
Lesson
Skills
• Students will acquire knowledge about algebraic equations, in the context of an article about the highest, hottest, coldest, and largest labs in the world; • Students will apply their knowledge to write algebraic expressions that describe data from the world’s most extreme laboratories. Short writing task: Plan and write a short reflection about a TV show set in an extreme climate. • Students will acquire knowledge about line graphs used in statistics and probability, in the context of an article about a realistic robot dog called an Aibo; • Students will apply their knowledge to interpret the cumulative costs of owning an Aibo robot dog versus a real dog. Short writing task: Plan and write a short reflection about owing a robot dog. • Students will acquire knowledge about health and disease, in the context of an article about how the sugar industry has shaped Americans’ diets. Short writing task: Plan and write a short reflection about whether the article is persuasive. • Students will acquire knowledge about ratios and proportions, in the context of an article about NASA engineers who make miniature models of proposed new spacecraft; • Students will apply their knowledge to create and calculate measurements of scale drawings of a NASA spacecraft. Short writing task: Plan and write a short reflection about building scale models versus the actual spacecraft. • Students will acquire knowledge about statistics and probability, in the context of an article about how bad data and misleading graphs fuel fake news; • Students will apply their knowledge to describe errors or misleading aspects of graphs and suggest how to make the graphs more accurate. Short writing task: Plan and write a short reflection about the student’s thoughts about fake news. • Students will acquire knowledge about algebraic inequalities, in the context of an article about one use of drones—to help save lives; • Students will apply their knowledge to write ranges as inequalities and graph them on number lines to represent different situations involving drones. Short writing task: Plan and write a short reflection about possible future uses of drones.
13 & 14 Math: Algebra: Equations
“Extreme Science”
15 & 16 Math: Statistics & Probability: Line Graphs
“Robot Dog vs. Real Dog”
17 & 18 Science: Biology: Health & Disease
“Sugar Coating the Truth”
19 & 20 Math: Ratios & Proportions
“From Model Toys to Mars”
21 & 22 Math: Statistics & Probability: Graphs
“Fake News, Fake Data”
23 & 24 Math: Algebra: Inequalities
“These Drones Save Lives!”
Grade 8 • Math Volume 2
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Scope and Sequence Grade 8 • Math Volume 2 (cont.)
Learning Sessions
Subject
Lesson
Skills
• Students will acquire knowledge about engineering in the context of a story about the design process used to create new emojis, which people worldwide use to communicate. Short writing task: Plan and write a short reflection about how the use of emojis may affect communication. • Students will acquire knowledge about two- dimensional shapes, in the context of an article about an offshore wind power plant in the U.S.; • Students will apply the formulas for the circumference and area of a circle to calculate the blade sweeps of wind turbines. Short writing task: Plan and write a short reflection about the motivation of people creating wind turbines. • Students will acquire knowledge about financial literacy and budgeting, in the context of an article about Comic Con, a festival celebrating popular culture; • Students will apply their knowledge to complete a budget for attending Comic Con. Short writing task: Plan and write a short reflection about the student’s favorite fictional character. • Students will acquire knowledge about algebraic operations, in the context of an article about a teenager in Mongolia who has trained an eagle to hunt; • Students will apply the distributive property to write and solve one-variable equations related to the teenager and her eagle. Short writing task: Plan and write a short reflection about the subject of the article.
25 & 26 Science: Engineering
“All About Emojis”
27 & 28 Math: Geometry: Two- Dimensional Shapes
“Wind Power!”
29 & 30 Math: Financial Literacy: Budgets
“Getting Into Character”
31 & 32 Math: Algebra: Number and Operations
“The Eagle Huntress”
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