Curriculum - Science

6th Grade LWSD Science Curriculum 

Students in 6th grade science develop understanding of key concepts to help them make sense of life, earth and physical science. The ideas build upon students’ science understanding from earlier grades and from the disciplinary core ideas, science and engineering practices, and crosscutting concepts. The cycling of matter and energy within systems and relationships between living and non-living components of systems are recurring themes in the 6th grade year. 

The science strands/modules include: Nature of Science and Growth Mindset, Impact of the Water Cycle, Impact of Weather Systems on Living Things, Humans Depend on Natural and Synthetic Resources, the Cycling of Energy and Matter in Plants, and Cycling of Energy and Matter in an Ecosystem.

7th Grade Science Curriculum

Students in 7th grade science develop understanding of key concepts to help them make sense of life, earth and physical science. The ideas build upon students’ science understanding from earlier grades and from the disciplinary core ideas, science and engineering practices, and crosscutting concepts. While 7th grade maintains the themes of matter and energy flow within and between systems, the year is divided into larger isolated systems and the processes that occur within those systems over time.

The science strands/modules include: Climate Change, Fields of Force and Non-Contact Forces, Geologic Change, Chemical Reactions, Chemical Reactions in Living Things, and Heredity.

8th Grade Science Curriculum

Students in 8th grade science develop understanding of key concepts to help them make sense of life, earth and physical science. The ideas build upon students’ science understanding from earlier grades and from the disciplinary core ideas, science and engineering practices, and crosscutting concepts. 8th grade continues the story of matter and energy flow within and between larger isolated systems and the processes that occur within those systems over time.

The science strands/modules include: Natural Selection and Adaptations, Evidence for Evolution, Newton’s Laws and Kinetic Energy, Wave Properties and Their Application in Technology, Seasons, Moon Phases, and Eclipses, and Gravitational Forces and Scale in the Universe.

2024-25 Science Class Fee $40 

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