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South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards 6-8PE - Essential StandardLocal Unit NameClarifying ObjectivesGradeMosa Mack Unit
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South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards6-PS1-4PS1 – Matter and Its InteractionsDevelop and use a model that predicts and describes changes in particle motion, temperature, and state of a pure substance when thermal energy is added or removed.6States of Matter
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South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards6-PS3-3EnergyApply scientific principles to design, construct, and test a device that either minimizes or maximizes thermal energy transfer.6Thermal Energy
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South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards6-PS3-4EnergyPlan an investigation to determine the relationships among the energy transferred, the type of matter, the mass, and the change in the average kinetic energy
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South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards6-PS4-2Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information TransferDevelop and use a model to describe that waves are reflected, absorbed, or transmitted through various materials.6Waves
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South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards6-LS1-1From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and ProcessesConduct an investigation to provide evidence that living things are made of cells; either one cell or many different numbers and types of cells.6Cells
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South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards6-LS1-2From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and ProcessesDevelop and use a model to describe the function of a cell as a whole and ways the parts of cells contribute to the function.6
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South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards6-LS1-3From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and ProcessesUse argument supported by evidence for how the body is a system of interacting subsystems composed of groups of cells.6Interactions of Body Systems
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South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards6-LS1-8From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and ProcessesGather and synthesize information that sensory receptors respond to stimuli by sending messages to the brain for immediate behavior or storage as memories.6Nervous System
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South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards6-ESS1-4Earth’s Place in the UniverseConstruct a scientific explanation based on evidence from rock strata for how the geologic time scale is used to organize Earth’s 4.6-billion-year-old history.6Rock Cycle & Earth's History
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South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards6-ESS2-1Earth’s SystemsDevelop a model to describe the cycling of Earth’s materials and the flow of energy that drives this process.6
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South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards6-ESS2-2Earth’s SystemsConstruct an explanation based on evidence for how geoscience processes have changed Earth’s surface at varying time and spatial scales.6
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South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards6-ESS2-3Earth’s SystemsAnalyze and interpret data on the distribution of fossils and rocks, continental shapes, and seafloor structures to provide evidence of the past plate motions.6Plate Tectonics
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South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards6-ESS2-4Earth’s SystemsDevelop a model to describe the cycling of water through Earth’s systems driven by energy from the sun and the force of gravity.6Water Cycle
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South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards6-ESS2-5Earth’s SystemsAnalyze and interpret data to provide evidence for how the motions and complex interactions of air masses result in changes in weather conditions.6Weather
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South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards6-ESS2-6Earth’s SystemsMosa Mack Unit 6Oceans & Climate
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South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards6-ESS3-2Earth and Human ActivityAnalyze and interpret data on natural hazards to identify patterns, which help forecast future catastrophic events and inform the development of technologies to mitigate
their effects.		6Earthquakes & Volcanoes
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South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards7-PS1-1Matter and Its InteractionsDevelop models to describe the atomic composition of simple molecules and extended structures.7Atoms & Molecules
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South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards7-PS1-2Matter and Its InteractionsAnalyze and interpret data on the properties of substances before and after the substances interact to determine if a chemical reaction has occurred.7Chemical & Physical Changes
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South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards7-PS1-3Matter and Its InteractionsGather and make sense of information to describe that synthetic materials come from natural resources and impact society.7
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South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards7-PS1-5Matter and Its InteractionsDevelop and use a model to describe how the total number of atoms does not change in a chemical reaction and thus mass is conserved.7Atoms & Molecules
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South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards7-PS1-6Matter and Its InteractionsUndertake a design project to construct, test, and modify a device that either releases or absorbs thermal energy by chemical processes.7Chemical & Physical Changes
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South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards7-PS3-1EnergyConstruct and interpret graphical displays of data to describe the proportional relationships of kinetic energy to the mass of an object and to the speed [sic] of an object.7Potential & Kinetic Energy
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South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards7-PS3-2EnergyDevelop a model to describe that when the arrangement of objects interacting at a distance changes, different amounts of potential energy are stored in the system.7
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South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards7-PS3-5EnergyConstruct, use, and present arguments to support the claim that when the kinetic energy of an object changes, energy is transferred to or from the object.7
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South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards7-LS1-6From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and ProcessesConstruct a scientific explanation based on evidence for the role of photosynthesis in the cycling of matter and flow of energy into and out of organisms.7Photosynthesis
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South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards7-LS1-7From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and ProcessesDevelop a model to describe how food molecules in plants and animals are rearranged through chemical reactions forming new molecules that support growth and/or release energy as this matter moves through an organism.7
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South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards7-LS2-1Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and DynamicsAnalyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem.7Interactions of Organisms
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South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards7-LS2-2Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and DynamicsConstruct an explanation that predicts patterns of interactions among organisms across multiple ecosystems.7
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South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards7-LS2-3Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and DynamicsDevelop a model to describe the cycling of matter and flow of energy among living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem.7Biodiversity
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South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards7-LS2-4Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and DynamicsConstruct an argument supported by empirical evidence that changes to physical or biological components of an ecosystem affect populations.7
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South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards7-LS2-5Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and DynamicsEvaluate competing design solutions for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services.7
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South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards7-ESS3-1Earth and Human ActivityConstruct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how the uneven distributions of Earth’s mineral, energy, and groundwater resources are the result of past and current geoscience processes.7Renewable Resources
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South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards7-ESS3-3Earth and Human ActivityApply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment.7Climate Change & Ecological Footprint
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South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards7-ESS3-4Earth and Human ActivityConstruct an argument supported by evidence for how increases in human population and per-capita consumption of natural resources impact Earth’s systems.7
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South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards7-ESS3-5Earth and Human ActivityAsk questions to clarify evidence of the factors that have impacted global temperatures over the past century.7
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South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards8-PS2-1Motion and Stability: Forces and InteractionsApply Newton’s third law to design a solution to a problem involving the motion of two colliding objects.8Force & Motion
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South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards8-PS2-2Motion and Stability: Forces and InteractionsPlan an investigation to provide evidence that the change in an object’s motion depends on the sum of the forces on the object and the mass of the object.8
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South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards8-PS2-3Motion and Stability: Forces and InteractionsAnalyze and interpret data to determine the factors that affect the strength of electric and magnetic forces.8Electricity & Magnetism
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South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards8-PS2-4Motion and Stability: Forces and InteractionsConstruct and present arguments using evidence to support the claim that gravitational interactions are attractive and depend on the masses of interacting objects and the distance between them.8Force & Motion
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South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards8-PS2-5Motion and Stability: Forces and InteractionsConduct an investigation and evaluate the experimental design to provide evidence that fields exist between objects exerting forces on each other even though the objects are not in contact.8
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South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards8-PS4-1Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information TransferUsing mathematical representations, describe a simple model for waves that includes how the amplitude of a wave is related to the energy in a wave. 8Waves
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South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards8-PS4-3Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information TransferCommunicate information to support the claim that digital devices are used to improve our understanding of how waves transmit information.8
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South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards8-LS1-4From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and ProcessesUse arguments, based on empirical evidence and scientific reasoning, to support an explanation for how characteristic animal behaviors and specialized plant structures affect the probability of successful reproduction of animals and plants respectively.8Selection & Adaptations
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South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards8-LS1-5From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and ProcessesConstruct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how environmental and genetic factors influence the growth of organisms8Genetics vs. Environment
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South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards8-LS3-1Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of TraitsDevelop and use a model to describe why structural changes to genes (mutations) located on chromosomes may affect proteins and may result in harmful, beneficial, or neutral effects to the structure and function of the organism.8Mutations
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South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards8-LS3-2Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of TraitsDevelop and use a model to describe why asexual reproduction results in offspring with identical genetic information and sexual reproduction results in offspring with genetic variation.8Genetic Variation
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South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards8-LS4-1Biological Evolution: Unity and DiversityAnalyze and interpret data for patterns in the fossil record that document the existence, diversity, extinction, and change of life forms throughout the history of life on Earth under the assumption that natural laws operated in the past as they do today.8Evidence of Evolution
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South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards8-LS4-2Biological Evolution: Unity and DiversityApply scientific ideas to construct an explanation for the anatomical similarities and differences among modern organisms and between modern and fossil organisms to infer their ancestral relationships.8
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South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards8-LS4-4Biological Evolution: Unity and DiversityConstruct an explanation based on evidence that describes how genetic variations of traits in a population increase some individual’s probability of surviving and reproducing in a specific environment.8Selection & Adaptations
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South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards8-LS4-5Biological Evolution: Unity and DiversityGather and synthesize information about technologies that have changed the way humans influence the inheritance of desired traits in organisms.8Mutations
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South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards8-LS4-6Biological Evolution: Unity and DiversityUse mathematical representations to support explanations of how natural selection may lead to increases and decreases of specific traits in populations over time.8Selection & Adaptations
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South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards8-ESS1-1Earth’s Place in the UniverseDevelop and use a model of the Earth-sun-moon system to describe the cyclic patterns of lunar phases, eclipses of the sun and moon, tides, and seasons.8Sun-Earth & Solar System Gravity
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South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards8-ESS1-2Earth’s Place in the UniverseDevelop and use a model to describe the role of gravity in the motions within galaxies and the solar system.8
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South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards8-ESS1-3Earth’s Place in the UniverseEvaluate information to determine scale properties of objects in the solar system8Scale in the Solar System
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