S08 Essential Skills
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Science Essential Skills for Level 8
First Quarter:
Students will:
- Identify major ecosystems.
- Explain and illustrate how living and non-living resources affect ecosystems.
- Illustrate the major cycles: water carbon oxygen.
- List renewable and non-renewable resources.
- Analyze how binomial nomenclature works.
Second Quarter:
Students will:
- Distinguish between atom molecule compounds.
- Sketch plant animal bacterial cells and know the function of each cell.
- Recognize the inputs and outputs of photosynthesis and respiration.
- Build carbohydrates and Nucleic acid models.
Third Quarter:
Students will:
- Compare chromosome numbers of living organisms and distinguish between haploid and diploid numbers.
- Illustrate dominance and recessive traits.
- Illustrate Punnette squares.
- Discuss genetic engineering.
Fourth Quarter:
Students will:
