Nebraska Grade 8 science standards
The Grade 8 science outcomes we teach, in the standards's own words, with the lessons and practice pages for each. Pick an outcome code for the full list of lessons and printables.
Nebraska College and Career Ready Standards for Science (2024). Every lesson comes with a printable teacher guide and student sheet.
Physical Sciences
SC.8.1.1.a Apply Newton’s Third Law to design a solution to a problem involving the motion of two colliding objects.
Lessons: Forces and Motion: Crash, Push and Stop (Why does a heavier cart hit harder?, Can you design a crumple zone?)
SC.8.1.1.c Plan an investigation to provide evidence of Newton’s Laws that the change in an object’s motion depends on the sum of the forces on the object and the mass of the object.
Lessons: Forces and Motion: Crash, Push and Stop (Why do you lurch forward when a bus stops?, Why does a heavier cart hit harder?)
SC.8.4.3.a Construct and interpret graphical displays of data to describe the relationships of kinetic energy to the mass and speed of an object.
Lessons: Forces and Motion: Crash, Push and Stop (How fast is a toy car really going?, Why does a heavier cart hit harder?) (partly)
Life Sciences
SC.8.9.4.a Develop and use a model to describe why structural changes to genes (mutations) may result in harmful, beneficial, or neutral effects to structure and function of organisms.
Lessons: Genes and Traits: Heredity and Punnett Squares (What happens when a gene changes?)
Practice: Genes and Traits: Heredity and Punnett Squares workbook
SC.8.9.4.b Gather and synthesize information about technologies that have changed the way humans influence inheritance of desired traits in organisms.
Lessons: Natural Selection: How Living Things Change Over Time (How fast can people change a species?) (partly)
Practice: Natural Selection: How Living Things Change Over Time workbook
SC.8.10.5.a Analyze 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 operate today as in the past.
Lessons: Natural Selection: How Living Things Change Over Time (How do fossils show life has changed?) (partly)
Practice: Natural Selection: How Living Things Change Over Time workbook
SC.8.10.5.b Apply scientific ideas to construct an explanation for the anatomical similarities and differences among and between modern and fossil organisms to infer evolutionary relationships.
Lessons: Natural Selection: How Living Things Change Over Time (How do fossils show life has changed?)
Practice: Natural Selection: How Living Things Change Over Time workbook
SC.8.10.5.c Construct an explanation based on evidence that describes how genetic variations of traits in a population increase some individuals’ probability of surviving and reproducing in a specific environment.
Lessons: Natural Selection: How Living Things Change Over Time (Why do some animals survive and others don't?, What did the Grants find on the Galápagos?)
Practice: Natural Selection: How Living Things Change Over Time workbook
SC.8.10.5.d Use mathematical representations to support explanations of how natural selection may lead to increases and decreases of specific traits in populations over time.
Lessons: Natural Selection: How Living Things Change Over Time (Why do some animals survive and others don't?, What did the Grants find on the Galápagos?, How fast can people change a species?)
Practice: Natural Selection: How Living Things Change Over Time workbook
Earth and Space Sciences
SC.8.11.6.a Develop and use a model of the Earth-sun-moon system to describe the cyclic patterns of lunar phases, eclipses of the sun and moon, and seasons.
Lessons: The Reason for the Seasons: Tilt, Daylight and the Solstice (Is summer when Earth is closest to the Sun?, Why are summer days longer?, Why is sunlight stronger in summer?) (partly)
Practice: The Reason for the Seasons: Tilt, Daylight and the Solstice workbook · Sun, Earth and Moon workbook
SC.8.11.6.b Develop and use a model to describe the role of gravity in the motions within the galaxy and the solar system.
Lessons: The Solar System: Gravity, Orbits and Scale (Why do planets go around the Sun and not fly away?) (partly)
Practice: The Solar System: Gravity, Orbits and Scale workbook
SC.8.11.6.c Analyze and interpret data to determine scale properties of objects in the solar system.
Lessons: The Solar System: Gravity, Orbits and Scale (How big is the solar system, really?, What is each world like?)
Practice: The Solar System: Gravity, Orbits and Scale workbook · Sun, Earth and Moon workbook
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