West Virginia 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.
West Virginia College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Science (Policy 2520.3C). Every lesson comes with a printable teacher guide and student sheet.
Life Sciences
S.8.3 Develop 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 an organism.
Lessons: Genes and Traits: Heredity and Punnett Squares (What happens when a gene changes?)
Practice: Genes and Traits: Heredity and Punnett Squares workbook
S.8.6 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
S.8.9 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
S.8.10 Use mathematical models, probability statements, and proportional reasoning 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
Physical Sciences
S.8.13 Develop a model that predicts and describes changes in particle motion, temperature, and state of a pure substance when thermal energy is added or removed.
Lessons: Hot and Cold: Particles on the Move (Why do bike tires go soft in winter?, Why does food colouring spread faster in hot water?, How does a thermometer know?) (partly)
S.8.14 Analyze and interpret data on the properties of substances before and after the substances interact to determine if a chemical reaction has occurred.
Lessons: Kitchen Chemistry (Is it a new substance?, Can red cabbage tell acid from base?)
Practice: Kitchen Chemistry workbook
Earth and Space Sciences
S.8.17 Construct an argument supported by evidence for how increases in human population and per-capita consumption of natural resources impact Earth's systems.
Lessons: Our Changing Planet: Resources and Human Impact (Do more people always use more resources?) (partly)
Practice: Our Changing Planet: Resources and Human Impact workbook
Engineering, Technology and Applications of Science
S.8.18 Evaluate competing design solutions using a systematic process to determine how well they meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.
Lessons: Forces and Motion: Crash, Push and Stop (Can you design a crumple zone?) · Stone, Bamboo and Storms: Building in Vietnam (How did rain carve the islands of Hạ Long Bay?, Why do builders in Vietnam trust bamboo?, How can a roof survive a typhoon?)
Practice: Forces and Motion: Crash, Push and Stop workbook · Stone, Bamboo and Storms: Building in Vietnam workbook
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