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These are the 9 eigth grade benchmarks that are annually assessed on the SSA test.
SC.8.N.1.1 Define a problem from the eighth grade curriculum using appropriate reference materials to support scientific understanding, plan and carry out scientific investigations of various types, such as systematic observations or experiments, identify variables, collect and organize data, interpret data in charts, tables, and graphics, analyze information, make predictions, and defend conclusions.
| What is Science? | video, ClosedCaptions |
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Also assesses SC.6.N.1.1, SC.6.N.1.3, SC.7.N.1.1, SC.7.N.1.3, SC.7.N.1.4, SC.8.N.1.3, and SC.8.N.1.4
SC.8.E.5.3 Distinguish the hierarchical relationships between planets and other astronomical bodies relative to solar system, galaxy, and universe, including distance, size, and composition.
| Making a Scale Model of the Solar System | video, ClosedCaptions |
| Planets and Pennies | video, ClosedCaptions |
| How Far is That Planet? | text page |
| Review Space-3 | practice |
| Review Space-2 | practice |
| Review Space-10 | practice |
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Also assesses SC.8.E.5.1 and SC.8.E.5.2.
SC.8.E.5.5 Describe and classify specific physical properties of stars: apparent magnitude
(brightness), temperature (color), size, and luminosity (absolute brightness).
| Twinkle, Twinkle, Distant Star | text page |
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Also assesses SC.8.E.5.6.
SC.8.E.5.7 Compare and contrast the properties of objects in the Solar System including the Sun, planets, and moons to those of Earth, such as gravitational force, distance from the Sun, speed, movement, temperature, and atmospheric conditions.
| Making a Scale Model of the Solar System | video, ClosedCaptions |
| Global Science | video, ClosedCaptions |
| Planets and Pennies | video, ClosedCaptions |
| Review Space-4 | practice |
| Review Space-11 | practice |
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Also assesses SC.8.E.5.4 and SC.8.E.5.8.
SC.8.E.5.9 Explain the impact of objects in space on each other including: 1. the Sun on the Earth including seasons and gravitational attraction 2. the Moon on the Earth, including phases, tides, and eclipses, and the relative position of each body.
| Global Science | video, ClosedCaptions |
| Why is a Full Moon So Bright? | text page, free, checked |
| Review Space-13 | quest |
| Review Space-12 | practice |
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Also assesses SC.8.E.5.4 and SC.8.E.5.8.
SC.8.P.8.4 Classify and compare substances on the basis of characteristic physical properties that can be demonstrated or measured; for example, density, thermal or electrical conductivity, solubility, magnetic properties, melting and boiling points, and know that these properties are independent of the amount of the sample.
| Stale Bread | video |
| Floating Bubbles | video, checked |
| Candles in a Jar, part 2 | video, ClosedCaptions, checked |
| Candles in a Jar, part 1 | video, ClosedCaptions, checked |
| Microscopes: Growing Crystals | video, free, learnalong, Updated |
| Density: Ice, Oil, and Water | video, checked |
| Wax and Wood, part 1 | video, checked |
| Wax and Wood, part 2 | video, checked |
| Identifying Minerals | video, learnalong |
| Making Turmeric Paper | video, checked |
| Testing for Tannic Acid | video |
| Cartesian Diver | video, ClosedCaptions, checked |
| Growing Crystals Under the Microscope | video, free, learnalong, checked |
| Review Matter-5 | practice |
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Also assesses SC.8.P.8.3
SC.8.P.8.5 Recognize that there are a finite number of elements and that their atoms combine in a multitude of ways to produce compounds that make up all of the living and nonliving things that we encounter.
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Also assesses SC.8.P.8.1, SC.8.P.8.6, SC.8.P.8.7, SC.8.P.8.8, and SC.8.P.8.9
SC.8.P.9.2 Differentiate between physical changes and chemical changes.
| Changing Colors, part 1 | video |
| Changing Colors, part 2 | video |
| Making Butter | video, free, ClosedCaptions, Updated |
| Polymers and Slime | video, free, ClosedCaptions, checked |
| Silver Pictures | video, checked |
| Chemical and Physical Changes | video, ClosedCaptions, checked |
| Changing How We Look at Changing | text page, free |
| Review Matter-4 | practice |
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Also assesses SC.8.P.9.1 and SC.8.P.9.3.
SC.8.L.18.4 Cite evidence that living systems follow the Laws of Conservation of Mass and Energy.
| Thoughts on Trees | text page |
| What is a Food Web? | text page, free, checked |
| Review Food Web-10 | practice |
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Also assesses SC.8.L.18.1, SC.8.L.18.2, and SC.8.L.18.3.
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