6TH GRADE

CORE CURRICULUM

ü Summarize content information using an expository map

ü Compare & contrast science text and science fiction

ü Analyze a character using interview techniques

ü Write a myth to explain a natural occurrence

ü Write a summary of an oral selection

ü Write a report using a variety of resources

ü Numbers used for counting, ordering, measuring and naming

ü Equivalent representations: fractions, decimals, percents

ü Compare & order integers & rational numbers

ü Prime & composite numbers; factors, multiples & prime numbers

ü Use appropriate operations (+, -, X, ÷) to solve real world problems

ü Apply appropriate problem solving strategies

ü Algebraic expressions using mental computation, estimation, calculators & paper pencil

ü Represent algebraic concepts with models

ü Generalize characteristics of shapes

ü Construct shapes

ü Select appropriate unit of measurement

ü Describe, analyze & generalize patterns

ü Organize & present data

ü Draw, explain & justify conclusions

ü Critically question sources of data

ü Formulate questions

ü Design experiments

ü Describe events as likely or unlikely

ü Conduct experiments

ü Investigate practical situations

ü Use maps to investigate and analyze physical and political characteristics of Europe and Africa

ü Process write a research report explaining the rise & demise of feudalism

ü Compare & contrast the cultural & technological contributions of early civilizations of the Fertile Crescent, Egypt, Greece and Rome

ü Analyze the development of political systems of African and European countries and compare them to the United States

Economics

ü Graphically depict cause and effect relationships between European imperialism and colonization of Africa

ü Pose and answer questions regarding human rights issues of Europe and Africa

ü Use news sources to create a current events portfolio

Science

ü Generate scientific questions about the world

ü Design and conduct investigations

ü Develop strategies for gathering information and problem solving

ü Use sources of information

ü Communicate findings of investigations

ü Analyze claims for scientific merit

ü Show common themes of science, math & technology apply

ü Show how science and technology affect our society

Cells

ü Evidence that all parts of living things are made of cells

ü Specialized cells

Heredity

ü Characteristics passed through generations

ü Heredity and environment may influence characteristics

Landforms/Voyage of the Mimi

ü Surface features using maps

ü How rocks are formed

ü How surface features change

ü Age and geological history of the earth

ü Technology changes the surface of the earth

Universe & Phases of the Moon

ü Earth, planets & moons

ü Motions of solar system objects

ü Common observations of night skies

Technology/Careers

Keyboarding

Word Processing

Draw/Paint Skills

Multimedia

Career Planning

Personal Management

Organizational Skills

Team Work

Employability Skills

Health Education

Resolving Conflicts and Having Friends

Having Fun and Staying Safe

Becoming you-Heredity

Postponing Sexual Involvement

Drugs Make the News-Bad News

The Beat of Life – Circulatory System

Nutrition, Exercise and Stress

Physical Education

*Motor Skills

*Physical Fitness

*Cognitive Concepts: Body awareness, learning

motor skills, rules & strategies, describe effects of

activity & inactivity

*Personal and Social Character Traits: Appropriate

behavior & value physical activity to lifelong health

and well-being

7TH GRADE

CORE CURRICULUM

Seventh Grade students are "credentialed" in the areas of Language Arts (reading & writing), Math, Science, Social Studies, Careers and Employability Skills.  This is part of the NCA Transitions Process.  For those students who do not reach credentialing status an intervention plan is written with the teachers, parents, and child with strategies to help the student be successful in 8th grade.

ü Analyze short stories differentiating plot elements & theme

ü Read narrative text to identify and interpret flashback and foreshadowing

ü Process write an expository composition related to global, community or school event

ü Process write a narrative incorporating setting, characters, and plot integrating written dialogue

ü Create rhyming and non-rhyming poems incorporating onomatopoeia, metaphor & hyperbole

ü Listen to various propaganda to differentiate & evaluate their strategies

ü Write a report using a variety of resources

Mathematics

ü Numeration systems

ü Properties integers and rational number system

ü Ratios & rates

ü Use appropriate operations (+, -, X, ÷) to solve real world problems

ü Apply appropriate problem solving strategies

ü Similar, congruent, parallel & perpendicular shapes

ü Translations, reflections, rotations

ü Identify attribute to be measured & select appropriate problem solving strategies

ü Area & perimeter

ü Apply measurement to describe real world

ü Represent & record patterns

ü Use patterns to make & justify inferences & predictions

ü What will happen to one variable if one changes

ü Represent variability or change

ü Make predictions and decisions based on data

ü Employ investigations to answer questions

ü Difference between probabilities determined by chance and those derived mathematically

ü Use manipulatives & drawings to model concepts & procedures

ü Analyze physical & political characteristics of Middle East, Asia & the Pacific Rim

ü Analyze Middle Eastern, Pacific Rim and Asian nations for region, place & population

History

ü Describe & classify events & people from Middle Eastern, Pacific Rim & Asian history

ü Analyze historical time periods interaction between China and foreign influences

ü Analyze cause & effect relationships of political and historical events leading to the development of Australia

ü Analyze cause & effect between selected religions and civic life in Middle Eastern, Asian or Pacific Rim

ü Create a weekly journal summarizing current events in Middle East, Asia or Pacific Rim

ü Pose and answer questions regarding human rights issues of Middle East, Pacific Rim & Asia

ü Describe the purposes and functions of major international governmental & nongovernmental organizations

ü Generate scientific questions about the world

ü Design and conduct investigations

ü Use appropriate tools and equipment

ü Use metric measurement devices to provide consistency

ü Use sources of information

ü Communicate findings of investigations

ü Analyze claims for scientific merit

ü Show common themes of science, math & technology apply

ü Show how science and technology affect our society

   Common physical changes in matter

ü Describe & compare objects

ü Describe properties of an object or substance

ü Classify substances

ü Explain how sound moves through different media

ü Explain how echoes occur & are used

ü Describe motion of vibrating objects

ü Explain how mechanical waves transfer energy

ü Describe common chemical changes

ü Describe common energy transformations

ü Construct simple circuits

ü Investigate electrical devices

ü Use circuits to create magnetic fields

ü Describe arrangement & motion of molecules in solids, liquids & gases

ü Explain physical changes in terms of arrangement & motion of atoms & molecules

Essential Classes:

ü Keyboarding

ü Word Processing

ü Draw/Paint Skills

ü Multimedia

ü Career Planning

ü Personal Management

ü Organizational Skills

ü Team Work

ü Employability Skills

Health Education:  Michigan Model 

ü Violence Prevention

ü Nutrition "What’s Food Got To Do With It?"

ü Physical Activity "It’s Time To Move"

ü No Apologies

Physical Education

ü Motor Skills

ü Physical Fitness

ü Cognitive Concepts: Body awareness, learning

motor skill, rules & strategies, describe effects

of activity & inactivity

ü Personal and Social Character Traits: Appropriate

behavior & value physical activity to lifelong health

and well-being.

3 Attendance

3 Punctuality

3 Responsibility

3 Completes Work

3 Works Cooperatively

8TH GRADE

CORE CURRICULUM

Language Arts

Our students will:

Reading

• Justify the author's point of view and character motivation

• Construct meaning using reading strategies and graphic organizers

• Interpret mood and tone from a variety of genre

Writing

• Process write business letters

• Process write a persuasive essay

• Process a memoir

• Apply spelling skills to written work

Speaking

• Plan, organize and participate in a panel discussion on global or community issue

Listening

• Critically listen an oral presentation and write a critique

Research

• Research a global or community topic and write a news report

Mathematics

Our students will:

Number Sense & Numeration

• Number systems

• Number relationships in solving problems

• Select appropriate representations for numbers

Numerical & Algebraic Operations & Analytical Thinking

• Properties of operations

• Apply appropriate problem solving strategies

• Apply algebraic and analytical reasoning to mathematical problems

Geometry & Measurement

• Use shapes to describe physical world and solve problems

• Use measurement to describe the real world and solve problems

• Use the concepts of position, direction & orientation

• Translations, reflections, rotations of figures

Patterns, Relationships and Functions

• Use patterns & generalizations to solve problems and explore new content

• Explore relationships in variables and solve mathematical problems

Data Analysis & Statistics

• Organize data using tables, charts, graphs, spreadsheets & data bases

• Identify what data is needed to answer questions

• Make predictions & decisions based on data

• Employ investigations, models & simulations

Probability & Discrete Mathematics

• Conduct experiments & simulations

• Use manipulatives & drawings to accomplish a task or solve a mathematical problem

• Model situations & solve problems & determine solutions

Our students will:

Geography

• Map a voyage from Portugal, Spain, France or England

History

• Create and analyze a timeline of emergence

• Compare and contrast colonial policies in Western Hemisphere and impact on Native Americans

Civics

• Analyze United States Constitution

Economics

• Analyze Industrial Revolution and effects on people and environment

• Evaluate employment and career opportunities in Michigan

Individual Groups in Society

• Form conclusions about effectiveness of 19^th Century reform movements

• Pose and answer questions regarding human rights issues and responsibilities of Citizens in United States

ü Ask questions that can be investigated

ü Design and conduct investigations

ü Recognize & explain the limitations of measuring devices

ü Gather information from a variety of sources

ü Communicate findings of investigations using appropriate technology

ü Justify plans or explanations

ü Describe some general limitations of scientific knowledge

ü Show how common themes of science, math & technology apply in real world

ü Discuss historical development of key concepts

ü Explain social & economic advantages & risks of new technology

ü Develop awareness of & sensitivity to natural world

ü Describe historical, political & social factors affect scientific developments

Ecosystems

ü Describe common patterns of relationships among populations

ü Describe how organisms acquire energy from sunlight

ü Predict effects of changes in food web

ü Describe likely succession of ecosystem over time

ü Explain effects of agriculture & urban development on ecosystems

ü Explain how humans use & benefit from plants & animals

ü Describe ways humans alter environment

ü Compare & classify organisms

Evolution

ü Describe how scientific theory traces possible evolutionary relationships among past & present life

ü Explain how new traits might become established

ü Explain how new species or variety may originate

Atmosphere and Weather

ü Describe patterns of air movement & affects

ü Explain & predict weather patterns & storms

Motion of Objects

ü Describe non-contact forces exerted by magnets

ü Describe & compare motion in two dimensions

ü Relate motion of objects

ü Design strategies for moving objects by application of forces

Solar System, Galaxy & Universe

ü Compare our sun to other stars

ü Describe position & motion of our solar system-

overall scale, structure & age of universe

ü Explain how stars & planetary systems form & stars produce energy

ü Explain how technology & scientific inquiry have helped us learn about the universe

Technology/Careers

Keyboarding

Word Processing

Draw/Paint Skills

Multimedia

Career Planning

Personal Management

Organizational Skills

Team Work

Employability Skills

Health Education: Michigan Model 

Tobacco "It’s No Mystery: Tobacco Is a Killer"

"Protect A Friend-Share Your Skills" Alcohol, Tobacco & Other Drug Prevention

HIV, AIDS, and Other STD’s

ü Motor Skills

ü Physical Fitness

ü Cognitive Concepts: Body awareness, learning

motor skills, rules & strategies, describe effects

of activity & inactivity

ü Personal and Social Character Traits: Appropriate

behavior & value physical activity to lifelong health

and well-being

3 Attendance

3 Punctuality

3 Responsibility

3 Completes work

3 Works cooperatively

  style="word-spacing: 1; line-height: 100%; margin-top: 1; margin-bottom: 1">ü Develop awareness of & sensitivity to natural world

ü Describe historical, political & social factors affect scientific developments

Ecosystems

ü Describe common patterns of relationships among populations

ü Describe how organisms acquire energy from sunlight

ü Predict effects of changes in food web

ü Describe likely succession of ecosystem over time

ü Explain effects of agriculture & urban development on ecosystems

ü Explain how humans use & benefit from plants & animals

ü Describe ways humans alter environment

ü Compare & classify organisms

Evolution

ü Describe how scientific theory traces possible evolutionary relationships among past & present life

ü Explain how new traits might become established

ü Explain how new species or variety may originate

Atmosphere and Weather

ü Describe patterns of air movement & affects

ü Explain & predict weather patterns & storms

Motion of Objects

ü Describe non-contact forces exerted by magnets

ü Describe & compare motion in two dimensions

ü Relate motion of objects

ü Design strategies for moving objects by application of forces

Solar System, Galaxy & Universe

ü Compare our sun to other stars

ü Describe position & motion of our solar system-

overall scale, structure & age of universe

ü Explain how stars & planetary systems form & stars produce energy

ü Explain how technology & scientific inquiry have helped us learn about the universe

Technology/Careers

Keyboarding

Word Processing

Draw/Paint Skills

Multimedia

Career Planning

Personal Management

Organizational Skills

Team Work

Employability Skills

Health Education: Michigan Model 

Tobacco "It’s No Mystery: Tobacco Is a Killer"

"Protect A Friend-Share Your Skills" Alcohol, Tobacco & Other Drug Prevention

HIV, AIDS, and Other STD’s

ü Motor Skills

ü Physical Fitness

ü Cognitive Concepts: Body awareness, learning

motor skills, rules & strategies, describe effects

of activity & inactivity

ü Personal and Social Character Traits: Appropriate

behavior & value physical activity to lifelong health

and well-being

3 Attendance

3 Punctuality

3 Responsibility

3 Completes work

3 Works cooperatively

 

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