Benjamin Franklin International School
Middle School Model
Grade 6 Science
Unit 1: Body Systems
MS-LS1-1: Cell Theory
MS-LS1-2: Cell Parts and Function
MS-LS1-3: Interacting Body Systems
MS-LS1-8: Information Processing
Unit 2: Reproduction and Growth
MS-LS1-4: Animal Behaviors and Plant Structures - Reproductive Success
MS-LS1-5: Environmental and Genetic Growth Factors
MS-LS3-2: Asexual and Sexual Reproduction
Unit 3: Energy Transfer
MS-PS3-3: Thermal Energy Transfer Solution
MS-PS3-4: Thermal Energy Transfer
MS-PS3-5: Energy Transfer to or from an Object
Unit 4: Understanding the Rise in Global Temperature
MS-ESS2-4: Cycling of Water Through Earth's Systems
MS-ESS2-5: Interacting Air Masses and Weather
MS-ESS2-6: Atmospheric and Oceanic Circulation
MS-ESS3-3: Human Impact on the Environment
MS-ESS3-5: Causes of Global Warming
Grade 7 Science
Unit 3: Interactions Within Ecosystems
MS-LS1-6: Photosynthesis - Matter Cycling and Energy Flow
MS-LS2-1: Effects of Resource Availability
MS-LS2-2: Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems
MS-LS2-3: Matter Cycling and Energy Flow in Ecosystems
MS-LS2-4: Ecosystem Interactions and Dynamics
MS-LS2-5: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Solutions
Unit 4: Geological Changes to the Earth
MS-ESS2-1: Cycling of Earth's Materials
MS-ESS2-2: Geoscience Processes at Varying Scales
MS-ESS2-3: Evidence of Plate Tectonics
MS-ESS3-1: Uneven Distribution of Earth's Resources
MS-ESS3-2: Natural Hazard
Grade 8 Science
Unit 1: Walking on the Moon
MS-PS2-1: Collision Design Solution
MS-PS2-2: Forces, Mass and the Motion of an Object
MS-PS2-3: Electric and Magnetic Forces
MS-PS2-4: Gravitational Interactions
MS-PS2-5: Electric and Magnetic Fields
MS-PS3-1: Kinetic Energy of an Object
MS-PS3-2: Potential Energy of the System
Unit 2: Chemical Reactions
MS-PS1-2: Chemical Properties and Reactions
MS-PS1-5: Conservation of Atoms in Reactions
MS-PS1-6: Thermal Energy Design Project
MS-LS1-7: Food and Chemical Reactions
Unit 3: Mechanisms of Diversity
MS-LS3-1: Mutations - Harmful, Beneficial or Neutral
MS-LS4-1: Fossil Evidence of Common Ancestry and Diversity
MS-LS4-2: Anatomical Evidence of Evolutionary Relationships
MS-LS4-3: Embryological Evidence of Common Ancestry
MS-LS4-4: Natural Selection
MS-LS4-5: Artificial Selection
MS-LS4-6: Adaptation of Populations over Time
Unit 4: Where and When Are We?
MS-ESS1-2: Gravity and Motions in Space
MS-ESS1-3: Scale Properties in the Solar System
MS-ESS1-4: Geologic Time Scale
MS-ESS3-4: Human Consumption of Natural Resources