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Middle School Scope and Sequence
Grade 6
6.1 - Light & Matter
MS-PS4-2: Wave Reflection, Absorption, and Transmission
MS-LS1-8: Information Processing
6.2 - Thermal Energy
MS-PS1-4: Thermal Energy and Particle Motion
MS-PS3-3: Thermal Energy Transfer Solution
MS-PS3-4: Thermal Energy Transfer
MS-PS3-5: Energy Transfer to or from an Object
MS-PS4-2: Wave Reflection, Absorption, and Transmission
6.3 - Weather, Climate & Water Cycling
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-PS1-4: Thermal Energy and Particle Motion
6.4 - Plate Tectonics & Rock Cycling
MS-ESS1-4: Geologic Time Scale
MS-ESS2-1: Cycling of Earth's Materials
MS-ESS2-2: Geoscience Processes at Varying Scales
MS-ESS2-3: Evidence of Plate Tectonics
6.5 - Natural Hazards
6.6 - Cells & Systems
MS-LS1-1: Cell Theory
MS-LS1-2: Cell Parts and Function
MS-LS1-3: Interacting Body Systems
MS-LS1-8: Information Processing
Grade 7
7.1 - Chemical Reactions & Matter
MS-PS1-1: Atomic Composition Model
MS-PS1-2: Chemical Properties and Reactions
MS-PS1-5: Conservation of Atoms in Reactions
MS-LS1-8: Information Processing
7.2 - Chemical Reactions & Energy
MS-PS1-6: Thermal Energy Design Project
7.3 - Metabolic Reactions
MS-LS1-3: Interacting Body Systems
MS-LS1-5: Environmental and Genetic Growth Factors
MS-LS1-7: Food and Chemical Reactions
MS-PS1-1: Atomic Composition Model
MS-PS1-2: Chemical Properties and Reactions
7.4 - Matter Cycling & Photosynthesis
MS-LS1-6: Photosynthesis - Matter Cycling and Energy Flow
MS-LS2-3: Matter Cycling and Energy Flow in Ecosystems
MS-PS1-3: Synthetic Materials
7.5 - Ecosystem Dynamics & Biodiversity
MS-LS2-1: Effects of Resource Availability
MS-LS2-2: Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems
MS-LS2-4: Ecosystem Interactions and Dynamics
MS-LS2-5: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Solutions
7.6 - Earth’s Resources & Human Impact
MS-ESS3-1: Uneven Distribution of Earth's Resources
MS-ESS3-3: Human Impact on the Environment
MS-ESS3-4: Human Consumption of Natural Resources
MS-ESS3-5: Causes of Global Warming
Grade 8
8.1 - Contact Forces
MS-PS2-1: Collision Design Solution
MS-PS2-2: Forces, Mass and the Motion of an Object
MS-PS3-1: Kinetic Energy of an Object
MS-LS1-8: Information Processing
8.2 - Sound Waves
MS-PS4-1: Wave Properties
MS-PS2-4: Gravitational Interactions
MS-LS1-8: Information Processing
8.3 - Forces at a Distance
MS-PS2-3: Electric and Magnetic Forces
MS-PS2-5: Electric and Magnetic Fields
MS-PS3-2: Potential Energy of the System
MS-PS4-3: Digitized Wave Signals
8.4 - Earth in Space
MS-ESS1-1: Earth-Sun-Moon System
MS-ESS1-2: Gravity and Motions in Space
MS-ESS1-3: Scale Properties in the Solar System
MS-PS2-4: Gravitational Interactions
MS-PS4-2: Wave Reflection, Absorption, and Transmission
8.5 - Genetics
MS-LS1-2: Cell Parts and Function
MS-LS1-5: Environmental and Genetic Growth Factors
MS-LS3-1: Mutations - Harmful, Beneficial or Neutral
MS-LS3-2: Asexual and Sexual Reproduction
MS-LS4-5: Artificial Selection
8.6 - Natural Selection & Common Ancestry
MS-LS1-4: Animal Behaviors and Plant Structures - Reproductive Success
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-LS4-6: Adaptation of Populations over Time