GSE 8th Grade Physical Science Curriculum Map

These are bundles of core ideas from the Georgia Standards of Excellence related to an anchoring phenomenon.
This document is part of a framework that includes lessons and resources.

Instructional Principles of Energy and Structure and Properties

Waves Forces Motion
Segment Matter of Matter
Estimated
7 weeks 7 weeks 7 weeks 7 weeks 8 weeks
Time
 Systems and system  Structure and function  Cause and effect  Cause and effect  Cause and effect
models  Energy and matter  Structure and function  Structure and function  Energy and matter
Crosscutting
 Scale, proportion, and  Energy and matter  Energy and matter
Concepts
quantity
 Energy and matter
Year-Long Phenomenon: Human need for energy
Power Up: Lights Out Dinner is ready Best seats in the house Seeing is believing: Vehicular motion
Anchoring https://www.georgiapower.co You are what you eat https://youtu.be/W0zxbIRp railroad car implosion Crashes
Phenomenon m/about-energy/energy- ElM Aurora Borealis Runaway truck ramps
sources/nuclear/plantmap.html Electrical force fields:
safety first
 Energy  Structure and properties  Waves properties  Matter (structure and  Force and motion
 Energy transformations of matter (frequency, amplitude, composition)  Speed and acceleration
 Matter (structure and  Mixtures and solutions wavelength, and energy)  Energy transformations  Speed and distance
 Elements and  Energy (electromagnetic  Newton’s Laws of Motion
composition)  Forces (friction,
compounds spectrum)  Balance and unbalanced forces
 Kinetic and potential  Matter (structure and  Light and sound
gravitational, electrical,
and magnetic)  Energy transformations
energy composition)  Wave propagation 
Core Ideas  Force fields Kinetic and potential energy
 Heat transfer (conduction,  Thermal energy (reflection, refraction,
 Conductors and insulators
radiation, and convection)  Energy transformations absorption, diffraction
 Electric and magnetic and transmission)
 States of matter  Lenses characteristics
forces (electromagnets)  Chemical and physical
properties and changes
 Conservation of matter

Obtain, Evaluate, and Communicate Information

 Plan and carrying out  Develop and use  Develop and use models  Plan and carry out  Construct explanations and
Science and investigations models  Construct explanations investigations design solutions
Engineering  Engage in arguments from  Engage in arguments and design solutions  Engage in arguments
Practices evidence from evidence from evidence

GSE S8P1e; S8P2a,b,c,d; S8P5c S8P1a,b,c,d,e,f; S8P2c,d S8P4a,b,c,d,e,f,g S8P1e; S8P2c; S8P5a,b,c S8P3a,b,c; S8P2a,b

Georgia Department of Education

July 11, 2017