Paete Science & Business College Inc.

(Formerly Eastern Laguna Colleges, Inc.)

J. P. Rizal St. Paete, Laguna

GRADE 8 SCIENCE CURRICULUM MAP

Quarter 1 Quarter 2 Quarter 3 Quarter 4
1. How do you analyze motion? 1. How do 1. Why do 1. How does our body process
2. How does an object start motion, change the direction of its earthquakes solids, liquids, the food that we take?
motion, and finally stop? occur and how and gases 2. How can we take care of the
3. How does the understanding of the laws of motion reduce the are they behave organs of our digestive system?
risk of vehicular accidents on the road? detected? differently? 3. Why do cells divide?
4. Why is transformation of energy useful or important? 2. How can 2. How do you 4. What might happen when
5. How can the energy possessed by an object change its people prepare explain the something wrong occurs during
position, motion, or environment? for properties of cell division?
6. How is energy related to work and power? earthquakes? solids, liquids, 5. Why is it important to
7. How are sound and light waves affected by Earth’s 3. How is the and gases? understand genetics?
atmosphere? magnitude and 3. Is there an 6. What factors determine the
Essential Questions

8. How do light and sound waves behave? intensity of an ultimate appearance of an organism?
9. How do temperature and nature of materials used as medium earthquake particle? 7. How are dominant and
affect the speed of sound? measured? 4. How do you recessive patterns of inheritence
10. Why do you see objects when there is light? 4. How could study things identified?
11. Why do you see different colors of the sky at certain times of you prepare for you cannot 8. How the results of a cross are
the day? an impending see? predicted using a Punnett
12. Why is it important to study heat and temperature? typhoon? 5. What square?
13. How does heat transmission affect you and the environment? 5. Why is the makes the 9. How does imbalance in
14. How do buildings keep people warm during winter? Philippines periodic table nature occur?
15. How does an increase in atmospheric temperature affect prone to of elements an 10. What are the bases for
climate? typhoon? important tool classification of organism?
16. How do electrons flow through a wire? 6. How do the in science? 11. Why do we need to
17. Why do batteries go “dead”? other members 6. How do you conserve our resource?
18. How are circuits connected? of the solar use the 12. What is your role in the
19. What is resistance? system affect periodic table circle of life?
20. What is electrical safety? Earth? of elements? 13. How does matter and
21. How can an understanding of electricity help you use it safely? energy move around in the
ecosystem?
  Newton’s Laws of Motion  Earthquakes  States of  Food Trip
In terms of essential concepts and topics  Work, Energy, and Power and Faults Matter  Cell Division
 Sound and Light  Typhoons  The Structure  Mendelian Genetics
Content

 Heat: The Thermal Energy  Minor of the Atom  Biodiversity

 Electricity Members of  The Periodic  The Circle of Life
the Solar Table of
System Elements:
Order in
Nature
1.1 – 1.4 6.1 – 6.3 9.1 – 9.5 12.1 – 12.3
(i.e., processes and skills emphasized – state

2.1 – 2.3 7.1 10.1 – 10.3 13.1

Standards/Skills

3.1 – 3.3 8.1 – 8.2 11.1 – 11.3 14.1

academic standards)

4.1 15.1 - 15.2

5.1 – 5.6 16.1

 Newton’s Olympics  Journal  Graphic  Role-playing

Products/Assessments
It is assumed that students will be assessed with

 Graphic organizer Writing organizer  Diagram

 Creating Models  Role-playing  Modelling  Modelling
 KWL Chart  Comet  Journal
traditional tests.

 Constructing connections Model writing

 Internet  Internet  Internet  Internet

Resources

 You and the Natural World 8  You and the  You and the  You and the Natural
Natural World Natural World 8
8 World 8

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