This parent guide supports parents in helping their child at home with the 8th grade Science content.
This resource accompanies our Rethink 8th Grade Science course. It includes ideas for use, ways to support exceptional children, ways to extend learning, digital resources and tools, tips for supporting English Language Learners and students with visual and hearing impairments. There are also ideas for offline learning.
At the end of these lesson(s) students should be able to listen and identify how biotechnology is used to affect living organisms using a graphic organizer and techer created recording/audio script.Students should be able to verbally summarize aspects of biotechnology.
Students explore a list of myths about cloning as well as explain why they are myths.
Students learn that cloning is nothing new. It's scientific history spans more than 100 years.
Students learn information on cloning including how it is done, how it differs from natural cloning and comparing cloning an organism to cloning a gene,
This article, with embedded video, is a profile of biochemical engineer and textile scientist Yiqi Yang of the University of Nebraska. Yang develops sustainable bio-based textile fibers. The article focuses on his current work in developing textiles from corn husks.
Daniel Kraft offers a fast-paced look at the next few years of innovations in medicine, powered by new tools, tests and apps that bring diagnostic information right to the patient's bedside. Assessment questions and links to additional resources are included.
Nanooze is a kid-friendly online magazine that explores nanotechnology. This issue covers current and future applications of nanotechnology to the detection and treatment of disease. Topics include nanotattoos, seeing inside the body, sequencing DNA, an interview with a nanoscientist, and teenier tinier tools.
This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 8th Grade Science.
This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 8th Grade Science.
This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 8th Grade Science.