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- ClimeTime
- Envrionmental Science
- Middle School Science
- NGSS Storyline
- Weather and Climate
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Learning Domain: Earth and Human Activity
Standard: Analyze and interpret data on natural hazards to forecast future catastrophic events and inform the development of technologies to mitigate their effects.
Learning Domain: Engineering, Technology, and Applications of Science
Standard: Define the criteria and constraints of a design problem with sufficient precision to ensure a successful solution, taking into account relevant scientific principles and potential impacts on people and the natural environment that may limit possible solutions.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Integrate information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction at the high end of the grades 6–8 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
Learning Domain: Reading for Literacy in Science and Technical Subjects
Standard: Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of science and technical texts.
Learning Domain: Reading for Literacy in Science and Technical Subjects
Standard: By the end of grade 8, read and comprehend science/technical texts in the grades 6–8 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
Learning Domain: Reading for Literacy in Science and Technical Subjects
Standard: Determine the central ideas or conclusions of a text; provide an accurate summary of the text distinct from prior knowledge or opinions.
Learning Domain: Reading for Literacy in Science and Technical Subjects
Standard: Follow precisely a multistep procedure when carrying out experiments, taking measurements, or performing technical tasks.
Learning Domain: Reading for Literacy in Science and Technical Subjects
Standard: Determine the meaning of symbols, key terms, and other domain-specific words and phrases as they are used in a specific scientific or technical context relevant to grades 6–8 texts and topics.
Learning Domain: Reading for Literacy in Science and Technical Subjects
Standard: Integrate quantitative or technical information expressed in words in a text with a version of that information expressed visually (e.g., in a flowchart, diagram, model, graph, or table).
Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 6 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 7 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 8 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Conduct short research projects to answer a question, drawing on several sources and refocusing the inquiry when appropriate.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Apply grade 6 Reading standards to literary nonfiction (e.g., “Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not”).
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Conduct short research projects to answer a question, drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions for further research and investigation.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Apply grade 7 Reading standards to literary nonfiction (e.g. “Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient to support the claims”).
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Conduct short research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question), drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions that allow for multiple avenues of exploration.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Apply grade 8 Reading standards to literary nonfiction (e.g., “Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; recognize when irrelevant evidence is introduced”).
Learning Domain: Writing for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects
Standard: Conduct short research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question), drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions that allow for multiple avenues of exploration.
Maryland College and Career Ready English Language Arts Standards
Grade 6Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 6-8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Integrate information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue.
Maryland College and Career Ready English Language Arts Standards
Grade 7Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 6-8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
Maryland College and Career Ready English Language Arts Standards
Grade 8Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction at the high end of the grades 6-8 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
Maryland College and Career Ready English Language Arts Standards
Grades 6-8Learning Domain: Reading for Literacy in Science and Technical Subjects
Standard: Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of science and technical texts.
Maryland College and Career Ready English Language Arts Standards
Grades 6-8Learning Domain: Reading for Literacy in Science and Technical Subjects
Standard: By the end of grade 8, read and comprehend science/technical texts in the grades 6-8 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
Maryland College and Career Ready English Language Arts Standards
Grades 6-8Learning Domain: Reading for Literacy in Science and Technical Subjects
Standard: Determine the central ideas or conclusions of a text; provide an accurate summary of the text distinct from prior knowledge or opinions.
Maryland College and Career Ready English Language Arts Standards
Grades 6-8Learning Domain: Reading for Literacy in Science and Technical Subjects
Standard: Follow precisely a multistep procedure when carrying out experiments, taking measurements, or performing technical tasks.
Maryland College and Career Ready English Language Arts Standards
Grades 6-8Learning Domain: Reading for Literacy in Science and Technical Subjects
Standard: Determine the meaning of symbols, key terms, and other domain-specific words and phrases as they are used in a specific scientific or technical context relevant to grades 6���8 texts and topics.
Maryland College and Career Ready English Language Arts Standards
Grades 6-8Learning Domain: Reading for Literacy in Science and Technical Subjects
Standard: Integrate quantitative or technical information expressed in words in a text with a version of that information expressed visually (e.g., in a flowchart, diagram, model, graph, or table).
Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 6 topics, texts, and issues, building on others�۪ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 7 topics, texts, and issues, building on others�۪ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 8 topics, texts, and issues, building on others�۪ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Conduct short research projects to answer a question, drawing on several sources and refocusing the inquiry when appropriate.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Apply grade 6 Reading standards to literary nonfiction (e.g., "Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not").
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Conduct short research projects to answer a question, drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions for further research and investigation.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Apply grade 7 Reading standards to literary nonfiction (e.g. "Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient to support the claims").
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Conduct short research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question), drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions that allow for multiple avenues of exploration.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Apply grade 8 Reading standards to literary nonfiction (e.g., "Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; recognize when irrelevant evidence is introduced").
Maryland College and Career Ready English Language Arts Standards
Grades 6-8Learning Domain: Writing for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects
Standard: Conduct short research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question), drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions that allow for multiple avenues of exploration.
Science Domain: Earth and Space Sciences
Topic: Human Impacts
Standard: Analyze and interpret data on natural hazards to forecast future catastrophic events and inform the development of technologies to mitigate their effects. [Clarification Statement: Emphasis is on how some natural hazards, such as volcanic eruptions and severe weather, are preceded by phenomena that allow for reliable predictions, but others, such as earthquakes, occur suddenly and with no notice, and thus are not yet predictable. Examples of natural hazards can be taken from interior processes (such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions), surface processes (such as mass wasting and tsunamis), or severe weather events (such as hurricanes, tornadoes, and floods). Examples of data can include the locations, magnitudes, and frequencies of the natural hazards. Examples of technologies can be global (such as satellite systems to monitor hurricanes or forest fires) or local (such as building basements in tornado-prone regions or reservoirs to mitigate droughts).]
Science Domain: Engineering, Technology, and Applications of Science
Topic: Engineering Design
Standard: Define the criteria and constraints of a design problem with sufficient precision to ensure a successful solution, taking into account relevant scientific principles and potential impacts on people and the natural environment that may limit possible solutions.
Cluster: Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity.
Standard: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
Cluster: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas.
Standard: Integrate information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue.
Cluster: Research to Build and Present Knowledge.
Standard: Conduct short research projects to answer a question, drawing on several sources and refocusing the inquiry when appropriate.
Cluster: Research to Build and Present Knowledge.
Standard: Apply grade 6 Reading standards to literary nonfiction (e.g., “Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not”).
Cluster: Comprehension and Collaboration.
Standard: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 6 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of science and technical texts.
Cluster: Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity.
Standard: By the end of grade 8, read and comprehend science/technical texts in the grades 6–8 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Determine the central ideas or conclusions of a text; provide an accurate summary of the text distinct from prior knowledge or opinions.
Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Follow precisely a multistep procedure when carrying out experiments, taking measurements, or performing technical tasks.
Cluster: Craft and Structure.
Standard: Determine the meaning of symbols, key terms, and other domain-specific words and phrases as they are used in a specific scientific or technical context relevant to grades 6–8 texts and topics.
Cluster: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas.
Standard: Integrate quantitative or technical information expressed in words in a text with a version of that information expressed visually (e.g., in a flowchart, diagram, model, graph, or table).
Cluster: Research to Build and Present Knowledge.
Standard: Conduct short research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question), drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions that allow for multiple avenues of exploration.
Cluster: Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity.
Standard: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
Cluster: Research to Build and Present Knowledge.
Standard: Conduct short research projects to answer a question, drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions for further research and investigation.
Cluster: Research to Build and Present Knowledge.
Standard: Apply grade 7 Reading standards to literary nonfiction (e.g. “Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient to support the claims”).
Cluster: Comprehension and Collaboration.
Standard: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 7 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
Cluster: Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity.
Standard: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction at the high end of the grades 6–8 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
Cluster: Research to Build and Present Knowledge.
Standard: Conduct short research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question), drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions that allow for multiple avenues of exploration.
Cluster: Research to Build and Present Knowledge.
Standard: Apply grade 8 Reading standards to literary nonfiction (e.g., “Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; recognize when irrelevant evidence is introduced”).
Cluster: Comprehension and Collaboration.
Standard: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 8 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
PEI SOLS Middle School Coastal Hazards: Sea Level Rise
Overview
Sea level is rising due to climate changes that result from increased emissions of greenhouse gases. In this storyline, students will explore mechanisms of sea level rise and the impacts on Indigenous peoples along with other groups such as urban communities. Natural hazards such as erosion, storm surges, and flooding are intensified by sea level rise. The effects on natural resources, the economies built from those natural resources, and land usage in general can be predicted by utilizing current and historical data.