Middle School Science

Middle School Science

Bring Science Alive! is a program built from the ground up to align to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and the Common Core. Bring Science Alive! embodies the new vision for how science should be taught in schools–focusing on big picture concepts and teaching students how to “do science”—rather than memorize facts.

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Use evidence to explore traits, survival, and reproduction; the structure and functions of body systems and cells; genes and inheritance of traits, mutations, and engineering and genetics.

Unit 1. Traits

Traits for Survival
Traits for Reproduction

Engineering Challenge

Performance Assessment

Unit 2. Bodies

Interacting Body Systems

Engineering Challenge

Levels of Organization
Controlling Body Systems

Performance Assessment

Unit 3. Cells

Cell Theory
Parts of Cells

Unit 4. Genes

Proteins, Genes, and Chromosomes
Inheriting Genes
Genes and the Environment

Unit 5. Changes in Genes

Genetic Mutations
Engineering and Genetics

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Science and Engineering Practices

The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) emphasize learning by investigating the natural world through the practices of scientific inquiry. Being able to use science understandings and practices allows students to investigate further questions about the natural world and solve meaningful engineering problems. NGSS identifies eight practices of science and engineering. Each lesson of Bring Science Alive! provides scaffolded instruction and reflection of one or more of these practices.

Crosscutting Concepts

NGSS underscore the importance of making connections between the life, earth, physical sciences, and engineering. The seven crosscutting concepts are designed to do just this. While the seven overarching concepts are the same from kindergarten through twelfth grade, the details increase in complexity as students progress. Bring Science Alive! teaches crosscutting concepts in conjunction with appropriate disciplinary core ideas and science and engineering practices throughout the Student Text, Lesson Presentation activities and investigations, and assessments.

Disciplinary Core Ideas

NGSS include a limited number of compelling scientific and engineering ideas to ensure that K-12 students learn and engage in the practices of science and engineering. Every Bring Science Alive! lesson guides students to build understanding of the disciplinary core ideas through the uses of these practices and the crosscutting concepts.

Identify cause-and-effect relationships between Earth’s history and the fossil record, natural selection and changes in species, genes and patterns of inheritance; and humans, evolution, and heredity.

Unit 1. History of Life on Earth

Earth’s History
Fossils and the History of Life

Unit 2. The Evolution of Life

Darwin’s Theory of Evolution Through Natural Selection
Observing Natural Selection in Action
Genes and Natural Selection
Evolutionary Relationships

Unit 3. Human Impacts on Evolution

Artificial Selection
Genetic Engineering and Society
Human Population and Global Change

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Science and Engineering Practices

The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) emphasize learning by investigating the natural world through the practices of scientific inquiry. Being able to use science understandings and practices allows students to investigate further questions about the natural world and solve meaningful engineering problems. NGSS identifies eight practices of science and engineering. Each lesson of Bring Science Alive! provides scaffolded instruction and reflection of one or more of these practices.

Crosscutting Concepts

NGSS underscore the importance of making connections between the life, earth, physical sciences, and engineering. The seven crosscutting concepts are designed to do just this. While the seven overarching concepts are the same from kindergarten through twelfth grade, the details increase in complexity as students progress. Bring Science Alive! teaches crosscutting concepts in conjunction with appropriate disciplinary core ideas and science and engineering practices throughout the Student Text, Lesson Presentation activities and investigations, and assessments.

Disciplinary Core Ideas

NGSS include a limited number of compelling scientific and engineering ideas to ensure that K-12 students learn and engage in the practices of science and engineering. Every Bring Science Alive! lesson guides students to build understanding of the disciplinary core ideas through the uses of these practices and the crosscutting concepts.

Model interdependence in ecosystems, photosynthesis and cellular respiration, energy flow and cycling of matter, biodiversity, and explore the human impacts on ecosystems and biodiversity.

Unit 1. Resources In Ecosystems

Resources in Living Systems
Interactions Among Organisms
Changing Ecosystems

Unit 2. Energy and Matter in Ecosystems

Capturing the Sun’s Energy
Using Stored Energy
Food Webs and Trophic Pyramids
Global Cycles of Matter

Unit 3. Humans and Changing Ecosystems

Biodiversity
The Importance of Healthy Ecosystems
Engineering Solutions and Protecting Ecosystems

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Science and Engineering Practices

The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) emphasize learning by investigating the natural world through the practices of scientific inquiry. Being able to use science understandings and practices allows students to investigate further questions about the natural world and solve meaningful engineering problems. NGSS identifies eight practices of science and engineering. Each lesson of Bring Science Alive! provides scaffolded instruction and reflection of one or more of these practices.

Crosscutting Concepts

NGSS underscore the importance of making connections between the life, earth, physical sciences, and engineering. The seven crosscutting concepts are designed to do just this. While the seven overarching concepts are the same from kindergarten through twelfth grade, the details increase in complexity as students progress. Bring Science Alive! teaches crosscutting concepts in conjunction with appropriate disciplinary core ideas and science and engineering practices throughout the Student Text, Lesson Presentation activities and investigations, and assessments.

Disciplinary Core Ideas

NGSS include a limited number of compelling scientific and engineering ideas to ensure that K-12 students learn and engage in the practices of science and engineering. Every Bring Science Alive! lesson guides students to build understanding of the disciplinary core ideas through the uses of these practices and the crosscutting concepts.

Model cause-and-effect relationships involving Earth’s rotation, revolution, and tilted axis; lunar phases and eclipses, the solar system, galaxies, and the universe.

Unit 1: The Earth-Sun-Moon System

Earth’s Rotation and Revolution
Earth’s Tilted Axis
Phases of the Moon
Eclipses

Unit 2: The Solar System

Gravity and the Solar System
The Inner Solar System
The Outer Solar System

Unit 3: The Solar System and Beyond

Formation of the Solar System
Beyond the Solar System

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Our Bring Science Alive! Materials Kits are prepared and organized to seamlessly integrate into each specified lesson.

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**View how BSA! Space aligns with NGSS**

Science and Engineering Practices

The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) emphasize learning by investigating the natural world through the practices of scientific inquiry. Being able to use science understandings and practices allows students to investigate further questions about the natural world and solve meaningful engineering problems. NGSS identifies eight practices of science and engineering. Each lesson of Bring Science Alive! provides scaffolded instruction and reflection of one or more of these practices.

Crosscutting Concepts

NGSS underscore the importance of making connections between the life, earth, physical sciences, and engineering. The seven crosscutting concepts are designed to do just this. While the seven overarching concepts are the same from kindergarten through twelfth grade, the details increase in complexity as students progress. Bring Science Alive! teaches crosscutting concepts in conjunction with appropriate disciplinary core ideas and science and engineering practices throughout the Student Text, Lesson Presentation activities and investigations, and assessments.

Disciplinary Core Ideas

NGSS include a limited number of compelling scientific and engineering ideas to ensure that K-12 students learn and engage in the practices of science and engineering. Every Bring Science Alive! lesson guides students to build understanding of the disciplinary core ideas through the uses of these practices and the crosscutting concepts.

Construct explanations about Earth’s natural resources, the rock and water cycles, rock layers, fossils, geologic time, plate tectonics, and natural hazards using varied time scales.

Unit 1. Earth’s Systems

Energy in Earth’s Systems
Earth’s Dynamic Surface

Unit 2. Processes that Shape Earth

Earth’s Tectonic Plates
The Rock Cycle
The Water Cycle
Earth’s Natural Resources

Unit 3. Earth Processes Through Geologic Time

Investigating Rock Strata
Reconstructing Earth’s History

Unit 4. Earth’s Natural Hazards

Volcanic Eruptions and Earthquakes
Mass Wasting, Tsunamis, and Floods

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Our Bring Science Alive! Materials Kits are prepared and organized to seamlessly integrate into each specified lesson.

Purchase the Materials Kits for Planet Earth from our online store.

**View how BSA! Planet Earth aligns with NGSS**

Science and Engineering Practices

The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) emphasize learning by investigating the natural world through the practices of scientific inquiry. Being able to use science understandings and practices allows students to investigate further questions about the natural world and solve meaningful engineering problems. NGSS identifies eight practices of science and engineering. Each lesson of Bring Science Alive! provides scaffolded instruction and reflection of one or more of these practices.

Crosscutting Concepts

NGSS underscore the importance of making connections between the life, earth, physical sciences, and engineering. The seven crosscutting concepts are designed to do just this. While the seven overarching concepts are the same from kindergarten through twelfth grade, the details increase in complexity as students progress. Bring Science Alive! teaches crosscutting concepts in conjunction with appropriate disciplinary core ideas and science and engineering practices throughout the Student Text, Lesson Presentation activities and investigations, and assessments.

Disciplinary Core Ideas

NGSS include a limited number of compelling scientific and engineering ideas to ensure that K-12 students learn and engage in the practices of science and engineering. Every Bring Science Alive! lesson guides students to build understanding of the disciplinary core ideas through the uses of these practices and the crosscutting concepts.

Investigate the atmosphere and energy transfer, the water cycle, air pressure and air masses, weather prediction, climate factors and patterns, and Earth’s changing climate.

Unit 1. The Atmosphere and Energy

Earth’s Atmosphere
Earth and Solar Energy
Taking Earth’s Temperature

Unit 2. Weather

Air Pressure and Wind
Water and the Weather
Air Masses and Changing Weather
Severe Weather

Unit 3. Climate

Climate Patterns
Global Circulation of the Atmosphere
How the Ocean Affects Climate
Local Climate
Earth’s Climate Over Time
Climate Today and Tomorrow

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Our Bring Science Alive! Materials Kits are prepared and organized to seamlessly integrate into each specified lesson.

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**View how BSA! Weather and Climate aligns with NGSS**

Science and Engineering Practices

The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) emphasize learning by investigating the natural world through the practices of scientific inquiry. Being able to use science understandings and practices allows students to investigate further questions about the natural world and solve meaningful engineering problems. NGSS identifies eight practices of science and engineering. Each lesson of Bring Science Alive! provides scaffolded instruction and reflection of one or more of these practices.

Crosscutting Concepts

NGSS underscore the importance of making connections between the life, earth, physical sciences, and engineering. The seven crosscutting concepts are designed to do just this. While the seven overarching concepts are the same from kindergarten through twelfth grade, the details increase in complexity as students progress. Bring Science Alive! teaches crosscutting concepts in conjunction with appropriate disciplinary core ideas and science and engineering practices throughout the Student Text, Lesson Presentation activities and investigations, and assessments.

Disciplinary Core Ideas

NGSS include a limited number of compelling scientific and engineering ideas to ensure that K-12 students learn and engage in the practices of science and engineering. Every Bring Science Alive! lesson guides students to build understanding of the disciplinary core ideas through the uses of these practices and the crosscutting concepts.

Apply the concepts of conservation of matter and energy transfer to model atoms, molecules, particle motion, state changes, and chemical reactions; and explore engineering solutions involving chemical reactions.

Unit 1: The Composition of Matter

Atoms and Elements
Molecules and Extended Structures
Substances and Their Properties

Unit 2: States of Matter

The Motion of Particles
Heat, Temperature, and State Changes

Unit 3. Chemical Reactions

Identifying Chemical Reactions
Atoms in Chemical Reactions
Energy in Chemical Reactions
Chemical Engineering and Society

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Science and Engineering Practices

The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) emphasize learning by investigating the natural world through the practices of scientific inquiry. Being able to use science understandings and practices allows students to investigate further questions about the natural world and solve meaningful engineering problems. NGSS identifies eight practices of science and engineering. Each lesson of Bring Science Alive! provides scaffolded instruction and reflection of one or more of these practices.

Crosscutting Concepts

NGSS underscore the importance of making connections between the life, earth, physical sciences, and engineering. The seven crosscutting concepts are designed to do just this. While the seven overarching concepts are the same from kindergarten through twelfth grade, the details increase in complexity as students progress. Bring Science Alive! teaches crosscutting concepts in conjunction with appropriate disciplinary core ideas and science and engineering practices throughout the Student Text, Lesson Presentation activities and investigations, and assessments.

Disciplinary Core Ideas

NGSS include a limited number of compelling scientific and engineering ideas to ensure that K-12 students learn and engage in the practices of science and engineering. Every Bring Science Alive! lesson guides students to build understanding of the disciplinary core ideas through the uses of these practices and the crosscutting concepts.

Explore mechanical waves and their properties by looking at patterns in data, waves in different mediums, the wave model of light, properties of light waves, and technologies using waves to transfer information.

Unit 1. Mechanical Waves

Types of Waves
Properties of Waves
Wave Energy
Waves in Different Media

Unit 2. Light Waves

The Wave Model of Light
Properties of Light Waves

Unit 3. Waves for Information Transfer

Sending Information Using Wave Pulses
Analog and Digital Information

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Our Bring Science Alive! Materials Kits are prepared and organized to seamlessly integrate into each specified lesson.

Purchase the Materials Kits for Waves from our online store.

View how BSA! Waves aligns with NGSS

Science and Engineering Practices

The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) emphasize learning by investigating the natural world through the practices of scientific inquiry. Being able to use science understandings and practices allows students to investigate further questions about the natural world and solve meaningful engineering problems. NGSS identifies eight practices of science and engineering. Each lesson of Bring Science Alive! provides scaffolded instruction and reflection of one or more of these practices.

Crosscutting Concepts

NGSS underscore the importance of making connections between the life, earth, physical sciences, and engineering. The seven crosscutting concepts are designed to do just this. While the seven overarching concepts are the same from kindergarten through twelfth grade, the details increase in complexity as students progress. Bring Science Alive! teaches crosscutting concepts in conjunction with appropriate disciplinary core ideas and science and engineering practices throughout the Student Text, Lesson Presentation activities and investigations, and assessments.

Disciplinary Core Ideas

NGSS include a limited number of compelling scientific and engineering ideas to ensure that K-12 students learn and engage in the practices of science and engineering. Every Bring Science Alive! lesson guides students to build understanding of the disciplinary core ideas through the uses of these practices and the crosscutting concepts.

Solve engineering problems and plan investigations about forces, Newton’s Laws of Motion; kinetic and potential energy; thermal energy, heat, and the thermal properties of matter.

Unit 1. Forces

Describing Motion
Forces in Interactions
Effects of Forces

Unit 2. Noncontact Forces

Gravity
Electricity
Magnetism and Electromagnetism

Unit 3. Kinetic and Potential Energy

Forms of Energy
Measuring Kinetic Energy
Types of Potential Energy

Unit 4. Thermal Energy

Thermal Energy and Heat
Thermal Properties of Matter

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Our Bring Science Alive! Materials Kits are prepared and organized to seamlessly integrate into each specified lesson.

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**View how BSA! Forces and Energy aligns with NGSS**

Science and Engineering Practices

The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) emphasize learning by investigating the natural world through the practices of scientific inquiry. Being able to use science understandings and practices allows students to investigate further questions about the natural world and solve meaningful engineering problems. NGSS identifies eight practices of science and engineering. Each lesson of Bring Science Alive! provides scaffolded instruction and reflection of one or more of these practices.

Crosscutting Concepts

NGSS underscore the importance of making connections between the life, earth, physical sciences, and engineering. The seven crosscutting concepts are designed to do just this. While the seven overarching concepts are the same from kindergarten through twelfth grade, the details increase in complexity as students progress. Bring Science Alive! teaches crosscutting concepts in conjunction with appropriate disciplinary core ideas and science and engineering practices throughout the Student Text, Lesson Presentation activities and investigations, and assessments.

Disciplinary Core Ideas

NGSS include a limited number of compelling scientific and engineering ideas to ensure that K-12 students learn and engage in the practices of science and engineering. Every Bring Science Alive! lesson guides students to build understanding of the disciplinary core ideas through the uses of these practices and the crosscutting concepts.

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