Academic Standards
The Devil's Lake Geology Tours will help your students to achieve the standards listed here.
Those listed are eighth grade science standards. For further information about academic standards or to see the science standards for other grades, click here for the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction Model Academic Standards.
Science, Standard A: Science Connections
Performance Standards - Grade 8
By the end of grade eight, students will:
A.8.3 Defend explanations and models by collecting and organizing evidence that supports them and critique explanations and models by collecting and organizing evidence that conflicts with them
A.8.6 Use models and explanations to predict actions and events in the natural world
A.8.7 Design real or thought investigations to test the usefulness and limitations of a model
A.8.8. Use the themes of evolution, equilibrium, and energy to predict future events or changes in the natural world
Science, Standard B: Nature of Science
Performance Standards - Grade 8
By the end of grade eight, students will:
B.8.1 Describe how scientific knowledge and concepts have changed over time in the earth and space, life and environmental, and physical sciences
B.8.2 Identify and describe major changes that have occurred over in conceptual models and explanations in the earth and space, life and environmental, and physical sciences and identify the people, cultures, and conditions that led to these developments
B.8.3 Explain how the general rules of science apply to the development and use of evidence in science investigations, model-making, and applications
Science, Standard C: Science Inquiry
Performance Standards - Grade 8
By the end of grade eight, students will:
C.8.1 Identify questions they can investigate using resources and equipment they have available
C.8.2 Identify data and locate sources of information including their own records to answer the questions being investigated
C.8.3 Design and safely conduct investigations that provide reliable quantitative or qualitative data, as appropriate, to answer their questions
C.8.4 Use inferences to help decide possible results of their investigations, use observations to check their inferences
C.8.5 Use accepted scientific knowledge, models, and theories to explain their results and to raise further questions about their investigations
C.8.6 State what they have learned from investigations, relating their inferences to scientific knowledge and to data they have collected
C.8.7 Explain their data and conclusions in ways that allow an audience to understand the questions they selected for investigation* and the answers they have developed
C.8.9 Evaluate, explain, and defend the validity of questions, hypotheses, and conclusions to their investigations
C.8.10 Discuss the importance of their results and implications of their work with peers, teachers, and other adults
C.8.11 Raise further questions which still need to be answered
Science, Standard D: Physical Science
Performance Standards - Grade 8
By the end of grade eight, students will:
PROPERTIES AND CHANGES OF PROPERTIES IN MATTER
D.8.2 Use the major ideas of atomic theory and molecular theory to describe physical and chemical interactions among substances, including solids, liquids, and gases
Science, Standard E: Earth and Space Science
Performance Standards - Grade 8
By the end of grade eight, students will:
STRUCTURE OF EARTH SYSTEM
E.8.1 Using the science themes, explain and predict changes in major features of land, water, and atmospheric systems
E.8.2 Describe underlying structures of the earth that cause changes in the earth's surface
E.8.3 Using the science themes during the process of investigation, describe climate, weather, ocean currents, soil movements and changes in the forces acting on the earth
E.8.4 Using the science themes, analyze the influence living organisms have had on the earth's systems, including their impact on the composition of the atmosphere and the weathering of rocks
EARTH'S HISTORY
E.8.5 Analyze the geologic and life history of the earth, including change over time, using various forms of scientific evidence
E.8.6 Describe through investigations the use of the earth's resources by humans in both past and current cultures, particularly how changes in the resources used for the past 100 years are the basis for efforts to conserve and recycle renewable and non-renewable resources
Science, Standard F: Life and Environmental Science
Performance Standards - Grade 8
By the end of grade eight, students will:
STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION IN LIVING THINGS
F.8.2 Show how organisms have adapted structures to match their functions, providing means of encouraging individual and group survival within specific environments
REGULATION AND BEHAVIOR
F.8.7 Understand that an organism's behavior evolves through adaptation to its environment
POPULATIONS AND ECOSYSTEMS
F.8.8 Show through investigations how organisms both depend on and contribute to the balance or imbalance of populations and/or ecosystems, which in turn contribute to the total system of life on the planet
DIVERSITY AND ADAPTATIONS OF ORGANISMS
F.8.9 Explain how some of the changes on the earth are contributing to changes in the balance of life and affecting the survival or population growth of certain species
F.8.10 Project how current trends in human resource use and population growth will influence the natural environment, and show how current policies affect those trends.
Science, Standard G: Science Applications
Performance Standards - Grade 8
By the end of grade eight, students will:
G.8.1 Identify and investigate the skills people need for a career in science or technology and identify the academic courses that a person pursuing such a career would need
G.8.2 Explain how current scientific and technological discoveries have an influence on the work people do and how some of these discoveries also lead to new careers
G.8.3 Illustrate the impact that science and technology have had, both good and bad, on careers, systems, society, environment, and quality of life
G.8.5 Investigate a specific local problem to which there has been a scientific or technological solution, including proposals for alternative courses of action, the choices that were made, reasons for the choices, any new problems created, and subsequent community satisfaction
G.8.6 Use current texts, encyclopedias, source books, computers, experts, the popular press, or other relevant sources to identify examples of how scientific discoveries have resulted in new technology