Grade 08 Science - EC: S8.A.3.1.2
Grade 08 Science - EC: S8.A.3.1.2
Continuum of Activities
The list below represents a continuum of activities: resources categorized by Standard/Eligible Content that teachers may use to move students toward proficiency. Using LEA curriculum and available materials and resources, teachers can customize the activity statements/questions for classroom use.
This continuum of activities offers:
- Instructional activities designed to be integrated into planned lessons
- Questions/activities that grow in complexity
- Opportunities for differentiation for each student’s level of performance
Related Academic Standards / Eligible Content
Activities
- Draw a model of a food chain. Write a few sentences to explain how the producer is related to the consumers.
- Summarize the process that takes place in order to make a cotton shirt.
- When manufacturing an automobile, each part is created and assembled in the same order each time. Do you think it is necessary to follow the same steps in the same order every time an automobile is built? Why or why not?
Answer Key/Rubric
- Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
- The producers create their own food using photosynthesis. The do not eat other organisms.
- Producers are eaten by primary consumers. These consumers are usually herbivores. They may also be omnivores.
- Secondary consumers eat the primary consumers. These are usually omnivores.
- Finally, tertiary consumers eat the secondary consumers. These animals are usually carnivores.
- All food chains are organized with producers at the bottom and tertiary consumers at the top.
- Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
- Plant cotton seeds
- Harvest cotton
- Clean cotton
- Machines twist the cotton into yarn.
- Machines turn the yarn into fabric.
- The fabric is dyed and sewn into a shirt.
- Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
- Yes: The process has been created due to its efficiency. If the steps were followed in a different order, the process would be less efficient and there would be a greater chance of error.
- No: Automobile designs are constantly being improved. The process to build them can be improved, too. New machines may require a different procedure to be followed.
