Middle School

Solve word problems with ratios and rates (ex: comparing election votes).

Understand and use negative numbers (ex: which temperature is colder: -9 degrees or -20 degrees).

Use variables, and write expressions and equations to solve problems.

Understand and use language related to basic statistics.

Solve real-world problems related to area, surface area, and volume.

Understand how fossils and rock layers tell us how the Earth has changed over long periods of time.

Understand that different systems in the human body work together to keep a person alive.

Understand the concept of density and explore materials’ differences in density.

Understand that a wave has energy and is a repeating pattern with a specific length, frequency, and amplitude.

Explain how different engineering solutions have different impacts on people and the environment.

Cultivate and manage their digital identity and reputation.

Understand the permanence of their actions in the digital world.

Engage in positive, safe, legal and ethical behavior when using technology, including social interactions online or when using networked devices.

Demonstrate an understanding of and respect for the rights and obligations of using and sharing intellectual property.

Solve real-world problems using ratios, rates, and proportions (ex: find how much tax will be charged on a new phone).

Understand and use rational numbers.

Solve problems involving a circle’s area, radius and circumference.

Compare two sets of data (ex: compare the heights of players on two basketball teams).

Understand the roles of energy and gravity in the water cycle.

Understand relationships between organisms and their ecosystems.

Explain how we know that electrical, magnetic, and gravitational fields exist.

Use models to explain how heat transfers from hotter objects to colder objects.

Explore how transportation systems, communication systems, and structural systems work.

Manage their personal data to maintain digital privacy and security.

Understand how data-collection technology is used to track their navigation online.

Use effective research strategies to locate information and other resources for their intellectual or creative pursuits.

Evaluate the accuracy, perspective, credibility and relevance of information, media, data or other resources.

Understand and use linear equations to solve problems.

Understand and use functions: situations where one quantity depends on another, like when the distance a train travels depends on its speed.

Explore and use the Pythagorean Theorem for right triangles.

Create linear equations to model real-life data.

Understand the sun-earth-moon system and the way it affects life on Earth.

Describe and detail the cycle of energy between all living things through respiration and photosynthesis.

Understand how environments affect the growth of living things (organisms).

Understand how atoms combine in many ways to make the substances that make up all living and nonliving things.

Curate information from digital resources using a variety of tools and methods

Create collections of artifacts that demonstrate meaningful connections or conclusions.

Build knowledge by actively exploring real-world issues and problems, developing ideas and theories and pursuing answers and solutions.