Grade 8 Overall Expectations:
Assess the personal, social, and/or environmental impacts of a system, and evaluate improvements to a system and/or alternative ways of meeting the same needs.
- Human Body Factory (Book)
- Machines (Book)
- Inside Biosphere 2: Earth Science Under Glass (Book)
- Explore Forces And Motion! (Book)
- Mighty Robots: Mechanical Marvels That Fascinate And Frighten (Book)
- Faster, Higher, Smarter: Bright Ideas That Transformed Sports (Book)
- Leonardo Da Vinci (Book)
- Automation (Database article)
- Advantages and Disadvantages of Automation (Website)
- What is Automation? (YouTube)
- What Effect Will Automation Have on the Environment? (Website)
- Social Structure (Website)
- Amusement Park Physics (Website)
Investigate a working system and the ways in which components of the system contribute to its desired function.
- How Super Cool Tech Works (Book)
- Forms Of Energy (Book)
- Get to Know Simple Machines (Book series)
- The Science Of Machines (LaunchPad)
- Friction (DVD)
- Friction And Gravity: Snowboarding Science (Book)
- The Science Of A Race Car: Reactions In Action (Book)
- Gravity (Book)
- Skateboarding: How It Works (Book)
- Baseball Science (Book)
- Mechanical Systems (Website)
- Simple Machine Science Projects (Website)
- Simple Machines (Website)
- Mechanical Advantage (Website)
- How Systems Use Inputs and Outputs (Website)
- What is Friction? (YouTube)
- Inventions (Website)
- Leonardo’s Machines (Website)
- Mechanical Systems (Website)
- Work, Energy, and Power (Website)
- Levers: Simple Machines (Website)
- Pulleys (Website)
- Science of Cycling (Website)
- Science of Hockey (Website)
Demonstrate an understanding of different types of systems and the factors that contribute to their safe and efficient operation.
- Hockey Science: 25 Winning Experiments (Book)
- Bicycle Science Projects: Physics On Wheels (Book)
- The Kids’ Book Of Simple Machines: Cool Projects & Activities That Make Science Fun (Book)
- I Can Make Marvelous Movers (Book)
- Calling All Minds: How To Think And Create Like An Inventor (Book)
- Explore Gravity! (Book)
- Calculating Work (Website)
- Mechanical Advantage Calculator (Website)
- What is Thermal Energy? (Website)
- Systems in Action (Website)
- Friction (Website)
- The Rise of the Machines – Why Automation is Different this Time (YouTube)