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CURRICULUM MAPPING

SCIENCE 8
THIRD QUARTER and FOURTH QUARTER

MONTH NOVEMBER DECEMBER JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH

Unit Name The Particle Theory of Atoms, Molecules, and Arranging the Elements Breaking the Odds Sharing One’s Gift:
Matter Atomic Structure Heredity, Biodiversity,
and Ecosystem
Essential Question 1. How are particles in 1. What is an atom 1. How are elements 1. How does enzyme 1. What events
solid, liquid and gases and how did the ideas arranged in the facilitate a chemical happen during the cell
arranged? about it evolve? periodic table? reaction? division?
2. How does the 2. What are the 2. What information 2. What are the major 2. How do you use
arrangement affect particles that make up does the periodic organs involved in the Punnett square in
the properties of an atom? table provide, and digestive process? predicting the possible
Matter? 3. How can atoms of how is it used? 3. What changes offspring from a cross?
3. What is the the same element 3. How does the happen to the food 3. How does a biologist
difference between a differ composition of an inside the digestive organize the diversity
physical and a element determine its system? of organism in an
chemical change? placement on the ecosystem?
4. What is global periodic table?
warming, and how is it
affecting your world?

Content 1. Phases of Matter 1. The History of the 1. History of the 1. Enzymes: Little 1. The Cell’s Life Cycle
2. The Particle theory Atomic Theory Periodic Table Helpers and Mitosis
of Matter: An 2. Inside the Atom 2. Periodic Trends 2. The Digestive System 2. Meiosis
Introduction 3. Ions and Isotopes 3. Modes of
3. Interaction and 4. Arranging Electrons Inheritance
Changes of Matter Biodiversity
Skills 1. Explain the 1. Trace the 1. Trace the 1. Describe how 1. Describe the
properties of matter development of the development of the enzymes work. different stages of cell
based on the particle atomic theory periodic table based 2. Explain how division.
theory of matter 2. Determine the on observation on the enzymes are important 2. Summarize the four
 2. Differentiate numbers of protons, similarities in properties in the digestion of laws of Mendellian
between physical neutrons, and of matter food. Inheritance.
changes and electrons in a 2. Explain the different 3. Identify the function 3. List the common
chemical changes. particular atom. features of the of each organ in the levels of modern
3. Explain the 3. Explain why ions and periodic table of digestive system. classification from
interactions and the isotopes exist, and elements. general to specific.
changes that matter differentiate one from 3. Use the periodic
undergoes. the other. table to predict the
chemical behavior of
an element
Assessment Paper- Pencil Test Paper- Pencil Test Paper- Pencil Test Paper- Pencil Test Paper- Pencil Test
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Authentic Assessment Authentic Assessment Authentic Assessment Authentic Assessment Authentic Assessment
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- Role Play - Role Play - Role Play - Role Play - Role Play
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Prepared by:

JOHN VAN DAVE T. TATURO. LPT

Science Teacher