New Sunshine State Standards for Grades 6-8 Science Olympiad Event Correlations
Benchmark Key:
SC.912.E.5.1 = Subject
|| Grade Level || Body Of Knowledge || Big
Idea || Benchmark
Body of Knowledge:
E = Earth Space Science, L = Life Science, N =
Nature of Science, P = Physical Science (Physics and Chemistry)
Big Ideas
= 1:
The Practice of Science Big Idea || 2: The Characteristics of Scientific
Knowledge || 3: The Role of Theories, Laws, Hypotheses, and Models ||
4: Science and Society || 5: Earth in Space in Time ||
6: Earth Structures || 7: Earth Systems and Patterns ||
8: Properties of Matter || 9: Changes in Matter || 10:
Forms of Energy || 11: Energy Transfer and Transformations ||
12: Motion of Objects || 13: Forces and Changes in Motion ||
14: Organization and Development of Living Organisms || 15:
Diversity and Evolution of Living Organisms || 16: Heredity and
Reproduction || 17: Interdependence || 18: Matter and
Energy Transformations ||
| Benchmark Number | Descriptor | Science Olympiad Event |
| SC.6.E.6.1 | Describe and give examples of ways in which Earth's surface is built up and torn down by physical and chemical weathering, erosion, and deposition. | Dynamic Planet |
| SC.6.E.7.1 | Differentiate among radiation, conduction, and convection, the three mechanisms by which heat is transferred through Earth's system. | Meteorology |
| SC.6.E.7.2 | Investigate and apply how the cycling of water between the atmosphere and hydrosphere has an effect on weather patterns and climate. | Meteorology |
| SC.6.E.7.3 | Describe how global patterns such as the jet stream and ocean currents influence local weather in measurable terms such as temperature, air pressure, wind direction and speed, and humidity and precipitation. | Meteorology |
| SC.6.E.7.4 | Differentiate and show interactions among the geosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere. | Meteorology |
| SC.6.E.7.5 | Explain how energy provided by the sun influences global patterns of atmospheric movement and the temperature differences between air, water, and land. | Meteorology |
| SC.6.E.7.6 | Differentiate between weather and climate. | Meteorology |
| SC.6.E.7.7 | Investigate how natural disasters have affected human life in Florida. | Meteorology |
| SC.6.E.7.8 | Describe ways human beings protect themselves from hazardous weather and sun exposure. | Meteorology |
| SC.6.L.14.1 | Describe and identify patterns in the hierarchical organization of organisms from atoms to molecules and cells to tissues to organs to organ systems to organisms. | Anatomy |
| SC.6.L.14.3 | Recognize and explore how cells of all organisms undergo similar processes to maintain homeostasis, including extracting energy from food, getting rid of waste, and reproducing. | Anatomy |
| SC.6.L.14.5 | Identify and investigate the general functions of the major systems of the human body (digestive, respiratory, circulatory, reproductive, excretory, immune, nervous, and musculoskeletal) and describe ways these systems interact with each other to maintain homeostasis. | Anatomy |
| SC.6.L.14.6 | Compare and contrast types of infectious agents that may infect the human body, including viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites. | Disease Detectives |
| SC.6.L.15.1 | Analyze and describe how and why organisms are classified according to shared characteristics with emphasis on the Linnaean system combined with the concept of Domains. | Fossils |
| SC.6.N.1.1 | Define a problem from the sixth grade curriculum, use appropriate reference materials to support scientific understanding, plan and carry out scientific investigation of various types, such as systematic observations or experiments, identify variables, collect and organize data, interpret data in charts, tables, and graphics, analyze information, make predictions, and defend conclusions. | All events |
| SC.6.N.1.2 | Explain why scientific investigations should be replicable. | All events |
| SC.6.N.1.4 | Discuss, compare, and negotiate methods used, results obtained, and explanations among groups of students conducting the same investigation. | All events |
| SC.6.N.1.5 | Recognize that science involves creativity, not just in designing experiments, but also in creating explanations that fit evidence. | All events |
| SC.6.P.11.1 | Explore the Law of Conservation of Energy by differentiating between potential and kinetic energy. Identify situations where kinetic energy is transformed into potential energy and vice versa. | Physical science lab |
| SC.6.P.12.1 | Measure and graph distance versus time for an object moving at a constant speed. Interpret this relationship. | Scrambler, Trajectory, Wright Stuff |
| SC.6.P.13.1 | Investigate and describe types of forces including contact forces and forces acting at a distance, such as electrical, magnetic, and gravitational. | Trajectory, Elevated Bridge, Wright Stuff |
| SC.6.P.13.3 | Investigate and describe that an unbalanced force acting on an object changes its speed, or direction of motion, or both. | Trajectory, Wright Stuff |
| SC.7.E.6.1 | Describe the layers of the solid Earth, including the lithosphere, the hot convecting mantle, and the dense metallic liquid and solid cores. | Dynamic Planet |
| SC.7.E.6.4 | Explain and give examples of how physical evidence supports scientific theories that Earth has evolved over geologic time due to natural processes. | Dynamic Planet |
| SC.7.E.6.5 | Explore the scientific theory of plate tectonics by describing how the movement of Earth's crustal plates causes both slow and rapid changes in Earth's surface, including volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and mountain building. | Dynamic Planet |
| SC.7.E.6.7 | Recognize that heat flow and movement of material within Earth causes earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, and creates mountains and ocean basins. | Dynamic Planet |
| SC.7.L.15.2 | Explore the scientific theory of evolution by recognizing and explaining ways in which genetic variation and environmental factors contribute to evolution by natural selection and diversity of organisms. | Amphibians and Reptiles, Ecology |
| SC.7.L.15.3 | Explore the scientific theory of evolution by relating how the inability of a species to adapt within a changing environment may contribute to the extinction of that species. | Amphibians and Reptiles, Ecology |
| SC.7.L.17.2 | Compare and contrast the relationships among organisms such as mutualism, predation, parasitism, competition, and commensalism. | Ecology |
| SC.7.L.17.3 | Describe and investigate various limiting factors in the local ecosystem and their impact on native populations, including food, shelter, water, space, disease, parasitism, predation, and nesting sites. | Ecology |
| SC.7.N.1.1 | Define a problem from the seventh grade curriculum, use appropriate reference materials to support scientific understanding, plan and carry out scientific investigation of various types, such as systematic observations or experiments, identify variables, collect and organize data, interpret data in charts, tables, and graphics, analyze information, make predictions, and defend conclusions. | All events |
| SC.7.N.1.3 | Distinguish between an experiment (which must involve the identification and control of variables) and other forms of scientific investigation and explain that not all scientific knowledge is derived from experimentation. | All events |
| SC.7.N.1.4 | Identify test variables (independent variables) and outcome variables (dependent variables) in an experiment. | All events |
| SC.7.P.10.1 | Illustrate that the sun's energy arrives as radiation with a wide range of wavelengths, including infrared, visible, and ultraviolet, and that white light is made up of a spectrum of many different colors. | Crave the Wave |
| SC.7.P.10.2 | Observe and explain that light can be reflected, refracted, and/or absorbed. | Crave the Wave |
| SC.7.P.10.3 | Recognize that light waves, sound waves, and other waves move at different speeds in different materials. | Crave the Wave |
| SC.7.P.11.1 | Recognize that adding heat to or removing heat from a system may result in a temperature change and possibly a change of state. | Environmental Chemistry |
| SC.7.P.11.2 | Investigate and describe the transformation of energy from one form to another. | Physical Science Lab |
| SC.7.P.11.3 | Cite evidence to explain that energy cannot be created nor destroyed, only changed from one form to another. | Physical Science Lab |
| SC.7.P.11.4 | Observe and describe that heat flows in predictable ways, moving from warmer objects to cooler ones until they reach the same temperature. | Physical Science Lab |
| SC.8.E.5.1 | Recognize that there are enormous distances between objects in space and apply our knowledge of light and space travel to understand this distance. | Reach for the Stars |
| SC.8.E.5.2 | Recognize that the universe contains many billions of galaxies and that each galaxy contains many billions of stars. | Reach for the Stars |
| SC.8.E.5.3 | Distinguish the hierarchical relationships between planets and other astronomical bodies relative to solar system, galaxy, and universe, including distance, size, and composition. | Reach for the Stars |
| SC.8.E.5.4 | Explore the Law of Universal Gravitation by explaining the role that gravity plays in the formation of planets, stars, and solar systems and in determining their motions. | Reach for the Stars |
| SC.8.E.5.5 | Describe and classify specific physical properties of stars: apparent magnitude (brightness), temperature (color), size, and luminosity (absolute brightness). | Reach for the Stars |
| SC.8.E.5.6 | Create models of solar properties including: rotation, structure of the Sun, convection, sunspots, solar flares, and prominences. | Reach for the Stars |
| SC.8.E.5.7 | Compare and contrast the properties of objects in the Solar System including the Sun, planets, and moons to those of Earth, such as gravitational force, distance from the Sun, speed, movement, temperature, and atmospheric conditions. | Reach for the Stars |
| SC.8.E.5.8 | Compare various historical models of the Solar System, including geocentric and heliocentric. | Reach for the Stars |
| SC.8.E.5.9 | Explain the impact of objects in space on each other including: 1. the Sun on the Earth including seasons and gravitational attraction; 2. the Moon on the Earth, including phases, tides, and eclipses, and the relative position of each body. | Reach for the Stars |
| SC.8.E.5.10 | Assess how technology is essential to science for such purposes as access to outer space and other remote locations, sample collection, measurement, data collection and storage, computation, and communication of information. | Reach for the Stars |
| SC.8.E.5.11 | Identify and compare characteristics of the electromagnetic spectrum such as wavelength, frequency, use, and hazards and recognize its application to an understanding of planetary images and satellite photographs. | Reach for the Stars, Crave the Wave |
| SC.8.L.18.1 | Describe and investigate the process of photosynthesis, such as the roles of light, carbon dioxide, water and chlorophyll; production of food; release of oxygen. | Environmental Chemistry |
| SC.8.L.18.3 | Construct a scientific model of the carbon cycle to show how matter and energy are continuously transferred within and between organisms and their physical environment. | Environmental Chemistry |
| SC.8.L.18.4 | Cite evidence that living systems follow the Laws of Conservation of Mass and Energy. | Environmental Chemistry |
| SC.8.N.1.1 | Define a problem from the eighth grade curriculum using appropriate reference materials to support scientific understanding, plan and carry out scientific investigations of various types, such as systematic observations or experiments, identify variables, collect and organize data, interpret data in charts, tables, and graphics, analyze information, make predictions, and defend conclusions. | All events |
| SC.8.N.1.2 | Design and conduct a study using repeated trials and replication. | All events |
| SC.8.N.1.6 | Understand that scientific investigations involve the collection of relevant empirical evidence, the use of logical reasoning, and the application of imagination in devising hypotheses, predictions, explanations and models to make sense of the collected evidence. | All events |
| SC.8.P.8.3 | Explore and describe the densities of various materials through measurement of their masses and volumes. | Science Crime Busters |
| SC.8.P.8.4 | Classify and compare substances on the basis of characteristic physical properties that can be demonstrated or measured; for example, density, thermal or electrical conductivity, solubility, magnetic properties, melting and boiling points, and know that these properties are independent of the amount of the sample. | Science Crime Busters |
| SC.8.P.8.8 | Identify basic examples of and compare and classify the properties of compounds, including acids, bases, and salts. | Science Crime Busters |
| SC.8.P.8.9 | Distinguish among mixtures (including solutions) and pure substances. | Science Crime Busters |