Course Outline in Grade 8: Science

First Quarter:  Force, Motion and Energy

·         Laws of Motion

·         Work, and Energy

·         Heat and Temperature

·         Electricity

·         Sound

·         Colors of Light

Second Quarter : Earth and Space

·         Earthquakes and Faults

- Active and inactive faults

- How movements along faults generate earthquakes

- How earthquakes generate tsunamis

- Earthquake focus and epicenter

- Earthquake intensity and magnitude

- Earthquake preparedness

- How earthquake waves provide information about the interior of the Earth

·         Understanding Typhoons

- How typhoons develop

- Why the Philippines is prone to typhoons

- How landforms and bodies of water affect typhoons

- Philippine Area of Responsibility

·         Other Members of the Solar System

- Comets

- Meteors

- Asteroids

Third Quarter: Matter

·         Particle Nature of Matter

- Elements, Compounds and Mixtures

- Atoms and Molecules

·         Atoms: Inside Out

- Protons

- Neutrons

- Electrons

·         Periodic Table (PT) of Elements

- Development of the PT

- Arrangement of elements

- Reactive and non-reactive metals

 Fourth Quarter: Living Things and Their Environment

·         Biodiversity

- Species diversity

- Hierarchical taxonomic system of species

- Protection and conservation of endangered and economically important

  species

·         Interactions

- Transfer of Energy in Trophic Levels

- Cycling of materials in the ecosystem

a. Water cycle

b. Oxygen-carbon cycle

c. Nitrogen cycle

- Impact of human activities in an ecosystem

·         Structure and Functions: Focus on the Digestive System

- Organs of Digestive System

- Changes in Food as it undergoes Physical and Chemical Digestion

·         Nutrition and Wellness

- Nutritional Needs of the Body

- Diseases that result from Nutrient Deficiency and their Prevention and Treatment

·         Cellular Reproduction & Genetics

- Chromosome

- Cell Cycle

- Stages of Mitosis

- Stages of Meiosis

- Mendelian Genetics

Refrences:

DepEd. Science and Technology IV. SEDP Series. (1992). Philippines: Book Media Press, Inc.

Magno, M. et al. (1995).Science and technology for a better life series

(Chemistry) (2nded). Teachers Manual.Diwa Scholastic Press Inc. Makati, Philippines.

Philippines. Department of Education. (2009). Science and Technology II textbook. (Rev. ed.).

            Pasig City: Instructional Materials Development Corporation.

http://www.pagasa.dost.gov.ph/

LYLWYNN B. LOZANO, ED.D.

         Science Teacher