Amplify Science (California) Grade 8 — Lessons, Skills & Practice | Pengi

Amplify Science (California) Grade 8, published by Amplify, is a middle school science curriculum designed for eighth-grade students that integrates three major disciplinary areas through hands-on, phenomenon-driven investigations. The course covers physical science concepts including force, velocity, collisions, energy forms and transfer, magnetic force, and light as a wave, alongside Earth and space science topics such as moon phases and lunar eclipses. It also explores life science themes including natural selection, evolution, genetic mutation, adaptive traits, and species identification, with real-world Science Seminar case studies connecting the content to topics like roller coasters, movie stunts, stickleback evolution, and drug-resistant malaria.

Amplify Science (California) Grade 8 covers 29 chapters and 104 lessons on Pengi.

Amplify Science (California) Grade 8 textbook table of contents

Chapter 1: What Is Energy?

Chapter 2: The Rescue Team’s Energy Needs

Chapter 3: Designing an Energy Solution

Chapter 1: Force and Velocity

Chapter 2: Mass and Velocity

Chapter 3: Collisions

Chapter 4: Science Seminar (Case Study: Movie Stunts)

Chapter 1: Delivering Pods for Emergency Supplies

Chapter 1: Modeling Magnetic Force

Chapter 2: Investigating Potential Energy

Chapter 3: Exploring the Strength of Magnetic Force

Chapter 4: Science Seminar (Case Study: Roller Coasters)

Chapter 1: Changes Caused by Light

Chapter 2: Light as a Wave

Chapter 3: More Light Interactions

Chapter 4: Science Seminar (Case Study: Crab Vision)

Chapter 1: Light and Dark on the Moon

Chapter 2: Moon Phases

Chapter 3: Lunar Eclipses

Chapter 4: Science Seminar (Case Study: Kepler-47c)

Chapter 1: Environmental Change and Trait Distribution

Chapter 2: Natural Selection and Reproduction

Chapter 3: Mutation and Adaptive Traits

Chapter 4: Science Seminar (Case Study: Stickleback Evolution)

Chapter 1: Fighting Drug-Resistant Malaria

Chapter 1: Finding Species Similarities

Chapter 2: Investigating Body Structure Differences

Chapter 3: Identifying Related Species

Chapter 4: Science Seminar (Case Study: The Tometti Fossil)

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