Middle School Science

As of 2015, AMTA offers a complete middle school science package. Designed as a three-year sequence, the outline and unit titles are:

6th gradeimage of a globe floating in water

  1. Water Chemistry and Beyond
  2. Earth’s Systems and Their Ongoing Energy and Matter Interactions Part 1: The Relationship Between the Sun, Air, Water, and Land
  3. Earth’s Systems and Their Ongoing Energy and Matter Interactions Part 2: Earth’s Water
  4. Life in Bodies of Water

7th gradeimage of

  1. Plants and Photosynthesis
  2. Ecosystems
  3. Relationships between living and non-living things
  4. Earth’s dynamic surface and interior
  5. Dance of earth, moon, sun and stars

8th gradeimage of a globe in a hand

  1. Structure and properties of matter
  2. Forces, motion and energy
  3. Magnetism
  4. Evolution, Reproduction, Heredity, and Genetics

We hope to have an open/sample of this material posted in late fall 2015. AMTA members have complete access to all materials.