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A Correlation of

Interactive Science

Grades 6-8 ©2016

To the

Full Option Science SystemTM

(FOSS) for Middle School

A Correlation of Interactive Science ©2016. Grades 6-8

to the Full Option Science SystemTM

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

PHYSICAL SCIENCE ................................................................................................................................ 4

EARTH SCIENCE ..................................................................................................................................... 8

LIFE SCIENCE ....................................................................................................................................... 12

Copyright ©2016 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliate(s). All rights reserved.



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Introduction

The following document demonstrates how the Interactive Science ©2016, Grades 6-8 program can

be integrated with the Full Option Science SystemTM (FOSS) for Middle School. This correlation is

provided as a service to teachers in locating Pearson Interactive Science lessons that complement

the FOSS program and enhance students’ science success.

Interactive Science is a middle school science program composed of twelve student modules

spanning life, earth, physical, and nature topics that makes learning personal, engaging, and

relevant for today’s student. Interactive Science features an innovative Write-in Student Edition that

enables students to become active participants in their learning and truly connect the Big Ideas of

science to their world.

Interactive Science Modules

Science and Technology

Earth’s Structure

Earth’s Surface

Water and the Atmosphere

Astronomy and Space Science

Ecology and the Environment

Cells and Heredity

The Diversity of Life

Human Body Systems

Introduction to Chemistry

Forces and Energy

Sound and Light



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Middle School

Interactive Science, ©2016

Middle School Modules

PHYSICAL SCIENCE

Electronics, First Edition

Investigation 1: Circuits

Students discover how to create complete

circuits and how to identify series, parallel, and

short circuits.

Forces and Energy

Chapter 6, Lesson 3: Electric Circuits

Investigation 2: Resistors 1

Students discover how resistors influence the

performance of lamps in electrical circuits, and

develop a model that explains what resistance is

and how it might affect the flow of current in a

circuit.

Forces and Energy

Chapter 6, Lesson 2: Electric Current


Investigation 3: Voltage

Students explore, measure and manipulate one

of the two main attributes of electricity, voltage,

and discover how voltage can be influenced by

components in a circuit.

Forces and Energy



Chapter 6, Lesson 4: Electric Power & Safety

Investigation 4: Electronic Dissection

Students explore electronic consumer products

to discover the kinds and numbers of electronic

components used in their design, and consider

the impact of technology on American life.

Forces and Energy


Investigation 5: Resistors 2

Students discover the rules for predicting the

total resistance imposed by multiple resistors

placed in series and/or parallel.

Forces and Energy


Investigation 6: Diodes

Students discover the characteristics of diodes

and compare their behavior in circuits to the

behavior of other components with which they

are familiar.

Forces and Energy


Investigation 7: Capacitors

Students discover the characteristics of

capacitors, compare them to components with

which they are familiar, and use them in circuits

to perform new functions.

The Interactive Science program does not

address capacitors in its coverage of electric

circuits.



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Investigation 8: Current

This investigation leads students to understand

the concept of electric current, and to use their

understanding to solve circuit problems.

Forces and Energy


Investigation 9: Transistors

Students discover the characteristics of transistors,

compare them to components with which they are

familiar, and use them in circuits to perform new

functions.

The Interactive Science program does not

address transistors in its coverage of electric

circuits.

Chemical Interactions, First Edition

Investigation 1: Substances

Students are introduced to substances as unique

forms of matter.


Chapter 1, Lesson 1: Describing Matter

Investigation 2: Elements

Students learn that elements are the

fundamental substances from which all matter is

made, and that the periodic table displays all of

the known elements.


Chapter 3, Lesson 1: Atoms, Bonding, & the

Periodic Table

Investigation 3: Particles

Students are introduced to the particle theory of

matter and use it to explain how gas can be

compressed.


Chapter 3, Lesson 2: Atoms & Bonding

Investigation 4: Kinetic Energy

Students observe expansion and contraction of

solids, liquids, and gas, and explain those

observations in terms of the kinetic energy of

particles.


Chapter 3, Lesson 3: Gas Behavior

Investigation 5: Energy Transfer

Students explain heating up and cooling down in

terms of changes of kinetic energy resulting

from collisions between particles.


Chapter 3, Lesson 3: Gas Behavior

Investigation 6: Heat of Fusion

Students determine the amount of heat needed

to change solid water (ice) into liquid water.


Chapter 3, Lesson 4: Changes in Matter



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Investigation 7: Phase Change

Students learn that phase of matter (solid, liquid,

gas) is the consequence of how particles relate

to one another, and that phase can be changed

by changing the kinetic energy of particles.


Chapter 3, Lesson 4: Changes in Matter

Investigation 8: Solutions

Students observe dissolving and explain the

change in the appearance of substances in terms

of disintegration at the particle level.


Chapter 6, Lesson 1: Understanding Solutions

Investigation 9: Reactions

Students observe that starting substances

(reactants) change into new substances

(products) during reactions, and explain the

change in terms of the rearrangement of atoms.


Chapter 5, Lesson 1: Observing Chemical Change

Chapter 5, Lesson 2: Describing Chemical

Reactions

Investigation 10: More Reactions

Students observe additional reactions and learn

about limiting factors in reactions.


Chapter 5, Lesson 2: Describing Chemical

Reactions

Chapter 5, Lesson 3: Controlling Chemical

Reactions

Force and Motion, First Edition

Investigation 1: Here to There

This investigation introduces students to motion

as a change of position, and distance as the

magnitude of a change of position.

Forces & Energy

Chapter 1, Lesson 1: Describing Motion

Investigation 2: Speed

Students learn that speed is the rate at which an

object changes position.

Forces & Energy

Chapter 1, Lesson 2: Speed & Velocity

Investigation 3: Comparing Speeds

Students learn how to analyze and represent

speed to solve problems.

Forces & Energy


Investigation 4: Representing Motion

Students learn to represent motion events as

graphs.

Forces & Energy




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Investigation 5: Acceleration

This investigation introduces students to

acceleration as changing velocity, and they learn

ways to determine acceleration when time and

distance data are known.

Forces & Energy

Chapter 1, Lesson 3: Acceleration

Investigation 6: Force

Students are introduced to forces, the ways they

interact, and their effects, including friction and

motion.

Forces & Energy

Chapter 2, Lesson 1: The Nature of Forces

Chapter 2, Lesson 2: Friction & Gravity

Investigation 7: Gravity

Students learn that gravity is a universal force

pulling objects to Earth with predictable

acceleration.

Forces & Energy

Chapter 2, Lesson 2: Friction & Gravity

Investigation 8: Momentum

Students learn to analyze collision interactions in

terms of inertia, momentum, and impulse.

Forces & Energy

Chapter 2, Lesson 4: Momentum



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EARTH SCIENCE

Planetary Science, Second Edition

Investigation 1: Where Am I?

Students develop a sense of planet Earth as a

tiny base from which to launch an inquiry into

the vast reaches of the solar system and beyond.

Astronomy & Space Science

Chapter 3, Lesson 2: Introducing the Solar

System

Investigation 2: A Round, Spinning Earth

Students become familiar with the celestial

relationship of the Sun and Earth.


Chapter 1, Lesson 2: Earth in Space

Investigation 3: Seasons

Students apply knowledge of the Earth’s tilt and

the revolution of Earth around the Sun to explain

daylight length and seasons.


Chapter 1, Lesson 2: Earth in Space

Investigation 4: Moon Study

Study the surface features of the Moon and the

size and distance of our closest celestial

neighbor.


Chapter 1, Lesson 6: Earth’s Moon

Investigation 5: Phases of the Moon

Analyze Moon log data to identify the pattern of

Moon phases, then develop a physical model

that can explain Moon phases.


Chapter 1, Lesson 4: Phases & Eclipses

Investigation 6: Craters

Students conduct simple experiments on the

magnitudes of lunar impact craters and use

moon data to determine the number and

frequency of major impacts on Earth.


Chapter 1, Lesson 6: Earth’s Moon

Investigation 7: Beyond the Moon

Students learn the major classifications in which

cosmic objects are distributed: solar system,

galaxy, universe.


Chapter 4, Lesson 5: Star Systems and Galaxies

Investigation 8: The Solar System

Students explore the scale of the solar system by

making physical and graphical models.


Chapter 3, Lesson 2: Introducing the Solar

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Investigation 9: Space Exploration

This investigation Introduces a tool used to study

distant objects in planetary systems, the

spectroscope.


Chapter 4, Lesson 1: Telescopes

Investigation 10: Orbits and New Worlds

Students study and apply techniques used to

search for planets and planetary systems around

other stars in the Milky Way.


Chapter 4, Lesson 1: Telescopes

Earth History, Second Edition

Investigation 1: Earth Is Rock

Students study the landforms and rocks that

make up Earth’s crust.

Earth’s Surface

Chapter 1, Lesson 1: Exploring Earth’s Surface

Chapter 2, Lesson 1: Rocks & Weathering

Investigation 2: Weathering and Erosion

Students discover that sediments are broken

down pieces of rock and explore how water can

erode sediments and deposit the sorted

sediments downstream.

Earth’s Surface

Chapter 2, Lesson 1: Rocks & Weathering

Investigation 3: Deposition

Students investigate the processes by which

sediments turn into sedimentary rock.

Earth’s Surface

Chapter 4, Lesson 2: The Relative Age of Rocks

Investigation 4: Fossils and Past Environments

Students consider the time scale in which rocks

and fossils form using data from the Grand

Canyon.

Earth’s Surface

Chapter 4, Lesson 2: The Relative Age of Rocks

Investigation 5: Igneous Rocks

Students examine rock samples from a new

location and investigate the relationship

between crystal size and the formation of

igneous rocks.

Earth’s Structure

Chapter 2, Lesson 3: Igneous Rocks

Investigation 6: Volcanoes and Earthquakes

This investigation introduces convection and the

theory of plate tectonics to explain continental

drift, plate boundary interactions, and the

patterns of volcanoes and earthquakes.

Earth’s Structure

Chapter 4, Lesson 1: Forces in the Earth's Crust

Chapter 4, Lesson 2: Earthquakes and Seismic

Waves

Chapter 5, Lesson 1: Volcanoes and Plate

Tectonics

Chapter 5, Lesson 2: Volcanic Eruptions



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Investigation 7: Mountains and Metamorphic

Rocks

Students work with different models of

mountains and explore how interactions at plate

boundaries produce mountains.

Earth’s Structure

Chapter 5, Lesson 3: Volcanic Landforms

Investigation 8: Geoscenarios

Students synthesize knowledge from the course,

bringing critical insight into the story of a

geological site.

Earth’s Surface

Chapter 4, Lesson 4: The Geologic Time Scale

Investigation 9: What Is Earth's Story?

Students apply knowledge of the rock cycle and

return to the Grand Canyon to answer the

question “What is the story of this place?”

Earth’s Structure

Chapter 2, Lesson 6: The Rock Cycle

Weather and Water, Second Edition

Investigation 1: What Is Weather?

Introduce the concept of weather and the tools

that meteorologists use to measure and study

weather factors.


Chapter 4, Lesson 1: Water in the Atmosphere

Chapter 4, Lesson 6: Predicting the Weather

Investigation 2: Where's the Air?

Weather occurs in the atmosphere and the

atmosphere is composed of air, which has mass

and can be compressed.


Chapter 3, Lesson 1: The Atmosphere

Chapter 4, Lesson 4: Air Masses

Investigation 3: Air Pressure and Wind

Investigate the relationship between changing

air pressure and wind and explore a particle

model for air pressure.


Chapter 3, Lesson 2: Air Pressure

Chapter 3, Lesson 6: Winds

Investigation 4: Convection

Develop the concept of density on the way to

understanding convection as a process of mass

movement of fluids and a mechanism for energy

transfer.


Chapter 3, Lesson 4: Energy in Earth's

Atmosphere

Forces and Energy

Chapter 5, Lesson 2: The Transfer of Heat

Investigation 5: Heat Transfer

Explore radiation as a mechanism for energy

transfer, including seasonal variation of solar

radiation.


Chapter 3, Lesson 5 Heat Transfer

Forces and Energy

Chapter 5, Lesson 2: The Transfer of Heat



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Investigation 6: Air Flow

Explore conduction to round out understanding

of heat transfers, then deepen understanding of

the causes of wind.


Chapter 3, Lesson 5 Heat Transfer

Chapter 3, Lesson 6: Winds


Investigation 7: Water in the Air

Focus on the wet part of weather by

investigating phase change to understand cloud

formation and precipitation.



Chapter 4, Lesson 2: Clouds

Chapter 4, Lesson 3: Precipitation

Investigation 8: Meteorology

Pull together all the physical science concepts

students learned in the course to explain

weather.



Chapter 4, Lesson 5: Storms

Chapter 4, Lesson 6 Predicting the Weather

Investigation 9: The Water Planet

Learn that the water cycle is complex and

involves water everywhere in the global

environment.


Chapter 1, Lesson 1: Freshwater


Investigation 10: Climate over Time

Refine the distinction between weather and

climate and consider evidence for climate

change.


Chapter 5, Lesson 1: What Causes Climate?

Chapter 5, Lesson 3: Changes in Climate

Chapter 5, Lesson 4: Human Activities and

Climate Change



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LIFE SCIENCE

Human Brain and Senses, First Edition

Investigation 1: Learning and Memory exposes

students to a wide array of learning strategies

and encourages them to discover their own best

strategies for memorizing and learning.

For related content, please see

Science and Technology

Chapter 1, Lesson 2: Thinking Like a Scientist

Chapter 1, Lesson 3: Scientific Inquiry

Investigation 2: Eyes: Inside and Out familiarizes

students with the external and internal

structures of the mammalian eye and lays the

foundation for considering the function of the

various components.

Human Body Systems

Chapter 7, Lesson 3: Sight and Hearing

Sound and Light

Chapter 4, Lesson 4: Seeing Light

Investigation 3: Lenses introduces students to the

properties of lenses and challenges them to

determine how these properties affect the

function of their eyes.

Sound and Light

Chapter 4, Lesson 3: Refraction and Lenses

Investigation 4: Retina

Students investigate the structure and function

of the retina, the screen at the back of the eye

where visual images form.

Sound and Light

Chapter 4, Lesson 4: Seeing Light

Investigation 5: Into the Brain introduces

students to the structure, orientation, and

function of the brain, using the connection

between the eyes and the brain as the entry

point.

Human Body Systems

Chapter 7, Lesson 2: Division of the Nervous

System

Investigation 6: Perception moves students

beyond the mechanics of vision to the role of the

brain in creating meaning out of the sensory

signals that it receives.

Human Body Systems


Chapter 7, Lesson 4: Smell, Taste, and Touch

Investigation 7: In Touch

Students gain an understanding of the

structures and functions of another sensory

system, touch, and compare the touch system to

the visual system.

Human Body Systems




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Investigation 8: Sending a Message gives students

an understanding of the process of

neurotransmission and the structures that

support the process.

Human Body Systems

Chapter 7, Lesson 1: How the Nervous System

Works

Investigation 9: Sensory Investigations challenges

students to apply the methods they used to

learn about the brain and the sense of vision

and touch to investigate all five senses in greater

depth.

Human Body Systems



Populations and Ecosystems, First Edition

Investigation 1: Milkweed Bugs

Students explore reproductive biology and

population dynamics.

Diversity of Life

Chapter 3, Lesson 4: Plant Reproduction

Investigation 2: Sorting out Life


ecology.


Chapter 1, Lesson 1: Living Things and the

Environment

Chapter 1, Lesson 3: Interactions Among Living

Things

Investigation 3: Miniecosystems

Students investigate ecosystem interactions.


Chapter 2, Lesson 1: Energy Flow in Ecosystems

Chapter 2, Lesson 3: Biomes

Chapter 2, Lesson 4: Aquatic Ecosystems

Investigation 4: Mono Lake

Students investigate food webs.



Investigation 5: Finding the Energy

Students learn that food energy is derived from

the Sun, which drives life processes.



Cells and Heredity

Chapter 2, Lesson 1: Photosynthesis

Investigation 6: Population Size

Students explore factors that limit population

size.


Chapter 1, Lesson 2: Populations

Investigation 7: Ecoscenarios

Students research and analyze ecosystems.


Chapter 2, 3: Biomes



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Investigation 8: Adaptations

This investigation introduces students to the

concepts of adaptation and variation.


Chapter 1, Lesson 3: Interactions Among Living

Things

Cells and Heredity

Chapter 6, Lesson 1: Changes Over Time

Investigation 9: Genetic Variation

Students learn genetic mechanisms to

determine traits of individuals in a population.

Cells and Heredity

Chapter 3, Lesson 1: What Is Heredity?

Chapter 3, Lesson 2: Probability and Heredity

Chapter 3, Lesson 3: Patterns of Inheritance

Chapter 3, Lesson 4: Chromosomes and

Inheritance

Investigation 10: Natural Selection


environmental pressures.

Cells and Heredity

Chapter 6, Lesson 1: Changes Over Time

Chapter 6, Lesson 2: Evidence of Evolution

Diversity of Life, Second Edition

Investigation 1: What Is Life?

Begin investigating life by thinking about the

characteristics and requirements that all life has

and begin to develop a definition of life.

Diversity of Life

Chapter 1, Lesson 1: What Is Life?

Investigation 2: The Microscope

Learn to use a compound microscope to open

up the world of microorganisms and cells.

Cells and Heredity

Chapter 1, Lesson 1: Discovering Cells

Investigation 3: The Cell

Discover cells and think about what it means to

be a single-celled or multicellular organism.

Cells and Heredity

Chapter 1, Lesson 1: Discovering Cells

Chapter 1, Lesson 2: Looking Inside Cells

Diversity of Life

Chapter 1, Lesson 4: Evolution and Classification

Investigation 4: Domains

Learn about the levels of complexity (from atom

to cell) and begin to apply a burgeoning

understanding of life to unfamiliar organisms.

Diversity of Life

Chapter 1, Lesson 3: Domains and Kingdoms

Investigation 5: Plants: The Vascular System

Conduct an investigation to understand how the

vascular system transports water throughout a

vascular plant.

Diversity of Life

Chapter 3, Lesson 2: Classifying Plants

Chapter 3, Lesson 3: Plant Structures



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Investigation 6: Plant Reproduction and Growth

Dissect a seed and plant various grains to

investigate how environmental factors affect

germination and growth and explore the role of

pollinators in sexual reproduction.

Diversity of Life

Chapter 3, Lesson 4: Plant Reproduction

Investigation 7: Insects

Explore the Madagascar hissing cockroach to

understand the world of multicellular organisms.

For supporting content, please see

Diversity of Life

Chapter 4, Lesson 3: Introduction to

Invertebrates

Chapter 7, Lesson 2: Growth and Development

Investigation 8: Diversity of Life

Conduct a bioblitz to learn about the biodiversity

that exists in your area.

Diversity of Life

Chapter 3, Lesson 1: What Is a Plant?

Chapter 4, Lesson 5: Vertebrate Diversity

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