GEMS Correlations with the Florida Sunshine State Standards
Grade Level Expectations and Benchmarks for Science
Grades 6–8
Strand A: The Nature of Matter
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Standard 1: The student understands that all matter has observable,
measurable properties.
Benchmark SC.A.1.3.1: The student identifies various ways in which
substances differ (e.g., mass, volume, shape, density, texture, and
reaction to temperature and light).
Sixth Grade
1. knows ways in which substances differ (for example, mass, volume,
shape, density, texture, reaction to heat and light).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Acid
Rain, Bubble Festival, Bubble-ology, Chemical Reactions, Color Analyzers,
Convection, Discovering Density, Dry Ice Investigations, Global Warming,
Hot Water and Warm Homes From Sunlight, Microscopic Explorations, Mystery
Festival, Ocean Currents, Of Cabbages and Chemistry, Oobleck, Stories
in Stone
Seventh Grade
1. uses a variety of measurements to describe the physical properties
of matter (for example, volume and mass).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Bubble-ology,
Discovering Density, Dry Ice Investigations, Global Warming, Hot Water
and Warm Homes From Sunlight, Ocean Currents, Paper Towel Testing
Eighth Grade
1. determines the physical properties of matter that can be observed
without altering the substance (for example, mass, volume, boiling point,
density).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Chemical
Reactions, Discovering Density, Dry Ice Investigations, Environmental
Detectives, Global Warming, Hot Water and Warm Homes From Sunlight,
Ocean Currents, Oobleck, Stories in Stone
2. knows the difference between transparent, translucent, and opaque
objects.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Chemical
Reactions, Color Analyzers, Dry Ice Investigations, Global Warming,
Hot Water and Warm Homes From Sunlight, Stories in Stone
Benchmark SC.A.1.3.2: The student understands the difference between
weight and mass.
Sixth Grade
1. understands that mass is the amount of material in an object.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Discovering
Density, Ocean Currents
Seventh Grade
1. understands that weight is the result of gravitational pull on an
object.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Discovering
Density, Moons of Jupiter, Ocean Currents
Eighth Grade
1. understands that weight will vary with the location of the mass in
the universe, but the mass will remain constant.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Discovering
Density
Benchmark SC.A.1.3.3: The student knows that temperature measures
the average energy of motion of the particles that make up the substance.
Sixth Grade
1. understands that increasing the average motion of the particles in
a substance increases the temperature of the substance.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Convection,
Dry Ice Investigations, Global Warming, Ocean Currents
2. understands that decreasing the average motion of the particles decreases
the temperature.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Convection,
Dry Ice Investigations, Ocean Currents
3. determines the effect of a change in temperature on common materials
(for example, butter, food coloring in water, isopropol alcohol).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Convection,
Dry Ice Investigations, Global Warming, Ocean Currents, Stories in Stone
Seventh Grade
1. knows the difference between heat and temperature.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Chemical
Reactions, Convection, Global Warming, Hot Water and Warm Homes From
Sunlight, Ocean Currents
2. knows that relative changes of position and motion of atoms in a
solid, liquid, and gas are the result of an increase or decrease in
temperature.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Dry Ice
Investigations, Global Warming, Ocean Currents
Eighth Grade
1. knows that the average kinetic energy of the atoms or molecules of
different objects varies with their temperature.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Dry Ice
Investigations
Benchmark SC.A.1.3.4: The student knows that atoms in solids are
close together and do not move around easily; in liquids, atoms tend
to move farther apart; in gas, atoms are quite far apart and move around
freely.
Sixth Grade
1. understands that matter may exist as solids, liquids, and gases.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Acid
Rain, Bubble-ology, Chemical Reactions, Convection, Discovering Density,
Dry Ice Investigations, Environmental Detectives, Global Warming, Ocean
Currents, Oobleck
2. knows that molecular motion increases from solids to liquids to gases.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Dry Ice
Investigations
Seventh Grade
1. knows the direction of energy flow when a change in the phase of
matter occurs.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Dry Ice
Investigations
Eighth Grade
1. understands that changes in energy cause phase changes.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Dry Ice
Investigations
Benchmark SC.A.1.3.5: The student knows the difference between
a physical change in a substance (e.g., altering the shape, form, volume,
or density) and a chemical change (i.e., producing new substances with
different characteristics).
Sixth Grade
1. knows the physical properties of various substances.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Bubble
Festival, Bubble-ology, Chemical Reactions, Convection, Crime Lab Chemistry,
Dry Ice Investigations, Environmental Detectives, Global Warming, Microscopic
Explorations, Ocean Currents, Of Cabbages and Chemistry, Oobleck, Stories
in Stone
2. knows the chemical properties of various substances.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Acid
Rain, Bubble-ology, Chemical Reactions, Environmental Detectives, Global
Warming, Of Cabbages and Chemistry
3. knows the difference between a physical and chemical change.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Acid
Rain, Chemical Reactions, Dry Ice Investigations, Global Warming, Stories
in Stone
Seventh Grade
1. knows that physical changes do not result in new substances.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Chemical
Reactions, Dry Ice Investigations, Ocean Currents
2. knows that chemical changes result in new substances with different
characteristics.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Bubble-ology,
Chemical Reactions
3. knows chemical and physical changes that occur in nature.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Acid
Rain, Dry Ice Investigations, Environmental Detectives, Global Warming,
Stories in Stone
Eighth Grade
1. knows how to use clues (for example, change in color or form) to
determine whether a change is chemical or physical.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Acid
Rain, Chemical Reactions, Global Warming
Benchmark SC.A.1.3.6: The student knows that equal volumes of different
substances may have different masses.
Sixth Grade
1. knows that equal volumes of different substances may have different
masses.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Discovering
Density, Ocean Currents
2. uses the water displacement method to find the volume of common items
(for example, rocks, nails, marbles).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Discovering
Density, Ocean Currents
Benchmark SC.A.2.3.1: The student describes and compares the properties
of particles and waves.
Sixth Grade
2. knows the properties of waves (frequency, amplitude, wavelength).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Bubble
Festival, Bubble-ology, Global Warming
3. knows how to compare and contrast the properties of particles and
waves.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Global
Warming
Seventh Grade
2. knows the relationship between frequency and wavelength (the greater
the frequency of the wave, the smaller the wavelength of the wave).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Bubble-ology,
Global Warming
Eighth Grade
3. understands the relationship of energy and wavelength to the electromagnetic
spectrum.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Color
Analyzers
Benchmark SC.A.2.3.3: The student knows that radiation, light,
and heat are forms of energy used to cook food, treat diseases, and
provide energy.
Sixth Grade
1. knows forms of radiant energy and their applications to everyday
life (for example, visible, microwave, radio).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Color
Analyzers, Environmental Detectives, Global Warming, Hot Water and Warm
Homes From Sunlight
Seventh Grade
1. knows uses of radiation, light, and thermal energy to improve the
quality of life for human beings (for example, cooking food, treating
disease).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Global
Warming, Hot Water and Warm Homes From Sunlight
Eighth Grade
1. extends and refines knowledge of uses of forms of energy to improve
the quality of life.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Global
Warming, Hot Water and Warm Homes From Sunlight
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