8th+Grade+Maryland+State+Curriculum

Colonel Richardson Middle School Science classes follow the Maryland state curriculum which can be all be found on Maryland State Department 8th grade science curriculum

Standard 6.0 Environmental Science
Students will use scientific skills and processes to explain the interactions of environmental factors (living and non-living) and analyze their impact from a local to a global perspective.

Topic
B. Environmental Issues

Indicator

 * **1.** Recognize and explain how human activities can accelerate or magnify many naturally occurring changes.

Objectives

 * 1)  Based on data from research identify and describe how natural processes change the environment.
 * Cyclic climate change
 * Sedimentation in watersheds
 * Population cycles
 * Extinction
 * 1)  Identify and describe how human activities produce changes in natural processes:
 * Climate change
 * Loss of habitat due to construction
 * Hunting and fishing
 * Introduction of nonnative species
 * Cycling of matter