CurioSteps STEM (Grade 8): *My Flowing World*

THE YEAR EVERYTHING STARTS MOVING. Grade 8 science is about things that travel. Materials crossing into a living cell. A push travelling through a liquid to exactly where it is needed. Force passing through gears. Water going round the whole planet and never being used up. MY >This is a full year of Ontario Grade 8 Science and Technology in one write-in volume: 176 full-colour pages, 28 chapters and six hands-on investigations, built >EVERY CHAPTER FOLLOWS THE SAME FIVE STEPS S.P.A.R.K. - See it, Predict it, Act it out, Reason it, Keep it. Four pages, twenty-eight times. Once a student knows the rhythm, all their thinking goes into >WHAT IS COVERED * STEM skills - repeated trials and what to do with the odd result, writing down what a design must do before you build it, code that runs a system on its own, and how an artificial intelligence system can be confidently wrong * Cells - cell theory, every organelle and its job, plant against animal, diffusion and osmosis, single-celled life, and how cells build tissues, organs and you * Fluids - viscosity, density, buoyancy, why a gas squashes and a liquid does not, Pascal's law, hydraulic and pneumatic machines, and what happens when a fluid gets out * Systems in Action - inputs and outputs, work and mechanical advantage, efficiency and where the energy leaks, feedback, and who a system was really designed for * Water Systems - where Earth's water actually is, watersheds, the water table, what makes water safe to drink, and why scarcity is about place and timing >BUILT TO BE FINISHED * 34 collectible badges and 139 star points, tracked on a Curiosity Passport * A game in every chapter, plus a Family STEM Mission and one of Bot's silly mistakes to catch * Choose Your Path at the end of every chapter - Green, Blue or Purple. The student picks. * Six investigations using kitchen and recycling-bin materials, about half an hour each >NOTHING TO BUY Potatoes, an onion, salt, cooking oil, honey, foil, jars and coins. Three things are worth buying and all three get used all year: two plastic syringes with tubing, a kitchen scale, and the strongest magnifier or cheap microscope you can >FOR PARENTS AND TEACHERS Measured at a Grade 8 reading level and set in Andika, a typeface designed for readers who are still building fluency. Aligned with the Ontario Science and Technology Curriculum (2022); not reviewed or approved by the Ontario Ministry of Education. Two pages of guidance for grown-ups, one question worth asking per >Book 8 of 12 in the CurioSteps STEM Series by Francis Mushi, PhD, MBA. Small Steps. Big Discoveries. Lifelong Learning.