8.ETS.2.4: Use informational text to illustrate that materials maintain their composition under various kinds of physical processing.
8.ETS.2.5: Present information that illustrates how a product can be created using basic processes in manufacturing systems.
8.MS-PS1-1. Develop a model to describe that (a) atoms combine in a multitude of ways to produce pure substances which make up all of the living and nonliving things that we encounter, (b) atoms form molecules and compounds that range in size from two to thousands of atoms, and (c) mixtures are composed of different proportions of pure substances.
8.MS-LS1-5. Construct an argument based on evidence for how environmental and genetic factors influence the growth of organisms. 
ESS.3.1: Analyze and interpret data to explain that the Earth’s mineral and fossil fuel resources are unevenly distributed as a result of geologic processes. 
8.ESS.3.5: Examine and interpret data to describe the role that human activities have played in causing the rise in global temperatures over the past century


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