Grade 8

Binary gets a shorthand and text turns out to be numbers all along. Networks come apart into shapes and boxes that each do one job, a spreadsheet learns functions and formulas that can be copied without breaking, and programs grow structure: indented blocks, loops inside loops, and blocks of lines given a name so they can be used again.

4 units · 13 skills

The active and passive voice, and the connectors that carry an idea across a whole piece of writing.

2 units · 2 skills

Proportion, powers, squares and cubes and their roots, equations with the unknown on both sides and pairs of them solved together, graphs, triangle properties, surface area and volume, and congruence.

4 units · 10 skills

Forces that touch and forces that reach, the two effects one electric current has, what matter is made of and how elements, compounds and mixtures differ, what dissolves and what does not, how mirrors and lenses bend a beam, the cell under a microscope and the microbes that raise dough, the winds that pressure differences drive, and the food chains that tie an ecosystem together.

7 units · 10 skills