Grades 5 to 8 Science Topic Chart

	Grade 5	Grade 6	Grade 7	Grade 8
Cluster 0	Overall Skills and Attitudes	Overall Skills and Attitudes	Overall Skills and Attitudes	Overall Skills and Attitudes
Cluster 1	Maintaining a Healthy Body	Diversity of Living Things	Interactions Within Ecosystems	Cells and Systems
Cluster 2	Properties of and Changes in Substances	Flight	Particle Theory of Matter	Optics
Cluster 3	Forces and Simple Machines	Electricity	Forces and Structures	Fluids
Cluster 4	Weather	The Solar System	Earth's Crust	Water Systems on Earth