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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you worried that your rising 9th grader may have missed something in 8th grade because you are new to FCPS?
If this is the case, 8th-grade science is an intense introduction to Chemistry and Physics.  The Chem intro is essential as students take Biology in 9th grade and there is a lot of Chem in the BioChemistry part of Bio.

source - I taught 8th-grade science in FCPS for 10 years.[/quote]

[b]DP. Thank you so much for the info. Will you please recommend some textbooks?[/quote][/b]

FCPS mostly uses its own lab books as the text for this course.  Each student will be given lab books that they write in over the course of the year.  They focus on Matter and Energy (which is the actual name of the course).  Officially, the county still uses the Holt Physical Science book but many teachers only use classroom copies of the book and don't give out student copies as they are rarely used.  Do you want a recommendation of a book to get a jump start on the course or to review for a rising 9th grader?  In either case, there really isn't a book that you could use that would teach your student the full 8th-grade curriculum as it is a heavily lab-based course.[/quote]

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