Science Text Activity Rubric

Science Text Activities Rubric 07/08 Grade 7

Concept P.O. Txt Pg. Non-consumables Consumables Analyze S3C1PO1 Ecology pg. 91 Hole punch Index cards environmental Particles in the Scissors Markers risks of human Air Hand lens String interaction Petroleum jelly with biological or geological systems (e.g. pollution, destruction of habitat) Environmental S3C1PO2 Lab:Windpower Metric ruler ½ file folder benefits of Changing Scissors quarter (coin) human Earth Textbook Hole punch brass fastener interactions/ Pg.170 Stop watch drinking straw Reforestation, Small desktop fan masking tape Habitat paper clip restoration, Construction of dams

Propose S3C1PO3 Lab:Windpower Metric ruler ½ file folder solutions to Changing Scissors quarter (coin) address the Earth Textbook Hole punch brass fastener environmental Pg.170 Stop watch drinking straw risks in Small desktop fan masking tape biological or paper clip geological systems. Compare food S4C3PO1 Diversity of Needle tools Owl Pellets chains and Living Things. Tweezers their Pg.60 Spray bottles corresponding food web. Where do Decomposers Come from? Ecology textbook Pg.25

Niches S4C3PO2 Ecology pg. 57 10 x 10 cm Predator/ prey Predator/Prey tagboard squares relationships 3 x 3 cm paper squares Activity: create Masking tape food chain Graph paper poster Colored pencils Pg.27

Limiting S4C3PO3 Life Over Time rulers Paper cups factors/ p.94 or Ecology Potting soil Carrying p.65 Radish seeds or capacity LAB: What beans limiting factors determine plant Growth?

Evaluate data S4C3PO4 Estimating Markers White kidney related to Populations calculator beans population Ecology Paper bags growth Textbook Pg. (overgrazing, 52 forest management, invasion of non-native species) Determine S4C3PO5 Ecology Pg.98 Plant pots with trays Potting soil how LAB: What Measuring cups water environmental happens when stopwatch factors affect soil is survival rates compressed? in living organisms Floods, droughts

Create a S4C3PO6 A World in a Spray bottle Gravel model of the Bottle Potting soil interactions of Plants living Moss organisms 2 liter bottles within a charcoal ecosystem rubber band plastic wrap

Classify rocks S6C1PO1 Earth’s Surface Mineral samples Copper penny and minerals p 58 Hand lens Dilute Grain, color, Mineral steel file hydrochloric acid texture, Identification magnet Baking Soda hardness eyedropper white and black streak plates

ES - Text Page 9 – Magnifying 102 glasses Rock 9 – (6-8) rock Classification samples Rock Classification Key Properties and S6C1PO2 Hardboiled eggs composition of Crust, mantle, core

Erosion S6C1PO3 CE - Text Page 9 – film canisters 9 – effervescent Deposition 86 antacid tablets Plate tectonics What Happens water Volcanism When a Volcano Erupts?

CE - Text Page 9 - Rulers 375 mL Plaster of 94 9 - Protractors Paris Per group Make Your (3,375 mL total Own Volcano per class) 500 mL of gravel (4,500 mL total per group) 27 - cardboard pieces 9 - 250 mL paper cups 9 – tongue depressors

______ES - Text Page 9 – Jars 3 Cups of Gravel 89 9 – Measuring Cups 3 Cups of Sand What Happens When Particles Settle in Water? Rock and S6C1PO4 CE - Text Page 9 -Geologic Time 1 roll -Adding fossil record 134 Scale Conversion Machine Paper show that Geologic Time Chart 3 packs – sticky environmental 9 - pair scissors notes conditions 9 - Metric tape Colored markers, have changed measure or meter pens or pencils over time stick (geologic and recent) LOT - Text Page 9 9 - Petri Dishes 9 - bars of Clay What Can You Infer From The Marks An Object Leaves Behind? Rock cycle S6C2PO1 Earth’s Surface 9-veg peeler 3 different colored Pg.98 candles How can pressure and temperature change a solid?

Igneous S6C2PO2 Earth’s Surface Mixing cups Water Metamorphic How do Gravel sedimentary sedimentary Sand rocks form in Food coloring layers? Pg. 94 Plaster of Paris

Earth’s Surface 9-veg peeler Pg.98 3 different colored How can candles pressure and temperature change a solid? Analyze S6C2PO3 CE - Text Page Scissors 48 sheets white evidence that 22 paper lithospheric What Happens tape plate When Plates 9 - small oatmeal movements Move Apart? sized box occur 9 markers

Lithospheric S6C2PO4 CE - Page 33 27 bars of clay in plate How Can You 3 colors (total of 3 movement/ Model bars per group, per convection Converging color) Plates? ______9 – lrg. Cons. CE – Page 20 1 Oven Glass Pan paper Convection 2 bread pans or 2 bottles of Currents and bricks different colored Plate Hot Plate food coloring Movement 2 sponges 3-4 pushpins scissors Relate Plate S6C2PO5 CE - Text Page Use construction boundary 47 paper and cut into movements to: How Can triangles Mountains Rocks Move Markers Faults Along Faults? Rift valleys CE - Text Page 9 – washers Newspaper Trenches 60 9 – flat rocks 9 cups of sand Volcanoes What Happens As Materials Are Shaken? 9 – rulers 27 bars of CE - Text Page 18 – blocks of wood modeling clay (3 77 per group, per How Does color) Rock Fold? Newspaper Describe how S6C2PO6 Dynamic Earth 35 Rulers Chalk earthquakes Geokit page 61 35 Protractors are measured

Changing Earth Spring toy p.51 (Slinky)

Phases of the S6C3PO1 Astronomy 9 – Styrofoam Balls Batteries moon relative Geokit page 43 (5 cm.) (flashlight) to earth, sun – Earth’s Moon 9 – Flashlights and moon Space S. pg. 62 Lamp Why does the Foam Ball moon seem to Dowel change shape

Construct S6C3PO2 Astronomy 9 – Styrofoam Balls Unlined paper model for Geokit page 50 (same as above Batteries relative – Eclipses activity) 5 cm in positions of diameter earth, sun, and 9 Flashlights moon as they relate to eclipses.

Relationship S6C3PO3 between earth’s tides and moon Explain S6C3PO4 SS. Text 9 – Flashlights 9 – sheets Graph seasons in Page 50 9 – Meter Sticks Paper terms of Modeling 9 – Protractors 3 – pads Sticky earth’s tilt of Seasons 1 – Globe Notes axis and revolution around sun

Major S6C3PO5 SS Text Scissors 35 – brass constellations/ Page 13 – How fasteners Orion does time of Ursa major day affect the Cygnus positions of Scorpius constellations? Cassiopeia

Relationship S6C3PO6 Astronomy 9 – Golf Balls 9 – 2 mm cake among solar Geokit – page 9 – Tape Measure decorations system, galaxy 15 9 – Meter Sticks Tape and universe 9 – 4 mm cake decorations Some grains of sugar 9 – Black poster board