7Th Grade Science Curriculum Map

7th Grade Science Curriculum Map Additional Resources http://smartboardgoodies.com http://www.uen.org/k12student/ K-12 Pete's PowerPoint Station Steve Spangler Experiments Internet4Classrooms-Science Activities Ecology Activities PBS Kids--ZOOM Science Activities http://www.stemresources.com/ Magic School Bus Science Experiments K-8 "Science Kids" Activities science-class.net (K-8) Bill Nye Printable Science Activities 7-12 Grade Science Interactives (uen) Grade_____7____ Science Pacing Guide Instructional Week ___Embedded_____ Academic Vocabulary: Grade Level Expectations/Checks For Understanding/State Performance Indicators Resources **Include Embedded Inquiry and Technology & Engineering Standards as applicable.**

Embedded Inquiry

Grade Level Expectations:

GLE 0707.Inq.1 Design and conduct open-ended scientific investigations.

GLE 0707.Inq.2 Use appropriate tools and techniques to gather, organize, analyze, and interpret data.

GLE 0707.Inq.3 Synthesize information to determine cause and effect relationships between evidence and

explanations.

GLE 0707.Inq.4 Recognize possible sources of bias and error, alternative explanations, and questions for further

exploration.

GLE 0707.Inq.5 Communicate scientific understanding using descriptions, explanations, and models.

Checks for Understanding

0707.Inq.1 Design and conduct an open-ended scientific investigation to answer a question that

includes a control and appropriate variables.

0707.Inq.2 Identify tools and techniques needed to gather, organize, analyze, and interpret data

collected from a moderately complex scientific investigation. Grade____7____ Science Pacing Guide Instructional Week ___Embedded_____ Academic Vocabulary: Grade Level Expectations/Checks For Understanding/State Performance Indicators Resources **Include Embedded Inquiry and Technology & Engineering Standards as applicable.**

Embedded Technology & Engineering Grade Level Expectations:

GLE 0707.T/E.1 Explore how technology responds to social, political, and economic needs.

GLE 707.T/E.2 Know that the engineering design process involves an ongoing series of events that

incorporate design constraints, model building, testing, evaluating, modifying, and

retesting.

GLE 0707.T/E.3 Compare the intended benefits with the unintended consequences of a new

technology.

GLE 0707.T/E.4 Describe and explain adaptive and assistive bioengineered products.

Checks for Understanding

0707.T/E.1 Use appropriate tools to test for strength, hardness, and flexibility of materials.

0707.T/E.2 Apply the engineering design process to construct a prototype that meets certain

specifications.

0707.T/E.3 Explore how the unintended consequences of new technologies can impact society. Grade_____7____ Science Pacing Guide Instructional Week ___0_____ Academic Vocabulary: Grade Level Expectations/Checks For Understanding/State Performance Indicators Resources **Include Embedded Inquiry and Technology & Engineering Standards as applicable.**

Excellent site to provide guidance and examples: **SET UP SCIENTIST NOTEBOOK TO BE USED THROUGHOUT THE YEAR** http://www.sciencenotebooks.org/

1st Assignment: Draw a Scientist Have students imagine a scientist at work and “draw what they saw.” Use their sketches to discuss misconceptions about what scientists look like, what they wear, what they do, etc.

2nd Assignment: Scientists ______. Have students make a list of verbs to fill in the blank. Examples may include: discover, think, explore, experiment, measure, test, etc. Use their answers to jumpstart discussion of things scientists do.

Grade_____7____ Science Pacing Guide Instructional Week ____1____ Academic Vocabulary: Grade Level Expectations/Checks For Understanding/State Performance Indicators Resources **Include Embedded Inquiry and Technology & Engineering Standards as applicable.** *See Week 0* ------*See Week 0*

------BrainPOP Scientific Method BrainPOP Science Projects BrainPOP Microscopes

GLE 0707.Inq.1 Design and conduct open-ended scientific investigations. Density of a Paper Clip Investigating Mass Mini-labs Alka Seltzer Eruption inquiry lab  0707.Inq.1 Design and conduct an open-ended scientific investigation to Sinking Suspicion inquiry lab answer a question that includes a control and appropriate variables. Discovery Education Video Clips: SPI 0707.Inq.1 Design a simple experimental procedure with an identified control and  Step One: Ask a Question  Pre-Experimental Stage: Find a Question and Form a appropriate variables. Hypothesis.  A Review of the Scientific Method  The Steps of the Scientific Method  Predicting Landslides

Grade____7_____ Science Pacing Guide Instructional Week ____2-3____ Academic Vocabulary: Grade Level Expectations/Checks For Understanding/State Performance Indicators Resources **Include Embedded Inquiry and Technology & Engineering Standards as applicable.**

How Do I Choose Which Type of Graph to Use?

GLE 0707.Inq.2 Use appropriate tools and techniques to gather, organize, analyze, and Create a Graph interpret data.

Discovery Education Video Clips:  Finding Mean, Median and Mode 0707.Inq.2 Identify tools and techniques needed to gather, organize,  Collecting Family Statistics analyze, and interpret data collected from a moderately  Collecting Information and Using Statistics. complex scientific investigation.  Experimental Stage: Six Steps  Fire and Electrical Hazards

Flinn Safety Contract SPI 0707.Inq.2 Select tools and procedures needed to conduct a moderately complex experiment. www.sciencespot.net (metric mania) www.sciencespot.net (gummy bear lab)

www.middleschoolscience.com (Dunkin for Density, Volume Lab, Triple Beam Balance) Grade____7_____ Science Pacing Guide Instructional Week ____4-5____ Academic Vocabulary: igneous, metamorphic, minerals, rock cycle, sedimentary Grade Level Expectations/Checks For Understanding/State Performance Indicators Resources **Include Embedded Inquiry and Technology & Engineering Standards as applicable.** Loose in the Lab Activity—Dissecting Granite Loose in the Lab Activity—Moh’s Mineral Tests

GLE 0707.7.1 Describe the physical properties of minerals. mineral info 0707.7.1 Organize and explain information about the properties of minerals and their What is a Mineral? uses. how to identify SPI 0707.7.1 Use a table of physical properties to classify minerals. BrainPOP Mineral Identification

BrainPOP Crystals ------BrainPOP Problem Solving Using Tables

Rock and Mineral Reference Sheet GLE 0707.7.2 Summarize the basic events that occur during the rock cycle. Discovery Education Video Clips: 0707.7.2 Label a diagram that depicts the major processes of the rock cycle.  Physical Properties of Minerals 0707.7.3 Distinguish among sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks and relate these to a simple diagram of the rock cycle.  The Physical Properties of Minerals

 Minerals

SPI 0707.7.2 Label a diagram that depicts the three different rock types.  Classifying Minerals

SPI 0707.7.3 Identify the major processes that drive the rock cycle.  What Are Minerals?

------BrainPOP Rock Cycle

Interactive Rock Cycle Grade___7_____ Science Pacing Guide Instructional Week ___6-8_(2 PAGES)____ Academic Vocabulary: earth layers*, earthquake*, mountain building*, plates*, seafloor spreading*, volcano* Grade Level Expectations/Checks For Understanding/State Performance Indicators Resources **Include Embedded Inquiry and Technology & Engineering Standards as applicable.** BrainPOP Volcanoes BrainPOP Mountains BrainPOP Earthquakes BrainPOP Plate Tectonics BrainPOP Natural Disasters Loose in the Lab Activity—Assembling Puzzle of Pangea GLE 0707.7.4 Explain how earthquakes, mountain building, volcanoes, and sea floor Loose in the Lab Activity—Pangea to Present Plate Movement Activity spreading are associated with movements of the earth’s CVO Website - Plate Tectonics and Sea-Floor Spreading major plates. Discovery Education Video Clips:  Erosion  Conclusion: How Uplifting and Erosion Make the Land Go Up and Down. 0707.7.5 Analyze the relationship between plate movements and areas of earthquake  Plate Tectonics activity.  Fault Lines and Earthquakes  Earthquakes, Tectonic Plates, and Fault Lines. BrainPOP Ocean Currents BrainPOP Oceans 0707.7.6 Analyze the relationship between plate movements and mountain building. Interactive Volcanoes Understanding Earthquakes Plate Tectonics - earth Discovery Education Video Clips: 0707.7.7 Analyze the relationship between plate movements, volcanoes, and sea floor  Discovering Plate Tectonics spreading.  Earthquakes and Volcanoes  Plate Tectonics and Earth Movements  Plate Movements  Earth's Changing Landscape SPI 0707.7.5 Recognize that lithospheric plates on the scale of continents and oceans ------

continually move at rates of centimeters per year. CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

Grade____7_____ Science Pacing Guide Instructional Week __6-8 CONTINUED______Academic Vocabulary: Grade Level Expectations/Checks For Understanding/State Performance Indicators Resources **Include Embedded Inquiry and Technology & Engineering Standards as applicable.** BrainPOP Earthquakes BrainPOP Mountains BrainPOP Plate Tectonics Earth's Layers (Inside the Earth) Layers of the Earth The Layers of the Earth GLE 0707.7.3 Analyze the characteristics of the earth’s layers and the location of the major Earth's Layers

plates. Loose in the Lab Activity—Terrestrial Pie Loose in the Lab Activity—Pacific Plate and Ring of Fire

Earth Is Like A Puzzle. 0707.7.4 Recognize that the earth’s layers have different thickness, states of matter, Interactive – Earth’s structure densities, and chemical makeup. BrainPOP Earth's Structure BrainPOP Soil BrainPOP Volcanoes SPI 0707.7.4 Differentiate among the characteristics of the earth’s three layers. Interactive Dynamic Earth Structure of the Earth Layers of the Earth

Discovery Education Video Clips:  The Four Layers of the Earth's Interior: Inner Core, Outer Core, Mantle, and Crust.  The Earth's Layers  The Structure of Earth's Interior  The Structure of the Earth  The Inner Structure of the Earth ------xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Grade_____7____ Science Pacing Guide Instructional Week ____9____ Academic Vocabulary: Grade Level Expectations/Checks For Understanding/State Performance Indicators Resources **Include Embedded Inquiry and Technology & Engineering Standards as applicable.**

*REVIEW ACTIVITIES FOR WEEKS 1-8 *EXTENSION ACTIVITIES FOR WEEKS 1-8

Grade____7_____ Science Pacing Guide Instructional Week ___10_____ Academic Vocabulary: non-renewable resource*, renewable resource* Grade Level Expectations/Checks For Understanding/State Performance Indicators Resources **Include Embedded Inquiry and Technology & Engineering Standards as applicable.** BrainPOP Gas and Oil BrainPOP Plastic

BrainPOP Humans and the Environment

BrainPOP Natural Resources GLE 0707.7.5 Differentiate between renewable and nonrenewable resources in terms of their use by man. BrainPOP Wind Energy

BrainPOP Fossil Fuels

0707.7.8 Determine the impact of man’s use of renewable and nonrenewable resources BrainPOP Solar Energy

on future supplies. BrainPOP Biofuels Loose in the Lab Activity—Here Today…

Nonrenewable Resources GLE 0707.7.6 Evaluate how human activities affect the earth’s land, oceans, and Resources worksheet quiz

atmosphere. Loose in the Lab—Dissolving Statues

Loose in the Lab—Soapy Seeds

0707.7.9 Evaluate how human activities affect the condition of the earth’s land, water, BrainPOP Humans and the Environment

and atmosphere. BrainPOP Global Warming

BrainPOP Water Pollution

SPI 0707.7.7 Analyze and evaluate the impact of man’s use of earth’s land, water, and BrainPOP Plastic

atmospheric resources. BrainPOP Population Growth Grade____7_____ Science Pacing Guide Instructional Week ___11-13____ Academic Vocabulary: acceleration, momentum, speed, velocity, work* Grade Level Expectations/Checks For Understanding/State Performance Indicators Resources **Include Embedded Inquiry and Technology & Engineering Standards as applicable.** Loose in the Lab Activity—Modified Marble Races Describing Motion in Words Force and motion ppt Motion PowerPoint GLE 0707.11.3 Distinguish between speed and velocity. The Physics Classroom Tutorial

0707.11.3 Summarize the difference between the speed and velocity based on the Discovery Education Video Clips: distance and amount of time traveled.  Calculating Average Speed  Laws of Motion SPI 0707.11.3 Apply proper equations to solve basic problems pertaining to distance,  Introduction to the Laws of Motion time, speed, and velocity. ------Loose in the Lab Activity—Newton in New Orleans Loose in the Lab Activity—Ping Pong Poppers Balloon Powered Race Cars ------Describing Motion in Words Newton's Laws of Motion force ppt Newton's Laws of Motion GLE 0707.11.4 Investigate how Newton’s laws of motion explain an object’s Relative Motion, Speed, Velocity and Acceleration movement. 3 laws interactive concept map Newton’s 1 st Law 0707.11.4 Recognize how a net force impacts an object’s motion. more newton #1 Newton’s 2 nd Law SPI 0707.11.4 Identify and explain how Newton’s laws of motion relate to the Newton’s 3 rd Law movement of objects. Isaac Newton’s Three Laws of Motion Sinking Suspicion inquiry lab

Discovery Education Video Clips:  G Forces ------ Second Law of Motion  Velocity and Acceleration GLE 0707.Inq.3Grade____ 7 _____ Synthesize Science information to Pacing determine Guidecause and effect relationships between evidence and Instructional Week ___14-16_____ Academic Vocabulary: simple machines, mechanical advantage Grade Level Expectations/Checks For Understanding/State Performance Indicators Resources **Include Embedded Inquiry and Technology & Engineering Standards as applicable.** See previous resources ------

CONTINUE FROM WEEKS 11-13: GLE 11.3, 11.4; 11.3, 11.4; SPI 11.3, 11.4 Simple Machine Learning Site

------Simple Machines(2) Simple Machine Games (edheads.org)

more machines

BrainPOP Inclined Plane

BrainPOP Levers GLE 0707.11.1 Identify six types of simple machines. BrainPOP Work

BrainPOP Pulley

BrainPOP Gears 0707.11.1 Compare the six types of simple machines. BrainPOP Wheel and Axle

SPI 0707.11.1 Differentiate between the six simple machines.

Grade____7_____ Science Pacing Guide Instructional Week ___17-18_____ Academic Vocabulary: amplitude, crest, longitudinal wave, speed, transverse wave, trough, vibration* Grade Level Expectations/Checks For Understanding/State Performance Indicators Resources **Include Embedded Inquiry and Technology & Engineering Standards as applicable.** Waves Loose in the Lab Activity—Musical Rulers and Slinky Cannons The Anatomy of a Wave

Parts of a Wave GLE 0707.11.5 Compare and contrast the basic parts of a wave.

Discovery Education Video Clips: 0707.11.5 Create a graphic organizer to illustrate and describe the basic parts of a wave.  Here Comes the Sun

 Energy on the Move SPI 0707.11.5 Compare and contrast the different parts of a wave.  Kinetic and Potential Energy

 Radio ------

GLE 0707.11.6 Investigate the types and fundamental properties of waves. Wave Notes Loose in the Lab Activity—Jump Rope Waves Formation of Waves

Longitudinal and Transverse Waves 0707.11.6 Compare how transverse and longitudinal waves are produced and transmitted. Investigating Mass

Discovery Education Video Clips:

SPI 0707.11.6 Differentiate between transverse and longitudinal waves in terms of  Here Comes the Sun Grade____7_____ Science Pacing Guide Instructional Week __19-21_(3 PAGES)_____ Academic Vocabulary: cell organelles (ribosome, mitochondria, chloroplast, vacuole, lysosome), chromosome, levels of organization*, multicellular, organ system, osmosis, tissue Grade Level Expectations/Checks For Understanding/State Performance Indicators Resources **Include Embedded Inquiry and Technology & Engineering Standards as applicable.** Cellular organization How Can You Tell an Animal Cell from a Plant Cell? Cells, Tissues, Organs, Systems Lessons GLE 0707.1.1 Make observations and describe the structure and function of organelles found in plant and animal cells. BrainPOP Cell Specialization BrainPOP Cell Structures 0707.1.1 Examine and describe plant and animal cells using compound BrainPOP Cells microscopes. BrainPOP Passive Transport 0707.1.2 Identify the function of the major plant and animal cellular organelles. BrainPOP Active Transport BrainPOP Photosynthesis 0707.1.3 Make a Venn diagram to compare the structures and functions of an BrainPOP Carnivorous Plants animal cell with a city or school. Virtual Cell Tour 0707.1.4 Build a 3-D model of a cell. Cells are the Starting Point SPI 0707.1.1 Identify and describe the function of the major plant and animal cell Cell Structure Cells Alive! organelles. Plant and Animal Cell ------Make a Model of a Cell Plant and Animal Cells Cell Cams CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE Discovery Education Video Clips:  Cell Nucleus  The Nucleus  Organelles: The Nucleus  Cytoplasm: Ribosomes Used for Making Proteins.  The Cytoplasm ------CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

Grade____7_____ Science Pacing Guide Instructional Week ___19-21 CONTINUED_____ Academic Vocabulary: Grade Level Expectations/Checks For Understanding/State Performance Indicators Resources **Include Embedded Inquiry and Technology & Engineering Standards as applicable.** Loose in the Lab Activity—You’ve Got Nerve Loose in the Lab Activity—Personal Nerve Tester Loose in the Lab Activity—TP Backbone

Cells, Tissues, Organs, Systems Lessons

GLE 0707.1.2 Summarize how the different levels of organization are integrated BrainPOP Urinary System BrainPOP Circulatory System within living systems. BrainPOP Respiratory System BrainPOP Cells BrainPOP Nervous System 0707.1.5 Construct a poster that illustrates the hierarchy among cells, tissues, BrainPOP Appendix organs, organ systems, and organisms. BrainPOP Human Body BrainPOP Smell

0707.1.8 Apply the idea of the division of labor to explain why living things are Levels of Organization in Cells organized into cells, tissues, organs, and organ systems. The Cell as a Structure

Discovery Education Video Clips:  Genes, Proteins, and DNA SPI 0707.1.2 Interpret a chart to explain the integrated relationships that exist  Messenger RNA among cells, tissues, organs, and organ systems.  Collaboration among the Body Systems  Your Body's Cells: Structures and Functions.  Care of the Skeletal and Muscular Systems. ------CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE Grade____7_____ Science Pacing Guide Instructional Week __19-21 CONTINUED______Academic Vocabulary: Grade Level Expectations/Checks For Understanding/State Performance Indicators Resources **Include Embedded Inquiry and Technology & Engineering Standards as applicable.** Loose in the Lab Activity—Peristalsis Stocking

Loose in the Lab Activity—Pop Bottle Lung

BrainPOP Urinary System

GLE 0707.1.3 Describe the function of different organ systems and how collectively BrainPOP Circulatory System

They enable complex multicellular BrainPOP Respiratory System organisms to survive. BrainPOP Cells

BrainPOP Nervous System

BrainPOP Appendix

0707.1.6 Describe the function of different organ systems. BrainPOP Human Body

BrainPOP Smell 0707.1.7 Explain how different organ systems interact to enable complex BrainPOP Body Chemistry multicellular organisms to survive. BrainPOP Digestive System

SPI 0707.1.3 Explain the basic functions of a major organ system. BrainPOP Heart BrainPOP Immune System

BrainPOP Multiple Sclerosis

BrainPOP Reproductive System

BrainPOP Spinal Cord

Mitosis Grade____7_____ Science Pacing Guide Instructional Week __22-23_(2 PAGES)_____

Academic Vocabulary: cell division, diffusion, mitosis, semi-permeable, chloroplast, photosynthesis, products, reactants, respiration, synthesize Grade Level Expectations/Checks For Understanding/State Performance Indicators Resources **Include Embedded Inquiry and Technology & Engineering Standards as applicable.** See previous resources ------BrainPOP Cell Specialization BrainPOP Gender Determination BrainPOP Mitosis Continue from Weeks 19-21: GLE 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 Mitosis Interactive Mitosis = cell division  1.1, 1.2, 1.3, Mitosis activity 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8 Mitosis slam dunk ppt Mitosis labeled SPI 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 Discovery Education Video Clips:  Comparing the Actions of Chromosomes in Mitosis and Meiosis. ------ Cell Forms and Functions  Mitosis and Meiosis in Flowering Plants  Cells: A Review  Heredity GLE 0707.1.4 Illustrate how cell division occurs in sequential stages to ------maintain the chromosome number of a species. Loose in the Lab Activity—Thermal Ink Clouds 0707.1.9 Model the movement of chromosomes during plant cell Loose in the Lab Activity—Mini Lava Lamps division. BrainPOP Diffusion BrainPOP Gills SPI 0707.1.4 Sequence a series of diagrams that depict chromosome BrainPOP Active Transport movement during plant cell division. BrainPOP Passive Transport ------BrainPOP Cell Specialization BrainPOP Cell Structures BrainPOP Cells Diffusion and Osmosis GLE 0707.1.5 Observe and explain how materials move through simple Cell Transport diffusion. The Biological Cell 0707.1.10 Design a demonstration that illustrates how materials move Diffusion flash Grade____7_____ Science Pacing Guide Salt Sucks Instructional Week ___22-23 CONTINUED_____ Academic Vocabulary: Grade Level Expectations/Checks For Understanding/State Performance Indicators Resources **Include Embedded Inquiry and Technology & Engineering Standards as applicable.** Loose in the Lab Activity—Photosynthetic Funnel Making Food

Plant Needs GLE 0707.3.1 Distinguish between the basic features of photosynthesis and respiration. Plants Puzzle Plant and Cell Organelles

0707.3.1 Associate the fundamental processes of photosynthesis and respiration A Beginning Look at Photosynthesis: Plants Need Light with appropriate cell structures. Illuminative Photosynthesis Videos

Water Flow in Plants ( experiment) 0707.3.2 Examine and identify the chloroplasts in a leaf cell. Quia Photosynthesis and Respiration

0707.3.3 Identify the materials used by plants to make food. Photosynthesis What is Photosynthesis? 0707.3.4 Create a chart that compares the reactants and products of photosynthesis and respiration. BrainPOP Photosynthesis

0707.3.5 Model the pathways of water, oxygen, and carbon dioxide through a BrainPOP Algae plant. BrainPOP Metabolism

SPI 0707.3.1 Compare the chemical compounds that make up the reactants and products of photosynthesis and respiration. Photosynthesis Light Reactions- Animation Grade____7_____ Science Pacing Guide Instructional Week ___24-25_____ Academic Vocabulary: sexual reproduction, gene Grade Level Expectations/Checks For Understanding/State Performance Indicators Resources **Include Embedded Inquiry and Technology & Engineering Standards as applicable.**

See previous resources CONTINUE FROM WEEKS 22-23: GLE 1.4, 1.5, 3.1 ------ 1.9, 1.10, BrainPOP Asexual Reproduction 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5 BrainPOP Bacteria BrainPOP Cnidarians SPI 1.4, 1.5, 3.1 BrainPOP Reproductive System BrainPOP Babies BrainPOP Pollination BrainPOP Protozoa BrainPOP Fetal Development BrainPOP Honeybees BrainPOP Puberty ------Lesson Asexual and Sexual Reproduction Compare Asexual and Sexual reproduction Sexual vs. asexual lab (Pre Lab B and Lab B)

Discovery Education Video Clips:  Five Kingdoms  The Importance of Fungi in the Rain Forest.  Leaf Cutter Ants and Fungus  Helpful Fungi  Ants and Fungi

GLE 0707.4.1 Compare and contrast the fundamental features of sexual and asexual reproduction. 0707.4.1 Classify organisms according to whether they reproduce sexually or Grade____7_____ Science Pacing Guide Instructional Week ___26-27_____ Academic Vocabulary: asexual reproduction, flower, pollination Grade Level Expectations/Checks For Understanding/State Performance Indicators Resources **Include Embedded Inquiry and Technology & Engineering Standards as applicable.** BrainPOP Plant Growth

Flowering Plant Reproduction Pollination GLE 0707.4.2 Demonstrate an understanding of sexual reproduction in flowering What is Pollination? plants. Lesson Partners in Pollination Biology of plants Plants and Animals Partners in Pollination- Activity Flowering Plant Reproduction 0707.4.2 Label and explain the function of the reproductive parts of a flower. Biology of plants Parts of a Flower- info and game 0707.4.3 Describe various methods of plant pollination. Flower Dissection SPI 0707.4.2 Match flower parts with their reproductive functions. Videopedia- Pollination Methods Pollination PowerPoint

BrainPOP Pollination BrainPOP Asexual Reproduction BrainPOP Honeybees BrainPOP Carnivorous Plants

Flowering Plan Reproduction

Discovery Education Video Clips:  The Parts of a Flowering Plant  Plants That Make Seeds: Gymnosperms and Angiosperms.  Three Main Parts of Plants: Roots, Stems, and Leaves.  Roots  The Bloom of Plants Grade___7______Science Pacing Guide Instructional Week __28-30_(2 PAGES)_____

Academic Vocabulary: chromosome, dominant trait, gene, genetic characteristic, genetic engineering, genotype, monohybrid cross, phenotype, Punnett Square, resessive trait Grade Level Expectations/Checks For Understanding/State Performance Indicators Resources **Include Embedded Inquiry and Technology & Engineering Standards as applicable.** See previous resources

CONTINUE FROM WEEKS 26-27: GLE 4.2;  4.2, 4.3; SPI 4.2

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------Loose in the Lab Activity—Punnett Square Puzzles

DNA and Mutations

Mutations GLE 0707.4.3 Explain the relationship among genes, chromosomes, and inherited traits. Strawberry DNA Extraction

Lesson Asexual and Sexual Reproduction 0707.4.4 Investigate the relationship among DNA, genes, and chromosomes. Compare Asexual and Sexual reproduction

0707.4.5 Explain the differences between dominant and recessive traits. BrainPOP Gender Determination

SPI 0707.4.3 Describe the relationship among genes, chromosomes, and inherited BrainPOP Genetics traits. BrainPOP DNA

BrainPOP Twins

Grade____7_____ Science Pacing Guide Instructional Week ___28-30 CONTINUED_____ Academic Vocabulary: Grade Level Expectations/Checks For Understanding/State Performance Indicators Resources **Include Embedded Inquiry and Technology & Engineering Standards as applicable.** BrainPOP Reproductive System

BrainPOP Genetics

BrainPOP Birds

GLE 0707.4.4 Predict the probable appearance of offspring based on the genetic BrainPOP Invertebrates characteristics of the parents. BrainPOP Mammals 0707.4.5 Explain the differences between dominant and recessive traits. 0707.4.6 Use a Punnett square to predict the genotypes of offspring resulting BrainPOP Fish from a monohybrid cross. BrainPOP Dolphins 0707.4.7 Draw a phenotypically accurate picture of an individual whose traits are modeled by the role of a die. BrainPOP Hair SPI 0707.4.4 Interpret a Punnett square to predict possible genetic combinations BrainPOP Blood Types passed from parents to offspring during sexual reproduction. BrainPOP Reproductive System

Loose in the Lab Activity—Punnett Square Puzzles

Coin Toss Probability

------Lesson Asexual and Sexual Reproduction Compare Asexual and Sexual reproduction

GLE 0707.T/E.4Grade____ 7____Describe Science and explain Pacing adaptive Guide and assistive bioengineered products. Genetics Practice Problems Instructional Week ___31_____ Academic Vocabulary: Grade Level Expectations/Checks For Understanding/State Performance Indicators Resources **Include Embedded Inquiry and Technology & Engineering Standards as applicable.** Loose in the Lab Activity—Photosynthetic Funnel

BrainPOP Blood

BrainPOP Cellular Respiration

GLE 0707.3.2 Investigate the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide between living things and the environment. What is Photosynthesis?

PPT Photosynthesis

Respiration

0707.3.6 Describe the movement of oxygen and carbon dioxide between living Photosynthesis things and the environment. Why Animals Breathe

Cellular Respiration 0707.3.7 Describe structures that animals use to obtain oxygen. Carbon Cycle

Photosynthesis

Carbon-dioxide Cycle SPI 0707.3.2 Interpret a diagram to explain how oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged between living things and the environment. All Living Things Need Oxygen Cellular Respiration

Grade____7_____ Science Pacing Guide Instructional Week ___32-33_____ Academic Vocabulary: Grade Level Expectations/Checks For Understanding/State Performance Indicators Resources **Include Embedded Inquiry and Technology & Engineering Standards as applicable.**

**REVIEW FOR TCAP**

Grade____7_____ Science Pacing Guide Instructional Week ___34_____ Academic Vocabulary: Grade Level Expectations/Checks For Understanding/State Performance Indicators Resources **Include Embedded Inquiry and Technology & Engineering Standards as applicable.**

**TCAP TESTING** Grade___7_____ Science Pacing Guide Instructional Week __35-37______Academic Vocabulary: Grade Level Expectations/Checks For Understanding/State Performance Indicators Resources **Include Embedded Inquiry and Technology & Engineering Standards as applicable.**

Ideas:

*Re-teach areas of weakness to prevent gaps

*Science Fair

*Work with 8th grade science teacher to get ideas for things you can work on to prepare students for next grade level

*Additional labs and hands-on activities

*Science Enrichment

*Reinforce Inquiry and Technology and Engineering Standards

*Dissections

*CSI Activities