Curriculum Map for 7th Grade Science SPI/Description Learning Goals Vocabulary Resources Unit: Scientific Inquiry / 1st 9-Weeks

Embedded Inquiry -- Describe three methods of an Primary Vocabulary: -- Book Resources (pg. 2 – 39) SPI 0807.Inq.1 --- Design a simple experimental investigation. -- Adaptive Bioengineering procedure with an identified control and -- Identify benefits of Science in the -- Assistive Bioengineering -- Measurement 1 appropriate variables. world around you. -- Bias SPI 0807.Inq.2 --- Select tools and procedures -- Describe jobs that use Science. -- Bioengineering -- Measurement 2 needed to conduct a moderately complex -- Identify steps of Scientific method. -- Control Variable experiment. -- Determine the appropriate design -- Dependent Variable -- Create Graphs SPI 0807.Inq.3 --- Interpret and translate data in of a Controlled Experiment. -- Hypothesis a table, graph, or diagram. -- Use information in Tables and -- Independent Variable -- Scientific Method Activity SPI 0807.Inq.4 --- Draw a conclusion that -- Prototype Graphs to analyze results. establishes a cause and effect relationship -- Scientific Law -- Engineering Design Process in Action -- Explain how scientific knowledge supported by evidence. -- Scientific Method (Video) SPI 0807.Inq.5 --- Identify a faulty interpretation can change. -- Scientific Theory -- Give examples of the different of data that is due to bias or experimental error. -- Variable -- Science Inquiry types of Models. -- Identify the Benefits and Secondary Vocabulary: Limitations of Models. -- Data Embedded Technology and Engineering -- Compare ways that scientists use -- Engineering SPI 0807.T/E.1 --- Identify the tools and Hypothesis, Theories, and -- Gradulated Cylinder procedures needed to test the design features of a Laws. -- Meter stick prototype. -- Explain how Science, Technology, -- Model SPI 0807.T/E.2 --- Evaluate a protocol to Engineering, and Mathematics -- Observation determine if the engineering design process was are -- Science successfully applied. closely related. -- Spring Scale SPI 0807.T/E.3 --- Distinguish between the -- Identify ways that Technology -- Stopwatch intended benefits and the unintended responds to Social, Political, -- Technology consequences of a new technology. and -- Thermometer SPI 0807.T/E.4 --- Differentiate between -- Triple-Beam Balance Economic needs. adaptive and assistive engineered products (e.g. -- Explain the Engineering process food, biofuels, medicines, integrated pest for developing new management). technologies. -- Describe Technology in terms of *** Students need to review the Unit at the beginning of the school year and then embed its Benefits and Unintended the SPI’s in other Units during the school year. Consequences. -- Collect, record, and analyze information by different tools. -- Explain the importance of the Metric System. -- Calculate Area and Density. -- Identify lab safety symbols, and safe practices. Essential Question: How does the Scientific Method and Engineering Design Process improve your quality of life? Essential Question: What tools are used to conduct a proper Scientific Investigation? Curriculum Map for 7th Grade Science SPI/Description Learning Goals Vocabulary Resources Unit: Cells / 1st 9-Weeks

Cells -- State the parts of Cell Theory. Primary Vocabulary: -- Book Resources (pg. 46 – 93) SPI 0707.1.1 --- Identify and describe the function -- Explain why Cells are so small. -- Active Transport -- Cell Lesson Plan of the major Plant and Animal Cell Organelles. -- Describe the parts of a Cell. -- Cell -- Describe how Bacteria and -- Cell Membrane -- Cells Alive SPI 0707.1.2 --- Interpret a chart to explain the different from Archaea. -- Cell Wall integrated relationships that exist among Cells, -- Explain the difference between -- Cellular Respiration -- Cell Facts 1 Tissues, Organs, and Organ Systems. Prokaryotic Cells and -- Chloroplast Eukaryotic -- Chromosome -- Interactive Animal Cell SPI 0707.1.3 --- Explain the basic functions of a Cells. -- Cytokinesis major Organ System. -- Identify the different parts of -- Diffusion -- Online Cell Review/Quiz -- Endocytosis Eukaryotic Cell. SPI 0707.1.4 --- Sequence a series of diagrams that -- Endoplasmic Reticulum -- Explain the function of each part -- Level of Organization 1 depict Chromosome movement during Plant Cell -- Eukaryote of Eukaryotic Cell. Division. -- Exocytosis -- Level of Organization 2 -- List the advantages of being -- Golgi Complex Multicellular. SPI 0707.1.5 --- Explain how materials move -- Lysosome -- Levels of Organization Lesson Plan through Simple Diffusion. -- Describe the four levels of -- Mitochondrion organization in living things. -- Mitosis (Cell Division) -- Levels of Organization Facts SPI 0707.3.1 --- Compare the Chemical -- Explain the relationship between -- Nucleus the structure and function of a Compounds that make up the Reactants and -- Organ -- Eukaryotic Organelles Products of Photosynthesis and Respiration. part of an Organism. -- Organelle -- Explain the process of Diffusion. -- Organism -- Cell Membrane SPI 0707.3.2 --- Interpret a diagram to explain -- Describe how Osmosis occurs. -- Organ System how Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide are exchanged -- Compare Passive Transport with -- Osmosis -- Animal Cell / Plant Cell between living things and the environment. Active Transport. -- Passive Transport -- Explain how large particles get -- Photosynthesis -- Cell Function 1 into and out of Cells. -- Prokaryote -- Describe Photosynthesis and -- Ribosome -- Cell Function 2 Cellular Respiration. -- Semi Permeable -- Tissue -- Compare Cellular Respiration -- Cell Division -- Vacuole with Fermentation. **** Remember **** The Inquiry and -- Vesicle -- Cell Cycle Technology/Engineering Standards are -- Explain how Cells produce more Secondary Vocabulary: Embedded into your Curriculum all Year. Cells. -- Cell Cycle -- Diffusion and Osmosis -- Describe the process of Mitosis. -- Fermentation -- Explain how Cell Division differs -- Homologous Chromosome -- Diffusion Animation in Animals and Plants. -- Diffusion / Osmosis Video -- Egg Osmosis Lab

-- Photosynthesis 1

-- Photosynthesis 2

-- Cell Division

-- Mitosis

-- Mitosis (Reading Comprehension) Essential Question: How are Plant and Animals Cells organized to carry on the processes of life? Essential Question: What Scientific information explains how Matter and Energy flow through the Biosphere? Curriculum Map for 7th Grade Science SPI/Description Learning Goals Vocabulary Resources Unit: Heredity / 1st 9-Weeks

Heredity -- Explain the relationship between Primary Vocabulary: -- Book Resources (pg. 98 – 147) SPI 0707.4.1 --- Classify methods of reproduction Traits and Heredity. -- Allele as Sexual or Asexual. -- Describe the experiments of -- Asexual Reproduction (pg. 308 - 327) Gregor Mendel. -- DNA -- Genetics SPI 0707.4.2 --- Match flower parts with their -- Explain the difference between -- Dominant Trait Reproductive functions. Dominant and Recessive -- Egg -- Monohybrid Cross 1 Traits. -- Gene SPI 0707.4.3 --- Describe the relationship among -- Explain how Genes and Alleles are -- Genetic Characteristic -- Monohybrid Cross 2 Genes, Chromosomes, and Inherited Traits. -- Genetic Engineering related to Genotype / -- Genotype Phenotype. -- Punnett Square SPI 0707.4.4 --- Interpret a Punnett Square to -- Heredity -- Use a Punnett Square. predict possible genetic combinations passed from -- Meiosis -- Explain how Probability can -- Genetics, Inheritance, and Variation Parents to Offspring during Sexual Reproduction. -- Monohybrid Cross predict possible Genotypes. -- Phenotype -- Genetics with a Smile -- Explain the difference between -- Probability

Mitosis and Meiosis. -- Recessive Trait -- Genetics and Fingerprints -- Describe how Chromosomes -- Ribosome determine Sex. -- RNA -- Genome Resources -- Explain why Sex Linked Disorders -- Sexual Reproduction occur in one sex more often -- Sperm -- Monster Genetics than in than in the other. Secondary Vocabulary: -- Detective Punnett Square -- Interpret a Pedigree. -- Embryo -- List three important events that -- External Fertilization -- Punnett Squares Examples led to understanding of DNA. -- Fetus -- Mendel's Pea Lab -- Describe the basic structure of a -- Homologous Chromosome -- Internal Fertilization DNA molecule. -- Heredity Video -- Explain how DNA Molecules can -- Mutation -- Nucleotide be copied. -- Punnett Square Video -- Explain the relationship between -- Ovary -- Pedigree Chromosomes, DNA, Genes, **** Remember **** The Inquiry and -- Placenta -- Genetics Sponge Bob and Technology/Engineering Standards are -- Punnett Square Embedded into your Curriculum all Year. Proteins. -- Sex Chromosome -- Genetics (Reading Comprehension) -- Describe three types of Mutations. -- Testes -- Explain the idea of Genetics. -- 2 Methods of Reproduction -- Distinguish between Sexual and Asexual Reproduction. -- Explain the difference between External / Internal Fertilization. -- Identify the structures of Human Reproduction. Essential Question: What are the principal mechanisms by which living things reproduce and transmit information between Parents and Offspring? Curriculum Map for 7th Grade Science SPI/Description Learning Goals Vocabulary Resources Unit: Plants / 2nd 9-Weeks

Plants -- Identify four characteristics that Primary Vocabulary: -- Book Resources (pg. 150 – 199) SPI 0707.4.1 --- Classify methods of all Plants share. -- Cell Membrane reproduction as Sexual or Asexual. -- Describe the four main groups of -- Cell Wall -- Plants Plants. -- Cellular Respiration SPI 0707.4.2 --- Match flower parts -- Explain the origin of Plants. -- Chlorophyll -- Pollination Interactive with their Reproductive functions. -- List examples of Nonvascular -- Chloroplasts (Pick the Pollinator) Plants and Vascular Plants. -- Nonvascular Plants SPI 0707.4.3 --- Describe the -- Explain how Seedless Plants are -- Photosynthesis -- Photosynthesis / Cellular Respiration 1 relationship among Genes, -- Vacuole important to the environment. Chromosomes, and Inherited Traits. -- Vascular Plants -- Describe the relationship between -- Photosynthesis / Cellular Respiration 2 Seedless Vascular Plants and Coal. SPI 0707.4.4 --- Interpret a Punnett Secondary Vocabulary: -- Photosynthesis Animation 1 Square to predict possible genetic -- Describe three ways that Seed -- Angiosperm Plants differ from Seedless Plants. combinations passed from Parents to -- Dormant -- Photosynthesis Animation 2 Offspring during Sexual Reproduction -- Describe the structure of Seeds. -- Gymnosperm -- Compare Angiosperms and -- Ovary -- Carbon Cycle Gymnosperms. -- Petal -- Explain economic /environmental -- Phloem -- Flower Interactive importance of Gymnosperms and -- Pistal Angiosperms. -- Pollen -- Flowers and Reproduction -- Identify the parts of Flower and -- Pollination their functions. -- Rhizoid -- Diagram of Plant and Flower -- Compare Photosynthesis and -- Rhizome Cellular Respiration. -- Sepal -- Pollination and Fertilization -- Describe how Gas is exchanged in -- Stamen -- Stoma the Leaves of Plants. -- Transpiration -- Parts of Flower Powerpoint -- Describe two ways in which -- Tropism Photosynthesis is important. -- Xylem -- Plants and Reproduction -- Describe Pollination and Fertilization in Flowering Plants. -- Explain how Fruits and Seeds are formed from Flowers. -- List why seed might be Dormant. **** Remember **** The Inquiry -- List examples of Asexual and Technology/Engineering

Standards are Embedded into your Reproduction in Plants. Curriculum all Year. -- Describe how Plants may respond to Light, Night, Gravity, and Change in Season. Essential Question: How are Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration linked to Plant and Animal Survival? Curriculum Map for 7th Grade Science SPI/Description Learning Goals Vocabulary Resources Unit: Organ Systems / 2nd 9-Weeks

Organ Systems -- Describe how Tissues, Organs, Primary Vocabulary: -- Book Resources (pg. 204 – 303) SPI 0707.1.1 --- Identify and describe the function and Organ Systems are related. -- Cardiovascular System of the major Plant and Animal Cell Organelles. -- List 11 Organ Systems. -- Central Nervous System -- All Systems Go -- Identify how Organ Systems work -- Digestive System SPI 0707.1.2 --- Interpret a chart to explain the together to maintain -- Endocrine System -- Interactive Body integrated relationships that exist among Cells, Homeostasis. -- Homeostasis Tissues, Organs, and Organ Systems. -- Identify the major Organs of the -- Integumentary System -- Get Body Smart Skeletal System. -- Lymphatic System SPI 0707.1.3 --- Explain the basic functions of a -- Describe four functions of Bones. -- Muscular System -- Human Body Presentation major Organ System. -- Describe three Joints. -- Organ -- List three injuries and two -- Organ System -- Body Systems SPI 0707.1.4 --- Sequence a series of diagrams that -- Peripheral Nervous System diseases that affect Bones and depict Chromosome movement during Plant Cell -- Respiration -- Circulatory System

Division. Joints. -- Respiration System -- List three kinds of Muscle Tissue. -- Skeletal System -- Digestive System SPI 0707.1.5 --- Explain how materials move -- Describe how Skeletal Muscles -- Tissue through Simple Diffusion. move Bones. -- Urinary System -- Nervous System -- Describe two Muscular System SPI 0707.3.1 --- Compare the Chemical injuries. Secondary Vocabulary: -- Respiratory System Compounds that make up the Reactants and -- List four functions of Skin. -- Alveoli Products of Photosynthesis and Respiration. -- Describe the two layers of Skin. -- Artery -- Reproductive System -- Describe the structure and -- Blood SPI 0707.3.2 --- Interpret a diagram to explain function of Hair and Nails. -- Blood Pressure -- Skeletal System how Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide are exchanged -- Describe two kinds of damages -- Brain between living things and the environment. that can affect Skin. -- Bronchus -- Urinary System -- List five main parts of the -- Capillary Cardiovascular System and -- Cochlea describe their functions. -- Dermis -- Describe the two types of -- Epidermis -- Esophagus Circulation of Blood in the -- Feedback Mechanism body. -- Gallbladder -- List 4 Cardiovascular problems. -- Gland -- Identify the four main -- Hormone

components of Blood. -- Joint -- Describe three functions of Blood. -- Kidney -- Explain how Blood Pressure is -- Large Intestine measured. -- Larynx -- Explain what the ABO Blood -- Liver Types are and why they are -- Lymph important. -- Lymph Node -- Describe the relationship between -- Nephron the Lymphatic System and the -- Nerve Cardiovascular System. -- Neuron -- Identify six parts of Lymphatic -- Pancreas System and describe their -- Pharynx functions. -- Pulmonary Circulation -- Relfex -- Describe the parts of Respiratory -- Retina System and their functions. -- Small Intestine -- Discuss the relationship between -- Spleen the Respiratory System and -- Stomach the -- Systemic Circulation Cardiovascular System. -- Thymus -- Identify Respiratory Disorders. -- Tonsils -- Describe the parts and functions -- Trachea of the Digestive System. -- Vein -- Describe the parts and functions of the Urinary System. **** Remember **** The Inquiry and -- Describe how Kidneys filter Blood. Technology/Engineering Standards are -- Describe the relationship between Embedded into your Curriculum all Year. the Central Nervous System and the Peripheral Nervous System. -- List one function of each part of the brain. -- Describe how the senses of Hearing, Taste, and Smell work. -- Explain why the Endocrine system is important to the body. -- List five Glands of the Endocrine System and describe what their hormones do.

Essential Question: What might happen if the Human Body did not have specialized Cells, Tissues, Organs, and Organ Systems to maintain Homeostasis? Essential Question: What are the Major Systems in the Human Body and list their functions?

Curriculum Map for 7th Grade Science SPI/Description Learning Goals Vocabulary Resources Unit: Rocks and Minerals / 2nd 9-Weeks

Rocks and Minerals -- Describe the structure of Minerals Primary Vocabulary: -- Book Resources (pg. 334 – 385) SPI 0707.7.1 --- Use a table of properties to -- Describe the two major groups of -- Cleavage classify Minerals. Minerals. -- Compound -- Earth Science Lesson Plans -- Identify 7 ways to determine the -- Density SPI 0707.7.2 --- Label a diagram that depicts the identify of Minerals. -- Element -- Rocks three different Rock types. -- Explain properties of Minerals. -- Fracture -- Describe the environments in -- Hardness -- Rocks Lab SPI 0707.7.3 --- Identify the major processes that which Minerals form. -- Igneous Rock drive the Rock Cycle. -- Compare the two types of mining. -- Luster -- Types of Rocks -- Describe two ways to reduce the -- Metamorphic Rock -- Mineral -- Rocks and Minerals Lesson Plans effects of mining. -- Describe different uses from -- Rock Cycle Metallic and Nonmetallic -- Sedimentary Rock -- Rocks and Minerals Facts Minerals. -- Streak -- Describe two ways Rocks have -- Rocks and Minerals Interactive Site 1 been used by Humans. Secondary Vocabulary: -- Describe four processes that -- Cementation -- Rocks and Minerals Interactive Site 2 shape Earth’s features. -- Composition -- Describe how each type of Rock -- Compaction -- Rocks and Minerals Games -- Crystalization changes into another type as it -- Deposition -- Mineral Search moves through the Rock Cycle. -- Erosion -- List two characteristics of Rocks -- Extrusive Igneous Rock -- Rock Cycle that are used to help classify it. -- Foliated -- Describe three ways that Igneous -- Intrusive Igneous Rock -- Rock Cycle Interactive 1 Rock forms. -- Lithification -- Distinguish between Igneous -- Melting -- Rock Cycle Interactive 2 Rock that cools within Earth’s -- Nonfoliated -- Rocks and Minerals (Reading Crust and Igneous Rock that -- Nonsilicate Mineral Comprehension) cools -- Ore at Earth’s surface. -- Reclamation -- Rocks and Minerals Resources **** Remember **** The Inquiry and -- Describe the origins and types of -- Rock Technology/Engineering Standards are Sedimentary Rock. -- Silicate Mineral Embedded into your Curriculum all Year. -- Explain how Rocks can undergo -- Stratification Metamorphism to for -- Texture -- Weathering Metamorphic Rock. -- Describe the difference between Foliated and Nonfoliated Metamorphic Rock. Essential Question: What are the special properties of Rocks / Minerals that can help you identify an unknown Rock / Mineral? Essential Question: Explain the process that a Rock can travel during the Earth’s existence. Curriculum Map for 7th Grade Science SPI/Description Learning Goals Vocabulary Resources Unit: Plate Tectonics / 2nd 9-Weeks

Plate Tectonics -- Identify the layers of the Earth. Primary Vocabulary: -- Book Resources (pg. 390 – 471) SPI 0707.7.3 --- Identify the major processes that -- Identify the layers of the Earth by -- Asthenosphere drive the Rock Cycle their physical composition. -- Core -- Earth Science Lesson Plans -- Crust -- Describe a Tectonic Plate. -- Earth Science Quizzes SPI 0707.7.4 --- Differentiate among the -- Explain how scientists know -- Mantle characteristics of the Earth’s three layers. structure of Earth’s interior. -- Lithosphere -- Earth -- Describe Wegner’s Hypothesis of -- Plate Tectonics SPI 0707.7.5 --- Recognize that Lithospheric Continental Drift. -- Seismology -- Earth Layers Foldable Plates on the scale of Continents and Oceans -- Explain how Sea Floor Spreading -- Tectonic Plate -- The Hot Zone continually move at rates of centimeters per year. causes continents to move. -- Volcano Secondary Vocabulary: -- Describe how new Oceanic -- Inside the Earth Lithosphere forms at Mid -- Caldera Ocean -- Compression -- Savage Earth -- Continental Drift Ridges. -- Convergent Boundary -- Explain how magnetic reversals -- Plate Tectonics 1 -- Crater

causes Sea Floor Spreading. -- Deformation -- Plate Tectonics 2 -- Describe three type of Tectonic -- Divergent Boundary Plates and how they move. -- Epicenter -- Plate Tectonics 3 -- Describe the three major types of -- Fault -- Plate Tectonics Lesson Plan 1 Folds and Faults. -- Focus -- Identify the most common types -- Folding -- Plate Tectonics Lesson Plan 2 of mountains. -- Hotspot -- Explain the causes of Earthquakes -- Lava Plateau -- Plate Tectonics (Reading Comprehension) and where they take place. -- Magma Chamber -- Describe how Energy from -- P Waves -- How Do Plates Move Earthquakes travels in the -- Sea Floor Spreading -- Earthquakes Earth. -- Seismic Gap -- Seismic Waves -- Explain how Earthquakes are -- Convergent, Divergent, and Transform measured and detected. -- Seismogram Boundaries -- Describe how to locate an -- Seismograph -- Subsidence Earthquakes epicenter. -- Evidence of Plate Movement -- Video **** Remember **** The Inquiry and -- List Earthquake safety procedures -- S Waves Technology/Engineering Standards are -- Tension -- Structures of Earth -- Video -- Identify the features of a Volcano. Embedded into your Curriculum all Year. -- Differentiate between Magma and -- Transform Boundary -- Uplift -- Mountain Building Lava. -- Vent -- Explain how Volcanic Eruptions can affect Climate. -- Explain the relationship between Volcanoes and Plate Tectonics. Essential Question: How is Earth affected by long-term and short-term Geological Cycles and the influence of man? Curriculum Map for 7th Grade Science SPI/Description Learning Goals Vocabulary Resources Unit: Energy of Waves / 3rd 9-Weeks

Energy of Waves -- Describe how Waves transfer Primary Vocabulary: -- Book Resources (pg. 600 – 621) SPI 0707.11.5 --- Compare and contrast the Energy without transferring -- Amplitude different parts of a Wave. Matter. -- Crest -- Parts of a Wave -- Distinguish between Waves that -- Frequency SPI 0707.11.6 --- Differentiate between require a Medium and Waves -- Longitudinal Wave -- Waves (Basics) Transverse and Longitudinal Waves in terms of that -- Medium -- Waves 1 how they are produced and transmitted. do not. -- Transverse Wave -- Explain the difference between -- Wave -- Waves 2 Transverse and Longitudinal -- Wavelength Waves. -- Waves (Engineering) 1 Secondary Vocabulary: -- Identify and describe four Wave -- Diffraction -- Waves (Engineering) 2 properties. -- Interference -- Explain how Frequency and -- Reflection -- Waves (Experiments) Wavelength are related to the -- Refraction Speed of a Wave. -- Resonance -- Waves Simulation 1 -- Describe Reflection, Refraction, -- Standing Wave Diffraction, and Interference. -- Wave Speed -- Waves Simulation 2 (Frequency and -- Compare destructive Interference Amplitude) with constructive Interference. -- Waves Videos

**** Remember **** The Inquiry and Technology/Engineering Standards are Embedded into your Curriculum all Year.

Essential Question: What causes objects to move differently under different circumstances? Essential Question: Describe how you can use a Coiled Spring Toy to make a Longitudinal Wave. How is the Wave transmitted through the Toy? Curriculum Map for 7th Grade Science SPI/Description Learning Goals Vocabulary Resources Unit: Matter in Motion / 3rd 9-Weeks

Matter in Motion -- Describe the Motion of an object Primary Vocabulary: -- Book Resources (pg. 508 – 535) SPI 0707.11.3 --- Apply proper equations to solve by the position of the object in -- Acceleration basic problems pertaining to Distance, Time, relation to a Reference Point. -- Force -- Motion Simulations Speed, and Velocity. -- Identify the two factors that -- Friction determine Speed. -- Gravity -- Forces and Motion SPI 0707.11.4 --- Identify and explain how -- Explain the difference between -- Mass Newton’s Laws of Motion relate to the movement Speed and Velocity. -- Motion -- Forces and Motion Activity of objects. -- Analyze the relationship between -- Newton Velocity and Acceleration. -- Speed -- Newton's Laws of Motion 1 -- Demonstrate that changes in -- Velocity -- Weight -- Newton's Laws of Motion 2 Motion can be measured and

represented on a graph. Secondary Vocabulary: -- Describe Forces, and explain how -- Net Force Forces act on objects. -- Reference Point -- Determine the Net Force when more than one Force is acting on an object. -- Compare Balanced and Unbalanced Forces. -- Describe ways that Unbalanced Forces cause changes in Motion. -- Explain why Friction occurs. -- List the two types of Friction, and give examples of each type. -- Explain how Friction can be both harmful and helpful. -- Describe Gravity and its effect on Matter. **** Remember **** The Inquiry and -- Explain the Law of Universal Technology/Engineering Standards are Embedded into your Curriculum all Year. Gravitation. -- Describe the difference between Mass and Weight. Essential Question: Why is it more helpful to know a Tornado’s Velocity rather than its Speed? Essential Question: When finding Net Force, why must you know the directions of the Forces acting on an object? Curriculum Map for 7th Grade Science SPI/Description Learning Goals Vocabulary Resources Unit: Force and Motion / 3rd 9-Weeks

Matter in Motion -- Explain the effect of Gravity and Primary Vocabulary: -- Book Resources (pg. 540 – 565) SPI 0707.11.3 --- Apply proper equations to solve Air Resistance of falling -- Inertia basic problems pertaining to Distance, Time, objects. -- Momentum -- Forces and Motion 1 Speed, and Velocity. -- Explain why objects in orbit are in -- Newton’s First Law of free fall and appear to be Motion -- Forces and Motion 2 SPI 0707.11.4 --- Identify and explain how weightless. -- Newton’s Second Law of -- Forces and Motion Videos Newton’s Laws of Motion relate to the movement -- Describe how Projectile Motion is Motion -- Laws of Motion (Basketball) of objects. affected by Gravity. -- Newton’s Third Law of -- Describe Newton’s First Law of Motion -- Newton's Laws of Motion 1 Motion, and explain how it -- Terminal Velocity relates -- Newton's Laws of Motion 2 to objects at rest and objects in Secondary Vocabulary: motion. -- Free Fall -- State Newton’s Second Law of -- Projectile Motion Motion, and explain the relationship between Force, Mass, and Acceleration. -- State Newton’s Third Law of Motion, and give examples of Force pairs. -- Calculate the Momentum of moving objects. -- Explain the Law of Conservation of Momentum.

**** Remember **** The Inquiry and Technology/Engineering Standards are Embedded into your Curriculum all Year.

Essential Question: What causes objects to move differently under different circumstances? Essential Question: Use Newton’s Laws of Motion to explain why airbags in cars are important during head-on collisions. Curriculum Map for 7th Grade Science SPI/Description Learning Goals Vocabulary Resources Unit: Work and Machines / 4th 9-Weeks

Work and Machines -- Determine when Work is being Primary Vocabulary: -- Book Resources (pg. 570 – 595) SPI 0707.11.1 --- Differentiate between the six done on an object. -- Compound Machine Simple Machines. -- Calculate the amount of Work -- Lever -- Simple Machines 1 done on an object. -- Inclined Plane SPI 0707.11.2 --- Determining the amount of -- Explain the difference between -- Machine -- Simple Machines 2 Force needed to do Work using different Simple Work and Power. -- Mechanical Advantage Machines. -- Explain how a Machine makes -- Pulley -- Simple Machine Activities work easier. -- Screw SPI 0707.11.4 --- Identify and explain how -- Describe and give examples of the -- Wedge -- Simple Machine Games Newton’s Laws of Motion relate to the movement Force-Distance Trade-Off that -- Wheel and Axle of objects. -- Work -- Ed Head Simple Machines occurs when a Machine is -- Work Input used. -- Work Output -- Simple Machines Interactive -- Calculate Mechanical Advantage. -- Explain why machines are not Secondary Vocabulary: -- Simple Machines Unit

100% efficient. -- Joule -- Identify and give examples of the -- Mechanical Efficiency -- Simple Machines Information six types of Simple Machines. -- Power -- Analyze the Mechanical -- Watt -- Simple Machines Interactive Sites Advantage provided by each -- Simple Machine Project Simple Machine. -- Identify the Simple Machine that -- Simple Machines (Inventors Toolbox) make up a Compound Machine. -- Forces and Motion

-- Work 1 **** Remember **** The Inquiry and -- Work 2 Technology/Engineering Standards are Embedded into your Curriculum all Year. -- Work and Force

-- Work and Simple Machines Essential Question: Which Compound Machine would you expect to have the lowest Mechanical Efficiency: a can opener or a pair of scissors? Explain your answer and describe a way to test the efficiency of each Machine. Essential Question: What causes objects to move differently under different circumstances?

Curriculum Map for 7th Grade Science SPI/Description Learning Vocabulary Resources Goals Unit: Energy Resources / 4th 9-Weeks

Energy Resources -- Describe how Humans use Primary Vocabulary: -- Book Resources (pg. 476 – 501) SPI 0707.7.6 --- Describe the relationship Natural Resources. -- Alternative Energy between Plate movements and Earthquakes, -- Compare Renewable Resources -- Chemical Energy -- Garbage Mountain Buidling, Volcanoes, and Sea Floor with Nonrenewable Resources. -- Geothermal Energy Spreading. -- Explain three ways that Humans -- Hydroelectric Power -- Natural Resources Lesson Plan 1 can conserve Natural -- Natural Resources SPI 0707.7.7 --- Analyze and evaluate the impact Resources. -- Nonrenewable Resources -- Natural Resources Lesson Plan 2 of man’s use of Earth’s Land, Water, and -- Describe what Energy Resources -- Nuclear Energy Atmospheric Resources. -- Recycling -- Renewable / Nonrenewable are. Resources Powerpoint -- Identify three different forms of -- Renewable Resources -- Solar Energy Fossil Fuels. -- Wind Power -- Energy in the Environment -- Explain how Fossil Fuels form. -- Describe how Fossil Fuels are -- Energy, Power, and Electricity

found and obtained. Secondary Vocabulary: Resources -- Identify four problems with Fossil -- Acid Precipitation Fuels. -- Biomass -- Recycle City -- Describe Alternatives to the use of -- Coal Fossil Fuels. -- Fossil Fuel -- Conserving Energy Videos -- List advantages and -- Gasohol disadvantages of using -- Natural Gas Alternative -- Petroleum Energy Resources. -- Smog

**** Remember **** The Inquiry and Technology/Engineering Standards are Embedded into your Curriculum all Year.

Essential Question: How do you determine which Alternative Energy Source is best used for a particular Environment?