Science
Science
Pacing
Guide
Pacing
Guide
GradeGrade
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Pacing Guide Expectations
The pacing guide content standards are listed as Focus Standards, which are standards that must be
taught. Learning Goals are what students are expected to be able to do at the end of the unit. Key
Vocabulary is listed for each unit, which includes academic, content-specific, Bloom’s Taxonomy, and
12 Powerful Words*. The Suggested Texts are options provided for each unit; however, teachers may
choose to alter these as needed, provided the Focus Standards and Learning Goals are met for each unit.
This guide is a work in progress that will be built on and edited annually as needed.
*Larry Bell
Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy
Remember
Describe/Explain
Apply
Analyze
Evaluate
Create
Powerful Words*
Analyze
Compare
Contrast
Describe
Evaluate
Explain
Formulate
Infer
Predict
Summarize
Support
Trace
*Larry Bell
Assessment
Topic
Ecosystems, Communities, Biomes
Focus Standard(s)
7.3.1 (Cont’d): Identify photosynthesis as the food manufacturing process in plants.
7.2.1: Describe the different types of nutritional relationships that exist among organisms.
7.8.1: Describe the effects of the oceans on weather and climate.
7.3.2: Compare how plants and animals obtain energy.
7.5.1: Identify physical and behavioral adaptations that enable animals such as, amphibians,
reptiles, birds, fish, and mammals to survive in a particular environment.
Suggested Time Frame
September 3-19th
Learning Goal
7.2.1: Describe the
different types of
nutritional relationships
that exist among
organisms.
Essential Questions
Revised Bloom’s
Taxonomy
1) Can you list the parts of
a food chain?
Evaluate
2) Can you categorize
living things by
consumers and producers?
3) Can you develop a food
chain that consists of one
producer, the consumers,
and one decomposer?
Labs/Activities
Common Core
Reading/Writing
Vocabulary
Magazine pictures for Infer environmental
Consumer
food chains, food web, consequences of changes Producer
and energy pyramid. in the populations in the
Decomposer
food chain.
Sheppardsoftware.com
7.3.2 Compare how plants Explain the differences
Describe/explain
and animals obtain food.
between the way plants
and animals obtain energy.
Double Bubble of
Heidi and Henry
Each student write how
he would care for Heidi
the Hibiscus and Henry
the Hamster.
Photosynthesis
7.5.1: Identify physical and
behavioral adaptations that
enable animals such as,
amphibians, reptiles, birds,
fish, and mammals to
survive in a particular
environment.
Can you distinguish
Analyze
between the physical
characteristics of an
animal that lives in a polar
region and one that lives
in a desert?
Bill Nye video
Acrostic Poem
Biome
Physical
adaptation
Behavioral
adaptation
7.8.1: Describe the effects
of the oceans on weather
and climate.
How does being near a
polar region or tropical
region effect a living
organism’s adaptation?
Google Earth
Evaluate
Jeff Corwin videos
Acrostic poem
Ecosystem
Foldables
Compare and contrast
Climate
the plant and animal life
of Hawaii and the
coastal area of Maine.
Unit One: _______________________________________________________________________________________
Essential Question: ________________________________________________________________________________
Suggested Texts/Resources
www.tncore.org – click on link for “Literacy in Science and Technology”; summer training materials can be found here
username: tneducation; password: fastestimproving
http://tntel.tnsos.org/curricular.htm