7TH GRADE SCIENCE PACING GUIDE
The following pacing guide has been designed as a guide for assessments. Each
semester will have an assessment that will cover the material designated in the
following pacing guide.
Unit 1 – SAFETY AND SCIENCE PROCESSING SKILLS
Science processes and safety has been divided up into focus skills for each of the
quarters. These skills will be the skills that are assessed each quarter. Previous
quarter skills can be assessed but the focus skills will be the majority of the science
process questions on each exam. Teachers may teach any of the scientific process
skills any time during each quarter and are encouraged to teach these skills
repeatedly throughout the year. The focus skills are an assessment guide only.
SEMESTER 1
UNITS
UNIT 1: Safety & Scientific
Process
Safety Contracts, Safety
Procedures
SUGGESTED
INSTRUCTIONAL
TIME FRAME
STANDARDS
ADDRESSED
1 week (Scientific
Process skills need to
be integrated
throughout the entire
school year.)
S1C1PO1, PO2, PO3
S1C2PO1, PO2, PO3,
PO4, PO5
S1C3PO1, PO2, PO3
S1C4PO1, PO2, PO3,
PO4, PO5
1 week
S6C1PO2
UNIT 3: Plate Tectonics
6 weeks
UNIT 4: Minerals, Rocks
and Fossils
8 weeks
S6C1PO3
S6C2PO3, PO4, PO5,
PO6
S2C1PO1
S2C2PO1, PO2
S6C1PO3, PO4
S6C2, PO1, PO2
Focus Process Skills:
#1, 2, 3, 4, 6,
UNIT 2: Layers of the Earth
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Revised 8/1/14
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7TH GRADE SCIENCE PACING GUIDE
SEMESTER 2
UNITS
SUGGESTED
INSTRUCTIONAL
TIME FRAME
STANDARDS
ADDRESSED
UNIT 1 (cont.):
Ongoing
Focus Process Skills #5, 7,
8 , 9, 10, 11, 12 ,13
UNIT 5: Life on the Crust
8 weeks
Ecology Based
Performance Task:
ex: Solar Ovens, Lorax
factory reinvention Project,
Oh Deer Project
Up to 2 weeks
* Teachers may chose
an ecology project or
move forward into the
4th quarter material.
No 4th Quarter
information will be
tested on the 3rd
quarter exam.
2 weeks
UNIT 6: Earth, Moon and
Sun
UNIT 7: Solar System, Stars, 6 weeks
Galaxies, and Universe
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S3C1PO1, PO2, PO3
S4C3PO1, PO2, PO3,
PO4, PO5
S3C2PO1, PO, PO3
S7C3PO1, PO2, PO3,
PO4, PO6
S7C3PO5, PO6
S2C1PO1, PO2
S2C2PO1, PO2
Revised 8/1/14
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